Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — Sievier Found Not Guilty. [ARTICLE]

Sievier Found Not Guilty.

London, July 31.—Robert Sievlei* editor of the Winning Post, was found not guilty at Old Bailey of the charge that be had attempted to blackmail Jack Joel, a nephew of Barney Barnato, by threatening to publish a defamatory article about Joel unless the latter paid him $25,000. The verdict was greeted with loud •cheering.