Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — THEIR BOLDNESS IS INCREASING [ARTICLE]

THEIR BOLDNESS IS INCREASING

Daring of the Hunobakist Creating Consternation Among the Wealthy Rng Dealers. New York, .Tuly^2s.—Acting District Attorney Smyth and an assistant are doing their best to probe deeply into the terroristic methods employed against wealthy Armenians to force them to contribute to the antl-Turklsh movement being worked up by certain of their fellow countrymen. It has been learned that so bold has the Hunchaklst become that within about an hour after the murder of Tavshanjlan threatening letters were mailed to at least a dozen well-to-do Armenians. The rich Armenians here are in great fear of their lives. Conversant with eastern methods of justice, they do not understand why the district attorney does not throw into prison a number of Armenians whose names they "have given tlie authorities. Some of the threatened men are even said to be considering a project to raise a defense fund, hire a rival society and exterminate all the blackmailers and murderers. Others are much less aggressive and counsel yielding to. the blackmailers for the time being and trusting to the district attorney’s office to break up the system.