Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 40, 22 April 1936 — ALLEGED BLACKMAILER HITS SNAG IN MAUI [ARTICLE]

ALLEGED BLACKMAILER HITS SNAG IN MAUI

Mrs. :C'atlierme' A. Trimble, o\viier of Uii' Wailuku hotel, Waihiku, Maai, froiu W.hoin Joscph Carvalho, better known as J.oseph DeSouza, is alleged to have attempted to extort $500 011 Uiical.s ot ruveahng inUmale ijiforjna<ion given by her to a līilo fortune' teller for whom Carvalho was working declares the blackmail attemi>t just a "bluff."

| Mrs. Trimble said she refused to be bluft"ed, and haa turned the alleged letter o£ extortion over to posxal authorities with the result that Carvalho is now facing federal grand jury action. She said she had never even had her l'ortune told and that Carvalho apparently heeanie possessed of :the fortune teller's papers on wliieh vvere written iiicriininating yuestions :by herself and others. Her action iii exposing the extortion attempt, she i>aid, was prompted by her reg'ard for others. Carvalho was arrested last weēk by Ililo poliee officers_ aiul will be tried in Hilp eouil. 1