THE PRELLER MURDER.
v|r Jno. Lamb has received the* following :onoevning tbo Preller murder from a frigid n> Ss. Louis : "Maxwell utrived here under ihe care of Trtfdy and ' Badgef, and T had ntended aeeiagTracy* but the pour fellow tmd such an uncomfortable passage that; he ms not been down town since, and, I have not had time to go to the gaol. Prom what the Chief of Police tells me, you were very kind to him. and I thank you wry muoh. Your papers reached me. in tue course, and I was very muoh obliged or them 1 have sent you a copy of one f our daily papers (l( l Republican '), which -vill phow you particularly, amongst other flings, that we have got the right man, \s douHlea* you will gee these papers .in phape, I will not particularise about r,he fe lowe confesnions, but at»k you, in a juiet Sc teh way, to compire what your vuckland paptr-" did with what we Yankee £< -ahead pe><pe did here — printing, as our .Mly pape.s did. not. only piciuiea ot 'he prisoner, etc., but. also of y«-ur Eden Gaol, and your different police offi ters, sheriff, etc. When this sooundielV •rial comes iff I will send you a full report of the proceedings. The attorney he has engaged (to show you how abtl tv* n the.-c United States) was once a teuinster, inter a small salesman, and t-ince then he nan been a member of the State I egislature. nnd ha« now blossomed out into a first-class criminal lawyer."
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 125, 24 October 1885, Page 5
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