THE DUNEDIN MURDERS.

Lake County Press, Volume IX, Issue 463, 25 March 1880, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN MURDERS.

pe following particulars as to the man »ted for the Cumberland Street tragedy from, the 'Herald':—Butler, alias inelly, was arrested about fire miles on Dunedin side of Waikouaiti. He was ed with a six-chamber revolver, and. in his possession thirty or forty carges. When he saw the police he ran ind a flax bush and presented his re'er at them, but beyond this- be made ittempt at resistance. Butler is knowir »e a desperate criminal, but murder never laid to his charge previously, what motive he could have had to kill Dewars is impossible to even conjee- *• Butler's career here and in Vic»is well known, and we trust that we r be excused for referring to it. for tner guilty or innocent—and we believe innocent of the murder—we arecerit will not prejudice in the least dei those who try him on the present (?e. He was iu Pentridge when a and was known to the police in Vic- > for thirteen, years. He came to New and and turned respectable, and having 1 address and his antecedents being mn, he was employed as a Catholic twr in one of the country districts •mwell). He rewarded the confidence :h was placed in him by robbing the 't of £6oj He then came to Dunedin broke into a number of houses, and career was ultimately checked by his f! arrested, he being sentenced, we m, to four year's imprisonment. He liberated a few week's ago, and ap■Sifrom the fact of having a loaded wer in his possession, to have preid himself for another career of crime. a inquest on the bodies of the victims held before the City Coroner (Dr *en), and a verdict returned of " WilWurder" against Butler.. deblock of, land between Union and David Streets, in. which the tragedy 3 paining an unenviable noto- • m Within the past three years no less , mn s persons have met with violent w in houses situated on the block. believe it would be impossible to find "all an area with such a dismal list.of "■ehces attaching to it; The following 11 .Plan (from the ■ Star % indicates «>mately the locations of th« several attiea that have happened on. the Mod will K i TO onr readers a better w the position than can be expressed

ST. DAVID STREET. I.—House in which Roberts, a. horse-dealer, committed suicide. 2.—Jackson's house, in which a child was burned to death. 3.—O'Brien'a-house, in which two children •were burned to death. 4.—Lincoln Cottage, in which the Hayes murder and'suicide occurred. s.—Dewar's cottage—scene of the present tragedy..

E-i H K « £« ?! O M ?! ALLAN’S 4 3 i 2 "VVTN’S GROUND. 1 1 Property. Allan’s H Gbound Leased. CUMBERLAND STREET.