Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 05 February 1894
A Jealous Husband at Conisborough.
A labourer named Harry Thomas Martin, who recently lived at Conisborough, was charged before the Doncaster West Riding magistrates on Saturday with using threats to Mary Ann Walker, his mother-in-law, at Conisborough on November 14 .
Complainant said that prisoner came into the house and said he should to Sheffield, and bring a revolver and blow his wife’s brains out, and anyone else’s who stood in his way. He went away, and on the 16th January she received a letter from him, in which he said that she need not think that because was 200 miles away he could not get back. He added that Emma (his wife) and he would meet more, and that it would be the last time, as they would die together, for she would never live to be another man’s wife.
Then he added:—”You will get the same as Emma. I mean to have revenge. I will teach Emma to sell what does not belong to her. The first time I come across her I intend to put a hole through her head. I should have done for her before if it had not been for the baby.”
A woman Davis corroborated, and prisoner was bound over his own recognisances of £5 keep the peace for 6 months.