AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7178, 2 June 1885, Page 3

AMERICA.

The headless body of an English gentleman, registered as C. Arthur Preller, London, England, was found in a trunk in an hotel at St. Louis on the 13th of April. When the trunk was opened the body of a middle-aged man was disclosed. The body was so doubled about the hips and knees that it filled the receptacle. On the side of the trunk over the head of the corpse were printed in large letters the words, "So perish all traitors to the great cause." The body presented a horrible aspect, and was in an advanced stage of decomposition. The personal effects in the murdered [man's trunk indicate that the owner was a gentleman of means and culture. His room mate, Walter A. Lennox Maxwell, who is accused of the murder, is also an Englishman. One Farnham Maxwell, rssiding on an estate at Drummull, in Ireland, has disappeared, and the only clue the detectives have is that he left San Francisco, disguised, by the steamer City of Sydney. He is described as being a very girlishlooking blonde young man, hia face cleanly shaven, with his light sandy hair banged, and no parting at all. His eyes are light blue. He is very effeminate in his manner, carrying this so far as to walk with a short mincing step, like a woman's. A cablegram has been sent to Auckland for his apprehension if he be a passenger by the City of Sydney. Notwithstanding that the police officers are following this clue there is after all some doubt as to their being on the right track. The name under' which Maxwell took passage on the steamer was Danguier. The whole case is involved in obscurity. Preller, the murdered man, was a member of an [English sect called Plymouth Brethren, and of a temperament strongly religious. The latest telegrams from New Zealand state that Maxwell has been arrested, and the necessary papers for his extradition will go forward by the Australia.