THREAT TO KILL
WITH TONGS' AID
SENTENCE DEFERRED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Alexander Lawson M'-Lood Hall was found guilty to-day on 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 cfiort 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, whoever they were, were- going to lull someone.
Senfence was deferred
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 12
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142THREAT TO KILL Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 12
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