The Glenbrook Mystery.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney, Dec. 8. The Glenbrook mystery, which caused such a sensation during the past week, became more acute when Butler's movements were placed beyond doubt yesterday, and reached a climax this evening, when the news was wired tbrough announcing tbe discovery of the body of yonng Preston, buried two feet underground, about a mile and a-half . from Linwood. The original Haywood, whose name Butler assnmed, resided at Coolgardie and has informed the police that some time ago he was robbed of certain documents including a miner's right. It was no donbt on tbis latter document that Bntler posed as a mining man. 1 The police officer will probably leave by the Miowera on tbe 12th instant to intercept Butler. When the latter left Sydney he took with him a considerable quantity of clothing and jewellery. The 'police merely uncovered the back of tbe head of the man, who is lying face downwards in his grave, but by the shortness and colour of tbe hair the body is assumed to be tbat of Preston. Tbe body will not be completely exhumed until to-morrow, when ' tbe coroner and medical men will arrive. The gully in wbich the body was found is the place where Butler and Preston were last seen together.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 133, 4 December 1896, Page 2
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215The Glenbrook Mystery. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 133, 4 December 1896, Page 2
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