In December 1847 Henry Butler took out an Auctioneer's License for the district of Scone and Murrurundi (36) and by 1848 Lewis Cohen had taken over the Woolpack Inn. In February of that year a man calling himself John Logan stopped at Cohen's Inn. He was accompanied by two men who acted as his servants. He told Mr. Cohen that his father had a station in new England and that he had relations at Dungog and Paterson, however Cohen began to be suspicious the next morning when the visitor was unable to write his name. It was found that the cheque he had given was invalid and he was soon placed under arrest. His name turned out to be William Duggan and he would later serve 3 years labour on the roads for his dishonesty. (37)

Henry Pierce took over the Inn soon after however he died at his residence the 'Woolpack Inn' in January 1848 leaving a wife Mary and two children. Mary Pierce announced in May 1849 that she was leaving the Woolpack Inn and taking over the Golden Fleece Inn from John Perfrement at Merriwa.

Henry Bishop Butler had moved to Bowling Alley Point near Nundle by the 1860's. He ran an Inn with his wife Celia. In July 1865 he and his son Oswald were apprehended for the murder of Celia. The Sydney Morning Herald reported: - One of the most frightful murders that has ever occurred in this part of the country was perpetrated at Bowling Alley Point, Peel River about twenty eight miles from Tamworth. It appears that a man named William Young (deceased's son in law) reported that Mrs. Butler, the wife of an innkeeper, and an old and well known resident at bowling alley Point, had been murdered some hours previously. In one of the rooms of the inn, lying on a single bed, the clothes on which were completely saturated with blood, the body of the unfortunate woman, quite lifeless and covered with stabs in almost every part. The body was dressed in the usual night dress. A deep wound was discovered on the let breast inflicted evidently by a long sharp knife, and another imilar wound lower down on the same side just over the heart. Another on the left side of the neck and one between the shoulders. Altogether seventeen stab wounds were found. Oswald Bishop was found guilty of the murder of his mother. Henry Bishop Butler was found not guilty of murder. He was afterwards tried as an accessory after the fact but found not guilty on that count also. He remained at Bowling Alley Point and was elected to the school board there in 1869.