Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-06-30


tectives got on the trail of the MUIR
derer, and he was arrested on the ar
rival of his ship at Auckland and
brought back to St Louis. While in
Jail he employed two lawyers to de-
fend him, and it was then that came
into the case.
A few days after Brookes had been
lodged in jail Mr.. Ashley G. Glover,
circuit attorney of st. Louis, and his
assistant. Marshall F. Mcdonald, drove
out to my residence. 1 was then spe-
cial agent for the Missouri Pacific
Railroad company, and my visitors
were well known to me.
"Furlong," said Mr.. Glover, cit
looks as though Brookes will go free
How is that?" asked.
Because" replied the other, while
there is scarcely any doubt that Max
well caused the death of Preller by
chloroform, yet he may have done it
innocently, and If such is the case
he could not be convicted of the MUIR
der. Now, Tom, / want you to get
the facts in this case for me-"
l asked for day to think the mat
ter over, to which suggestion they
agreed. When my visitors returned
/ said:
Gentlemen, / have been thinking
about the case In question, and have
become satisfied that there were but
two persons who knew the whole facts
connected with the case. One of these
persons is now in jail, and the other
Is dead. In my opinion Maxwell is
the only living person who Knows the
facts, and therefore he is the only
person from whom these facts can be
obtained. / believe l can get these
facts from him. l shall be glad to do
anything that I can to assist you in
unraveling this case, with the under
standing that am not to receive any
compensation for what / do myself,
but / expect you gentlemen to pay
the operative that / may use in this
work the same amount of salary that
we are paying him, and his actual ex-
penses."
This being agreed, telegraphed to
Philadelphia for man in my employ
there named John McCulloch, truth.
full, honest man, but a little thick.
headed: just the man who would in
| terpret his instructions to the letter
and carry them out in this way
which was what / wanted.
l began by obtaining possession OF
a few blank checks from the office OF
ID. S. II. Smith, who was local treas.
urer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
| company in st. Louis. My chief clerk
was a good penman, and / set him tC
practice until he could not only initiate
| Doctor Smiths signature, but could
initiate it just badly enough to arouse
| suspicion in the mind of a bank cash
Ter. | next had my clerk fill out 6
blank check for the amount o.
$1,18S.10 This check / gave to Nc
Culloch, instructiEg him to present i
to the paying teller of the Mechanics
bank, which was then on Fourth
street. l had received genuin,
check from DIR. Smith few days be
fore, and had purposely held this out
i and was waiting across the stree
from the bank when McCulloch, VIII,
is now to be known as Frank Ding
felter, entered to cash the forge,
check. AS soon as Dingfelter entere,
the bank followed him.
The paying teller examined tn
check curiously, and then, seeing me
excitedly motioned to me to com
: to the window. AS / approached, tn
: teller, In an excited voice, commando,
| me to arrest Dingfelter. HE has pre-
scented large fake check bearing tn
name Of DR.. Smith, for nearly twelv
. hundred dollars" he said. why, 20,
7 know DR.. Smiths signature"
Eyes. Here is one of DR.. Smith
, checks" I answered. 81 know this /
genuine, for saw the doctor sign it..