SENDING THREATENING LETTERS.
AUCKLAND, September 13. At the Police Court to-day Arnold Har« was charged with having sent letters to T. E. Clark containing threats with intentl to extort money. According to the evidence, the letter was written by R. Oi Clark, who is now out of the Dominion, to his brother, T. E. Clark, factoryj manager of Messrs R. 0. Clark (Ltd.), and! this letter would, according to witnesses, have done harm to the Clark family anj injured the credit of the company if published. Anonymous letters were received/ by the firm saying that this letter had; come into the possession of the writer, and offering to give it up if £25 was placed in a certain place. iA iium ofi money was placed at th« spot indicated,, and acca^ed was watched and arrested., He subsequently made a confession, giving up the letter' about which the matter. had arisen. He -was committed, for trials
— Seven-shilling pieces in gold St;ers authorised to bo issued in' 1797.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 27
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166SENDING THREATENING LETTERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 27
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