The St. Louis Murderer.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5109, 2 June 1885, Page 2

The St. Louis Murderer.

American papers to hand contain which T. C. DAugwer, the French Brigadier, assumed by Walter H. Lennox Maxwell was arrested in Auckland Ausuier, it^ appears, murdered his friend and comrade C. Arthur Prelle?, at St. Louis, and hid the remaUw in i trWk

The following telegrams relate to the crime.

New Yoke,•• April 19. Tbe Times pays : Preller's cousin id this city, Frank Schiesingpr, telegraphed yesterday to the Rev. Dr Brooks, of Sfc Louis, asking him t© see (hat Preller's body was properly cared for and placed in a recehing vault until he can send further instructions. Scblesinger cabled also to Preller's father, in London, and to his employer in Bradford, and he will await instructions from them before taking any further 6tcps in the maHer. " All doubts Ihad yesterday," said Schles inger, " about the body found in the truck being my cousin's have been removed. I am convinced (hat he is dead, and that Maxwell murdered him for his money. Trailer left this city with sereral hundreddollar bills. I saw them. The hundred dollar bill which Maxwell offered at the railroad ticket office undoubtedly came from my cousin's pocket. I hare received a despatch from San Franci6co informing me that Preller did Dot sail on the steamer he bad arranged to take, while I see by the papers that Maxwell did do s y Why Maxwell should ha?e murdered my cousin for his money I cannot imagine. Preller was warm hearted and liberal to his friends; undoubtedly he would have loaned Maxwell the money he required to make tbe journey. It seems to me that Maxwell has not done a very shrewd thing in carrying out the plans that had been arranged beforehand, and wilh which Preller's friends were thoroughly familiar. If he bad come to New York and taken a steamer from here no one^ would bare known him. Tbe man had ne?er been in tbe city in his life." Frank Schlesinger, of the firm of H. Kalenbach | & Co., is a cousin of Preller and has been ferj intimate with him. Schlesinger took charge of Preller's letters while he was trarelling and forwarded them to him on request. Before he bade his cousin goodbye Preller spoke of Maxwell and said that he had arranged to meet him in St. Louis on April 4th. It is remembered that! young Maxwell was in Chicago about I*o months. He called at one of the newspaper offices and confessing himself ] " dead broke," proposed to write for the papers to earn sufficient money to defray his hotel bill. He is believed to have remained here but; a few days. A cir cumstance which illustrates the fact that C. Arthur Preller, who was murdered by his room mate, Maxwell, in St. Louis, intended coming to San Francisco, is that fite letters hare been awaiting him here in the Post-office since the 12th inst. Three of the letters were from England, and post marked Oxford, London, and Stoke Newing respectively.