The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-12-29
IS BUTLER IN HAWAII?
THE AUSTRALIAN MURDERER
HAS BEEN IN HONOLULU,
Strong Backing for the Statement
Two Positive fications-Land-
IA f,.,,, III . = NInrinnrn

ed from the S. 5. Alariposa.
is the infamous fugitive in Hawaii?
Where is Butler, alias Frank Har-
wood. the Australian murderer, for
whom the police all over the planet
are on the lookout? Is he aboard
the sailing vessel Swanhilda or is he
in Honolulu?
From developments in the city to-
day it would seem that Detectives
Carly and Conroy of the Sydney force
who passed through Honolulu yester-
day aboard the Miowera, bound for
San Francisco to meet the Swanhilda
upon her arrival in that port are sure
to meet with bitter disappointment.
That the murderer for whose head
the Australian government offers
many hundred pounds, is not aboard
the Swanhilda is the firm belief of
number of Honolulu people, who in
sist that they saw the identical man
in this city less than fortnight ago.
On the same day or the day after
the arrival of the steamship Mariposa
in Honolulu a man tallying exactly
with the description of the fendish
Australian murderer, called at Mrs
Nina Gardeners cottage, No. sos Ala
iea street, just opposite the Christian
church. The call was answered by
| Mrs. Mclean, sister of Mrs. Gardi-
ner. The man inquired if he could
secure room and he was informed
that all the rooms were occupied. Mrs.
Mclean directed him to Mrs. Levey's
rooming house, but two doors maula
on Alakea.
Mrs. Gardiner states that she saw
the man on the day that he came to
her house and that she saw him sew
eral times afterward II was i'm
pressed with the mans makeup" stat
ed Mrs. Gardiner this morning to Il
Star representative. HE had such n
peculiar face and his nose was very
/ funny. 1t looked as though it was fiat
on the bridge and had the appearance
of being broken. My daughter, Nina,
who is ten years old, met the man on
the walk on Alakea street in front of
Mrs. Levey's house, two or three days
after his call at our house, and he
opened up conversation with her.
After inquiring her name, the strang-
er asked had she been to Australia.
Receiving an affirmative reply the man
in answer to my daughters queries,
said his name was Butler and that he
hailed from Australia.
"The man and his strange appear
dnce did not enter my thoughts again
until yesterday, when Nina came run
ming to me with her finger on a pie
ture of the Australian murderer in Q
4 copy of the Sydney Mail. She did not
know who it was but remarked in
stantly that it was a picture of the
stranger whom she had talked Will
but few days previous. | noticed thu
resemblance at once, so did my sister
Mrs. Mclean. We take the Sydne,
Mail and my daughter opened tn,
papers herself. | do believe that Har
wood or Butler is or has been in Ho
nolulu."
Mrs. Levey was seen regarding tn
matter, but she was unable to throw
any light on the subject 81 have re
l,nt. fNf Mt IN
rooms during the past three or fou
weeks, as my rooms have been all oc
cupied. The man may have come t
me on or about the time of the arrive
of the Mariposa and | would not hav
t noticed him particularly"
George Tietjen is the driver :
Loves bread wagon. He states thu
he has seen the man walking on tn
streets several times since the arrivi
of the Mariposa. He readily recos
nizes the likeness in the pictures COZ
tanned in the Sydney papers.
From Irwin g. Company, the agent
of the steamship Mariposa, it
learned that the Mariposa sailed frol
Sydney on November "a, reaching HI
I! nolulu on December ..
l. 1t is the most natural thing in til
d world, that the criminal who made g..
o I. o. Preston, student in mineralog
|; in the Sydney university, dig his ow
a grave, and struck down Sea Capital
lie Lee Weller with a pick while on
Z prospecting tour in the Blue moul
n tains of Australia, would throw til
II Australian authorities off of his trai
d He could come to Hawaii and cut o
q all communication between himse
and the outside world. He might hay
n backtracked to China or Japan, {
10 have boarded a sailing vessel in HI
= nolulu, or more plausible yet, he ma