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The Painted Horror
by Rosaleen Norton
…“Queer thing the way the police hushed it up—a sensational murder like that! Most of the public never heard of it at all. My brother (he’s connected with the police) told me that Raynham, poor devil, was literally torn to pieces, and chewed! As if by a wild beast. Seems to me as if no man could have done it.
“Funny, too, the way a big canvas (he was found in his studio you know) had a great hole in it, as though something had jumped right through it…
Smith’s Weekly, 1934
Clyde and Edna were in the conservatory poring over her photographs from Germany when Rowland and Milton returned. Edna had progressively posted prints and films back to Sydney, and so, despite having fled Munich, her record of their time had, for the most part, been saved.
