THE PRISONER BUTLER
0 - - DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. The Executive Council decided yesterday to commute the sentence of death passed on the man Charles Butler to iinprisonmont for life. Butler murdered a girl named Hetty Louisa Foster at View Hill in the North Canterbury district. The facts were scarcely in dispute at the trial, but the defence was raised that Butler was not; wholly sane. Tn bringing in the verdict of "Guilty," the jury added a recommendation for mercy on the ground of the low mentality of the
prisoner. In order to determine exactly the- state of the mind of the man, a committeo of three doctors, who are exports in such cases, was appointed by the Minister of .Tustifo to examine Butler, and the report of this committee has been in the hands nf the Minister fw two or three 'lays. Tt was considered hy Cabinet last we?k, and yesterday the matter was disposed of by tho Executive Council.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 6
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159THE PRISONER BUTLER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 6
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