THE GLENBROOK MURDERER.
MORE EVIDENCE OF HIS CAREER. <rAIN!N< r A LIVING i 1 \V Tf IE IKE OF lIIS REVOLVER. SyI'NKV, I >trC. 1 Butler's shipmate aboard the Olive Branch gives some details of Butlcr'< career in Brazil. He nut him at Rio when yellow fever wa~ rasing there. Butler joined the Olive Branch at that |K>rt. When he got to sea he -tated that he had been in Brazil for three or four years, during which time lie gained all possible information about people with money. These he enticed, when possible, to lonely .-pots an.l popped them off. During the revolution in Brazil a number of ship captains who went op country never returned, and he believed that he could account for their disappearance. lie told his shipmate that a revolver was his companion and means of living, and when leaving Rio intimated his intention of following up his previous career in Australia and their make money by '• pinking " them.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 198, 16 December 1896, Page 3
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162THE GLENBROOK MURDERER. Hastings Standard, Issue 198, 16 December 1896, Page 3
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