Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-09 | Page 15 | Post Says He is Victim of a Blackmailing Plot

POST SAYS HE IS VICTIM OF A BLACKMAILING PLOT Special to The Herald Tacoma Wash ash Dec S. S S.-In S. In present present- presenting ling ing ng his hh defense Abe Post of Sa Salt t Lake who Is defendant in a white slavery slaver case declares that ho was mado made the thc victim of a conspiracy between the woman in the case cas and her hel malo male associate asso aSSo- elate who was In the county Jail at Seattle According to his version the two wo plotted together to blackmail him 1 His Us case caso came up for trial Jat late yesterday yesterday yester yester- yester-I yester day lIay afternoon Chief of or Police Barlow and other police officials rif If that ell city are here as witnesses for the govern- govern ment Post contends that he did not take the he woman from Seattle to Salt Lake for or immoral purposes but hut that she transported herself hersel and to carry out the he plot stuck close to him Her 1101 male maie assocIate was wag released from the Seattle jail all a short time afterward and according accord accord- Ing Ing- ng to the defense ho he went immediately immediate immediate- ly y to Salt Lake where he attempted to lo blackmail mall Post to the extent of several hundred dollars threatening to go to he tile authorities If he did lid not pay