THE BUTLER CASE.
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San Francisco, February 26. Butler has cabled to a Sydney bank to remit him a thousand pounds. The prisoner has also sold his autobiography. San Francisco, February 87. The Examiner publishes a statement to the ftllect that Butler's true name is John Newman; that he was born at West Bromwich, and served through the Zulu aud Egyptian oampaigns. San Francisco, February 28. The Commissiouer of the United States now holds Butler for extradition for the murder of Weller and Preston. His return to Sydney will follow in due course, unless an appeal for habeas corpus is made to the Supreme Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10378, 1 March 1897, Page 5
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