MURDERER'S LETTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 36, 11 February 1905, Page 13

MURDERER'S LETTER.

j "LET HER BE MINE IX DEATH IF NOT IN LIFE." Remarkable details of the courtship or j j Beatrice Fielding and .Tohn Fritchley, and ] o" tha tragedy which ended their lives in \ Defficber, were told to the Manchester I (Eng.i I'oronfr recently. J Fritenley, who vvaii a toman. left a j letter addressed to his mother, which con;Ha inert the following: i '"Deal - Mother, — You most not fret nor grieve for mc, and never blame my little darling. Although she has thrown mc over. I love her sdQ. Nearly two years ago a young fellow come to their place to| put electric light fittings up. Shortly I after there was a picnic to Chester, and j jhe got to speak to her. Since then he [ has constantly bothered her. He has made love to her. and many a time tolil bor ho hoped he would never see her behind a bar. She has told mc everything. | ""After he had finished the work at their place lit git a situation at Wigau. Well, he wasn't there long before he came back fo Manchester and commenced at the I same place as Beatrice. Of course, he ; I satr her many times a day. That did not I satisfy him. lie came to lire at HarpErj h.sy, so that he could bring her home every I nig he and take her to wort in tiie moraI Ing. I don't blame my darLing, and I l>.->no no one else win. She has told mc sfce is going to Him, b.ut I think she will die first." After referring to a reveller, be continued:— "1 think I should use It, as I C3aaot stte anyrfcin? to live for. My heart is broken. Ir seems strange for a man of thirty ta say it. does it net? But. mother. I loved her. I have tried 1117 utmoßt to get on this last three years, but leek is dead against mc. I would like to put a bullet through him, bnt I dare not leave too much to chance. I must make a sure thing of it. I should not like to (lie with a rope round my neck and t thotig-nt if lie loves her as ma?b as he has told her foe does, he will suffer worse. ' Shootiuj him will be too sood. ' : "There is one riHjuest I want to make. | Will you bury us both togetheF? Lei her] be miuo in death if she cannot be mine in j life." , ; Before oommitting the otime, Pritcbley; wena to see bis motiier at Sheffield, an<l while there visited his brother's grave, where he was seized with a fit pt hysterical The Jjiry lamS that FrtteWey monfere* ue girl and tkea ctawittei seiciae.