SUICIDE IN GAOL
WIFE MURDERER’S method. 'HOUSTON (Texas), September 1. Payne, the Amarillo attorney, who two months ago killed his wife by exploding. an infernal machine in the family automobile, committed suicide
yesterday by blowing himself to pieces with nitroglycerine, a phial of which lie had secreted in his cell. As the suicide clause of his insurance policy expired at midnight, he waited until after that hour so that his children could collect the £2OOO involved. Next week he/would have gone on trial for killing his wife, to which crime he had confessed, asking for speedy electrocution.
Payne claimed that he was a direct descendant of the author of “Home. Sweet Home.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1930, Page 3
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