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Show NEWSPAPER MAN IN DEATH THREAT CASE NEW'' YORK April 18 John L Sutherland, a newspaper man, was held In $10,000 bail for a higher court when William H Anderson, state superintendent su-perintendent of the Anti-saloon league, had him arrested on a charge of writing writ-ing a letter threatening the prohibition prohibi-tion worker's lift-Sutherland lift-Sutherland admitted he wrote the letter to Anderson but said he had no Intention of fulfilling the threat of death The letter read: "If your words and actions henceforth hence-forth are not silent and if you do not take your place quietly in the gieat body of American citizenship, we moan to kill you without the slightest compunction." Magistrate Simpson, in fLxing bail, said he wanted to protect .Anderson becaUBI he believed Sutherland was .-uttering from a "temporary aberration." aberra-tion." Sutherland, who was said to have suffered injuries during the war, was not able to furnish bond. |