THREATENING LETTER
Sent to Auckland Woman MAN FOUND GUILTY By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 7. Alexander Lawson McLeod Hall was found guilty to-day ou a charge of sending to Alma Grey a letter threatening to kill her two sons. Hall, who formerly lived in China, was alleged to have written to Mrs. Grey (his late wife’s sister) in an effort to secure the return of certain possessions belonging to his dead wife. In the letter he told the woman, that he had enlisted the services of certain tongs of which he was an honorary member.
A Chinese interpreter said that tongs were not the murderous societies one read about in novels, but friendly lodges. Mr. Justice Smith said that the character of the tongs was immaterial so long as the letter stated that the tongs, whatever they were, were going to kill someone. Sentence was deferred.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 189, 8 May 1931, Page 10
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