The execution of Frank Butler took place this morning at 9 o'clock. The murderer made no statement from the scaffold and death was instantaneous. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 512 wordsThe Junior Carlton Club, a strictly Conservative institution, which has 2,100 members, entertained many of the more distinguished colonial visitors at a banquet an their club ...
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Advertising : 475 wordsAn ignominious fate has befallen the Early Closing Bill. This is not surprising, for its resurrection never promised to be glorious. It will be remembered that on the motion of the ...
Article : 258 wordsFINDE HOBASH V. MICHAEL EBLEN.—The plaintiff claimed £25, damages for malicious prosecution. Mr. Anderson appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Hamp for the defendant. The ...
Article : 207 wordsButler at once cast about for victims in Sydney. The first to fall into his net was the unfortunate Burgess, whose body was recovered at the end of January, 1897, near ...
Article : 486 wordsThe Earl of Warwick to-day banqueted several of the leading Queenslanders who are now in England, his lordship's guests including Sir Arthur Hodgson, once Colonial ...
Article : 104 wordsArchie Harding, an aboriginal, was fined £1 and 1s. costs for drunkenness. Anna Huffa had to pay the same amount for a similar offence. ...
Article : 461 wordsButler returned to Sydney on October 31, the day on which he killed Lee Weller, and his movements cannot be traced for some little time after that. But on November 13 he was ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Caldwell "for greater accuracy" [?] committed his comments on the Commonwealth Bill to writing, and he read them to a select circle of Assembly members on ...
Article : 515 words[We cannot undertake to publish all letters that reach us, even when entirely unobjectionable. The number is so large that we can only print a selection. This must be accepted as the explanation of the ...
Article : 724 wordsThe Duke of Buckingham. The Watatua. The Loch Etive The Mataura. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Right Hon. Anthony J. Mundella, M.P. for the Brightsida division of Sheffield, who was President of the Board of Trade in Mr. Gladstone's last Ministry, it suffering, ...
Article : 43 wordsMost of the Australian riflemen who are taking part in the Bisley meeting of th National Rifle Association are suffering from slight colds. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsButler is next heard of as advertising for another mate in the daily papers, varying the usual name by signing himself Butler. The notification was seen by a young Queenslander ...
Article : 371 wordsCERES, steamer, 58 tons, J. Germein, from Stansbury. JAMES COMRIE, steamer, 73 tons, J. Henderson, from Ardrossan. ...
Article : 718 wordsSamuel Francis [?]yatt was charged on the information of Corporal Allchurch with being drunk on the Glenelg jetty on Wednesday evening and was fined 5s. Wyatt was further ...
Article : 52 wordsThe M.M.S. Ville de la Ciotat, Fiaschi commander, arrived from Marseilles at 10 o'clock last night. The following are the passengers in the saloon:— ...
Article : 92 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day there was keen competition among- buyers for all classes and crossbreds showed a slight advance. Among the sales were:—Esher, 13d. per lb.; ...
Article : 66 wordsWilliam Willis was charged under the Impounding Act on the information of Thomas Arthur, a ranger, with unlawfully rescuing cattle in McDonald-avenue, New Hindmarsh. ...
Article : 201 wordsKoonea and Won[?]rckara, aboriginal natives, were charged with attempting to murder Charles Beattie, stockowner, on March 6, at Glen Helen. The Crown Solicitor ...
Article : 847 wordsMr. Price followed at 5.5 p.m. with [?] vigorous speech, which, however, did not attract more than 20 legislative listeners, and h[?] was the last speaker of the day. He considers ...
Article : 655 wordsLatest news from Constantinople is to the effect that a stormy interview has taken place between Khalil Rifaat Pacha, the Grand Vizier, and M. Nelidoff, the Russian ...
Article : 80 wordsOn the evening of October 23, 1896, Butler was back in Sydney, and on the following morning an advertisement appeared in two Sydney papers for a prospecting mate, and on October ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 334 wordsThe German steamer Solingin, which came up to the Port from Hamburg on Thursday morning, had on board 20 full-blooded German merino rams and ewes, 16 of the former and ...
Article : 293 wordsA meeting will beheld at the North Adelaide institute this evening to establish a cricket club to represent the district in the South Australian Cricketing Association and ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Mark Williamson, Butler's solicitor, when interviewed after the execution, said Butler had made a written statement, which was in his possession, but that he could not ...
Article : 128 wordsThe three ministers connected with the South Australian Conference who are visiting England are reported to be quite well (says the Christian Weekly). The Rev. I. Perry is in ...
Article : 406 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has rejected the application of Mrs. Carew for leave to appeal against the sentence of death recently pronounced upon her by ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Herbert, the governor of the gaol, has communicated a report to the Sheriff concerning statements made by Butler to him yesterday. The report says:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsLady Lina Scott, widow of the late Sir Charles Scott and mother of the Countess of Russell, who was recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for conspiring with others to ...
Article : 48 wordsWith reference to the supposition that Butler's real name was Newman, it is stated that the police at San Francisco have reported to the Attorney-General that a person ...
Article : 67 wordsOn Thursday morning four of the slag wheelers who on Wednesday were paid off at the Block 14 Silver Mining Company's works at Port Adelaide because of their refusal to ...
Article : 282 wordsThe execution of Butler closes another page in the rapidly-extending history of crime in the colonies. Deeming and Butler's murders will take a front place in the chronicles yet to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsTo-day 190 of the bishops who are attending the Lambeth Conference were entertained at Windsor Castle and afterwards Dr. W. G. Cowie, Bishop of Auckland and Primate of ...
Article : 58 wordsOver South Australia.—More or less cloudy, but fine; northerly winds and falling barometers. A disturbance is coming up rapidly from the west and will produce unsettled weather and rain over colony ...
Article : 109 wordsIt was Lee Weller's failure to write to Mr. R. A. Luckham, an old friend, that first put the police on the track of the murders. Lee Weller made no secret of his intention to go ...
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The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922), Fri 16 Jul 1897, Page 2
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