A Story about 'Butler of the Cumberland Street Tragedy.
Even the hardest men have some point of goodness of heart. Many affectionate traits are told about Eobespierre, though his sympathy seems to have been like the sensitiveness of the cat, which is afraid to wet its feet in water but not in blood. If Butler was guilty of the crimes of which be was accused he must have been one of tbe cruellest of men. Yefc I heard this story about him : When travelling the country he came one evening, footsore aud weary, to a miner's house. The miner took him in, treated him kindly, and when he went away
in the morning gave him 10s. Some time afterwards Butler became teacher at the Catholic School in Cromwell, where he passed under tbe fictitious name of Donnelly. During his first school holidays he went down to the miner who had befriended him, paid back the 10s, and left a book as a memento with his signature " O. Donnelly " on the fly-leaf.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 28
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171A Story about 'Butler of the Cumberland Street Tragedy. Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 28
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