BUTLER’S CAREER.
During the trial of Butler for burglary, Mr Haggitt, addressing the judge, said: —Before the prisoner came to this colony at all, your Honor, I am informed that, under the name of George Lee, alias James Wilson, he received various sentences. Ho received a sentence of twelve months for vagrancy at Melbourne on the 17th September, 1860 ; twelve months for larceny on the 2nd February, 1863; six months for vagrancy on the 19th May, 1862, at Richmond; five years for assault and robbery under arms on the 15th December, 1864, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne ; six months’ imprisonment for receiving stolen property on the 15th December, 18S4, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne ; and five years for burglary on the 15th September, 1871, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne. In addition to these, the prisoner here received three months’ hard labor for larceny in August, 1876 ; and in October, 1876, he was sentenced by this Court for burglary, larceny, "larceny, larceny, housebreaking, housebreaking—six distinct charges —to four years’ penal servitude.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1927, 28 April 1880, Page 2
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