TWO brothers — Eddie Fraser and George Fraser — on a sultry night in August 1968 decided, along with other young men like themselves, to grab the money bag of a Kingston coconut vendor and flee into mysterious darkness with it.

That act, the brothers discovered later, was to shatter their lives forever because both found themselves before the Number 1 Home Circuit Court charged with the gunslaying of Othneil Brown, coconut vendor of 26 Stephen Street, Kingston 12. Brown was shot dead at the corner of Heywood Street and Rose Lane on the night of August 23, 1968.

Justice Uriah Parnell passed the sentence of death upon Eddie Fraser, 22, apprentice radio technician of 69 Pink Lane, Kingston, after he was convicted by a mixed…

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Next week: The murder trial of Frank Robinson, et al convicted and sentenced to death for murdering Mussington Reid.

Sybil E Hibbert is a veteran journalist and retired court reporting specialist. She is also the wife of Retired ACP Isadore ‘Dick’ Hibbert, rated among the top Jamaican detectives of his time.