AMAZING LETTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 21

AMAZING LETTER.

THREAT TO MOTORIST. LONDON, October 30. A letter in which a fifteen-year-okl boy threatened a prominent Wolverhampton man, was read in the Juvenile Court at Chester when the boy was charged with attempting to rob a woman of her handbag and its contents. The case was a sequel to a "hold-up" by the boy in which an imitation revolver was used. The letter read:

"I require your car for a short time, after which I shall return it to you. You must leave it on the new road exactly half a mile south of Parkfiild Ro%:l at 8.30 to-night, with the engine, running and one gallon of petrol in tha tank —no more and no less.

"If you fail On any point you will be a daughter short before 48' hours have passed. "Two highly-paid and experienced men have instructions to drill your daughter with lead at the first opportunity unless I give instructions to the contrary before 8.30 to-day. You will have no further warning. "I don't instruct my men when to blow men to pieces, but I instruct them when not to do'so.'- If I am- not there to give them instructions ' the poor little irian is blown to pieces as follows":

Then followed two small diagrams in red ink, illustrating a man before ind after being blown to pieces. The boy bound over for three years.