The San Francisco call., 1897-02-04

and Is minutes. The best previous record
was two days longer than th1s. lie lett
SYDNEY on December at 5:3O P. NJ. lie
arrived in San Francisco on January 70 at
9:45 P NJ.
Had it not been necessary for him to go
out of his way to visit Washington and
thereby lose three hours he would nave
arrived here .hirteen hours earlier, as ne
could easily have got the fast train from
Chicago that reached here Monday at $40
P NJ, whereas the slower tram old not get
here until Tuesday at 9:45 A. M.
He travelled by train from Sydney 10
Melbourne, and thence by train again 10
Aue eiaide, where he arrived Just IN tlme
to catch the Royal Mail steamer AUSTRIA,
which sailed at noon on Decem Der 1or
Naples, Italy. The Austra, 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 10
Naples. That first stop was at Coiomo,
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 Tor
nearly month. Christmas and New
Year had been spent somewhere on the
Indian Ocean.
Up through the Suez canal and across
the Mediterranean Sea the big Austral
plowed her course. On January Z, at 8
A. NJ. she landed at Naples.
Roche took the tram thence to Paris,
where he arrived at A. NJ two days alter
ward. The same DAY he went by trvin to
Calais, arriving there at $3.50 P. NJ, and
going at once on the boat bound across
the channel for Dover, England. He
reached London at o'clock that same
evening.
1t was Saturday. and he could not see
the Government officers to obtain the ex-
tradition warrants until the following
Monday. But that 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, just a half hour before the Teutonic
sailed at P. NJ. for New York. At mid
night the Teutonic stopped at Queens
town, Ireland. But the mails from Dub
lin tor 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 be
nad not seen since he left for Australia
seventeen years before, and yet he dared
not take chances of arriving here too la;e
TO e1tradite Butler. Then he did not
know that Detective McHattie had come
to and was even then in San Francisco.
AT P. NJ. on January ii the final start
was made for America. On January 20
at P. NJ. the Teutonic landed at New
York. The next morning Roche left for
Washington, arranged for the extradition
papers after 8 P. NJ. and on to Chicago at
7:1O that night. The next night he ar
rived at Chicago at 8 o! clock. The fast
train had left at 6. He took the next
train at II 80 and came straight through
to this ity in three days and half
He left sydney fourteen days after But
Ter left Newcastle on the Swanhilda, and he
beat him here whole week, after almost
eircling the globe.