Threatening the Premier.
PRESS ASSOCIATION
Auckland, last night, William Stevenson Aitken, sharebroker, for sending a letter threatening the life of the Premier, was convicted before Mr Justice Edwards and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon ; also to enter into a bond of £IOOO and two sureties of £SOO to keep the peace for three years and not to go beyond twenty miles of Auckland, Prisoner’s counsel stated it had come to his knowledge that the Premier had no objection to tho prisoner being allowed his liberty'. The Judge said the responsibility was on his shoulders to safeguard the Premier. On a former occasion he sentenced a man to three years’ imprisonment for threatening the premier. In that case Sir J oseph Ward interfered and the man was liberated.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1937, 20 November 1906, Page 2
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