Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1918 — $500,000 BLACKMAIL CHARGED [ARTICLE]

$500,000 BLACKMAIL CHARGED

Millionaire Mayor of Atlanta, Ga., Has Man and Woman Indicted. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 15. —Indictments charging an attempt to blackmail Asa G. Candler, millionaire mayor of Atlanta, out of $500,000 were returned by the Fulton county grand jury against J. W. Cook, a real estate man, and Mrs. H. H. Hirsch of this city. Both were arrested and held in jail under $5,000 bonds each.