FATE OF FATHER KEPT FROM SONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19198, 11 October 1930, Page 1

FATE OF FATHER KEPT FROM SONS.

DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON WANGANUI MURDERER (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, August 15. Somewhere in London are two small boys from whom a grim secret is being carefully kept. It is the secret of the fate that overshadows their father, lying in a condemned cell on the other side of the world. The man is Herbert Frederick Manley who, a day or two ago, was sentenced to death at Wellington, New Zealand, for the murder of n pretty girl named Gladys Barringtov Cromarty. The boys are his sons, . • w aged eleven and nine, on whom he has not set eyes since he left home over five years ago. There are many people at Kenley, the Surrey beauty spot which is such a favourite place for picnicking Londoners, who remember Herbert Manley, and who find it almost impossible to believe that this cheery, pleasantmannered fellow is now lying under sentence of death for murder. And there is one woman in particular stunned with horror at the fate which has overtaken the man whom once she loved. She is Mrs Manley, the pretty Surrey girl whom Manley wooed and won in the early part of the war. Mrs Manley has not seen her husband for more than five years. One day, some little time after she had been forced to get a separation order, he simply walked out of Kenley and disappeared. _____________