San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-19

quarter or an ounce and half going
down in the sink. This was probably 3
O'Clock, and after getting my instru-
ments ready | went out TO secure some
more ChlorOfOrm. | went to a drug
store. 1 don't know where, but to a
store near the hotel, and asked for chic
reform. The clerks, or some persons
| there, have said was excited and in a
hurry. This was not so. | sat down in
a chair in the drug store for more than a
quarter Of an hour. | was very leisurely
about my business, for there was no
hurry. IL | am not mistaken, had q
long conversation with some one in the
drug store. When | got the chloroform
| repsired to my room. Preller had been
in and out OF my room and his own all
the afternoon. About O'Clock we be-
gan the operation. | administered the
chlorOfOrm in the usual way, holding a
saturated cloth to the nose. Preller
passed through the first stage all right.
Ii took several moments. / don't know
exactly how long. Then he entered the
second stage and here the terrible result
came. discovered too late that
he was dying. Imagine my hor-
ror when this fact dawned upon
me. | was wild with fright, but had
presence of mind enough to cut the
shirt and under shirt from the body,
and getting wet towel | bathed him
around the neck and shoulders for half
an hour or so. | didn't give up until |
was ready to drop from exhaustion. My
efforts were not relaxed until he had
been dead some time. All the clothes
he had on at the time were shirt and
undershirt. hau stripped him for the
operation. What did | do when saw
my friend was dead? | didn't know
what to do, except to drink. | drank
everything ] could get, wine, whisky,
everything. What were my thoughts?
| hadn't any. All / remember is that |
drew on pair of drawers, the first that
fell into my hands, and put the body
into my trunk, from which | had re-
moved everything. l put 1t into the
the trunk an hour after Preller's death.
What was done besides this | have no
recollection of. Liquor and consterns-
ton had possession OF me and | know
only that my feelings were those Of the
utmost horror. remained in my room
that night, the same room In
which the remains were found. 1t
would be useless for me to say that |
slept, for didn't. and was glad when
morning came. What | did after leaving
the room you knows for it has all been
printed"
CHICAGO, May lS.-Malvin M. Thomp-
son, young grocer living at ls5 South
Green street, who was present at the
Haymarket riot, says he overheard
August Spies and Adolph Fischer, ofthe
Arbeter Zeitung, consulting about the
number of dynamite bombs to be thrown
into the ranks of the police. The men
were standing in an alley leading from
the east side of the Desplaines station
only few feet from the wagon on which
the speakers stood. Thompson over
heard Spies say, xviii one be enough?
Had we not better send for more" He
could not catch the reply, but imme-
diately afterwards Schwab and Fischer
went away together, evidently to pro-
cure something. The fact that Fischer
and Schwab Immediately left together
and were seen later in the evening
standing near the spot from which the
fatal bomb was thrown, gives good
ground for believing that both these fell
lows know more about the identity of
the bomb thrower than they care to re-
veal.