MURDERER’S LIFE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1928, Page 2

MURDERER’S LIFE

BROWNE’S DAS'! HOURS. (United Press Association.—By Electric 'Telegraph.—Copyright.) , LONDON. May G. A Sheffield ex-convict has lieen awarded £2OOO in connection with the conviction of Browne and Kennedy, and he intends opening a butcher's shop therewith in Yorkshire. Browne had perturbed the convict by his frequent visits, vainly’suggesting confederacy. Browne is at present the most discussed and most written individual in England. Whole pages are being devoted to his amazing life. Several of his oil paintings of British rural life are given prominence, revealing yet another side to his complex nature.

One newspaper is publishing his life story, which was actually written by him in the cells while lie was awaiting trial. A novelist has never drawn a more extraordinary character in the most sensational fiction than this self-reve-lation.

•‘Reynold’s News” publishes a long letter written by Browne to, lii.s wife from the condemned cell at Pentonville, exhorting her to remember that a “death .sentence is infinitely preferable to a living death in some prison.” Browne says: “The result is just as 1 had hoped and the .sentence is a happy relief. This is merely the end of a hard run of fate. Do not blame me my love!”