The Glenbrook Mystery.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 136, 8 December 1896, Page 2

The Glenbrook Mystery.

. *. (Per Press Association.) Sydnky, Dec. 7. The inquest on Weller Ims been adjourned till to-morrow. The medical examination disclosed a heavy revolver bullet flattened against the right side of tbe skull, which entered just below the left car, and pierced the brain. Death was instantaneous, the shot evidently being fired at short range. The evidence in the Extradition Court disclosed no new facts of importance, but clearly established Butler's connection with Preston and Weller and the fact of his shipping at Newcastle for 'Frisco. While at Newcastle he exhibited a quantity of jewellery believed to be Weller's. His luggage included a revolver and a plentiful supply of ammunition. The Court granted the warrants for the arrest of Butler for the murder of Preston and Weller. This Day. The chief Witness in the Weller case is Peter Farrell, a tramp, to whom Butler gave a plan of the camp near where Weller perished. This plan waa eiven to enable Farrell to got artioles of clothing and provisions, but Farrell finding nothing of value threw the plan away, and it was subsequeutly found by tbe police. Had the tramp picked up any of Weller's articles, aud Preston's dis appearance not been discovered, the man ran a risk of being arrested as Weller's murderer, and that idea, no doubt, presented itself to Butler when he sent the man on his errand. The air is thick with rumours of other men being missing.