Salt Lake Herald | 1897-01-16 | Page 1 | Murderer Butler

MURDERER BUTLER I Sleuths Are Keeping an Anxious Lookout I San Francisco Cal Jan 15The ship Swanhilda on which the Austra I Han murderer Butler is supposed to be and for which the detectives and II local police have been on the watch I for several days has been spoken at I 1 sea and papers given her captain which I i I informed him of the character of his j i i passenger j I This information was brought to the j i Monowai which left Sydney on thej I 26th ult On the day before she sailed I the New Zealand Herald published the I I news of the meeting of the Swanhilda I I and the steamer Taupo in midocean I The two vessels met on the afternoon after-noon of Dec 9 near the Karmadec islands i is-lands Captain MacBeth of the Taupo j I hailed the Swanhilda and lowered a j i beat which conveyed to the Svanhilda I I newspapers containing what was then j i the latest reports of the murders and I I the investigations of the Australian j I police A note was addressed to Cap j I tain Frazer of the Swanhilda warning j warn-ing him that the police believed that Butler had shipped with him as one i r of his crew It was not learned whether or not Butler was really I aboard the vessel