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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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  1. ↑ Brian. "Robert Butler". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ Shannon, R (1880), Trial of Butler for the Dunedin tragedy, R. Shannon, retrieved 26 December 2018
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "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.
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