ANOTHER JOEL CASE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 5

ANOTHER JOEL CASE.

SERIOUS CHARGE.

'ALLEGED THREATS TO MURDER.

(BI TKtEGEArB—rEEsfe ASSOCIATION—COrTHIOIIT.) ! London, September 24. Charles Winborn and Arthur . Canliam, farriers, wero charged at the London Police Coiiri with threatening to murder .J. B. Joel unless he paid them £500. : Remarkable letters were reacj, sho-jfing the; E9 s .p4 as rnemhers pf a,'6«iret' s.eciety, had infqrnted Joel's wife.that a member of the society had been chosen by lot to assassinate Joel. On seeing ady-orfcistsrpfant iji the "Pajly OJirpfliclo," agrpeiiig' tq pay tfie aniqnut ejemandod, another letter was sent by thp men to Mrs, •Jogji.' stating : that a man would pall for tlip mqpey Jopl's housa. Whpn Capham pallet hp was arrested. Hp confessed that Winborn wrote the letters, ai}d ha 4 promised hp half the money if (ie assisted. , , > • iTJip -m'eji' werp Eiai] was refused.

At.-J. B. Joel's instance, B. S. Sievier was charged, with using threats in order. to extort' money' frony Joel, but. wa'j "VVritfs t^e- Daily' Mail''lt is iipppssible to disagree "\vith tlio : 'verdict~of "npt'"guilty returned bvirtlie,, iufy,< ; iii tljo charga brought by Mr. J. B. jqel agjinst Mr. Robert' Sjeyi?r, Tho'.fact ,whjcVundoubtedly weighed most with tho Cpprt 'was that it was, Mr, Joel, and not Ifr,-Sidr'ier, whq opened the with Mills, whym were the, im'msfliatfi o,f the., The interesting .feature of tha. four' days' tVinl/ 'liQWOver/wijs the light, which f its, proceedings slied ujiqa the strange eiirfflundihg?, $#d' cqmpjpiflnsktp? Pf thp turf. OTtnesiVtho'suraptijous dinner _ given by |llr.' Jdel ih 'the'"\Vest End, into wjiiplj JJr. 'Bqn* Murray so hurriedly intruded with" an untimely threat ;to break tji'p and the ptiriau? familiarity disclosed between riion whq mal;o or Ipsa whole fortunes" in a $iipfs day and others'" ,iirha are ; always on the yerge of the 'Gazette:'- aiul who yet pan." o.htain loans of JEIOOO ■ and ,£2OOO on their simple word of honour, while the lenders view soph transactions with ho -more ado than if the suras handled hptl been sixpences or fillings. _ $ho crowning of tha stage-manage.si intw- ' ,n W the detpctiy'p. hidden behind this broken wall. proves that frnth js' eqnal to. fiction, anfl, as one of Steycra son's characters re'niarKcd' on it, famous pccasioD, 'is alone worth the price,'". " " '