MONEY DEMANDED
"A TERRIBLE LETTER"
Extracts from a letter wore read at the Devon Assizes recently when George William Smith, aged 27, was sentenced to 20 months' hard labour for demanding £lO with menaces.
It was explained for the prosecution that Smith was employed at Torquay from November, 11>«34, until June last year.
On June 23 he wrote the letter complained of to his employer, passages from which ran:—
"Well, i know your game. If von want me to be quiet 1 want paying about it. 1 have been to vour house . . .
1 can show letters and photos which will convict von."
Jt was emphasised that there was not a word of truth in any of the suggestions contained in the letter.
It was stated by Detective-Sergeant J?oper that Smith was a native of Lincolnshire, and fame from a respectable working-class family. Smith pleaded for niercv and remarked, "1 don't wish to go on doing wrong." Passing sentence as stated, the judge reminded Smith that lie did not have much mercy on the man to whom lie wrote a "terrible letter."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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181MONEY DEMANDED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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