GLENBROOK MURDERS.
liUTMfii's shipmate aboard the Ol'vcbranch gives some de ails of Butler's career in Brazil. He met him at Bio when t':c yellow fever was laging there. I"utier joined the Olivebraueii at thai; 1 ort. When he g-'-t ti mm, he state I that he was in Brazil for three or four yetus, during which time he gained all possible information about people with money. 1 In sc he enticed, when possible, !o lonely spots, and popped the oil". During the revolution in Bra/. 1, a number of ship captains went up count-y, and neve- r tinned, and he "'Butlci's shipmate) relieved that he (Butler) ectt'd account for their disappearance, as he tol.l bis companion that the revolver was his companion and means of living, and when leaving Bio he intimatid his in'eutioii of following up h ; s previous career in Australia, and there make money by " pinking" them.
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Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 70, 17 December 1896, Page 2
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150GLENBROOK MURDERS. Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 70, 17 December 1896, Page 2
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