SERIOUS CHARGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 235, 1 September 1927, Page 3

SERIOUS CHARGE.

ALLEGED THREAT TO KILL. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 31. “It might look as if I were a murderer because of the production of this carving knife in Court. I used to sit down.after tea to write my letter to Mavis, and one night when I was looking for something to say my eyes fell on the knife and I wrote about it.” j Stanley Reid Amies Wood made this statement when charged in the Magistrate’s Court on eight counts with sending threats to kill in letters addressed to Mavis Lilian Mac Kinder, aged twenty. Both parties lived at Inglewood, Wood’s house overlooking the girl’s backyard. According to the evidence Wood, a bachelor, living on a pension, had paid attention to the girl without encouragement for two years. He had sent her numerous gifts, varying from three sums of £2B- to a gramophone and a sewing machine, none of which was accepted. After the eighth letter threatening to murder the girl, the police were informed. Accused was not represented by counsel and the Magistrate entered a plea of not guilty for him. Wood was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.