Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1921-11-09
CASE
AT KLAMATH IS
L0CALPARALLEL
CHIEF HATCHER SCOUTS IDEA
THAT KLAMATH OFFENDER
ENGINEERED SWEDENBURG
EXTORTION ATTEMPT.
DETAILS OF CASE CHECK; NO
EFFORT YET MADE TO COM
PARE THREATENING LETTERS
IN BOTH CASES.

Local police are puz2ling over the
possibilities of the unknown black
mailer, who attempted to extort
$1,000 from DR.. Francis G. Sweden
burg, $50 Boulevard, by means Of
threatening letters during the past
month, being brought to justice by
the capture of Raymond Moore, ar
rested in klamath Falls and charged
with completely in an attempted
blackmailing case similar to the Ash
land affair John Siemens Jr., cash
Ter of the First State and Savings
bank at Klamath Falls, received the
threatening notes and was the vic
! tim OF an attempt at extortion to the
amount of $25OO. Similar to the
Swedenburg affair, the note writer
threatened to blow up" the home
of Mr.. Siemens.
Chief of Police Hatcher stated
this morning that he believed both
attempts at blackmail were made by
the same party. Hatcher, who ex-
amined the Swedenburg notes close
ly before turning them over to Sher-
iff Terrill, argues that both at
tempts were handled in a similar
manner. He states that the notes
are similar in their demands and
threats of retaliation for failure to
comply with the demands.
So far as could be learned today,
no attempts have been made by eth
er the local police or the county sher-
IFS office to ally the two cases by
, investigation, scouting the theory
that the eXtorti0nist attempts eman-
ated from the same source. Chief
Hatcher said that the entire matter
had been turned over to the sher-
ifs office and that he was not fam
iliar with any action now being TAX
en-. Sheriff Terrll himself could
not be reached today, although tele-
phoned information direct from his
office was to the effect that nothing
had been done to compare the evi-
dence in the Swedenburg case with
that of the Klamath Falls affair. 1t
is thought by the local police that
similarity in handwriting might be
observed if the threatening notes
were compared.
In the local case the notes were
showed under the door OF the Swed-
enburg home, although in Klamath
Falls the letters were sent through
the mail
The name of Raymond Moore can
not be found in either an Ashland or
Medford directory, although he
claims to have worked as an automo-
bile mechanic in the latter city. In
quiry among Ashland garagemen
failed to identify Moore as having
ever been employed in this city
The following news dispatch gives
an account of the klamath Falls at
tempted blackmail and reveals many
details that check with the local af-
fair.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or, Nov. s.
A blackmail letter received October
81 by John Siemens Jr., cashier Of
the First State & Savings bank. de-
manding immediate payment OF
$2500 on threat of bodily harm, re-
suited in the arrest here OF Raymond
Moore, 23. an auto mechanic for
merly OF Medford, who is also held
on liquor charges, together with Ed
James. identified today by United
States District Attorney Mcguire and
United States Marshal s. F. Pace of
Portland as one OF the "Dusterhoff
Twins" well known to Multnomah
county authorities for their moon
shine activities.
Mcguire and Pace are inyestigat-
ing the blackmail case. Siemens
says that he received through the
mails the following unsigned letter;
Upon receipt OF this letter take
$500 in currency, bills OF small de-
nomination. and drive alone to the
forks OF the road leading 70 the old
city dump. Throw the cash in the
middle OF the road and drive on
straight ahead. You will be watched
Do not tell anyone or notify officers
or harm will come to you. Follow