CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] THE GLENBROOK MURDERS.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 168, 7 December 1896, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.] THE GLENBROOK MURDERS.

* WELLER'S BODY DISCOVERED. BURIED SIMILAIt TO THAT OF PRESTON. THE STEPS FOR THE CAPTURE OF BUTLER. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, 6th December. The excitement over the mountain mystery has reached fever heat, owing to the discovery of another body— that of Weller. Hundreds joined in the search to-day, and dnring the forenoon two residents of Glenbrook searching in a gully a mile west of the town, came aoross ground recently disturbed, with twigs and stones piled on top, under a ledge of rock, similar in many respects to the condition of Preston's grave. The party also found a pick with which the grave was evidently dug, and a magazine bearing Weller'* name was discovered near by. On arrival of the police sufficient earth was removed to disclose the remains of a human body in an advanced stage of decomposition. One side of the face, however, was in a sufficient state of preservation to make the identification of Weller absolute. The victim had the knees drawn up under the chin, aud the body had apparently been jammed into the hole. How he came by his death will not be known until the post mortem examination to-morrow. One sjde of the face bears the appearance of being crushed in. A third man, named Lesah, is missing. He went to Germantown, in the Albury district, and a search will now be instituted there. The Extradition Court meets to-morrow to draw up the necessary papers with respect to the arrest of Butler, and Detective Roche will immediately after the sitting proceed to London to interview the authorities of the Foreign Office to have the documents put in proper order for the ex • tradition cf the murderer from America if arrested. Constable Conroy, who very nearly decided to accompany Butler on one of his prospecting tours, leaves by the Miowera. en route to Sau I'rancisco, in order to arrest the accused.