The Hon. F. H. May is getting accustomed to threats. No doubt he solaces himself with the saying "Threatened men live long." At the same time he is quite ready to pounce on those who are ill advised enough to threaten him: Yesterday, at the Police Court, one Sin Chak-shan alias Sai Ho-zel, contractor, was brought up on remand charged with sending a°threatening letter to the Capt, Superintendent of Police. it seems that during a search on the 28th-ult. by the detectives for forged bank notes in a room on the second floor.of No. 18, Chinese Street, the prisoner was discovered endeavouring to make his way to the window with a waistcoat which on being unrolled was found to contain a chop corresponding to that affixed to a letter addressed to Mr. May in August last, threatening to raze his house to the ground unless $10,000 was paid to a Chinese carpenter on' board the steamer Chelydva. The prisoner was committed for trial,
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