THE GLENBROOK MURDERS.
STATEMENT BY BUTLER. [Per Press Association.] . SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, Butler told Constable Conroy that two men forced him to accept part of Lee' Weller’s belongings. He offers to turn informer if his assistance is accepted to capture these men. PERTH, Feb. 9. The police have identified Butler as a marl who, under the name of Ashe, was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment on a charge of having stolen property in Ids possession. While awaiting trial Ashe told Sergeant Gee that he had lain at a street corner all one night with a revolver intending to shoot him when he passed, but Gee did not come that night.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11189, 10 February 1897, Page 5
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111THE GLENBROOK MURDERS. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11189, 10 February 1897, Page 5
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