The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-30 00:00:00

THE THREAT TO BHOOT THE QUEEN.

Mir( UNTINCI4

Oa Friday at the °eland Criminal Court, before Mr.
Justine L.pre, Albert Young. 17. clerk was oared With
rehearsal radius, knowing the cordate thereof, a
letter to Greer Or Hoary Piressaby, tresteras to
otertlar her 114,1•04 ile Qamii. Prime Looptfie% tnliar
winose. • farther rant lu the ladletmerat
=um with &roadie, mosey with awares rasa flu
The primmer iooka at least dr or sera years older than
he is aesoribed la the iadloraest sad has • kap sae
areadre over Ms let e.
The Attorney in operas the case said the
prisoner at the bar we. oatal • Haw weeks before a
saegraph clerk la the service of the Manchesterjitellols,
and Luecoloshue Railway 0 amen,y, whose Mime were
at rather,. Male to Doncaster. Oa the morning of the
MA of April a letter was delivered La the orrery
warm *touch re poet iato the heads of 84 Hairy
Pearaby, private eacistary to her Majesty the Quoin,
That letter contained ratter of a very disgraceful
deeriptioe, ortslelag es it did a treat to larder the
Qom& end other members of her family. There would be
Dr ot.er question tar the jury to decide le this ere
erupt the principal sad printery or ae to whetter re
priors, at the bar was toe penal who wrote that letter
or sot. The Attorom•Gmetal awn reed tk• letter,
width wee r follows :
April
_ _

Nadaek—l an • Rumen Catholic priest, and I leave
fifty men in the par.li who have been evicted by lead.
oda Taws men hare bandsd thenwelysa together for
your d Idructioa, es tbey blame you for bassi the OMNI&
their misery. They, however. promise to Wave the
C matry on receipt ot Lid per man to defray alpsesee for
sewn and families. Tufa amount must be in the hands
ot my dups through whom you wall receive this, in three
weeks Irom now, or they will coesusence operatic:ma agai net
your life. I know this is treason that is why! shall
make use of • person of 'tussling and character ia Ragland
for the dupe to tiansmit your reply to me hare In heisted.
I strongly • iris. you to wind me the money, ea the men
desperat. Neenah, sad they will make • arias of
attempts against your life sad those of your sons and
daughtere which most succeed in more than on* respect.
Assuredly you will not hesitate to send whet will be but •
moiety 001 0! each p whet, if all the members of the Royal
family subscribe among themselves for the required
amount. rather than endanger so many precious thee.
Ask Prince Irsopold how us would hits a bullet put
through him on his wedding day, of which I wish him
maoy happy return, mid the a linserion death Ilse
Garfield. I may edd that if no notice is taken of this I
shall absolve them of all their misdeeds instead of as now
holding them in check by threats of excommunleation.
(Signed) £WILLWisw.
name of my dupe is A. Y., ICS. olicse, Don-
caster. No notice will be memo of cheque. Nust be In
notes 000 gold.

Inside the envelope was written:
iiir,—Will you oblige by showing HL the enclosed. I
may say :lost if you duet meta and comply with it now
you may do so wkima you receive a mama's to set—
" Prin. —ii sesaminated. HaVO captured brassies.

Continuing. the learned gentleman ;emerged that who
seer wrote that letter said that money to the amount of
£l.OOO mutt be forestd:d to A. Y., silts °Sou of the
blancheeter, Shedield. and Linos/whirs Railway, Dan.
castle. No* A. Y. were the prisoner's initials, and it
the pion bed bean successful and the mosey bad bean
forwarded, the letter containing It would have been
banded to the prisoner. as there was no other clerk with
the same initials in the office. Of counts at arta rght it
=Mitt be believed to be reliable that some other person
might have f.rled the prisoner's initials, and, as a mater
of fact, the handwriting of the letter giving rise to the
indictment wee no doubt In a disguised handwriting.
HO 018•01. clerks and others in the same office as the
prisoner, and who easetantly saw him write, would come
forwent se Iri Isome. and express their certainty that the
letter was written by the prisoner and no one et...
Various witnesses having bees cella I on both Ides,
The jury, without leaving the bor., after a few minutes'
consultative, brought in. verdict of guilty, but recant-
mended proioner to many on arc Mai of his youth.
The learned Judge then proceeded to pas. sentence. He
said—Prisoner at the bar, you have beep most properly
convicted by the jury of the offence charged in this Melia-
runt, I don I think any reasonable person who hae hued
the evidence could arrive at a different conclusion. The
jury have recommended you to mercy on the ground of
your youth, but you appear to have been outplayed in thus
railer.; offices, to have been a competent clerk, ccenpeteat
in every respect. I cannot myrelf au say ontigeting dr.
cumstance in the our. I cannot outosive a worse ow of
, the Wad than yours, and I therefore psis spot you It.
sontssas which the law permits me to pan la an extreme
cue of this kind—namely, that you be kept la pupal lerVi•
%ode for 107.510.
The plumes* was than removed.