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Mother, sister, daughter, C.K. consent immaterial; Incest. grand-daughter born in wedlock or not Females Indecent assaults Misdemeanour. It is a misdemeanour to give to a woman any drug so as to stupefy her, and so enable any person to have unlawful connection with her. False charges of rape are very often made. The motive may be to extort blackmail, revenge, or mere delusion.
Could the good people who were her companions not screen her from his violence or his blackmail? What horrible purpose, what deep design, lay behind this long pursuit? There was the problem which I had to solve. To Holmes I wrote showing how rapidly and surely I had got down to the roots of the matter. In reply I had a telegram asking for a description of Dr. Shlessinger's left ear.
Ten thousand dollars but ten thousand dollars by blackmail, hush-money, the reward of fire and blood and shame! Was it to go on? Was he to commit a new crime? He stirred, as though to shake off the net that he felt twisting round him, in the hands of the robust and powerful Dupont, on whom crime sat so lightly, who had flourished while he, Lygon, had gone lower and lower.
If you're wanting the truth, he came into our office that afternoon to pay his rent to me, and he told me then. And if you want more truth he tried to blackmail me. He was to come next day at four o'clock to hear what me and Mallalieu 'ud offer him for hush-money." "Then you told Mallalieu?" asked Tallington. "Of course I told him!" replied Cotherstone. "Told him as soon as Kitely had gone.
She stood the chance of landing herself in a libel action, she might indeed be accused of having the intent to blackmail. She knew one case of the kind the woman in question had been utterly disgraced. No, only too obviously she could not afford the risk of sharing her secret doubts, or at least not yet.
"He can try to do the sabotage," said the Major precisely, "or he can arrange to be caught trying to do it. If he's caught he tried; and the blackmail threat is no threat at all so long as he keeps his mouth shut. Which he does. And ah you would be surprised how often a man who wasn't born in the United States would rather go to prison for sabotage than commit it here." Joe blinked.
Once they knew the contents of that letter what then? Buy them off for a larger amount than the many thousands offered for the capture of the Gray Seal? Jimmie Dale gritted his teeth. That meant blackmail from them all his life, an intolerable existence, impossible, a hell on earth the slave, at the beck and call of two of the worst criminals in New York!
A man's voice replied in voluble broken English, but I could only distinguish a word here and there. I saw that Harley was interested, for catching my questioning glance, he raised his finger to his lips enjoining me to be silent. "Oh, that's the game, is it?" continued the female voice. "Of course you know it's blackmail?"
It is, of course, conceivable that such crimes might be perpetrated for revenge to deprive the victim of some highly prized possession. But in the main there is only one object unlawful gain. So, too, blackmail, extortion, and kidnapping are all the products of the desire for "easy money." But, unquestionably, this is the reason for murder in comparatively few cases.
My husband will lead you over the mountain ridge, but let the horse, the mule, the drivers, and the baggage go on with the Polish nobleman; and when they pass over the bridge where Janko bars the way, and when the blackmail has been levied, the drivers can halt at the Praszkinocz csarda with the beasts and the baggage.
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