Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-08-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GRIEVANCE. EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS. r. ,  At Bow-a-meet-- "'oboe Court, London. on Setur diy, James Thompson, late of the Royal Horse Artillery, was charged with writing letters threstecing to kill Mr. Ounplor.ll BkollBtlllllo, Seeretery• for War.  Sergeant Thorpe, of the Criminal Investigation Department. stated that be received inatructions on the sth inst. to make inquiries respecting letters: that had been received at the War-office threatening to mnider Mr. Campbell Bannerman. He . went to the Fulham Infirmary, where he saw the : vita:tin le,:,0.11/alteaws kn.ed shown itfhehiltnteam...e weir.imJirt:l he had written it, and slut it svai his intention, if opportunity (dared, to carry out the threat contained in it. Witness told trim ghat he wee in. strutted to caution him as to the danger of the roams he wow pursuing, and that if he continued to write threatening letters he would probably find himself in prison. Prisoner became excited, acid braid that if he tumid get • revolver be would shoot the lot at the War-office. Another teeter was afterwards received threatening the life of Mr. Campbell Bannerman, and prisoner was arrested by I witness On a warrant. . . .  The leer e were put i; the aret running es follow, :7. _  . " Werd A 2, Workhouge Infirmary, Fulham, Aug. 2, 1893. Right Hon. Sir,-8 moat respectfully beg to inform you thst I have just undergone another operation. It iii the fifth, for the rupture I reciarved through spite at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Spatkbrook, Birmingham. In my last n.!te I told you my life was a trouble to nie. sa I am in pain when! lie down, sit, stand, or walk. I am tired of being in the chamber of horrors--the workhouse infirmary—where I have spent moat of ury time this lairs three years, through the spite sod malice and villainy of War-office officisie Right Hon. Sir,—This is to give you notice that unless you do me justice for all I have guffsred, and will have to suffer as long as I live. You ! have robbed me of fivapence a day, of lay link+, ' pension, my weekly pay, and you have disabled, crippled, and paralysed me. You know that you cruelly, brutally starved and tortured and swindled, ! robbed, and pemoutei ma. You know that you starved, tortured, and murdered my poor site. You know that I was lying in a woikhouse infirmary, a poor, miserable, disabled, ruptured, paralysed cripple, my poor wife lying dead outaide at the same time,and through the awns cause, the spite and malice of your ofti,ials. You have robbed rue of all that life is worth living fee, yi.o drove me here to the chambor of horrors, and you stop my little pension that I fought and bled for. You persecute me, and drive me in here to die a miserable, lingering death,and all for speaking the truth. You tell lies to and othere. to prevent them from helping me. You are slowly and suroly crushing me to death. Well, sir, I may OS ! well die upon the scaffold al the here. sad unless you dome justice, and I want jwitice. Right lion. Sir, I do now .wear that I will take the life of some one of those that are now torturing and murdering me. tours not which of you it is; I will stiok a kaife between hie rile as goon as I gee the chance, ask may as wtll.. die on the gallows at in  the al.; eller-boa- se. You. se well an the rest ; first come, brat served. 1 can't stand your torture any longer. Twill have death or jwitioe.—(Signadl.