LAST MOMENTS OF BUTLER.
CABLES.
A CONFESSION OF A NUMBER OF MURDERS. THE PRISONER BECOMES PENITENT. HE ASCENDS THE SCAFFOLD FIRMLY. DEATH INSTANTANEOUS. (Per Press Association. —L'opyriyht.) Sydney, This day. Although the officials have refused any information it is understood that Butler has confessed. It is stated as the result of a long interview with the Rev. Mr Lane yesterday that the prisoner, who till then had been callous, became penitent and confessed to murdering Preston, Weller and Burgess. It is also alleged that when Bulter was shown the portrait of Price, a young man from Victoria, who disappeared mysterously, he recognised him and said he had put him under. The unsatisfactory point about Price's rase is that a body supposed to be his but which was never clearly identified was found in the I'arkes District, whereas Butler says he secreted the body in another locality. Later. Butler was executed this morning. Death was instantaneous. He walked to the scaffold with a firm step.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 374, 16 July 1897, Page 3
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164LAST MOMENTS OF BUTLER. Hastings Standard, Issue 374, 16 July 1897, Page 3
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