THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY. ARREST OF SUPPOSED MURDERER. [BY TELEGRAPH, PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1205, 18 March 1880, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY. ARREST OF SUPPOSED MURDERER. [BY TELEGRAPH, PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedik, Tuesday. At the City Police Court, this morning, in the presence of a great crowd, the man Robert Butler, alias Donnelly, alias Meannay, alias Lees, was charged on information with the murder of Mr and Mrs Grant and child on Sunday morning last, and was remanded until Monday next. He is also charged with attempting to shoot the arresting constable. Inspector Mallard thought there would probably be a third charge of arson or burglary at the house of Mr Stamper, lawyer, on Saturday morning. Mr Stamper 8 place was found to be op fire under suspicious circumstances early on Saturday morning, and some of Mr Stampers property was found on Butler. It appears that the prisoner, who hfld been recently discharged from gaol, had been lodging in the Scotia Hotel, within a few minutes' walk of the house of the murdered man. He did not occupy his lodging on Friday or Saturday night, but returned on Sunday morning within half an hour of the murder, and after paying his bill he walked to Blueskin, changing his clothes by the way and clipping his moustache When arrested he had a loaded revolver and a number of cartridges, but was secured befo c he could use it. He is a small, sharp-looking man, under 30 years of age.