The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1897, Page 2

2 riage some four years ago to aMm an who deserted her and his child, and told how the portraits of the prisoner in the news- papers made her think that he was the man she had sworn 10 love and obey “Did your husband have any distin- guishing marks about him?” asked Cap- othing else?” *No, but his mannerisms were such that I would know him the moment I saw him, wo matter what he had done to him- self for the sake of » disguise.” ““Was he tattooed about the body or limbs, feet or bands?" “No, not a sing'e mark on him of that kind.” “Didn’t he have tattoo rings around his fingers?"” “Nothing of the kind.”" After this conversation Butler was brought into Lees’ office and confronted with nis alleged wife. “Madam, 1s this your husband?"” asked the aetective, waving his hand toward the prisoner, who stood between two offi- cers. Mrs. Butler hesitated. sure, evidently. She stuttered and said: “No; unless he is§ very much altered.” Looking ai the prisoner a few seconds longer she said: “No; I'm positive now he’s not my husband, because Butler was fully 5 feet 10 inches in height, and this man is much shorter.”’ Butler was made to show his hands, which are tattooed, and the lady from Napa subsided. She retired and leit the City for her Napa home at 3 o’clock in the after- noon. Butler spent most of the day in his cell. He received many visitors, who, as a rule, offered him cigars, which he accepted, and asked nim questions about himself, which be politely rofused to answer. To one in- quisitive newspaper man he declared posi- tively that he was tired of answering ques- tions in the negative. He calmly sat back on his bench when the inquiry was made | if he would not write a confession of the She was not crimes of which he was accused and laughed most heartily. I tell you what to do,”” he said. “You write out the confession and I'll sign it with any of the names I have been called in this case.’ E e SHREWD DETECTIVES. How the Australian Sleuths Fast- ened Butler’s Crimes on Him. The story of how Captain Les Weller's ened on Frank Butler and followed to this City forms the murderer one of the most interesting incidents in connection with the case. Two of Australia’s keenest detectives, John Roche of Sydney and James Mc- Hattie of Newcastie, worked up the case, and they never left the trail from the day that it became apparent that Butler was the man wanted until they saw the handcuffs snapped on his wrists on the Swanhilda’s aiter deck. Captain Lee Weller, with whose murder Butler is particularly charged, went to Australia a year ago with his wife, the couple taking passage from Cape Town on the ship South Esk. Mrs. Weller died suddenly on board the South Esk of heart disease, and in Seplember last Captain Weller went to Sydney. There he was attracted by an advertise- ment in a Sydney paper, calling for a mate to go prospecting. Robert A. Luck am, 8 reporter on tue Sydney Balletin, wa: friend of Weller’s, and arranged that the latter should write him each week io iell of his success in the gold fields. Weller left Bydney on October 28 and on Novem- | ber 20, not having h-ard from the mariner, Luckham told the police that he suspected | his friend had been made away with, as | he had gone out with a stranger and had | not sent any word of his whereabouts. | The Inspector-General picked out Jobn | Roche, who is geuerally called when im. | portant cases are on hand, and sent him 10 look the matter up. He was not long in finding that Wel- ler’s mate bad returned to Sydney on No- vember 1, three days after leaving, and he ly identified the man who had ad- Butier and within a day or two had 500 photographs copied from an 1, sent all over the colonies. It was found that Butler had passed at different places us Frank Harwood, &, Burgess, Sampson, Clair and other names and that he had left Sydney as Lee Weller. One of the photographs reaciied Detec- tive McHuttie at Newcastle and from the description that accompanied 1t that as- tute officer at once recognized a man whom be had seen on the streets of New- castle a number of times. Within six hours he had located his man on board the Swanhilda, then at sea on her way 10 America and he telegraphed v telling of his discoveries. Then came the long race across the ocean to bead of the big four-mester, McHattie coming direct to America and Roche going the other way in order to pass through London and arrange for Butl exiradition. It isevident that Butler intended to ply bis horribie vocation in Newcastle, for on November 17, iwo days after he arr.ved there, one o hs fatal “ads” appeared in & Newcastle paper, asking for a mate with £10 10 go prospecting. He evidently took alarm before his plans were matured, however, for he did not catl for the answers, but tailed on November 230n the Bwanhilds. At least filty letters, answers 1o the advertisement, are now awaiting him at the office of the Newcastle paper. R = BUTLER AS ASHE. He Admits Certain Facts to Captaln Lees—His Canadian Life. Doring the conversation Captsin Lees had with Butler on Tuesday, Butler