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Murdered Fourteen Men

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
February
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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San Francisco. Feb. 2. - The bark Swanhilda, having on board the Australian murderer. Butler, arrived Tuesday at 6:30 after a passage of. seventy days from Newcastle. The pólice and detectives after a three weeks' vigil, boarded the vessel as she entered the harbor and oaptured Butler. Butler is extremely English in appearance and speaks with a pronounced English accent. He gave his name at the city prison as Eagan. Butler is credited by the Australian pólice with murdei-il fourteen men. His plan was to entice men whom he knew to have money into the interior under the pretense of examining a miningclaim and then murdering them. His last victim was Captain Lee Weller, a retired sea captain. Butler took his money and clothes and shipped on the Swanhilda under the name of Weller.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News