The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-01
THE MAXWELL TRIAL
The Prisoner Completely
Broken Up,
AND Is SON-cOMMUEICATIyE.
Home RuIe-DIsr-e.is Testimony
Confederate Decoratton-
Mexican Outrage
The Maxwell Case

ST.. LOUIS, May S0.-rhe NJ xwell trial
will be resumed tomorrow, notwith-
standing it will be holiday Maxwell
) yerv much broken uown and sleeps
very little. de had three firm frIenus
| in la prior 10 the trial. but these IA en-
viii not now speak 10 HIM anu he So ms
TO feel that every hidy has abandOneu
him to his fate. His vanity has been
entirely destroyed. That was what
chiefly sustained hum. lii, ma inner has
completely changed. From Oeing 10
quaciOus, he has become gloomy aud
noncOmmunicauve, and, for the hrst
time since the commencement of his
case, he refuses TO talk with reporters
and refers them 10 his attorney. When
asked to-day about The bell boy who
cut a mysterious figure at the cUToner's
inquest, but OF wIom no information
could be obtained, either BY the
coroner or by the chief of police,
although he was known TO have
been in Maxwell's room on the dav
of the mufuvI, he refused TO talk, aud
referred his questioners 10 his lawyers.
The Jurors had free movement To day
through all the upper rooms over the
courts. and we're allowed 10 look at the
morning papers. but were not permitted
to read anything about the trial. They
then turned To baseball and discussed
plas ers' averages for a while, and were
subsequently taken out TO the parks for
a walK. The physicians who recently
examined Preller's body to ascertain
whether he had the disease described
b. Maxwell, will testify Tomorrow in
rcbuttal. There has been some talk of
producing the organs taken from the
body by these physicians in evidence,
but il seems 10 be decided to-day by the
prose ution not to do so. except by or
der of the Court.
ST. LoUIs May 3L-In the Maxwell
trial the counsel for the State intro
duced evidence In rebuttal to the
prisoners testimony. The first wit
neSses called by the prosecution were
the morgue Superintendent RYAN. He
testified that he, in company with
Doctors Hewett and Nidlet and Mr..
Glover, of the council, visited last Fri
day. the cemetery in which Preller's
body had heen inferred, and exhumed
the remains. A post DiOrterl examina-
ton was made and certain organs re-
ferred 10 by Maxwell in his testimony
as diseased, were removed and taken
TO DR. Brokow. The body at the time
was IN good condition, better, If any
NnCA IL was Lie
defense objected to the testimony on
this point, on the ground that the de-
Tense were kept in ignorance of the oc-
currence. and they had no repre-
sentative TO see that the body from
which the organs were removed was
really Preller. The court overruled the
objection, and an exception was taken.
An opportunity, however, was after
wards given the coUn -el to argne the
question aud tontleroy, OF the defense,
spoke against admitting the testimony.
After considerable discussion the court
decided to admit the testimony.
'Deprewet was placed on the stand.
He testified that the parts which Max
well said were diseased, we're found TO
be in a normal, healthy condition.
trial to-day, A. v. A. Breckway as
sistant to the Chair of Surgery and De
monstrator of analogy in the Missouri
Medical college, who was present at the
dissection OF the organs referred 10.
testified that he made n personal
examination OF them. but failed to find
evidence of any disease of structure. =
The State tBen announced they had
no further evidence in rebuttal to offer.
4r. Faunteltray, of the defense, asked
the privilege Of having the parts of
Pre- leT's body in the possession OF the
State inspected by experts for the de-
Tense. u 70
Mr.. Clover, Of the prosecution, wanted
the names OF the experts submitted 10
him and was willing 70 give them to any
reputable surgeon or physician, except
the me dical adviser of the defense. The
defense refused to accept this condi-
uonal and the defense was then declared
In ha ClAeAd - knfh "a nj d
Genfc.vt Ifssnu q aE-.IE vLh Yea foj
Judge Van Wagner said he would
endeavor TO have the instructions rea y
by Tomorrow at 10 o'clock, and ao-
Journed the court until that time Z en-
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