LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2

LATER PARTICULARS.

San Francisco, February 3. When the tug was Bent to tow in the Swanhilria she signalled that Butler was actually on board. Six detectives and a number of newspaper representatives put out in the Government revenue cutter and met the vessel at Fort Point, the right entrance to Golden Gate. On the previous evening when the pilot cutter appeared Butler asked the Cap tain to slow the vessel down as he expected important letters from Australia. When the cutter got alongside Battler called out to the pilot : "Is it so ? Yes or no ? " but the pilot failed to under stand the question. Upon boarding the vessel the pilot informed Captain Fraser the police wished to quietly secure a man who had shipped under the name of Weller. Previous to this the Captain had no suspicion who Batler actually was. The pilot had been informed by the police of a plan to be adopted for effecting Butler's arrest, and he conveyed to the Captain the part the police wished him to play in order to capture the man without disturbance, When the boat with the quarantine officers came alongside the Swanbilda there was on board a detachment of plain clothes detectives accompanied by Roche and McHattie and Constable Con* ray. According to pre-arrangement Captain Fraeer when the crew of the ship were ranged upon the deck for medical inspeo tion be indicated Butler by standing in front of him. The sergeant of the local police at once covered Batler with his revolver, and ordered him to throw up his hands, which he immediately did. McHattie and Conroy, having identic fied Butler, he was pinioned, handcuffed, and taken ashore to the gaol. Butler insisted he was entirely innocent. Although considerably taken aback when arrested, he maintained his composure, and treated the whole matter with remarkable coolness. While he was in custody Butler admitted he was obliged to leave Australia, and later on inadvertently remarked that he knew Lee Weller very well. Butler was carefully searched, and several packages containing strychnine powders were found in his possession.