THREATS TO KILL
CHINESE TONGS INVOLVED. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, May 7. Alexander Lawson McLeod Hall was found guilty of sending to Alma Giey a letter threatening to kill her two Hall, who formerly lived m 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 the dead wife In a letter, he told the woman that he had enlisted the services of certain Tongs of which he was an honorary member. A Chinese member said that the Tongs were not the murderous societies read about in novels, but friendly lodges. Judge 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 kill someone. Sentence was deferred.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 2
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