THE ST. LOUIS MURDER.
: ■' [Per Press Association.] ';; Auckland, Monday. San Francisco papers refer to themystorious 'St. Louis 'murder,'for which Dangier was arrested here on the" City of Sydnoy on the alleged charge of committing it. The headless body of an English gentleman-registered as 0. Arthur Preller, London, was found in a 'trunk in the St. Louis Hotel on the 13th April, When the trunk was opened, the body of a middle aged man was found doubled up in it, On one side of the trunk and over the head of the corpse was printed in largo letters the wordß," So perish all traitors to a great cauße." The body presented an horrible aßpect, and was in.an advanced state of decomposition. The personal effects in the murdered man's trunks indicate the owner was a gentleman of means and culture His Bworn mate was Walter A. Lennox Maxwell, who is accused of tho murder. He is also an Englishman, and was once residing on an estate at Drummillion, Ireland. He has disappeared, and the dotectiveshave, learned that he left San Francisco in disguise on the steamer City of Sydney under the name of Dangier Prellpr.. Sv ,The. t murder^od,man belonged to raksfßous •tfoo* i«fe&t LAND... '""^'
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5183, 2 June 1885, Page 3
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203THE ST. LOUIS MURDER. Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5183, 2 June 1885, Page 3
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