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THREE YEARS FOR BLACKMAIL.

CAREER OF CONVICTED DIRECTOR.

Sentence of three years penal servitude was passed at the Old Bailey on Alfred Thomas Blake,

aged 30, of East Dulwich, S.E., for

demanding £500 by menaces from: a fellow director, whose name it was requested should not be pub- Hsbed.

The prosecution stated that Blake threatened that if £500 were not paid to him, he would inform the company's customers that pro- secutor had served seven years' Imprisonment In Canada."

- Blake stated that after discuss-- ing silver fox farming with the prosecutor they formed a company, He said that an endeavour was made to get him' out-of the com- pany and that wages were dug to him.

He denied, that he had any in- tention to blackmail his colleague.

Replying to Mr. G.. D. Roberts (for the prosecution), Blakë “said that he had been convicted twice and met prosecutor in prison.

He agreed that he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude in Ireland during the rebellion for looting. The sentence was remit- ted and he had to serve only three months. In February, 1923 he was fined £10 at the Mansion House for obtaining five guinens by false pretences and at Win- nipeg, in 1925 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for ob taining money by falsi pretences, He escaped from prison but was rearrested.

Looting in Ireland. Detective-Sergeant Cain said that. Blake wat a second lieuten- ant in the R.A.F. til 1919, and subsequently joined the Royal Irish Constabulary. He was al- tached to the "Black-and-Tans" when he was court-martialled and sentenced to ten years' penal ser- vitude for looting. He claimed that he had won the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Force Cross, the Military Medal, and the Bel- klan Croix de Guerre, and the Secretary for Ireland took this into consideration and caused him to be released after he had served a. few months of his sentence.

He had practised as a doctor in Canada, and while there he said that an uncle, Colonel Arthur George Blake, had left him estutes in Sussex and Scotland value £60,000,

Inquiries in England, said Ser- geant Cain, failed to trace any such will or legacy. He was not entitled to any of the military decorations which he had claimed.

Sergeant Cain said that the pro- socator, since his conviction in Canada,had made a genuine en- deavour to live down his 1st and to lend an honest life. He had, been using his best endeavours to make fox-breeding in England a success. His company had been thoroughly Investigated, and the affairs were in perfectly good; order.

Blake made a long speech from the dock, in which he said that while he might have been gulity. of legal blackmail he was not guilty of moral blackmail.' 'He. had really done what he consider ed the right thing, and a man in his position who was being aquecz- ed out of the company might have aald, things which were wrongly taken up.

The Recorder, passing sentence, said that blackmail was moral. murder. Nothing was easier than io blackmail a man with a blemish on his past, and that was what Blake had done. The prosecutor was to be congratulated on his courage and public spirit.

"He might well have succum bed," he added, "and if he had once paid you £500, or pence, he would probably have been drained to the uttermost drop of his finan- cial resources, because that is the method of the blackmailer."

He congratulated Detective- Sergeant Chin on his conduct of the case.

AN EAGLE IN KENT.

STRANGE VISITOR WORRIED BY MAGPIES.

Since the gale an eagle has been seen flying in the Isle of Sheppey. It was first noticed among some, trees at Swanley Farm, Eastchurch, and later was acen at Wärden being worried by a number of magpien.,

Mon working in the neighbour- hood of Warden Bay saw it settle in a field. It had a wing span of about eight feet.

The Royal Zoological Society have asked, that it shall not be shot or destroyed, as it appears to be a fine specimen.

George Hossfield the new

WORLD'S CHAMPION

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Other Championships at the 1929 International Typewriting Contest Won on the Underwood

The World' Amateur Typewriting Championship wonby Chester Söverk (Pennsylvania) at the rats of 116 worda per minute,

The World's School Novice Typewriting Championship

was by Florance Ball (Ontario, Canada) at the rate of 91 worde per minute.

The American School Norica Typewriting Championship

won by Belva Kibler (Arizona) si the rate of 58 words per minute.

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· 1929

For the 24th consecutive time

THE WORLD'S

TYPEWRITING CHAMPIONSHIP

has been won on the

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