The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-23
A HOTEL HORROR IN sT. LOUIS.
Finding n Dead Body Packed In n Trunk
The Room whence tho ;:ody was Taken
UDoCcupled for q week.

Dead Body Packed In Trunk
The Room whence tho ;:ody was Taken
Uuoccupled for q week.
ST. LOUIS, April IA "A sensation
was caused at the Southern Hotel, be-
tween II and II o'clock to-day, bv the |
discovery of the mutilated body of O |
man packed in trunk which was
taken out of q room. The stencil from |
the trunk caused the discovery. The |
hotel register shows that on. March 80 |
a gentleman registered as Walter Ii.
Lcnnox Maxwell, Nj. D., from Lon
don and was assigned to that room.
On opening the trunk it was found
that the head of the man was severed
from his body, and written on the
paper inside the trunk were the words,
$50 perish all traitors to the great
cause" The trunk and it's contents
were taken to the morgue.
Maxwell is described as u very girl
ish-looking, blonde young man, wear
ing dark woollcn cut-away suit Of
English stuff. His face was clean
shavcrrand he wore his hair bang fash
ion, not parting it at all. lie was seen in
company frequently with a dark-look-
ing gentleman about five feet ten inchc
in height. This gentleman registered
as &. Arthur Prellor, London, Eng-
land.
a Telegram had previously been re-
ccivcd from Prcllor asking whether
| Maxwell was Il guest at the house.
He was answered in the affirmative
and he soon came on. Both occupied
the same room. Maxwell left the
hotel ON Sunday night week ago.
but he had paid shis full weeks board
promptly, and it was supposed he
would return any day. No suspicion
attached to his absence until the hOr-
| rlblc smell called attention to his room
and lcd to the opening of the trunk.
| When the trunk was opened in the
hotel corridor to-day it was found to
contain the body Of q middlc-agcd
man, the face and breast up, and so
doubled about the hips and knees that
it filled the receptacle. On the side of
the trunk over the head of the corpse
was printed in large letters the words,
$50 perish all traitors to the great
cause" The trunk and its ghastIy
contents were Immediately hurried to
the -Four Courts. In another trunk
was found MaXwcll's London address,
"ll Paper Building, Temple, Lon
dom and an envelope addressed in
his handwriting to the "Rcv. b. G. A.
Lewis, b. a., curator of st. Pauls,
Morley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England"
lie came over on the steamer CcDha-
}onia from England. Prellor had
Russian passport vizcd by the Russian
ambassador in London in 1878, and q
passport of 1888 for Spain and Mexico,
vizcd by the Spanish minister and
Signcd Granville. Seven trunks, four
valiscs and a hat-boX were left behind
at the hotel, and the contents, clothing,
etc, are valued at hundreds of dollars.
This is believed to make the theory of
a hoax untcnablr, and the bcicfis that
the corpse is either that Of Maxwell
or Prcllor.
ST.. LOUIS, April 15.-Waltcr III.
LcnnoN Maxwell, who is supposed to
have murdered G. A. Pcllor and packed
his body in n trunk at the Southern
Hotel, April 5, purchased through
unlimited ticket to San Francisco on
Monday morning, April 6, and signed
his name to the ticket before leaving
lie left the same evening ON the San
Francisco Railroad. lie was rccog-
nizcd on the train by two st. Louis
gentlemen, who talked with him as tar
as Pierce City, Mo.
SAN FKANCIsCo, April 1G.-Detcc-
tivcs have discovered that Maxwell,
the murderer of Prcllcr at the South
crn Hotel, in st. Louis, arrived here
under an assumed name last Saturday,
and took stccra@e passage on the steam
or CtiY Of Sydney for New Zealand
Via Honolulu. ThcStclcgraph has been
called inlo rcquistion to head him off
at Auckland, but it is feared that at
Honolulu he may leave the steamer
and take sailing vessel for China or
Japan. 1t has been discovered that
the baggage checks delivered by Max>
we'll under an alias to the Pacific
Transfer Company, Of this city, CORE
spond with the numbers issued ut St.
Louis by the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railroad to a different alias.