DETECTIVE ROCHE INTERVIEWED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2252, 29 April 1897, Page 23

DETECTIVE ROCHE INTERVIEWED.

SATEMENTS AND ADMISSION BY j BUTLER. | In an interviev; Detective Roche kindly gave . J details regarding the trip across. He aaid : i j *' Busier has mado some Htatcmenfo on the w&y ! across, and I think he will about finish them hy ; th 3 time we get to Bvdnty. Butk-r admitted to - me on (<he way down fch&t he ohot Buogess i becauss he gavo him a begun cheque for two j horses and a. waggon which B'ltler bought ( from him. I think ho will yei. make a co.ij fessiou with regard to many matters." He seems to have mitio many statements ? j " Yer, ha has; bu: fhe man ie the biggest i liar I ever had to do with."' ! Reporter : I hardly thought thn pross would • have been allowed to see Butler here ? j " Neither thoy would have if Butler had not j acikcd to soe tbe reporters in order to deny ■ what he csvl's ». false statement u« 13 repotted ;to have made in San Fmicifc?. When ha told i me he wanted to s»e re porters for 'h.sfc reason, ito pliiase him 1 let 'he press m?u fte him. He ( was iv a very h<*d humour at fiiMC this ]i?oruj ing. You should have- eteu the look be gava ' just now when a man in a pa^sins* boat shouted ■ eomotring through the porthole." j Wa* he much woubled on tho trip acrofs ? : "Weil, you see, Tie took every care <A him Iso that he could not give much tremble. Wa : 1 had a straight jacket ready 10 clap on if be ; , began lo bf, troublescme, but beoi' not ueed : \ i;.. We have Lad tj watch him very ca«efnlly, j • I can teli you. When 30a would think ha was ! j fast s sleep I have just turned raj" head a little. : : and found him watching nis as Iroeoly ho a cab j : wa.lcb.e3 a mouge. IJutltr tel.'s so many stories ] ! you canrjot believe all he. aays. He'u a regular \ j bully, you know, and seemed to Lave pretty '. J well f tightened fjora l ? of th'» men who were j watching him in 'Frisco. You saw bow ugly ' h.B looked this morning ab some of fciw reporters j I who wfi-c questioning him. He tried to frighten !us at fk&t by his bullying. Ho frightened two : 1 men who were watching him whfcn m gaol, and ', we bad to get a third man, and pr.y him sdol ; a day to help them " j I suppose you were always afraid he wouUl ; j try to commit; suicide ? ' I «• There is alwaya that risk in these cases, you : 1 know. At first he took no food a1;a 1 ; ul!, and nexi i ! day he had hardly any. Then I gave him a ! '! drink of whisky, and put some honey in it. ' l Ntxt morning be took his food all right, aud : 1 hai done so ever since." : j Naturally you took especial eire after he had j i once attempted take his life ? ] \ "Yes, bat you know of course he was not in ! j our charge when that occurred." . ', How d d ho manage to do it, with his thumb ; nail ? : "Oh ! that was all a mistake. It was a wire j j nail he had gob hold of in some way or other, j jHe cut at the ve : n over his eye en tho letfc j I si.le and al?o a deep wound made on his wrist. ! The one ou his forehead is pretty well healed up j now, but tbab ou his wrist is still bad, and the j J doctor fcas been attending to it all the way t j acres. He managed to make those wounds j j while he was in tns cjunby gaol Rfc 'Frisco, j ; They did not know the man, and watch him a* j earetully as we have done. We watch him now j j just as carefully as ever, because he ia more \ j daDgerous when he appears not to want to give : t any trouble at all. We know he is watchiDg us j J jusb as much us we do him. I can tell you I j • will be pleased when I get the man safely ■ jto Sidney. I shall sleep well that night, I ' know."