Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-11


own terror and fight the pursuit capture,
trial and conviction, and closing with bitter
denunciation of those whom he asserts
have been instrumental in dragging him
out of the higuways of justice into the
bypaths of IN 20 law and making the execu-
tion an infamy and lisgia"e to the. United
States.
The result of the postmortem was that
the necks af both Maxwell and Landgraf
were broken. Maxwelrs nose was broken
and il is presumed that he struck some
part of the gallows in the fall. Several Of
the smaller bones III his neck were frac-
tured.
MAxwELL's CRIME
On the morning of April Ia, 1885, the
employees of the Southern Hotel, St Louis,
were horriiied by finding the terribly mutt
lated and decayed body of man jammed
into trunk. Police investigation at once
commenced. 1t was found that on March
81, Walter ii. Lennox-Saxwell, NJ. d., and
c. Arthur Preller, both Of London, Eng,
registered at the hotel and occupied room
la together On Easter Sunday Maxwell
purchased some chloroiorfn, and after
April 9Th was not seen again in ST. Louis.
Neither was Preiler. Eight days later his
corpse was found i'll the trunk, with
nothing TO indicate the. cause of the
IdtStQl Uul Tic iOliOWiItS. NhtSh was WHY
ten on piece of white paper and pasted
on the trunk Just above tine victim: $50
perish all traitors TO the great cause" 1t
was once believed that Maxwell. for politi-
cal or other causes, chloruformed Prellcr on
Sunday evening, April 5th, and then cut
the body 50 as to get il into the trunk.
1t was found that Maxwell pawned his
watch previous to the murder and redeemed
1t the day after. This fact leads the detec-
tives TO believe that Maxwell murdered his
companion for his money, and attempted
to make people believe it was done for po-
litical reasons Maxwell and Preller both
arrived at Boston from Liverpool on the
Cephalonia February 3D. Fora time they
remained in Boston, and during their stay
il was found that very unnatural friend
ship existed between the two. In q mys-
terious way the photograph of Maxwell
was obtained by private detective A. p.
Dearborn of that city, and the above cut is
an excellent copy of it. 1t is the only pho
ograph of the alleged murderer in this
country. Ii was learned in Boston that
Maxwell had but little money, while Prel.
Ter was well supplied, and also that the
former intended to go Auckland, New Zea-
land. This furnishes additional EVIL
dence that the deed was done for
money, and also clue as to
the probable destination of Maxwell
On April 11th man who answered the de-
ecription of Maxwell, but who claimed to
be S. c. Deanginer arrived in San Francisco
from st. Louis. He at once embarked on
the Australian steamer City of Sidney"
steerage, for Auckland, New Zealand. The
police were positive this man was Maxwell,
and a cablegram was sent to Auckland or
dering his arrest. On April 23d the coro-
ners jury found verdict that Preller
came to hls death at the hands of Walter
A. Lennox-Maxwell. On May 4th Maxwell
landed at Auckland, \. L., and was at once
arrested on the order of Consul Gamble
EKtradition papers were issued at St. Louis
May 9th, and on May 3lst Detectives
Tracey and Badger left for Auckland to
bring back the murderer to the scene OF his
crime. No murderer OF similar atrocity
has created such an interest throughout the
whole country since that of Jennie Clarke,
victim of the trunk tragedy at Lynn, Mass,
and what is known as the New Haven
Mystery"