The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-08-25
WOMAN IN THE CASE.
MaxwelI's I~nTatuatiOn That Help.
cd him 40 an American
GaIlOVNs.

PITTsBURG, Pa, August ~, 1885,
just as in every other case OF public
note there was a woman i'll the gro
tesquely horrible story OF CRIME to
which The hanging OF Maxwell at st.
Louis has put a final period, IN her
name was Lillian Hoyle.
The curious episode in which she fig
ured has never before been brought to
light, but it is by no means the least
interesting chapter of this strange and
celebrated case. After the murder,
when Maxwell thrust the corpse of his
friend in a trunk and fled, he did not
stop or pause until he reached San
Francisco, but there he stopped two
DAYS before he set sail tor Australia.
What was he doing2
He was in the company OF Lillian
Hoyle, u beautiful and abandoned
woman, whom he met by chance upon
the streets and with whom he tarried
in this perilous time of flight, when
pursuit might be at any instant close at
his heels. The little, half-demented
chloro1ormer forgot everything III
presence of this woman. She was OF
the Spanish type; black hair, brilliant
ewes, creamy skin and v~Oluptuous form.
Moreover, she was gifted with a singu-
lar fascination OF manner hat really
covered the cool, keen, calculating
instincts OF q woman of the world III
the worst acceptance of the term. She
was half surprised, half amused at his
pr~otestations, and carefully sounded
him to see how much money he had.
At this the murderer suddenly revealed
himself, and in q passionate outburst
told her what he had done, going into
the minutest details and urging her to
Join his flight and go with him to the
{ southern part of the state, which he
tondly believed was a thinly settled
wilderness where they might securely
hide themselves. The woman thought
he was crazy-either that or a drunken
braggart, and made haste to show him
the door. A few hours afterward,
upon the impulse of the moment and
without a vestige OF plan, he bought q
ticket for Auckland, N. u.
AN UNNECESSARY WITNESS.
This was the story learned by the
detectives, and it is scarcely necessary
to add that on the lists OF the prosecu-
ton Lillian Hoyle figured as a most
essential witness. But she was never
called. The district attorney who
prosecuted Maxwell at St. Louis was
Ashley Ii. Glover, a young man not
only of great determination, but OF
considerable wealth; and out of his w
pocket he paid many of the ~extraordi-
nary expenses of the case. Thus
among other things he deposited sew
eral hundred dollars to pay the expeh-
SEES of the Hoyle woman from San fran
cisco, and il was understood That she
would put IL an appearance at the
proper time. But when the IA
was called she had disappeared,
and it was finally learned that she
had sailed for Hong Kong the week
before with the first officer OF a Pacific
Mail steamer.
1t is a TACT not generally known. but
China is regarded as II Mecca by tie
upper stratum of the scarlet women OF
the Pacific coast. In nearly all the
great cities of the Celestial Kingdom
are TO be found circles of wealthy and
dissolute Europeans,an at Canton and
Hong Kong their club rooms are fitted
up with princely luxuriance and bar
barrie splendor. These establishments
are out of the pale OF law, and are INT
hampered by the canons OF c~iVilIzatlon.
The inmates, therefore, are restrained
by nothing save the bounds OF their
caprice, and live a perpetual orgie hid
eous in its realism.
1t was to this life that Lillian Hoyle
was directed. She had with her q
New York woman known as Pearl
Ardine, and fate had in reserve a
49, oa,oo, aud franin nttH fnp hOfh
of these women.
HE woMAN's FATE.
Conrad Hoff AN agent of the German
government, located at Singapore,
wrote to a friend here a letter giving
the conclusion of their career, which
was received to-day.
He states that the Hoyle woman
| became q recognized leader OF the
demi- monde at Hong Kong, and, clad
in a native dress OF extraordinary
richness, she finally grew TO be such y
conspicuous figure upon the streets
| that the authorities forbade her appear
ing on them in daylight.
On the night of June 4 she was in
company with a party of friends, in
| Guiding Pearl Ardine and q young
| AmIrICdu udLlCu OOhh ASN5SA3 -
native tea garden, which was a large
enclosed place thickly planted with
shrubs. Tow ard midnight these two
women and Ledger were missed, and
after a search their bodies were found
in a dark corner of the garden. All
three were dead and covered with
knife wounds. The head of the Hoyle
woman was, in addition, entirely
severed from her body. Who did the
! bloody work could. not even be con-
iectured, but it was charged that jeal-
ousy was at the bottom of it. No
arrests had been made up to the time
the letter was written.
This has, of course, but little to do
with the case of Maxwell. for the evil
dence of the woman, TINS tragically
placed beyond the reach of a subpoena,
was, after all, not needed to convict.
But il seems a strange turn of destiny
that the California siren into whose
cars Maxwell poured the story OF his
crime was doomed to die in u midnight
revel on the other side of the world,
where she had refused to go with the
murderer.