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MURDERER TURNS COMPOSER } SYDNEY, May 27. Agister Jenner Clark, serving a life sentence for murder in Goulburn Jail, will attempt to compose an opera. , Clark was convicted on March 20, 1929, of murdering his wife, Ella May Clark, and sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life. imprisonment. In Goulburn Jail, by special permission, he was taught music, and passed with credit a series of Conservatorium examinations. *
He is now studying orchestration by listening to gramophone recordsj and plays and composes on the chapel piano.
He practises in his cell on a dummy piano keyboard. ' ' \ '
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1936, Page 6
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