GUTTERIDGE MURDER
J&OWE PRETESTS MADNESS. WEARS Nb CLOTHES, i , KENNEDY TRIED SAME RUSE. United Pre&j Assn.— Vir, Electric telegraph bopvrisrfit. f (deceived 1:35 p.m.) LbNDON. May 3. Browne, who was condemned for murdering Constable Gutteridge, is at (present shamming madness; apparently with the idea of. obtaining a transference to the . Broadnibbr Criminal Asylum.- He tiever ceases' to storm and rage he is unhappy; To the 'Warders he asserted from the beginning he 'would hot wear other than his own clothes, with the result that since his conviction he has not worn any. Doctors; iioweVer, 'easily recognise ; a real madman from' jt malingerer thus Brown© is reported to be fully spbhsiDle; l t is-interestilig v to 1 recall that Kennedy, 'while awaiting trial at Brixtoh, pretended fee- was i suffering frohi general paralysis attd ! was '.insane. He assumed the role of a wealthy matt and sighed cheques for thousands sterling.—Aus. Press Assn.—United Service. .
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 56, 4 May 1928, Page 6
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