For the second time in eight years a man déserfbed as "an unscrupulous and oft-convicted criminal" has been sentenced to seven years' penal sertitude for the attempted blackmail of a clergyman, states the "News of the World." For the second time also, before he went from the dock to the cells, he turned to the judge with a dramatic threat, "I will sate my account with him (meaning the prosecutor) once and for all when I am finished," he shouted.
chiefly. for housebreaking and larceny, its fewer than 23 convictions, had already been recorded against the prisoner who this threat, James Fearn, 43, said fo be a sen-man.
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