Word: pavlick
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Manhattan, 35-year-old Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. filed blackmail charges against two men who, he claimed, had bilked him of some $13,000 since May 1933, when he met a slender blonde named Catherine Marie Pavlick at a party, started to take her home, wound up at a hotel. Month later, said Alfred Smith Jr., a private detective named Krone approached him on Miss Pavlick's behalf, got $1,000 allegedly to finance an abortion. Subsequently the son of the 1928 Democratic Presidential nominee said he had constantly remunerated Krone and a Brooklyn lawyer named Ross until...
Arraigned on indictments charging extortion, Detective Krone was jailed when he could not raise $50,000 bail. Lawyer Ross, whose brother turned out to be a Brooklyn Democratic district leader, was let out on $5,000 bail. Miss Pavlick, newlywed and sobbing, was exonerated after the police satisfied themselves that her connection with the case had ended on receipt of the first $1,000. In Krone's apartment, searching police found a fingerprint camera, wiretapping set, a picture of one-time Governor Smith inscribed: "To my friend Mr. Krone, Alfred E. Smith...