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MURDER.It seldom falls to the lot of the chronicler to record an act as wanton, brutal and cowardly, as the murder of William H. G. Butler, in Louisville, one day last week. Mr. Butler was engaged in teaching a school in Louisville, and had chastised a lad by the name of! b Ward for some unbecoming conduct in school, j f and for this act he was cowardly and brutally \lt;] assassinated by Mat. F. Ward and his brother.!The facts connected withe /murder, as dis- J j closed upon the examining trial, were as follows :“ The two Wards, about ten o’clock, entered the school-room of Mr. Butler; and .William Ward, the youngest, took a seat, and!1-Mat. Ward asked for Mr. Butler. One of c .the scholars informed Mr. B.,that some one desired to see him. He went into the room, and Mat. F. Ward accosted him by saying he had something to say, and asked which he thought the worst, the mean little puppy that, asked his brother for the chesnuts, and then j o .told on him, or his brother who gave him the nuts? Air. Butler made some reply, the witness did not exactly know what. Ward then I in an impatient manner, said he vvou’d ask Mr Butier..another question ; and asked why he ; e called his_brochet* a liar? and then said Mr. Sutler was.a lt;1-—d liar, and immediately struck ^ him. '* The.witness then turned his back and j picked upon the tongs, anticipating a fuss, jP \vhen he heated the report of a pistol; saw, s Mr. Butler fall, but saw nothing more of Mat. %“tiai SWard. His brother, Robert Ward, was there,! ghowever, armed with a large dirk ^flourishing it about. Mr. Butler was shot in the left j^1 breast, near the heart, with a small single barreled pistol.” He died a few hours afterwards.Mr. Butler was 28 years of age, a native of c Indiana, a graduate cf Hanover College ; and j h had been a private tutor in the family of the j t Wards’ father. Three years ago, he was sentj ft fcy the American Peace Society a delegate to j d the World’s Peace Convention, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. He leaves a widow with a child about seven months old.But, such cold-blooded murders in Kentucky are not to be wondered at; for that;0 State is virtually without law. He who has' t inoney, can commit what atrocious deed he j fc may choose, and go at liberty; and the|j. Wards knew this, or they never would have j taken the life of an inoffensive man under such circumstances as they did. They ought to spend the rest of their days in the State’s prison.
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Danville Advertiser
Danville, Indiana, US
Sat, Nov 12, 1853
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