ARREST OF BLACKMAILERS
THREATS AGAINST J. B. JOEL.
United Press Association, Copyright
LONDON, Sept. 24.
Charles Winborne and Arthur Canham, farriers, have been charged at London with threatening to murder J. B. Joel unless paid £SOO. Remaikable letters were read showing that the writers nosed as members of the Cameriaste Tonenero Secret Society. and informed Joel’s wife that a member of tho Society had been chosen by lot for the assassination- of Joel. On seeing an advertisement in the “Daily Chronicle” agreeing to pay. another letter was sent- to the wife, stating that a man would call for the money at- Joel’s house. When the prisoner Can ham called lie was arrested. He confessed that Winborne wrote the letters and promised him half the money that was paid for the assassination to be averted. Prisoners were remanded, no bail being allowed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2036, 26 September 1908, Page 2
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141ARREST OF BLACKMAILERS Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2036, 26 September 1908, Page 2
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