The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-06-03

tried all the cans Of rcsutlIdllph WIN NHl,H
was familiar / slapped him with wet towers on
fbr br-a4t aud neck. dashed cold water On ms Chc7t
attempted to restore respiration y MOVING w
arms up and down. ! continued these "ipIts 70
revive my friend for over half an hour, hll
il was useess, entirely useless 5h"tlil
after nv friend had ceased 10
breathe and hi- heart stopped b"alin" and there
vas no breath on the mirror when hrid ~ 10 M
Iips: even after WIS satisfied he was dead con,
tinued my efforts with him. J dld not leave ana
call assistance. III my efforts were 10 restore
hin. because when chlorOfOrm takes hold Of nah
and he sinks, in a few SECONDS the man - DEAD
The time / thought, had better be occupied IN Il
forts 20 restore him. wa- convinced h was dead
but / continued to dash cold water %. his chest
finally decided that he was dead and past an nope
Then ! hardly knew what 10 do: my first Impulse
was TO sOtify the autho titles. Imagine my feel
ing- / did not knOw what 10 do wa In strange
land aud stranger. did not know a man could
make a statement in his own behalf. ! thonghl
the same rule obtained. here as in Englaad and
that would not he allowed to make
my statement, and THOUGHT J
would get aWay had that large trunk, the only
one had up to that time. ] empticd it ont. II
would be impossible, gentlemen, to describe to
you my feelings and my horror when knew my
friend was dead.
The prisoner paused, brushed away tears from
his eyes. and proceeded:
II drew the empty trunk up to the side Of the
bed, and after drawing nv drawers, the first that
came to my hand, upon the body for common
decency's sake, | put Preller in it. There was
some difficulty in forcing the body into the trunk,
but / succeeded, and after covering it up went
down 10 the bar. was in dreadful state OF mlno
and tried to drown my thoughts by drinking.
wandered about the streets OF the city until about
Q or 10 o'clock. visited some shooting gallery
and came back to the hotel. went up to the
dining room. ! can't very we'll give an account of
what took place in the dining room. ] then went
up to my room and stayed there all night. |
can't be sure OF anything that happene
after the cad occurrence Of Preilere
death. | stayed IN my room. To say slept would
be untrue ! waited for the morning; then Thought
the only thing to be done was to get away. took
PTeller pants and looked through them. found
a quantity Of money in bills: can say how much.
There was probably five or six hundred dollars. !
took it, went to the ticket office and bought a
ticket for San Francisco. On the same morning !
made several other purchases-a flute and diamond
ring at pawn brokers' pair or field glasses anu
spectacles at AlOes, oftician two trunks and va
! lise. The trunks | ordered carried to my room,
and placed in ne of them clothing and loose
things living around the room which had been re-
moved from the trunk in which | had placed nay
| friends dead body.
"What do you know about this piece of paper,
reading so perish all traitors to the great
cause =
81 wrote it, Ny idea was that the authorities
would find it; that it would puzzle them until the
autopsy was held.
WAS it your idea to delay them while You were
se tim away
''Dd you do anything else with the same view: =
'Yes: | shaved of the mCustache."
you tell how that cut came upon his
brea-t!'
Yes; did it with scalpel, but can assign no
reason for it
''You did all this on Monday morning."
Yes: on Monday morning
''N hat else did Won do:
! SIN the course of the morning / went to the
union depot with the canvass covered trunk, which
| | checked to an Francisco. ! remember going t.
| the Cinisg room Sunday night; don't remember
ordering wine. don remember exhibiting re-
yolver What did Sunday evening confused
me that would not like to say when anything oc
| cured.
Had you, when you administered that chloro
FORM any iDtenrion of killing Preller:"
81 had not, sir" Witness spoke loldly and en-
| phatically.
"Had YOU any intention of injuring him."
| 81 had not, sir.
cor of doing him any bodily HARM
81 had not, sir.
| The rest of the testimony was taken up with the
| trip to san Francisco.
| Court adjourned until tomorrow
ST. LOUIS. May 27.-Mr Fountleroy, of the de-
fence, continued his direct examination of the de-
| PENDANT in the Maxwell case day.
In continuance of his story of the crime, the
| witness said in substance
| Returning from Auckland, arrived at St. Louis
| in charge of the states officers some time in Au
gust don't remember the exact date-and was
Immediately placed in Jail, where | have remained
ever since. soon after my incarceration met this
man who testified under the name of Mccullough,
but never made any arrangements with him about
the manner in which my defence should be con
Quoted
'.DuC how about his testimony interrupted Mr.
FOuntleTOy sin which he stated that You confessed
to having murdered Mr. Preer because he could
not furnish you I.oney for your trip to Auckland!
His whole statement, replied the defendant, was
an infamous lie, from beginning to end. never
saw the letter signed Manu. which he said he wr9te
to me, until it was produced in court. | never
tried to secure false Witnesses nor to manufacture
bogus defence. told my attorneys that all such
| schsmes were nonsense.
Continuing his statement. the defendant said
| Preller afflicted with disease of private ma
tnre some time before the attempted operation,
| and have doubt that the structure which the
| operation was intended to remove resulted from
| ii.
The witness was then withdrawn with the I'M
Outstanding that he be allowed to testify again.
should it be found that any important points had
been omitted.
The prosecution then took witness and pro
Ceedcd with the cross examination, and in reply
to questions stated that he introduced himself as
W. II. LennOX Maxwell to Preller on board the
Cepheona, soon after leaving Liverpool, but that
was not his name.
81 assumed that name Immediately after leaving
| Hyde. / never told anyone WY | left-nOt even
my father and mother, for wanted to come to
| America and knew they would oppose my going
/ began studying physiology, anatomy, chemistry
and m, dicine when was about IL years old; at
! tended lectures at one of the hospitals in London
became proficient in these branches of science.
also studied privately
| The defense objected The objection was sus
| tanned ana exception taken
! In reply to questions about the magic lantern.
! he said it was not his own 1t belonged to Mr.
! SidebOttOm, of Hyde.
EWitness admitted that he told Mr.. Warren,
passenger on the CephelOnia, that his father anu
mother were dead and he had expected to inherit a
large property, hut when the provisions of his
fathers will were recorded he found he had very
little He confessed this was all false. He also adj
mitted the statements in the letter written by him
to Preller that he (the witness) had found in the
Gazette that tie college of Christ Church had
bestowed upon him the degrees of A. NJ. and b. A.
because he had held the degrees of \. b. and NJ ID.
for several years, were wholly untrue, and his
medical books were again brought out and the
prisoner examined as to why he wrote after hi.
name the titles NJ. D., b. NJ. and NJ. D. c. s. on
the fly leaves. Witness denied that his purpose
was to deceive and being pressed he replied it was
for his own personal qualification TO some eX-
tent.
Upon being questioned as to the time when he
best method of administering Chluroform, witness
nation that il was written some twelve months be
fore he came to this country.
But" said the counsel, ''this is signed W. IL.
l.. NJ and you did not assume that name unit
just before you left England; how could the note
then have been written in any except thi:
country"
at was written in this country" replied the
witness.
Mr.. Glover, of the prosecution, brought on
prominently at this point the fact that the witness
had looked at the marginal notes during his test
mony yesterday, and had repeatedly said he hat
written them in England. and that one nj least