BUTLER'S LYING STORIES.
Pn EutOTEioTBtaaKAPH— Copybioht. PBB FBBSi ASSOCIATION;' r SypNBY, March 29. A military expert' has" worked oat Butler's career as eontaifle&fauftle account which he gave to the American papers, and shows that according to Bauer's own statement he must have completed seventeen years' of military and naval training by the time he was twenty-two years of age. Moreover soldiers of the British army are not honourably discharged after only five years' service, and then allowed to enlist, m other regiments and be prompted to pioneer sergeant m such terrible haste. The expert points out that the 92nd Highlanders did not serve m Egypt, and therefore Butler's presence with them at the battle of Telel Keber was a pure invention. The sth Dragoon Guards have not been m the field since the Crimean war, and Butler's yarn about being sent to York to join them when they had already left for Soudan must be a concoction. From the close piecing together'of Butler's Btory the expert it .almost certain that he never saw the inside of a barrack room, or had a red ' ©oat on his bick.
San Francisco, March 28. Detectives watch Butler with increas ing vigilance,, being afraid of possibli attempts at suicide. . : ; <
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Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2356, 30 March 1897, Page 3
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205BUTLER'S LYING STORIES. Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2356, 30 March 1897, Page 3
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