The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03

Butler, resident of this city for a year
or more, will go to San Francisco in the
morning in company with her uncle, E.
D. Hill, and Sheriff Mckenzie of Napa to
see II she can Identify the man Butler
arrested on the Swanhilda as the husband
who mysteriously LETT her in San Fran
cisco early ore morning some four years
ago. From the various descriptions she
has read and The pictures seen in The
papers she is of the opinion they are one
and the same person.
At the time of meeting with Butler she
was young and prepossessing widow with
her parents at Napa. Butler, who was
quite lover of horses, was employed at
the racetrack at Napa. Her brother, a
Mr.. Hill, introduced Butler TO his sister
After the marriage the couple remained
IN Napa few days, from which place
they moved to San Francisco, where But
Ter obtained employ ment in livery STA
bic. He was always kind and indulgent.
and so far as able gave his wife all the
money he could.
After working some three months in the
stable early one morning he told his wife
that he had qui. the job and asked for
what money was in the house. Mrs But
Ter handed i'm aboat $65, all she had.
From this amount he tossed her $40
gold piece, kissed her gooo-by and told
her he would not be home for lunch, but
20 look for him at dinner time. The din
ner time never came.
Chief Crowley was given description
OF the missing man, but failed to locate
nim- The CALL gave an extended notice
of this at the time. Time passed on;
baby boy was born, which is now healthy
three-year-old child in the Good Tenn
plars' Home for Orphans.
Mrs Butier came To Vallejo Ovnr vaur
ago and obtained employ yment as a cook
in the Wilson House, where she rem aimed
for nine months.
Finally Mrs. Butler learned, through
Buffers relatives in Massachusetts, of his
roamings about the world; how he had
sailed across the Atlantic to London, then
10 Australia and back TO America, and
how, when the great railroad strike was
on, he had started 10 bring a band of
horses across the continent and had been
detained.
That Butler had had some trouble be-
fore their marriage his wife felt positive
He told her he had been all over the world
before he met her. Said he had been q
cowboy in Texas and Colorado, haG once
enlisted for five years in the United
States Army, but when or where he did
not say. TINS is the one remaining incl
dent that she has been unable to verify
through her correspondence. He de-
serted after serving a few years and she
has since heard that he had killed the
captain OF the company.
He had been in Washington and Ore
gon. In the former State he was a cornet-
ist in theater. This she knew TO be
true, as his trunks were always full of
music.
The lady heari he was engaged in
stealing valuable jewplry in Washington,
which he sold in San Francisco. 1t came
n hQr hot hn 1r,u e
Texas for stealing thousands of head of
cattle. He was also engaged in herdlng
cattle IN North and South Dakota.
After Butler had been gone several
weeks Mrs. Butler received letter at
Napa addressed to him. 1t was written
at Villa msette, Mass, and ran as fol-
lows:
! write these lines to notify you that the
police are after you here and at Holyoke.
Leave the place where you are at once |
write you as an old friend and correspondent.
She recalled several inclde Tents of his life
just previous 20 his departure that GO to
show he had accomplices elsewhere than
in Massachusetts,.