said he arrived in this ity on the Star of Rus- sia, but he could not fix the date. There was trouble on board the ship, and he deserted by swimming ashore. He was then known as Richard Ashe. A few aays Jater he went to work in a French laund:y on Thirteenth street, mear Howard, and they were beginning to remode! the build- ing when he left. After leaving the laundry he went by boat to Vancouver Island, thence to Port- )mg, where he signed papers as seilor on a ship whose name wag something like the Btrathmore. The shin sailed from As. toria with a cargo of wheat for Europe. Hessigned as Ric_ard Ashe, T2 captain asked him why he went under the name of Richard Ashe at that time, and he said he was only following the usual custom of sailors by changing his name when it suited him. Yesterday the captain made inquiries, and ascertained that the Star of Russia arrived here on October 31, 1891, and on November 17 Butler went to work at the Le Grande laundry on Twelfth street, woich bas also an entrance for employes on_Thirteenth _street, between Howard and Folsom. Superintendent Bouton of the laundry told the captain that the name of Richard Ashe appeared on the timebooks in the capacity of fireman and engineer from November 17, 1891, to Feb- ruary 8, 1892. He could not recollect the appearance of the man, but he thought Mr. Glenn, one of the employes of the laundry, might be able to identify him. As Butler, alter leaving the laundry in February, 1892, went direct to Portland via Vancouver lslend and shipped on the ssel at Astoria it is possible that she sailed from there some time in March. Butler was seen in the City Prison last night, but be said he conld not remember the name of the =hip that sailed from As- toria. ““What do you want to know for?” he asked testily. ‘‘That has nothing to do with my arrest.” Gradually he became talkative and said he had been at one time in Canada in the rovince of Manitoba. Then he said he Quebec in 1888, “Were you a sailor then ?” “No, 1" wasp’t,” said Butler. “I was only a sailor when I wanted to go from one country to another. He would not say what employment he &ouowad in Quebec. He told a visitor uesday that be bad been a policeman in . \. ) LA ~\ \ AN W . SN AN NSNS AN\ SN R QN — \ N K \ N N i N | \ ‘\\ N N \ A \ S S SNSRI g [Sketched in ths Cty P:icon yesterday by a “Call® artist.] Canads, but when asked about it last|doner. Itismore like a native of one of night he simply smiied and parried the | the northern counties in England. question. Ju-t ihen some sightseers came e e along and stared st Butler and he refused | s to enter into any further conversation. KNEW BUTLER’S GIRL. Butler during conversation remarked = How Constable Conroy Curlously Came to Figure in the Case. | Constable Conroy and Butler were acquainted with the same waitress, the one to whom Butler gave the picture of where Butlsrwasiborn: jiHe told tk | himself that was “borrowed” from her tain that he was born in Londor bome by Detective Roche, ana which land, but his voice is not that of a Lon- § proved so effective in tracing Butler tothe the representative of & paper had | vesterday offered bim $500 for the publica- tion of an exclusive story of his confession of the murders of which he is charged, but he had Jaughed at the offer. Captain Lees has been_ unable to find Newcastle. Conroy’s connection with the case is | pecaliar. He was living in Sydney at the time Butler's mining expedition adver- tisements were appearing occasionally in | the local papers. Conroy was then a pro- fessional athlete; he had been for fi teen years, although be is now but 26 years of age. Sometimes he took his meals at the restaurant where this waitress and he formed a speaking acquaintance with her. Incidentally he told her that ne came from Aibury, 8 mining town. ‘ Swanhilda, on which he had shipped from 1 s Sy WHERE THE AUSTRALIAN MURDERS WERE PERPETRATED. Glenbrook and Linden, near which young Preston and Captain Lee Weller ¢« ered, are stations on the line of the Great Western Railroad, just beyond Emu, foothills of the Blue Mountains. These localities are inclosed by a heavy circle. Butler went from Sydney to Newcastle, the coal port, 28, 1865, It will be noticed that the gold districts tims into believing that be had made a discov partners, " and shipped on the were murdered and their bodies discov- forty miles out from Sydney and in the Swanbilda for San Francisco November lie west of the Blue Mountains, while Butler seems to have deluded his vie- ery on the east side, and thus the more readily induced them to become his worked, | l She remarked to Butler that she knew a young fellow from Albury, where Butler claimed to own a mine. e said that he would like to meet him. The meeting was arranged. Butler then asked Conroy to trace on a map he submitted to him the three gold- bearing districts about Albury. Conroy did so. At that time Butler showed Conroy the certificates from the Ballarat School of Mines, that Conroy has identi- fied among Butler's effects examined bere by the police. He also identified some of the jewelry now in the possession