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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: moral, it is the very simple one that crime is no career for a
man of brains.
The Career of Robert Butler
There is a report of Butler's trial published in Dunedin. It
gives in full the speeches and the cross-examination of the
witnesses, but not in all cases the evidence-in-chief. By the
kindness of a friend in New Zealand I obtained a copy of the
depositions taken before the magistrate; with this I have been
able to supplement the report of the trial. A collection of
newspaper cuttings furnished me with the details of the rest of
Butler's career.
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