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Show ! BLACK.il A-ND i LETTERS ; SENT "j ' ' - TO UTAH COUNTY PEOPLE ' DEMANDING DE-MANDING MONEY. V New Ct of Attempted Blackmail Coming to Light Daily No I) ; t Arrets Made, : ---; ". ' ' Salt Lake City, Aprll.27. The black- mailers who have been' writing threat-enlng threat-enlng letters to residents of Spanish Fork and other Utah county towns ! have not been unreraunerated for their . labors. In tho course of the investl- nation recently started. It was learned that several citizens had been directed to place money under a bridge near Spanish Fork and to mark , the place 1 of concealment with a cross. Four or five crosses were found on various parts of the bridge when it ! was examined, indicating that Jn that ! number of instances, at least, the de-i de-i mands of the bandits had been coni-, coni-, r-ltel Tvith. I Kew cases of attempted blackmail ere coming to light daily. The cashier tl the bank of Spanrsh Fork has received re-ceived letters demanding $400 and .promising that the bnk building i would bo dynamited If the money were , fcat paid. No arrests have been made as the result of the hunt for eUVnce. |