MARY CLARKE'S MURDERER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 10

MARY CLARKE'S MURDERER

LIFE SENTENCE FOR EDOUARD BRAEM. ANTWERP, July 18. Edouard Braem, accused of the murder last year of Mary Cfarke in Liverpool, was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Ataitre van Beckhout, the Public PlrosecutOT, reviewed Braem’s antecedents. Prisoner, he said, had never shown any good behaviour, and Ms vices must inevitably have led Mm t' dime. He had been a weH-known inmate of the Mexplas Penitentiary, and bad been sentenced to bard labour in London. The weapon used for the crime was a razor. Braem had followed the trade of a barber for a long time, and was consequently used to handling razors. The victim bad threatened Braem, and tile latter, went on tbe Public Prosecutor, killed her with the razor. Council for the defence said that Braem bad refused to go back to England, because the penalty for tbe crime he was suspected of was much more severe in that country. Tbe murder had been committed in Braem’s room, and with nis razor, and these facts inode it look as if he were the criminal. But there was no certainty about it.— Reuter. There were 28 witnesses in the case, all but three being English.