Robert Dagger attempts to extort money from Margaret L. Winslow
- Title of event
- Robert Dagger attempts to extort money from Margaret L. Winslow
- Type of event
- Extortion
- Address of event
- Robert Dagger attempts to extort money from Margaret L. Winslow Happened Primarily at 2090, 7th Ave
- Report on event
- Robert Dagger attempts to extort money from Margaret L. Winslow Main report referencing event Margaret L. Winslow against Robert Dagger
- Start date / time
- June 22, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Unknown
- Description
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The defendant [Dagger] sent a
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The defendant [Dagger] sent a “false telegram” to the deponent [Winslow], instructing her to meet one “Lombardi” at the Theresa Hotel on Seventh Avenue with $920 “in a sealed envelope” as payment for two packages brought in on a steamer from Italy without paying custom duty. After the exchange was made at said hotel, the defendant departed and was arrested by police officers outside the premises. The packages were found to contain flour.