BUTLER’S DOUBLE
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Sydney, July 11. Commenting on the Wharton case, the Daily Telegraph says that what happened during the Brisbane trial suggests that if Wharton and. Butler are not one and the same man two strikiogly clever men have become Criminals instead of one, and as far as the identity hypothesis goes, Wharton is about the same, age as Butler, 58 years, and that at that advanced period of his life he is found- looking for work armed with revolvers and showing great address in Court is something in his favor, but that there should be doubt as to whether this is not Butler, whose hands are so deeply steeped in crime, only shows the inefficiency of the prison systsm with regard to instinctive or habitual criminals.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1504, 12 July 1905, Page 2
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131BUTLER’S DOUBLE Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1504, 12 July 1905, Page 2
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