The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-10-12
CURIOUS LOVE LETTER CASE
nov 4 GREEK TRIED TO TTCTIMIzE
IN lDMIRdL'S NIECE
The Dangers OF Letter writing A Singular
Conspiracy 10 Extort M"ney-uow u was
M,t-Thc verdict-A severe Sentence.

Dangers OF Letter NrhnR ~ ~ink"ihr
Conspiracy TO Extort Money-uow u was
Met-Thc verdict-A severe Sentence.
Fo'n n, J,n'in Time. SIT 30
CENTRAL CRIMINAL Court, Sept. % Before
Mr. Justice Hawkins. Constantine, Thc9dO-
rides. Greek a. clerk, amt P9ul uorI'fa.
40 an Italian, a manager were indI,led ipr
fclonionsly sending certain letters to MISS Au-
rusta Ernestine Slade. demanding VIII ,,m,, Inq
nccs tho sum " fg65. and also Tor unlhwiuly
cons ring together to commit the SAM oli,hfc.
Mr. Poland and Mr. B,sley c9 ,md ,,,S NE
Eirnight. defended Thcodorides. and Mr.. Mon
iagu Williams defended Gorlcra. ,., o..
Aiorhus Slade and resides with him at Hyde
Park place. In 1869 Mss Slade was travelling |
to tho prisoner Thcodoridcs. and in return for |
civilitcs they, received from him they invited |
should come to England AMI ia c3nScduehce ol
this Theodoridcs visited Miss Sladc and her |
mother in the wear 1872 An affection atterward
sprang NJ between the parties. and an ENGAGE
nent 10 marry was entered into between them
and this intimacy continued down to 1879 when
IN Al this time Miss Sladc destroyed all the
letters she had received from the prisoner and
she asked him to destroy the letters she hld
written tn him but that he refused to do. on the
ground that ne wanted to keep them as his own
justification in consequence 81 something that
had been said about him by her mother. The
prisoner after this met the pros"cutrN IN the
had been seized in box for debt. and were IN
the possession Of the other prisoner. Gorlcra,
who would p2i give them ny unlgsT ,Ys sum 1i
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letters we're in his own possession which h,
offered To- give w for $40 and that sum wa palii
pressing the prusecutrix for money and the de-
livery of the letters, and represented that Cor,
lera was man Ot determination. VINO would
not stop for anything. and whose god was
money. uorlera then wrote a letter ,ln'lmMlhs
NJ the letters would he made public In one Of
the letters written 10y Gorlcra ne stated that God
only knew what the consequences would .b"
Tn rrosecuiriN eventually consulted her
frend- and the result was that the prisoners
wcr. given into custody.
Mis- augusta Ernostine Slaic said she resi-
lcl with her uncle. Admiral Sir \, Sladc,g 3
Hyde Park place. In lsh9 = h" travelled IN Tnr-
Th.odor lr~ az wedding in ton-tantinuplc.
H. 1872 sh. -nw him at her mother house IN
London. The a.pnantanc" ruiininat.d IN an
engagement tut not with IN" knowl"dg" or
SAN .tion 81 III" family. tn" engagement was
hrok,n n. renewed. and finally broken OF IN
1875. SO had. during her engagements fire.
pu"utly -rlnd"d with the prisoner Theo;
iuridre and after H. termination III" asked
Inn to r.'urn her letters H. todd her at first
me-, nah lurnnd MS ~ in number Suh-c-
s'',ri.,',,',i. a.nin-, HIM Ahnui thr.n months
agr ~, -.tw Ihnutoridr~ i'm Hyd" Park. tie
SAID iiD ,wrd It man som" money. ami ihHi TINS
man iia scn"d TING bon I'm which nr l,it"r-
ha1k n $500. ana that hc must have t2jO inn
mcdttr's. 81, -iid She had not got th" money.
uul could not xiv" th" sum o. him unless -llr
that hc domur'i; Ali"rwlrd sh' met him IN
snd h" must positively nav" the money 10y tl"
18Th ~ ih" huN would D." opened Gorcrn hay
ing ~c7nl thu luN and contents for a debit. 81"
told him HI must speak tn her un.l" about ~
ana p" replied -hr might DO -. H. al-" iHd
Der b." had about forty letter. Of h"rs N
pr -sirgly and that If b" received mat amount
h. would Ely' ny th" l'i"re she told MN That
f9p Wa ali ~" money -hr had az command Just
,h~u. size -l'uf that sum in bank u,i"-. and r.,
saw Thoo,ioridr-. who told her he mad received
IN Letter NlfU flll' III no n fft~ Nl' 'N