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Quote from: Jayhen6 on Tuesday 09 November 21 15:47 GMT (UK)

That is fascinating!!.. I wonder what happened to him at trial and beyond.

Lansing State Journal
Lansing, Michigan
Wednesday, August 09, 1950
Page 23

Poison Penman Given Suspended Sentence

BAY CITY, Aug. 9-- An elderly one-time British boxer Tuesday headed for Illinois to serve out a one-year suspended sentence and two years probation on charges of sending threatening letters through the mails.

James Daubney, a 76-year-old former Saginaw mission worker, won the suspended sentence from federal Judge Frank Picard Monday on the promise that he would go to work in a Friend's mission at Rock Island, Ill.

 Daubney had been convicted of threatening to drop an "atomic bomb" on Dr. A. Raymond Moon and other Saginaw residents. He was reported to have accused Moon and others of "breaking up my home" in a letter to Cecil Basklns of Saginaw.

Quote from: Jayhen6 on Tuesday 09 November 21 09:36 GMT (UK)

 I’ve seen a visit to Oldham in 1948 when sailed from America.. did he stay or did he return?

It appears he left the USA in March 1946 and returned in Feb. 1948.

New York Incoming Passenger list.
Line 21 -Images 600 & 601

Passenger List: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVPZ-6BVS

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Nice article giving brief bio and has a picture of him.

The Rock Island Argus
Rock Island, Illinois
21 Dec 1949, Wed  •  Page 15

Clip: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88617868/21-dec-1949/

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Got himself in trouble with the law in 1950.

Argus-Leader
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
20 Jul 1950, Thu  •  Page 4

clip: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88617965/20-july-1950/
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Looks like they returned him to Saginaw, MI for trial.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
23 Jul 1950, Sun  •  Page 6

Clip: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88618379/23-july-1950/

Argus-Leader
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sunday, October 04, 1970

Excerpts from an article-

... The mission has been in its present quarters, location of a pre-Prohibition saloon, for 24 years.

-Work Started in 1907
It's the outgrowth of a project launched in 1907, the first rescue mission in Sioux Falls. In that year James Daubney, a boxer with a circus appearing in the city, carried a payday celebration too far. When the circus pulled up stakes, it left him behind. In the throes of a severe hangover, he resolved to begin a new life. The man became disgusted with himself and someone was able to win him to accept Christ as his Saviour, said the Rev. Eric  Johnson, the mission's present superintendent. Then he wanted to help the men he saw who were in the condition that he had just been lifted from...

 - Mission Occupied Room
Daubney began his soul-saving work in a room at 119 E 10th St. One of the first recipients of his aid was a fruit store operator who came to ; work drunk and passed out. "Daubney helped him to get straightened out," the Rev. Mr. Johnson said. Delving further into the archives at his office, the super intendent continued: "The mission started out with chairs and a kitchen table, ....

...Daubney was here five years and then left for St. Paul. He had a strong, positive message against liquor." Work Continued Following the departure of the converted pugilist, other individuals carried on the work for short periods at different locations until Bernice Carlson, with the help ...

Several British newspaper articles reporting boxing matches involving Jim Daubney of Oldham dated in the late 1890s (big prize money, £15 & £20) and one from 1906 describing him as Jim Daubney of Oldham, late Lincoln in which he was knocked out of the ring in the first round