SHE DESERVED A BETTER FATE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1696, 28 May 1884, Page 2

SHE DESERVED A BETTER FATE.

Under this beading the Melbourne 'Herald' of the 7th insfc., writes:—'-A correspondent furnishes us with the following particulars of the 'career of the man Browning, who stands committed for trial for the murder of his wife at South Melbourne, From Ihe information supplied it will be seen that the poor woman deserved good, and not bad, treatment at the hands of her husband : William Browning, after leavin" school, entered the shop of Mr Jones, a tailor, then doing business in Smithstreet, Collingwood. He seemed to gain the confidence of his and was sent to collect the outstanding' accounts, During this time he was keeping company with tho murdered woman. His employer,, beginning to doubt his honesty, made inquiries, which resulted in him being brought before a Bench of magistrates, and receiving a term of imprisonment for embezzling the money of his employer. They were engaged to be married at the tiraa of his sentence, and despite the entreaties and upbraidings of near relations and friends the girl waited until his term of. imprisonment was finished and then married him, He seemed to bo-anxious to lead a good life, and her friends took him in hand and taught him the plastering. Our informant then lost sight of him until he was lately brought before the South Melbourne Court for assaulting a bailiff, Ho was fined some small; amount, and in default of payment had to go to gaol for seven days, His wife and mother were then in court, and he not having the money was ; sent to gaol. He kissed them both',!and it seemed as though the lapse of years had not weakened the deep regard his wife had for him at the time of* his first mistake. He was sent to gaol, btit he, never served the sentence, as she' got this money somewhere and so '. pur- : chased his freedom. It seems incredible to think that the fate of a woman'who could still cling to her husband, in the face of all her faults should be such as 'herai:■."•.'.,'.'. •..':' '...:': ';!;,.'■■ w^.'vH