MURDER OF A GIRL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 3

MURDER OF A GIRL.

MCRDFRER ATTEMPTS SL’ I(' 1 Did. Chrislchurch. April S. About 1,0 o’clock this morning a gii'l named Henrietta Coster, eighteen years of age, was murdered by Charles Butler, a man of forty, at View Hill Station, ton miles from Oxford, .North Canterbury. The girl’s father is the caretaker at View Hill, and with his wife and two daughters went to church at Oxford, leaving Henrietta at the house. Butler, who was a “roustabout” on the place, got a razor from his hid. entered the homestead kitchen, where Henrietta Coster was silling on a sofa, darning stockings, and cut her throat from ear to ear. No oilier kind of interference was attempted with the girl. Bailor unsuccessfully allempled lo drown himself in a well. He was arrested, and admitted I lie crime, and was brought lo Chrislchurch. Bailer has been well known in the Oxford district for some years. He was a thrifty man, and had a large sum to his credit in the bank. ACCPSEI) RCM AN DEI). Chrislchurch, Yesterday. Charles Butler, charged with the murder of Henrietta Coster, at View Hill yesterday, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, looking very dejected. He was remanded, on (he application of the chief detective, lo appear at the Oxford Court on Friday next.