Wait For A Criminal

Vitoria, B. C, Jan. 6.- Wlien the steamer Swanhilda arrivés at San Francisco, whither she is now en route with a cargo from New South Wales, detectives will arrest the criminal of the century, Frank Butler, with halt' a dozen aliases, who is wanted for ene of the most remarkable series of crimes ou record, which were committed in New South Wales. Butler's trade apparently was butcliery and his practico was to advertise for a partner with $50 to go prospecting, take him into the wilderness, shoot him after the victim had dug a treneh that was to serve as his own grave, bury the body and return to the city to repeat the operation. Twice bodies have been discovered, those of the last two victims being A. O. T. Preston and Capt. Leo Weller. Butler assumed the latter's name in getting passage to America and these murders have been positively fastened aixm him. He went about his fiendish wo-ík with the utmost coolnese, Weller's murder and burial being within ten feet of traveled trails, and he went to the trouble to present the valueless part of the murdered man's property to a poor tramp on whom he expected susplcion to fall if the murder was discovered.