The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-26
taken this morning differed but little kom

LaEen TINS morning OlHereO DuI ULLle LOm
A. A. Mellier, a druggist, testified that
Maxwell, accompanied by a man whom he
supposed was Preller, had come to his store
on Easter Sunday, 1885, at about 80 O'Clock
in the afternoon and called for something TO
quiet the nerves. The man whom he sup
posed was Preller purchased several toilet
articles and paid for them, exhibiting at the
time large amount of money. Saw the two
men afteIward at cigar stand in the South
ern Hotel buying cigars. Preller paid that
bill also. Cross-examination developed moth
ing new.
August Bengel testified that the defendant
came to his shooting gallery on the evening
of Easter Sunday about $50 o'clock and
shot at a target several times. His aim was
unsteady, and he seemed nervous and ex-
cited; also appeared to be under the in
fuence of liquor.
The Superintendent of the Morgue to
which Preller's dead body was taken, was re-
called and testified that the lip of the de-
ceased appeared as if a heavy black nous
tache had been shaved from it.
The sensational testimony of the day, not
that, however, which the thronged court
room expected to hear, was given by j. h.
Mccullough, detective who, under the di-
rection of Detective Furlong, District At
torney Clover and his assistant Mcdonald,
forged a check on an Eastern house and pre-
sented it at one of the city banks. He was
arrested and placed in Jail and assigned
cell adjoining that of Maxwell. He testified
that Immediately after his incarceration he
introduced himself to Maxwell and worked
himself into his confidence, and also about ten
days afterward he became engaged in a con-
versation with Maxwell about the latter's
case. During this conversation the de-
fendant told the witness that the only point
in his case about which he felt uncertain
and uneasy. was that concerning the money.
He said that If he could only prove that h
had plenty of money when Preller came to
st. Louis, be would have no anxiety about
a speedy acquittal- The witness offered to
hx that all right, hut told the defendant
that be must know all about the case, or
could do nothing. Maxwell then made a
free and full confession of all particulars of
the case, beginning with his first acquaint-
ance with Preller, how on ShipbOard he
noticed that Preller had in his possession
large amount of money, how they sepa-
rated in Boston, Preller going to Philadel
phia, and Maxwell coming to st. Louis. The
defendant, in this confession, said that on
the Friday night after Preller joined him
in this city. he told him (Maxwell) that it
would be impossible tor him to pay the
defendants way to Auckland, whittier they
had arranged TO go together. This, said the
defendant to the witness, angered him great
ly, and he determined then 10 fix him for
and Preller were sitting in the formers room,
when the latter complained of severe pains in
his side. Maxwell said, 20, / can fix that all
right; have treated such cases before" He
then injected hypodermically into his
friends arm sufficient amount of morphine
to render him unconscious. Alter he had
been in that condition for some time he
bound a cloth completely saturated with
chlOroform about his victims head, and this,
he confessed to the witness, 'ended the bust
ness" He then secured all of Preler's
money, about $500 in all, besides the most OF
his personal effects, and planned his escape
the details of which are so well known.
Alter the conclusion of McCullough's tes
timony the court adjourned until o'clock,
when his crosse y animation will be proceeded
with.
John +. Mccullough, the witness who ere
ated a sensation in the Maxwell trial to-day
was arrested at the Mechanic Bank on Feb
ruary 26, while trying to pass a check fol
81 1902, which was drawn IN favor of JohI
+. Morri and had the name of DR.. Smith,
Treasurer of the Gonld railroad system
signed to it. While he was in the bank
Detective Furlong came In with a check ht
desired to pass, his presence at the time being
supposed to have been purely accidental
The check present by Mccullough was fol
$1,1S0.12, and as the signature was totally
unlike DR.. Smiths, Mr.. Hutchinson, the
cashier Of the bank, Immediately detected
the forgery. Shaking with ex ite
ment, he told F1rlong of hi.
d scovery. The latter attempted tC
arrest Mccullough. A scuffie ensued, but
Furlong bagged his man and brought hin
to his office. He then sent w. K. Phillips
one of his operatives, to swear to informa
tion for warrant against him. This he did
and returned with a Deputy Sheriff, who
| placed McCullough under arrest and lodged
him in Jail. Dingfelder was given prelim
| mary examination and remanded aud locked
up in Jail for forty-seven days, when he gave
bond in the sum of $1,000, with ex-Judgt
Laughlin as security. Then he jumped hi:
bond and went TO New York. An indict
ment was returned against him by the grand
| Jury, Cashier Hutchinson, of the Mechanics
Bank. and two clerks in the employ of DR.
Smith being the witnesses against him
| The State officers say that neither Phillip
nor any of the other witnesses who appeared
before the Grand Jury knew who McCul
| Tough really was, all supposing he was for
GER Even Dr. Smith himself was not lie
| into the scheme and believed Mccullough
| or Frank Dingfelder. as he was known Il
them, to have committed forgery. Tht
case against Dingfelder is still pending in thI
| Criminal Court. He says that from New
| York he wrote Maxwell, under the name o
| John +. Mahon, concerning two witnesses h'
| had secured that would testify that Maxwell
had money when he left Boston. He fur
| ther insists that both Mr.. Martin and Mr.
| Fauntleroy wrote him replies to these let
| teTs. wanting to make appointments Will
| the men who were to do the swearing, bu
Mr.. Glover would not let him carry the mat
/ ter any further and told him he must no
meet the attorneys.