Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-28
Maxwell Finishes His Story BY Brand
ing Mccullough an Infamous
LIAR Gross Examined.
The Remains Of the Murdered Man Rx'
hnmed and the Statement OF the
Prisoner Exploded.
Some Damaging Admissions and Contra
diction. mRde--fhe Doctors 60 Be
PLACED ON the stand To-Day,
mAxwELL's TESTIMONY.

examination Of the defendant In the Max
well case to-day. In continuance Of hi.
story Of the crime, the witness said IL
substance. "Returning from Auckland,
arrived 10 St. Louis In charge Of the
states officers some time 10 August u
don't remember the exact date au1 was
Immediately placed In jail, where have
remained ever since. Soon alter my 10.
generation met this man who testified
under the name OF Mccullough, but
never made any arrangements with him
about the manner In which my defense
Should be conducted"
"But how about his testimony" inter.
ruptsd Mr.. Fauniieroy, ''in which he
stated that YOU confessed TO having muir.
dercd Mr. Prelier because he would not
furnish you money for your trip TO Auck-
iandin
oils whole statement replied the
witness, twas an Infamous lie from be-
ginning 20 end. ! never saw the letter
sisned Mann, which be says he wrote to
me, until IL was produced IN court.
never tried 10 secure false Witnesses nor
10 manufacture bogus defense. | told
my attorneys thst all such schemes were
noDsenseu
Continuing his statement, the defend
ant said: "Mr. Preller was afflicted with
n disease Of private nature for some
time before the attempted operation, and
| have no doubt that The structure, which
tho operation was Intended 10 remove,
resulted from IT,"
Witness was then Withdrawn with the
understanding that he be allowed TO ties.
tiiy again should II be found that any
important points had been omitted.
The prosecution then took the witness
and proceeded with the cross.examina-
ton. In reply To questions he stated
that ho introduced himself as W. II
LeGnox Maxwell 20 Preler on board the
Ceppcl0na soon after leaving Liverpool,
but that was M, HIS name. al assumed
that name almost Immediately after leav-
ing Hyde. ! never told any one why /
left, not even my father aud mother, for
wanted 10 come 10 America and knew
they would oppose my going | began
studying physiol ~, anatomy, chemistry
and medicine when was about twelve
years old. ! attended college at one Of
the hospitals Ia London and became pro-
lcieut m these bran hes Of tue science.
also studied privetelyn
The defense objected The objection
was sustained. An exception was taken
In reply 10 questions about the magic
Lantern he said IL WIS not his own. Itl
belonged TO Mr. Sdebottom Of lISde.
MANwtlI's LAST HOrE BLASTED
ST. Louis, Mo, May 27.--0n last
Wednesday, 4 week after the publication
Of Maxeell's confession, the body Of c.
Arthur Proller was, according 10 a state.
ment made this evening by the Post Dis
patch, cxhumcd and the parts which
Maxwell swoIe in his testimony to be dis
Oasvd were cut opeG and dssected for
the purpose Of aFcertaining whether or
not FRAZIER had suffered from structure
or other private disease. The result of |
the investigation WAS that no structure or |
other dlsordercd condition of these parts |
were found. The doctors VIII be put on |
the stand in the morning. prellot's re-
mains were, it is said, In as good condi-
ton as on the day Of the burial.
The witness admitted that he told Mr..
Warren passenger on the Ceppelonia,
that hs father and mother were dead
aud he had expected To Inherit large
but when his fathers will was
recorded he found he had very little. lie
confessed that this was all false. He
also admitted that statements In a letter
written by him to Preller that he (the
Titncss) had found ia the Gazette That
the College Of Christ church had be-
slowed upon him degrees of A. NJ. and
II l. because he held the degrees
oi A. b. aud NJ. ID. for several /
years, were wholly untrue. The medical
books We're again brought out, aud the
prisoner was examined as to WIN he
wrote after his name the titles, chi D.
"B. H." and "M, D., A, MI after his
na,ne on the fly-leayes, The witness de-
MED that his purpose was To deceive, ard
being pressed replied that 1t was for his I
own personal gFattication 10 some ex-
tent. Upon being questioned as to when |
be wrote the marginal on the vademecum
about the best method Of administering
cbloroiorm, the witness acknowledged
that he had testified In his direct exsmin.
alton That II was written some twelve |
months before he came TO this country,
nut said tho counsel, "thls is signed |
w, II. L, and you did not assume
that name until just before you lett En-.
gland How could the note then have
been written except In this countryin
III was written IN this country" re-
piled the witness.
Mr. Glover OF the prosecution brought
out prominently at this point the fact
Nnht VIE MlAhtHS Hhu looked Nl the mar. /
glnal notes during his testimony yester.
day and had repeatedly said he had writ
ten them Ia England, and that
one at least must have
boon written In this country as was
shown by It's signature, In reply TO cues.
lions as 70 the statement In the letter
written on Monday after the murder by
the detendapt to Mr., Warren Of Boston,
stating thar he and preller were going 10
Texas, the witness replied that he was az
the time undcr tue influence Of liquor and
therefore did not remember why he had
written such things and acted Ia this or
that manner, and IN reply TO all questions
introduced With "why,n "when,r or
"how, he answered, II don't know.,i
or ~ don't remem0er.n Replying
10 questions as 60 why, when In san
francisco, he had written an alleged
cipher letter TO the French mlnis,er OF
war here, nc replied twas only written
Tor Joke.
"rhcn you had Jolly tsipto San Fran.
cisco when yon knew preller was lyira
dead Ia st I.ouisl"
"oA, no,r replied The witness, "that
was csuscd by the champagne which /
drank
uDid Won huv this chamna,ne xyht,h