THE ST. LOUIS MURDER. (Special to Press Association.) New York, August 10.
The execution of Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, took place to-day at San Francisco. Maxwell, the murderer, who was executed to-day at San Francisco, confessed to. the crime, but complained that he had been, treated with injustice. [Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, ifc will be remembered, after the murder made his way to-New Zealand, and was captured at Auckland some three years ago. The victim, a young ■Englishman named Preller, was on a visit to St. Louis, and ho was murdered at an hotel, the murderer placing tho body in a trunk and then decamping.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 9
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107THE ST. LOUIS MURDER. (Special to Press Association.) New York, August 10. Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 9
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