St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-17
Maxwell, the Supposed Murderer of Prel-
Ter, Finally Lodged in Jail
in st. Louis.
He Refuses to Talk, but Writes an Ao-
count of His Recent Trip for
a Reporter.
Prize Fight by Two Dusky Dianas:
a Carving Bee by Their Lovers
Following.
Attempted Assassination of a Family
in Ohio--The Days List
of Murders.
Maxwell i'm 81. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 16.-Nalter Ill.
Lennox Maxwell. alias Il. G. Dangheir,
alias Hugh VI. Brooks, the supposed muir
derer of c. Arthur Preller at the Southern
hotel i'm this city. in April last, arrived here
at about O'clock this morning from San
Francisco, in charge of Detective Tracy and
Officer Badger of the st. Louis police force
A crowd of from two thousand to three
thousand men, women and children were at
the depot when the train arrived, and there
was a great scramble among them to get a
view of the prisoner, but order prevailed
Maxwell and his custOdianS were met at
the train by Chief of Police HaTrigan, with
a detachment of police, and were placed in
apatrol wagon and driven to Four courts
where, after brief stop in the detective
room in the police headquarters, he was put
in the ''hOld oyer," and is being held under
an alias warrant, which was sworn out last
Friday by proper authority. Accounts by
reporters who rode in from HalSted. ILL.,, in
the train with Maxwell, and had free ac-
cess to him and to the officers in charge of
him, are to the effect that he absolutely re-
fused to talk about his case and positively
asserted that he has at no time or place
made any statements in regard to it, or
i'll any way acknowledged that he
had anything to do with Prel-
l6I uedIU OF KNEW anything ABOUT
it. He says all stories to the contrary are
entirely untrue. Detective Tracy also SAYS
Maxwell has made no statement Maxwell
wrote out. when on the train, for a reporter
an account of his trip from st. Louis to
Auckland, his arrest there and the return
trip, but it is a commonplace story of minor
events and contains no information of in
terest Detective Tracy thinks that fur
ther developments will show Maxwell
to be weak man mentally, but that he has
got the one idea wedged into his
mind that his safety depends upon his 81
lence and that he will startle nobody with a
surprising or romantic defense. Tracy
thinks he killed Preller for money, that the
very few admissions he has made point in
that direction, that his voyage from ST.
Louis TO Auckland was mOney-spending
debauch and not a Well-panned escape
from justice, and that it was the luck that
takes care of drunkardS and fools that
stood him instead, and not any good man
Rgement of his own.
Maxwell was in Chief Harring's Office an
hour OF so this afternoon. and large num-
ber of callers were introduced to him. but
nothing regarding his case or what line of
defense he will pursue was obtained from
him. Charles BIGGER, the trunk-maller,
recognized Maxwell as the man to whom
he sold the trunk in which Preller'S body
was found. and a porter at the Southern
hotel recognized him as having been a
guest at that house in April last. Maxwell
will be turned over by the police authorities
tomorrow to the sheriff, and will be placed
III jail. What legal action will be taken
has not vet been determined,