“I FORGIVE MURDERER.”
WIFE SAYS: “I STILL LOVE HIM.” A wife who had known her husband, Frederick Cullender, aged 35, since they were playmates at the age of five, at the Old Bailey, London, heard him sentenced to 22 months’ hard labour for burglary. She married him a year or so ago, after his release from prison after serving 15 years’ penal servitude for murder. “I still love him, and while he is in prison I shall continue to write to him,” Mrs Cullender told a reporter after , lier husband had been committed. “For My Bake.” “Our 18 months together were the happiest moments of our lives. “What Fred did he did for my sake, and naturally I forgive. When he comes out I know he will come back to me. “I still do not think he intended to kill the warder, and while he was in prison the last time I visited him on every possible occasion.” Their courtship was for the most part conducted by post, for at 17 Cullender was sent to a Borstal Institution. Undaunted, his sweetheart, a eripple since early childhood, wrote regularly. Then in 1920 Cullender, while trying to break out of the institution, killed a warder. The sentence of death was commuted, and in April 1935 he was freed on' license.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 9
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