of the police here, and said that it had been made from nuggets he had picked up on his prospecting tours. He wanted Conroy to accompany him. It would requre but £10, or about $0. That was about September 10, on a Wednesday. On the following Friday Conroy gave his answer. He had decided DOt to go. A business proposition in Syd- ney and the looks of Butler deterred him. Butler soon thereafter took out young Preston and murdered him, and perhaps six weeks later took Lee Weller out to his death. On November 23, the very day Butler, then unsuspected by the police, sailed from Newcastle in the Swanhilda Conroy joined the Sydney police. Detective Roche, then on the so-called *‘Mountain Muider Mystery”’ three days, had learned that Conroy "had met Butler. The next day Conroy was put on the case to assist in tracking the man, whom he had not before suspected, but whom he could easily identify. Bo it was that Conroy came here to identify Butler. And be did. He not only identified Butler as the man he had talked with and arranged a map for, but during the examination he obtained a bit of suspicious evidence that frightened him a little. In taking with Butler at that first meeting in September Conroy had re- marked that he had a brother-in-law and a sister living at Albury. Butler said that he would take pleasure in calling upon the brother-in-law when he went down to look at § mine he owned near Albury—a mine for which he had been offered, he said, £3000 pounds, or $15,000, but he wanted £4000. Butler was absent from Sydney for a couple of weeks after that, but later Con- roy saw him on several occasions, on all of which Butler stood treat—insisted upon it—and always showed money. Not until the day of Butler’s capturs, however, did Conroy dream that Butler bad called at bis married sister’s home in Albury, as he had intimated he wouli. Among Butler's effects was found a checkbook belonging to Conroy’s married sister. Her name (Xrs. C. 0’Connor) and ame of Conroy’s unmarried sister were written inside the cover. The only inference that Conroy could draw was that Butler had stolen the book when he had called on his brother-in-law. e I ROCHE’S LUCKY TRIP. Sped Nearly Round the World in Best Time Yet Made. Detective John Roche of Bydney, Aus- tralia, in pursuing Batler, established a new record for fast travel between Syd- ney, N. 8. W., and San Francisco, by way of Melbourne, Australia; Adelaide, Aus- tralia; Colomo, island of Ceylon; Port Said, Suez Cunal; Naples, Italy; Paris, France; Calais, France; Dover, England London, England; Liverpool, England;- Queenstown, Ireland; New York, Jersey City, Washington and Chicago. @ was fortunate in making all his rail- 0! nd steamship connections without having to wait. He made the trip in 49 days, 16 hours \ TERe : d | and 15 minutes. The best previous resor: | wastwo days longer than tiis. He left Sydney on December7at 5:30 r. . He arrived in San Franciscd on January 26 at 45 P M. 9 Had it not been necessary for him to g0 | out of his way to visit Washington and thereby lose three hours he would have arrived here thirteen hours earlier, as he could easily have got the fast tramn fn?ng Chicago that reached here Monday at 8:45 P. 3., whereas the slower train did not get here until Tuesday at 9:45 A. X. He traveled by train from Sydney to Melbourne, and thence by train azain to Auelaide, where he arrived just in ume 10 catch the Koyal Mail steamer Austral, which sailed at_noon on December 9 for Naples, Italy. The Austral, by the way, is the big steamship that went down in the Sydney harbor in 1892 and was raised. For fourteen days and fourteen nights the great vessel steamed across the trackless ocean before she once halted, and then she had gone only half her journey to Naples. That first stop was at Colomo, on the island of Ceylon, and it was made two days before Christmas. On January 3 the Austral stopped again. This time at Port Said, on the Suez canal, to take on coal, after steaming night and day for nearly a month. Christmas and New Year had been spent somewhere on tne Indian Ocean. Up through the Suez canal and across the Mediterranean Sea the big Austral plowed her coarse. On January 7, at 9 A M., she landed at Naples. 2 Roche took the tramn thence to Paris, where he arrived at 6 A. 3. two days aiter- ward. The same aay he went by trvin to Calais, arriving there at going at once on the boat bound across the channel for Dover, gland. He reached London at 7 o'clock that same evening. It was Saturday, and he could not see the Government officers to obtain the ex- tradition warrants until the following Monday. Butthat mattered little, for the next steamer for New York would not leave Liverpool until Wednesday, as the last had sailed from Liverpool at noon that very day, ten minutes before he left Paris, On Wednesday, January 13, he left Lon- don on the passenger special for Liver- pool. Four hours later arrived at Liver- pool, justa half hour before the Tentonic salledat 3. . for New York. At mid- night the Teutonic stopped at Queens- town, Ireland. But the mails from Dub- lin for America were late and