THE NOTORIOUS BUTLER.
GETS SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS' IN GAOL. A SCENE IN COURT. Met.bot rxe, July 27. Butler, the notorious criminal who pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. When leaving the dock the prisoner remarked, " That is a brutal sentence." Whereupon his Honour ordered the prisoner to be again placed in the dock, and said that no could induce the Court to inflict another hour to the sentence, but he advised Butler to never again offend the dignity of the Court. After Butler had been removed he was again recalled, and the Judge explained that he had made a mistake in reading the sentence. The sentence, he said, should have been 10, not 15, years.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 79, 28 July 1896, Page 3
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125THE NOTORIOUS BUTLER. Hastings Standard, Issue 79, 28 July 1896, Page 3
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