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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: "An iniquitous and brutal sentence!" exclaimed the prisoner.
After a brief altercation with the judge, who said that he could
hardly express the scorn he felt for such a man, Butler was
removed. The judge subsequentty reduced the sentence to one
of ten years. Chance or destiny would seem implacable in their
pursuit of Mr. William Munday of Toowong.
Butler after his trial admitted that it was he who had robbed the
old gentleman of his watch, and described to the police the house
in which it was hidden. When the police went there to search
they found that the house had been pulled down, but among the
debris they discovered a brown paper parcel containing the old
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