THE BRIGHTON MURDER.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2642, 8 September 1881, Page 3

THE BRIGHTON MURDER.

Regarding Lefroy, who is in custody for.the . Brighton murder, a journalist, who was for several years on the Australian Press,,writes to a London paper that he,knew Lefroy out there, and could not, in fact, have avoided doing dcing , so, as the man, was notorious in. journalistic circles

from Brisbane" to Adelaide. When the writer first-knew him lie was contributing spicy" police paragraphs to the Melbourne papers. His' plan of campaign was to take in Colonial editors, with,, glowing accounts... of his intimacy with George Augustus ►Sala, William Black, Henry Irving, aud the celebrities of the:, day in literature and art. Only a few months ago he tried the same trick on tlie £I Newcastle Chronicle.” 'ln a letter.offering his services, he alluded to himself very modestly as the nephew of the late Richard Cobden. The “ Daily News ” has taken the trouble on belialf of the Cobden family to disclaim any connection with him. In Australia he has- frequently been "in trouble with the police' on account of scurrilous pamphlets, and other literary misdemeanours. He had also a habit of attaching himself to bushraen down in Melbourne for a spree, and sticking to them while they had a shilling left. Though ho. has since changed his name, be will bo identified by many at the Antipodes,