New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-16
THE MURDER IN ST. LOUIS.
TRACING THE ASSASSIN WESTWARD.
MAXWELL SUPPOSED TO HAVE TAKEN PASSAGE TO
NFw-Ze " ,ND-w.s HE INSANE
IBr TRLEcRAPH TO THE rPrer,Su1

NEw-Ze,L,ND-wsS HE INSANE
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ST. LOUIS, April 15.--The man supposed to be
guilty OF the murder In the Southern Hotel has been
traced TO San Francisco whence Sunday evening he
sailed on the steamer Sydney for Auckland New Zealand
He was identified by hat which he bought in this city,
and by the through ticket the Francisco Rail-
road, which taken up San Francisco Saturday
night L. Harrigan, Chief OF Police. to-day received
from p Crowley the Chief Of Police Of San Francisco,
the following
The man who owned the three pieces OF baggage %
numbered in your dispatch arrived on April IL.
under the name OF J. c. Deangnear. He claimed to be
Frenchman army officer from Paris. He was tho
only passenger who left St. Louis April O. and while
coming through talked with apparent French accent
but when spoken to in French always replied In English
Ny informant who came on the train, says that the
cent was assumed. He answers your description per-
fectly. He had small mustache and imperial, brown
cutaway coat wastcoa and nearly the same
materia broadbrimmed light drab hat dented In the
crown. He left this city the Australian City
of Sydney, for Auckland New-Zealand. He may leave
the steamer at Honolulu. He be by tee-
graph he does not He in the seerage and had
bought ticket oi St. Louis scalper for $50. Rush
your answer and will get him."
An order was sent to stop the fugitive at any cost.
number OF facts TO the surface to-day, showing
that the crime premeditated and deliberate ON
Saturday, April H. DIR. Maxwell appeared number Of
shops AM endeavored to raise money personal
effects but failed. On the day after the murder, he
csshed $780, foreign exchange in the Fourth National
Bank, and bought pair OF heavy field glasses from A.
s. Aloe and diamond ring from Hess & Culbertson.
ID. c. Edgar Of the Glendale Zinc Works. who was on
the San Francisco train the night OF Monday April
and occupied berth In the sleeping the
Engshman supposed to be Dr. Maxwell, identifies the
photograph In the possession OF the police good
picture OF the man whom he met the train.
ma In En- safd Mr.
Edgar, FROM his appearance, manners and converse
ton. He dressed in dark suit with long and
mouse-colored slouch hat, which bore the stamp Of
Hart & DAT the lining. He talked In a rambling.
amless way about being In the employ OF the Turkish
also repeated the story which Dr. Maxwell Is said to
have tPid h; about killing man pan In Turkey With the butt
ing in the doorway OF the looking out into the dark
could He said tna he could that the glasses
night glasses and good ones. He handed them to me,
glasses they had been III his possession for long
time. and said that he had them repaired while In st.
sta II not have been in use on We Wens no
the smoking roon ani while there he talked Ia foolish
manner about buying Turkish women. One OF his
hearers suggested that it might be good idea buy
carload The Engishman, speaking seriously. replied
the laws of this country He showed his to
san Francisco, and wanted TO kno IL he cous stop Of
cisco he going to New-Zeaand on business for the
Turkish Government thought that he was crazy his
talk drted on to firearms, and pulling up his wastcoat
he showed leather belt filed with cartridges, and
putting his hand back his hr pocket started to take
out his pistol but asked him not to for fear of AN acct
deu and he desised He said that his pistol blue
bronzed Colt that all the time hs
in ST. Louis. One peculiar article OF dress which
noticed he bis sleeve buttons. They were OF
darkcolored stone. and fastened Inherently from any
that have .eyer The bottom part base OF the
button Instead OF being ordinary piece OF METAL
and the edges turned in opposite directions, resembling
Of s a that he i5
gaze. left the train at Miners Camp, Joplin, Mo-"
his freud. the assassin % shaved S the % dead mans
musache of to disguise him: This morning the morgue
thrown and the body of the dead man exposed
All day long crowd Of curious men. women and chill
dren crowded into the public TO stare Oh the hdeous
sight choice shown for the positions nearest the
CHASTITY spectacle and groups Of sghtseers went away
from the casing the eager crowd behind pressed into the
gap To look at the rcpusive corpse. The late
! comers, who stood on the edge OF the crowd,
every in the forward part OF the crowd. To-day
the features or the dead man were more rec0gnz ole
than yesterday The purid swclngs have subsided and
the shrinking skin has bur the water bliser making
the features less horrible and more familiar to those who
the day clerk and Harry Arlington captain OF the din
ing room watch at tho MOTEL viewed the body again and
Preer
The police worked diligently on the case but their
efforts principally devoted to the identification
OF the two Supposed TO have been the actors in the
and paper closely scanned, each served for cew
to the identity OF the two This morning there was
doubt but that the missing men were G. Arthur Prel-
Ter and DR.. NJ lxwe. but whether the dead Is Prel
Ter or Maxwell is matter Of much less certainty Dr.
j. c. Nidelet who made post-mortem examination OF
the dead body shown phOtograh known to Do
Prellers. ana said:
although the mustache has been
shaved aud the features dscolored and distorted
have no hesitation IN saying that this photograph 10
taken OF the deceased man short time before his
death | recognize the upper portion OF the face ~
identical in formation with that Of the dead man when
IN normal condition"
Never the history OF this city has a crime excited
such universal comment I is almost the sole TOPIC Of
conversation. Guests leaving the Southern Hotel
owing to the ghastly noorety which II has obtained
The police think that Maxwels actions show him TO oe
partially insane, and the crime exhibits all tho signs Of
demented intellect.