the steamer had to wait. Roche, while at Queenstown, was within seventy miles of the home of his boy- hood, of his aged parents, whom he had not seen since he left for Australia | seventeen years before, and yet he dared | not take chances of arriving here too late | to extradite Butler. Then he did not | know that Detective McHattie had come to and was even then in San Francisco. At2P. M. on January 14 the final start was made for America. On January at 5 P. 3. the Teutonic landed at New York. The next morning Roche left for Washington, arranced for the extradition papers afier 3 . M. and on to Chicago at | 7:10 that night. The next night he ar- rived at Chicago atgo'clock. The fast | train had left at 6. He took the next | train at 11:30 and came straight through | to this Lity in three days and a half. | He left Sydney fourteen dsys after But- | ler left Newcastie on the Swanhilda, and he | veat him here a whole week, after almost | circling the glob s 4 N A LOS ANGELES BUTLER. People In the Southern City Think { They Knew the Murderer. LOS ANGELES, CarL, Feb. 3.—The Australian murderer, Frank Butler, it 1s | asserted by persons who knew 'him at Seattle and other places, resided for atime on East Fourth street, in thiscity. He lived with a woman, but it is not known whether or not he ever made any claim that she was his wife. He dressed very ‘“loudly” and attempted to play masher on matinee days at the entrance | to the local playhouses. An intimate ac- | quaintance of Butler, who knew him well } in Scatile and afterward in this city, refer- ring to his career in the northern town, said of him: “‘At that time Butler was playing in the Court Theater band in Seattle. He was distiked by his comrades, and was generally regarded as a sneak and a thief. Afterward, Butler went into the business of selling’ jewelry. Where he got the jewelry to dispose of to second-hand men is not known and was not known then, but it was surmised that be was either a fence for San Francisco thieves or was doing the larcenous work on his own ac- count. Butler often boasted in Seattle that if he could make a living no other way he would hold up & man for all that be had. He tried to blackmail several prominent people. He would watch people with sporty predilections, and then after shadowing them, endeavor to extort money for preserving silence on their doings. He received a whipping once irom the hands of a railroad man for try- Ing to blackmail him.” All of bis acquaintances agree that Butler was a tough, unscrupulous charac- ter, yet they did not think that he had the courage to murder. FISH AND GAME LAWS. The Sportsmen’s Association Want the Open Season for Duck-Shooting Lengthened. The Sportsmen’s Protective Association met last evening and rescinded the reso- lution of a previous meeting, to lease a section of marsh land for the purpose of establishing a preserve. The association will continue to live under the laws that were established severa] years ago until such time as it shall decide to disband. A committee was appointed to procare grounds and make arrangements for a icnic, which will be held in Apil or ay. 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TTEE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCLL OF liy of San Jose, having by ordinance en- titled “Aa ordinance providing for the Issuance and bonds of the City of San Jose.” eic., passed ou tue 21st day of December, 1898, and aporovea on the 23d day of December, 1898, ordained that thers shouid be Issued by sald city of San Jose six hundred high school building bonds, of the dezomination of 8125 each. and four bundred sewer bonds of the denomination of $100 2ach, both classes of bonds to bear interest at the Tate 'Of 434 ser cent ber annum. paysbl snoually, and aiso by said ordinance authorized aud directed the Clty Clerk of said city to give notice (nvILing proposals for the sale of said boads, ow therefore P Public notice s hereby gtven that the Cit Jose intends.to 1ssue one thonsand bonds afores and that sealed proposals will be received at the office of said Cicy Clark. at the Clty Hall In Sam Jose, Caiifornia. until the hour of eight o'slock P. M., on the eighib day of February, 1867 Which time, Or &s s00n thereafter as said Mayag and Common Gouncil shail auly convene, said bids will be opened), for the purchase of the whele or any part of said high school bullding and . wer bonds, or elther_thereof. Sald bonds are to bear date June 1. 1897, anu the intercat thereon to bs pald semi-annually on the first day of Decerabee &nd the first day of June of each year therestter, Doth principal and interest payable in goid coln of 1awful money of ihe United States Sald hich school buliding bonds sball be num- bered consecutively from one to §ix hundred, both inclusive, and be divided into forty series, num- bered consecutivel; rom One 1o forty. both ln- ofSan numbered from one to_fifieen, both iaclusive, and each succeeding series is to Include the fifteen bonds numoered consecutively after those la- cluded in the next preceding series. 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