Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-23
Maxwell the Man With Many Per-
sonalities.
His Remarkably Mixed up Ante
cedsnts.
Maxwell, Brooks or D'Auquier,
Which is Hs7
How st. Louis Pride and Joy Looks
in Jail.

Lie does not seem to grasp the idea Of the
mystery surrounding the identity Of the
prisoner held for the murder Of Preller
There are three or four men mixed up in
extricably, it seems, in this mans history,
and what the police would like to know Is
how they sll came to be mixed mp whether
there are or were three men named Max
well Brooks or DAuquier, whether they
are one and the same. 1t may be well to
report what is definitely known Of each. 1t
may be we'll to report what is definitely
known of each. 1t is known that Maxwell
came to this country with Preller in
the Cepbalrnis, and that they were
together in Boston. In Boston Max
we'll was identified and recognized
by DR.. E. a. Graham Dewey, who knew
him in 1879, in ST. Bartholomew Hospital,
London. DR.. Dewey was on intimate terms
with him in Boston for month, Maxwell
introduced DR.. Dewey to Pfeller. Dr..
Dewey knew Maxwell was in Par in 1882,
and heard he left for Turkey to fight in the
war then raging. Dewey never saw him
until March /, when he struck Boston. He
pawped a tricycle. in Boston and ring with
monogram II. NJ. B. Next Maxwell
looms up at St. Louis with Preller, and
leaves April for San Francisco. April
Il Tie corpse is found in the trunk. Then
Il is di. covered that he left on ticket is-
sued to Hugh NJ Brooks. he had not left
the confines of the State when he gave his
lame as Theodore Cecil DAuquier, which
name he registered under at Frisco. In
Maxwell effects are articles marked Hugh
NJ Brooks, book marked D'Auquier, not
in NaxwelTs handwriting. A magic Ian
tern was found in his trunk.
The Triple Identity.
Hugh NJ. Brooks in known to have lived
in Hyde Epglsnd to have been the son OF
an estimsble old gentleman named Samuel
Newton Brooks He was dudish fellow
and extravsgsnt, could not pay his debts
and skipped out with curate ostensibly tos
Ireland. He dabbled in chemistry as we'll
as law. He left home in January and went
to Paris, where in conjunction with the
cursre mentioned he gave magic lantern
exhibitions. This was the last heard OF
Hugh N. Brooks until it figure
as the name under which
Maxwell purchased his ticket for San Fran
cisco and on q little card case in his trunk
Theodore Cecil DAuquier first comes to
notice on the San Francisco train and he
travels on Hugh N. Brooks ticket to his
| destination. D'Auquier goes to New Lea'
land, is brought back and suddenly becomes
| Maxwell A card bearing the name ID
Auouier" was found in MaxwelIs trunk.
The card is not in Maxwells hand.
OF the curate who left Hyde with Hugh
NJ. Brooks nothing has been heard what,
ever, though it may possibly develop that
the curate is the man about whom this mys-
| terry cenlers altogether.
| A Puzzle.
| If Msxwell was in London in 1879 and
for tour years thereafter studying and prsc-
ucing medicine, the man Hu gh NJ Brooks
Who was studying Law in Hyde and playing
the dude could not be Maxwell unless he
hsd a Theosophicsl adopts power to have
his astral body in oae place and his animal
BODY in another. II Hugh NJ. Brooks was
studying al prscticing law in Hyde all tn
past ten years and up to January he
couldnt possibly be the Maxwell who snufsd
the war in Turkey from afar of, and hast
ened to the fray 10 arrive too late. If he
was at home in Hyde he couldn't have been
in Paris. Ii Brooks studied law he could
not be an adept in medicine, even though
be did study chemistry and dsbble in physics
Brooks left home in the latter part Of Janu.
ary to give magic lantern show in Paris
accordir 2 to the Associated Press. If he
stayed there any length Of time, 1t is not
probable that he came back to Liverpool,
70 England, where be was wanted for theft
Ard it ia alleged, forgery.
Discrepancies.
IfLe was in Liverpool in February no
Ole saw him MsXScIl admits having been
IN Liverpool in February and meeting
PIeller there. If Brooks and Maxwell are
COW the same, where did they merg aud
fuse into one. and how is all this testimony
s,raight.ned out? Maxwell is scarcely
tee, inches high; Brooks is described as J
feet inches high. Brooks chin is square
while Msxwells is not. If the prisoner is
Brooks, and lot Maxwell, it is strange thai
an intelligent person should be taken
in so completely as DR.. Dewey
has been 1t is wonderful - see
The prisoner will answer tc
sny name. He is about feet {, has pc
culiar accent that may be French and may
not BE is posted on medicine to an exten,
suffi cieut to get along with ease among
other doctors, and knows something Of Law
AS 10 his French, authorities differ; some
ssy he's born Frenchman, Others that he
c. n talk good French. He has admitted
having been in Paris. He PsWned g ring
marked h NJ B in Boston, watch mailed
q. NJ B. in San Francisco, and left card
c. Sc with II. N. Brooks printed here
travelling csr marked q VI. B, too big fol
him, was found in his valise At Aukl4nd
slso q little Teslamen, with the name o
DAuuuier Books in bis trunk we're mark
I'd Maxwell
Confusion.
A born solicitor would not talk ss muct
, as the prisoner does Of his own case. IS i
solicitor would know talking is dangerous
, not to say fatal The prisoner does moi
, admit having been 8 solicitor; he says b.
studied lsw. He does not claim to be {
! doctor; he says be studied mediclus
|, Brooks and Maxwell are puzzle, 1t make
, it worse when DAuquier comes comes int,
, the case. D'Auquisr is no bogus name, !
seems The card found in the prisoner
; trunk bearing the name DAuquier doe
not seem to be MAxwelPs hand, neither d
the two Inscriptions in the testament On
of them is in pencil on black paper; tn
, ether seems to have been scratched With
{ pen and the letters are decidedly French
: Who and what was d Auquier. and where
, be now2 Nobody knows what became 9
that curase. This theory may be buil
around the case; that the prisoner is neithe
Brooks D'Auquier or MaxEell, but thst b
IL the carate who left HYDE with Brook: