The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-21
BEHIND THE BARS.

| Maxwell, Charged with the Murder of
! Preller, Lodged in Prison Cell at st.
! Louis-Ten Thousand Persons Witness
| His Arrival-An Alleged Interview-In-
timation That the Prisoner Killed Prel-
| Ter by Accident. =.
ST.. LOUIS, No., Aug. 17.-No such crowd
ever assembled at the Union Depot as that
which gathered there before daybreak yes
terday morning to witness the arrival of
| Maxwell, the supposed murderer. The
train did not arrive until Gas, and by
that time the crowd had swollen
| into enormous proportions. Right in
the depot yard there was bowling
mob numbering at least ten thousand
| persons. As the train bowIed in this gather
ing formed solid ring about it, and it was
! not until heavy Gordon of police had beat
en- a way through that pathway was
cleared for the prisoner and those who had
him in charge. He was lifted quickly into
patrol-wagon which had backed into the
depot so as to be neaRt the sleeping-car, and
as he took his seat in it, surrounded by the
officers, the crowd set up tremendous
| cheer as if in triumph over his safe return.
Maxwell, under all these trying circum-
stances, showed no outward sembIance of
fear, and as he took his seat in the wagon
he said rather cheerily to the driver: ''AIl
right, 60 ahead" The crowd gave another
great cheer as. the wagon started for the
Four Courts The horses were urged rap
idly forward, the crowd following as fast
as it could cheering and yelling the while.
The chase was kept up until police head
quarters were reached. Lodgers in the
neighborhood were awakened by the
md nf hn fhnucop1c i,,
street, and as soon as possible joined the
excited throng. Twelfth street was i'm
pasSable
The wagon was stopped in front of the
Clark avenue entrance to the Four Courts,
and in minutel was surrounded by the
throng. "Take him out and hang him."
shouted tall man in a white hat as De-
tectives Tracy and Badger lifted their charge
from the wagon. Officers formed a line and
pressed the crowd back.
The detectives when questioned as to
whether they had received a confession
from Maxwell were reticent and showed
that they were acting under orders, bit
enough came out to indicate that Maxwell
had made many damaging admissions.
He has acknowledged to the detectives
that he knew Preller in England;
that they sailed together from Liverpool in
the Cephalona; that they had rooms to-
gether in Boston, and that they separated
there-Preller to attend to some business
and he to take tour through Canada. He
visited Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton,
and then came West.
LII an interview with Maxwell on the
train before reaching this city it was init
mated to him that he had killed Preller by
accident, and that he had told the detectives
as much. In response he admitted in a
roundabout way that such was the CASE
and that that would be the defense he
would enter.
Upon his person hypodermic syringes
and other medical instruments were found
by the officers, and he was asked if he had
not used them on Preller, and medicine as
well. He then frankly admitted that he
had and gave the reporters to understand
that he had killed Preller by giving him an
overdose of chloroform. II had often dosed
him before" he said, ''and thought l knew
his constitution we'll, but I may have been
mistaken"