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began his life twenty

IIuRH N1OtITdm DEOOhh DtRhu HE tWchpS-
He was a good bov." the father and
mo- her have said over and over again in their
affection and their grief, urging that as n ren-
son why there should be mercy &c why the boy
should not die now
1t WIS u home with an atmosphere Of love.
of mutual care and dependence, of pute
scholarship. that home into which Hugh
came. Thu father and the mother were both
teachers. Samuel Newton Brooks, who called
the murderer son. has been for years Princi-
pal Of the three detached schools at Hyde.
In one OF the hig est grades under him his
wife Hannah teaches. HIS son George IL in
another department, and his daughter Annie,
born when Hugh was o boy Of eleven years.
is q pupil teacher, well advanced i'll
tons for a full Normal course.
Res ected according to their stations. aud
their own worth of character, the member
of the Brooks family formed a happy Cup
strong in their own ties and strong IN the
affection Of many friends.
They were not great travellers. The
mother and daughter had hardly stepped be.
yond the bounds of their own immediate
local ty. The father, in 1875, came across to
see the wonders of the great American re-
public, as unfolded at the Philadelphia ex-
position.
THE BoY WAS WILD.
Hugh was always a little wild, but the
parents loved him not o whit the less. He
was b ght and active, He did not take to
rou inc and would never make a teacher. As
u DON nc IthSeu nlb NlNttI, III bCupoI hp ttou-
bl d his teacher more than he did his books
From such a boy outbursts were to be. ex-
pected but hat he would come to a. crimi.
nal act OF the bla krst-that he would one
coolest sort of calculation over the deed. no
one thought possible any moro than the
mother and sister. father and brother even
now he ieve 1t true. =,
II was when he was twentv-three years OLD
and was getting along indiferently as q so
llcitor tina Hugh Brooks made his most I'M
fortunate sally from home.
He was tired of the ties that bound u
and of the familiar scenes about him. He
would she the world. In pursuance of this
re olive he left his home Jan. 10, 1885, and on
Feb. 8 he was on board the steamer Cepha-
lonia, from Liverpool, bound for New York.
HE FIRST MEETS PRELLER.
On that vessel he fell in with @. Arthur
Preller, n young man of something over
thirty years, a travelling salesman, going TO
of Bradford. Prelter was of o sensitive,
aesthetic nature. feeling deeply in religious
matters, passionately fond of music, and only
too rea y to discuss with an appreciative
found such a friend, apparently, in Brooks;
but he knew HIM OUR ns Walter II. Lennox
Maxwell, for that was TIL name Brooks gave
TO Preller, and to the salesman Hugh repre-
seated that lie was u physician.
AS The days and the ship went on the init
macy of Preller md Maxwell grew
SIR Tiger and stronger. They were So
dom apart. They talked on all manner of
questions. Preller serious y and sens,ti ely,
Maxwell with bright, some lines flippant,
words and a tendency to turne sober thought
to a jest.
The pas sage over. the two young men kept
up their intimacy, Maxwell losing no oppor-
tunity to bind him elf more firmly IN the
regard of his late fellow-traveller. From
New York they went to Boston together.
Maxwell there made a. pretence. OF look ng
for a body upon which to make medical
experiments, but according to all reports he
made much more progress in a course of
filtration carried on will the young ladies
at the Wa 'hington street boarding. house
which accommodated himself and Preller.
CONTINUING THE FATAL
The salesman made q business tour of New
York, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Buffalo, To.
went Maxwelrs letters followed him: These
epistles always begin with My Dear Ar
thur" and they dealt very infinitely with his
daily life. They old of his lack of funds,
might be pure hased mt reasonable figures.
In one of them it was intima ed that a trip
to Australia would suit the writer very
much. -,
Maxwell finally, went back to New York
and then set out again, reaching st. Louis
and registering at the Southern Hotel March
81.
Preller went to Cincinnati aud then came
to st. Louis April 8. going to the same hotel
with his friend. The two were then as in.
innate as ever. They played billiards to.
gether, visited each others ROOM, seemed to
have everything IN common
On sunday, April 8, Maxwell bought some
cbloroform at a drug store. writing. a pre-.
trunk. a teld-glass, a new hat, a ticket to
San Francisco. and in several other ways
spent a considerab 9 sum of money. In buy.
ing the ticket he gave the lame OF ii. M.
Brooks. That night he left the hotel, saying
as he went away that his friend PIeller had
gone into the country, but he would be back
in n few days.
MaxwelIs baggage when he came to the
covered trunk and a couple OF hanl-.atchel
Preller had several sample trunks and q
va Use. When Maxwell lef. he took the can.
vas tlunk. a hat-box and q yalise.
THE MYSTERY BEGINS.
On Tuesday, April IA, the odor in room IA
at the Southern caused an investigation.
There were Two trunks in the room, the zinc
covered trunk aud the one Maxwell had
bought before leaving. The st. Louis trunI
was on top Of he ether. When. the zinc,
covered trunk was opened a dead body,
dressed IN only q pair OF drawers. was found
in it. with the notice: $50 perish all traitors
to the great cause"
Immediately inqu'r nv was made for w. H
Lennox Maxwell, the maj who had occupied
the room. He was tuced to San Francisco.
During his jou ney across the pla ms he had
gone by the ames of Perry Reed Tewfk and
j &. d., Auquer.
Under this name he registered at the Palace
Holel on April II. The next dav he bough,
q steerage ticket for Auckland on the steamer
City of Sydney, aud on April 81 Chief HarrI
gan sent q cablePram to Consul Gable Of
Auckland ordering the arrest of Maxwell fol-
murder. The steamer arrived on May 8, ant
Maxwell was arrested and committed TO tn,
Auckland jail. On May 25 the extrad ,tioI
papers were made out, and on June 6 Detec
lives Tracy and Badger left for Auckland witt
papers. The. prisoner was turned
over to them, and OF the 2lst Of July the,
sailed for home on the Zelandia. arriving il
San Francisco on Aug. 10 and in st. Louis oil
Aug. l6.