Word: blackmailer
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...hottest water ever, but still fighting happily. Indictments brought by Prosecutor Purves 1) charged him with accepting a bribe from a slot-machine operator, 2) accused him and the city garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful ministers, one is a Holy Roller...
Fortnight ago, Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of Walter W. Liggett, Minneapolis editor who was shot and killed in December 1935, won a $25,000 verdict after an undefended libel suit against the Daily Worker, which had accused the murdered editor, no Trotskyite, of using his paper for blackmail. Last week, the New York Supreme Court granted the Daily Worker permission to enter a belated defense...
Three girls and a man were arrested yesterday on vice charges by Cambridge police, who had been warned of a blackmail racket victimizing many students by Charles R. Apted '06, Yard police superintendent...
According to the police, the girls had openly approached students here, and, accusing them of attending parties at a Brighton apartment, had threatened exposure unless blackmail money was forthcoming. One of the girls had threatened to write college authorities if the students did not pay her "extra financial assistance...
...their blackmail trips here, the girls approached other students with the apparent purpose of luring them to the apartment as future racked victims. The two girls who made the tripe are young and good looking, police said, one being a blonde and the other a redhead...