Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-16
THE ST. LOUIS MURDERER.
Ke is Believed to Be in Hiding in
San Francisco.
Elm ROUTE no THE COAST.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April l6.-Walter
II. Lennox Maxwell, the supposed
Southern hotel murderer, purchased
through unlimited ticket TO San
Francisco on Monday morning, April
9th, and signed his name to the
ticket before leaving. He left the
same evening on the San Francisco
railroad, and was recognized on the
train by two st. Louisans, who
talked with him and who saw
him as far as Pierce City, Mo.
THE POLICE IN HOT PURSUIT.
ST. LOUIS. Mo April ia special
from San Francisco says: ION the
recent Of a telegram yesterday from
Chief OF Police Harrigan OF st. Louis
the police here commenced to search
for Maxwell, the alleged murderer of
Preller. Investigation developed the
fact that man answering MaxwelPs
description arrived here Saturday last
and put up at the Palace hotel. He
only stayed there one night and
IL Is believed he sailed In the
steamer City Of Sydney for
Hawaii and Australia, which
lelt mere tue ntAb hittlAOOu. l4htSI
developments, however, incline the
reporters to believe that the police
are on his track and an arrest may be
looked for at any time"
To-day IL transpired here that Max
well two or three days before the MUIR
der was in great need of money and
that he attempted to pawn his watch
and to sell his stereotype, stereoptican
apparatus and views, but failed. On
the Monday following, before he left
the city, he was known to have
money, as he informed persons to
whom he had tried TO sell the articles
that he no longer needed money and
displayed plenty of cash. He also
purchased several things, valuable
field-glass and pair of spectacles.
MAXWELL ASSUMES THE, ROLE OF A
FRENCHNIAN.
The following dispatch was received
to-day from Chief of Police Crowley
of San Francisco by Chief of Police
Harrigan OF this city,.
"The man who owns the three
pieces OF baggage as numbered in
your dispatch, arrived here on the
18th. under the name of ]. e. de Can
quiere. He claimed to be French
man, an army officer from Paris. He
was the only passenger who left st.
Louis on the 9th and came through.
He talked with an apparent French nc
cent, but when spoken to in French
he always replied In English. My in
formant, who came on the train, says
he believed the accent was assumed.
He answers your description perfectly
except the cheek whiskers. He
had small light mustache
and a short imperial brown cutaway
coat and vest and pants OF nearly the
same color, broad brim drab hat
dented in at the crown. he left on
the Australian steamer In the steer
age for Auckland, New Zealand. He
may leave the steamer at Honolulu.
Search your hotels and railroad offices
for this name ana telegraph me If
you can find 1t. He can be arrested
by telegraph IL he goes through and
does not land at Ronolulan
To this dispatch Chief Harrigan re-
piled directing Crowley to stop De
Canquiere by al means, he being in
his opinion no other man than Max
well. Chief Harrigau has received
dispatches from other and different
places Of the country, but he gives
but little IL any attention to them, be-
lieving that Max well went west and
that he has been or still is in San
Francisco.
The body OF Preller was exposed at
the morgue all day. The swelling
which was at first reported in the
features was reduced by the injection
of internal fluid which also acts as
preservation and the feat
ures begin to assume q
more natural appearance and begin
to look more like Preller's picture
than they did when the body was
first found. Coroner Neidlett says that
under the present treatment the body
will be preserved without further
decomposition for days and perhaps
weeks. No date has been fixed for the
inquest. The stomach has not been
analysed, but will he soon.
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