THREATENING TO MURDER THE PRINCE 0F WALES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1086, 16 February 1883, Page 3

THREATENING TO MURDER THE PRINCE 0F WALES.

At the 'oytmiher Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, I of.no Mr .Just co Hawkins, William Brookshaw 31, traveller, was indicted for maliciously sending well knowing the contents thereof, a certain letter threatening to murder the Prince o Wales. Counsel for the pros, cation stated that the Ictrcr in question, which was dated the 9th of October, 1 882, was addressed to “ Colonel Teesdalo, C.8., Mu.lboreugh House, Pall Mall,” and was marked “private.” The document ran as follows: October 9, ISS2. Oo'niiel Troesdale.—Sir,—To bo brief, I am a young man brought up within sight ..f Unekingham Palace, willing and anxious towoik, an i cannot got it to do. The best tiling I can do under these adverse circumstances is to go abroad to one of the enlonie-i. Toll your royal master, the Prince of Wales, that I require £lO to start in 1 thine, If I succeed it will i.u repaid. 1 want it this week. Send tomcat Williain Brookshaw, Lemons Hotel, 21 anil 22 (treat Chapel-street, Westminster. P.S. -If you do not send it this week I will camp on the Prince of Wales’ trail, and by all the gods seme him worn than Lord Frederick' iavendish was nerved.- Yours in great earnestness, W. C. B. Sorry to speak so harsh, but severe • Images require severe remedies. Don’t forget this week. The jury found a verdict ol guilty. Mr Justice Hawkins said the evidence against the prisoner had been clear, fu the letter which he wiote he uses a threat which, if carried out, would have brourht dire calamity upon the nation, and would have introduced in to the royal household, every member of which was dear to the hearts of Englishmen, and every member of which, he ventured to say, was held in affectionate respect by every one of Her M;jetty’s subjects—the direst grief ami distress. How it could have entered into the prisoner’s head to have done this vile tiling lie could not conceive. If he had Ik on found guilty ■•f endeavouring to obtain money from the Prince of Wales by means of threats and menancos to- murder him, ho would ha/c been liable to en.d servitude for life; but, mercifully, he had not been charged under that indictment. Ho was sorry to ■say that this w-s not tho first case of this kind which had been tried at this court within the last few months. These offmees must be suppressed; and he felt that he should not he discharging his duty to the public if ho did not pronounce upon him this sonteuce that ho bo kept in penal servitude for ten years