THREATENING LETTERS

Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 5

THREATENING LETTERS

DESIRE FOR NOTORIETY CONFESSION OF “ A FOOL." LONDON, May 30. Joseph Fisher, a solicitor’s clerk, appeared before a London police court yesterday on a charge of sending threatening letters. A detective read the following statement which Fisher had made: —“I wrote the letters for tho purpose of getting notoriety, and also communicated with the newspapers, telling them I had written the letters. “When the reports of the threats against tho Marquis of Townshend appeared I wrote to others, including E. LI. Rose, who resides at the Oxford, and whom I knew by sight. Subsequently I telephoned him. using the name ‘ British Communist. 1 demanding £5,000, or his son would not return home, although I did not know which school he was attending. Later I telephoned to Rose, and declared that I was speaking from Scotland Yard. T told him that Lord Churston’s son had been kidnapped, and offered to send policemen to guard his son, whom I had discovered was at school at Sca“After that I learned that tho police were following up the clue that my telephoning provided, and finally went to Seaford, where 1 telephoned to the head master, using Rose’s name, and persuaded him to send Rose’s son to Brighton, thus enabling me to tell the newspapers that he had been kidnapped." , , , , Fisher added that ho had not intended to carry out the threats, hut that it was a foolish practical joke for the purpose of making a sensation. He ‘bitterly regretted that he had been such ft fooT<