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on 14 November 1894; Mary's brother John F. Johnson, who had falsely testified to Butler's adultery in a vain attempt to help his sister, was convicted of perjury and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. All was not as it seemed however. Mary Butler discovered George
Williams was actually Charles
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Churches of Christ federal conference in Melbourne and laid the foundation stone of the Mosman church in 1914. He was State president in the years 1923â1924 and 1935 and federal president in 1940. He was a Churches of Christ delegate to the
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Sometime before 1900, his brother A. C. Rofe received ÂŖ4,650 for development of his business from his father, which J. F. Rofe and T. E. Rofe believed was a loan but A. C. Rofe claimed was a gift. The matter, described as a friendly action, was settled but the terms were not disclosed.
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Davis, a private detective hired by Butler; the two fabricated a trail of evidence designed to incriminate her. Rofe denied involvement in the entrapment, but was found guilty. He was saved from jail by the First
Offenders' Act, but was barred from sitting in the Supreme Court.
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Castlereagh Street, Redfern, which had been his business premises 38 years earlier. On 18 May 1939 he was admitted to the
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