ARSENIC CASE
REMARKABLE LETTER FROM CONDEMNED MAN. A long letter was written to his wife by Frederick Henry Seddon (recently executed for the murder of Miss Barrow) from his condemned cell at Pentonville, protesting his innocence and bidding his wife face the alternatives of the coming days with courage. Seddon wrote: It nms't be better for an innocent person to be under sentence of death than a guilty one, and you and all my family know 1 am innocent; therefore, whatever happens, don't let it upset you. lam quite prepared to meet either fate—either death or penal servitude —and a clear conscience will help me to die bravely, or sustain me in imprisonment. You sfiffered with me the degradation and unjust punishment of police persecution and arrest, and two months' imprisonment, and after the strain of a long ten days' trial acquitted without even one word of apology from the police or the Crown for your unjustifiable arrest, and no doubt they think you have to be thankful that you were acquitted. True, you are thankful; so am I; so are the children, but is that enough?
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 8 June 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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187ARSENIC CASE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 8 June 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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