THREATS TO MURDER.
REMARKABLE LETTERS. ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIL J. B. JOEL. ACCUSED BEFORE THE COURT. Received September 25, 9 a.m. LONDON, September 24. Charles Winborn and Arthur Canhan, farriers, were charged at the London Police Court with threatening to murder J. B. Joel unless he paid them £SOO. Remarkable letters were read showing that the writers had posed as members of a secret soeifty, and had informed Joel's wife that a member of the society had been chosen by lot to assassinate Joel. On seeing an advertisement in the' "Daily Chronicle," agreeing to pay the amount demanded, another letter was sent by the men to Mrs Joel, stating thsta man would call for the money at Joel's house. When Canham called he was arrested. He confessed that Winborn wrote the letters, and promised him half the money if he assisted.
7hi men were lemanded, but were refused bail.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3002, 26 September 1908, Page 5
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148THREATS TO MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3002, 26 September 1908, Page 5
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