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Robert Butler (
c. 1851 – 17 July 1905) was a New Zealand-Australian career criminal and murderer. He was born in either
Kilkenny ,
County Kilkenny ,
Ireland or
Bury, Lancashire ,
England on
c. 1851 . He was suspected of murdering a family of three in New Zealand in 1880, but was acquitted. However, Butler did receive an 18-year sentence on unrelated charges. Butler was released from prison in 1896, after which he returned to Australia. He was executed for another murder in 1905.
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Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017 .
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"CASUAL CHRONICLES. Special. IN THE EARLY DAYS. JAMES WARTON, ALIAS ROBERT BUTLER, AND SEVERAL OTHER ALIASES--THE TOOWONG MURDER--THE CRIMINAL OF A CENTURY" .
Truth . No. 751. Queensland, Australia. 5 July 1914. p. 10 (City Edition). Retrieved 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
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"THE TOOWONG MURDER. Warton to be Hanged" .
The Argus (Melbourne) . No. 18, 395. Victoria, Australia. 30 June 1905. p. 6. Retrieved 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Tonkin, L. C. (Lance Charles) (1980),
Robert Butler : Aus. and N.Z. criminal : his early life from 1860 till his death (by hanging) 1905 , L.C. Tonkin, retrieved 26 December 2018
^ Shannon, R (1880),
Trial of Butler for the Dunedin tragedy , R. Shannon, retrieved 26 December 2018
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"ROBERT BUTLER'S WEIRD PHILOSOPHY OF MURDER, Life as of No Greater Value than a Dog's, Escaped Conviction for Double Murder by His Own Ingenuity and Acumen, Then. Shot a Man at Toowong and Met Death on Scaffold (By HENRY BATESON)" .
Daily Standard . No. 6568. Queensland, Australia. 3 February 1934. p. 6. Retrieved 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
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"Schoolmaster Who Took to Murder. By the Late H. B. IRVING, Criminologist" .
The World's News . No. 985. New South Wales, Australia. 30 October 1920. p. 22. Retrieved 26 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.