The San Francisco call., 1897-02-06
Declares He Has Money of His
Own and Wants None for
Small FavorS.
REPORT OF a WOMAN VIC.
TIM.
Visitors With Schemes Seek the
Prisoners Old Apparel A
Photograph Roast"

Butler has been here but four days, and
yet he is already probably better known
and more talked about than any celebrity
that was ever here before him.
Yesterday brought forth its interesting
happenings to the fiend in his cell at the
City Prison. He manifested a desire to
be accom- m odating-to cater to the morbid
wishes of his curious visitors, who came,
talked and passed on without let or
hindrance. The freedom permitted visit
ors has occasion ed remark. No watch is
kept upon their movements.
Any one is free to and could easily hand
the murderer a razor, a pistol, strychnine
or dynamite with which to end his own
existence, along with those about him.
Considering the known desperate char
acter of the prisoner and the almost con-
elusive evidence of guilt that must speed
lily suffer the death penalty, these remarks
from certain visitors seem not wholly un-
called for.
Among the visitors we're persons seek
ing commercial gain. Already a man has
offered the police $1,000 for permission to
exhibit Butler for one week to the other
thousands of morbidly and hystericalIy
curious that have not vet had an oppor-
speak to the Australian murderer.
A shoe-dealer brought Butler nice pair
of new lace calf shoes and tenderly car
ried away the poor old low-deck shoes
that Butler had worn since leaving New
castle.
Later in the day the old shoes and But
ler's receipt for the new shoes were
prominently displayed in downtown
came hoping to exchange new hat for
Buffers little, low, soft black felt that
looks much like an old-fashioned derby,
but the new hat was too large for Buffers
head and the exchange was not made. A
newspaper man asked Butler for his belt,
which Butler asserted he had worn con-
stantly for several year and had also used
as a razor strop. Butler would do any
thing to be accommodating.
Ii the man would get him another to
take its place he might have it and well
come. Butler smiled complacentIy when
he saw the exchange. He got an expen-
sive new belt of the stamped leather
pattern.
The hat alone remains OF all Buffers
available original effects, and that Detec-
tive McHattie AYERS was Captain Lee
Weller's hat. The yachting cap in which
Buffers unlucky photograph was taken
in Australia he wore up on the voyage
and had loaned it to Sailor Wilcox only
few moments before he was captured.
One of the most interesting uses TO
which Buffers notoriety was put yester-
day in business way was the production
of a cylinder for phonograph. Butler
could not sing. He had no apt recitation
ready to shout into the tunnel, so he read
in loud, distinct voice his denial of the
Examiners fake purporting to be con-
tession from him.
The man who owns that cylinder has
something that will probably bring better
pay if the voice of Butler is never heard
to murmur from it a roast of the Exami-
ner for "the new journalism" that values
q good fake more than an ordinary fact.
Among the visitors who came for pur-
poses of iden tltication was Edward E. Ell
liot, second engineer of the steame
Monowai, about to sail for Australia. He
had been friend of Captain Lee Weller.
He declared at once that the prisoner
was not Lee Weller.
"How the - do you know? There
are Two Lee Wellers." said Butler.
Gaffney, sailors boarding house
keeper, called upon Butler and recognized
him as Richard Ashe, who had staid at
his place on the water front in 1891, just
after leaving the Star of Russia. The
recognition was mutual. Butler still owes
SIS 75 on that board account, though he
refused to pay it during the few months
subsequent while he was employed as
night watchman in the La Grande Laun-
dry, near Thirteenth and Howard streets.
The examination Tor Identification will
be held Monday. beginning at 10:30
o'clock. before United States Commits
sioner Heacock in the Appraisers build
ing. 1t will probably be completed that
day. Within two weeks thereafter all the
papers will be here from Washington with