ESSEX MURDER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7

ESSEX MURDER.

BROWNE’S COAIPLEX. NATURE.

(Australian Press Association). LONDON Alay 6. A Sheffield eft-convict., has been awarded £2OOO in connection with the conviction of Browne and Kennedy, who arc to he executed for the mutdei of Police Constable Gutte'ridge, m Essex last rear. The convict intends opening a butcher’s shop in Yorkshire with the money. . Browne perturbed him by nis frequent visits, which were for the purpose of suggesting a confederacy, but m vain. Browne is at present the most discussed, and most written of individual in England. Whole pages are devoted to his amazing life. Several of his oil paintings of English rural life have been given prominence; they reveal yet another side to his complex nature. One newspaper is publishing Ins life story, which was actually written in the cell while awaiting trial. A novelist lias never drawn a more extraordinary character in the most sensational fiction than this self-revela-tion. „ , , . Bey liolds !News publishes a Jong letter from Browne to his wife from the condemned cell at Pentonville, exdiorting her to remember that 1 ihe death sentence is infinitely preferable to a living death in some prison. Browne adds: “The result is just as my heart hoped, and the sentence is a hapy relief. This is merely the end of a hard run of fate. Do not blame me, my love.”