Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-16

II sorHER SCENE IN THE TRUNK
TRAGEDY.
sAN FRANCISCO, CAL, June Is =
ghssteamer City Of Sydney from Aus
.rslis arrived this morning with sgd
D,y sdvices under date of hay 81 and
,ucklsnd, New Zealand, May 90.
The Auckland papers contain ali &C.
amt OF the arrest on May Is Of
*Eater H. Lennox Maxwell,
.ias Theodore Cecil Daughter, charged
With having murdered Charles A.
In st. Louis April 5th. The
3snest was made by the United States
<IOnsul, Gamble, who received tele-
<gnm from the chief OF police OF st.
8lOuis with instructions to that effect.
[Tvo days later Consul Gamble re-
Exiyed telegram from the United
MATES secretary of state authorizing
hin TO make the arrest. Two detect
8yes boarded the steamer at Tieritri.
HE purser, in reply to their questions,
Mated that there vas aman among the
&ieerage passengers bearing Max wells
He was summoned on
|eck. The first question asked him
has whether he was Daughter.
BE promptly denied this, saying
Mat he was native OF France and an
fnicer Of the French army. The de.
Rsctives informed him that they had a
Fsrrant for his arrest and would have
% take him into custody.
Maxwell appeared to be discon-
parted, but recovered his composure.
While the officers were Handwriting
bin he cody remarked that the whole
natter was mistake which would be
quickly explained. On May 9TH he
vas taken into the police court and
|he charges against him were read
fhe crown solicitor appeared for the
and Burton Tor the defense.
fhe latter claimed that the
'ourt had no jurisdiction
md after some argument the case was
to the 9TH, after which |
/ was again remanded to the 18th, |
nd on that day the case was brought |
ID. Consul Gamble was the first wit
less called. He testified on
ehah of the prosecution to |
be various articles found in |
daXweil's trunk, which, among other |
hings, contained two embroidered |
marked &c. A. Pr
nd shirt with two large spots of |
Hood on 1t. In reply to the question |
8 to how the articles not bearing the |
initials of his name had come |
n his possession, Maxwell said they
lad been given him at San Francisco |
" man named Robinson. The de-
ective who arrested him on the |
tesmer testified to finding the follow
ng articles in Maxwell's gripsacks:
cuffs, two handkerchiefs, all
marked &C. A. P.," memorandum
,ook marked "Dauguier," pocket
medical direction, in which was writ.
EN-, "W. III. l., Maxwell, NJ. d , !
r. G. S - and dressing-case,
jsrked Nv. III. L. MAXWELL All
hese articles Maxwell sajd he
bought from the same man, Robinson,
N San Francisco. The counsel for the |
License at this point Of the proceedings |
sgain contended that the court had no |
Jurisdiction in the matter and asked |
for dismissal. The case was then re-
handed TO May is, and on that TO the
sd, and again reInanded to the 30th. |
Judge Smith, who is hearing the case,
stated that he would remand the case
light days at time until the officers
rom st. Louis arrived.
A CLAIMANT FOR PRELLER's MONEY. |
81. LOUIS, Mo-, June l5.-Secretary |
y State Bayard has forwarded to
Mayor Francis OF this city some cor
Iespondence from the British minister,
p which j. III. Dixon Of Bradford,
Yorkshire, England, lays claim to the
money found on Maxwell, now under
Arrest at Auckland, New Zealand, for
The murder OF Chas. Arthur Preller at
The Southern hotel in this city early in
April. Preller was in Dixon's employ. |
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The Hotel Pickwick.