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Show If OUNDED IDAHO BLACKMAILER NABBED I MAN IN TWIN FALLS SAYS HE SENT THREATS Shot in Chest as He Goes to Get Dummy Package of Coin NAME LEE POLSON Prisoner Said He Turned Blackmailer to Help Mother in Utah , TWIX FALLS, da., Mav S With a bullet hole through the chest. Lee Pol-1 s in former service man, Saturday niKht surrendered to deputy sheriffs and later at the county Jail made a ( complete confession In which he admitted ad-mitted wrlflnp a letter to a Twin Falls business man demanding $100 and threatening to blow up the laser's wiuc it me uemanu wnn not compiled com-piled with The inrfdrnt- opened with the receipt re-ceipt of the letter on Friday morning, it contained the demand that $100 be li ft at a designated spot a few miles from town on Frlrfciy evening. A letter, let-ter, minus the $100 "was duly left and a little later deputy sheriffs conceah I near by fired a fusillade of shots at a nun who n I'uscd to stop when called :upon to halt. FUGITIVE ESCAPES A desperate chase across the plowed fields of a nearbv farm followed but the fleeing man made good his escape n Saturday nislit watchers saw a man emerse frora a small coulee near the point wherc'l he fugitive disap-1 peared. He was immediately placed tinder arrest when it was found that! one bullet had gone through the j 'fleshy part of the body near the right' breast. Later at the county Jail he made a comolcte rhnfaaalnr Mo HEfl IN UTAH His name, he said, was Lee Poison that he came here about three weeks jago from Idaho Falls. He Is a former St rvlce man and for a year was in France and Germany with Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth cnninet rs. h says. He Is about C6 years of age. well built, of good natured appearance. He declared he wanted the $100 for his mother who resides in BmithfieM, Utah and that the present was his only offense. The incidont lead to great excitement excite-ment In and about Twin Falls. Poison's wound s not serious. KNOWN IN PPM. II M. IDAHO PALLS, Idaho. May 8 Sean h of the records kept here by th home service department of the Red Cross shows that a Lcc Poison left Idaho Falls for Camp Lewis. Wash, in May. l!il.. He cave his next of kin as Mrs. Clna Poison of Brlgham City, t tah. Chief of Police O. A. Carlson says that a man giving tho name of Lee Paulsen was arrested last August and given a "floater." On Armlstic day the same man was arrested on a liquor charge and served serv-ed (0 days in the county Jail He also gave the police the name of Fuller, Ful-ler, when they questioned him at one time. The ehu f is unable to say j whether or not this is tho man now held at Twin Falls |