The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 26, 1886, Page 2

a MAXWELL'S ; CONFESSION. o> The Great Mystery of the Southern convers Trank Murder Explained. Hotel +0 mee - According to the Criminal the Crim: Was Committed Professionally. As a Friend and Physician he Doped Preller With Chloroform. ~00--- St. Louis, Mo., Post-Dispatch this afternoon prints a statement by H. M. Br alias Maxwell, now on tri murder of C. Arthur Prel will canstitute the de May 18.--The de fence and which will be urged most by his attorneys in the The statement was made to John J Jennings, the present.city editor of the Post-Dispstch, and it has been approved by Brooks’ attorneys. Mr, Jennings premises th ment with some remarks, the ciict points of which are Maxwell’s explanation of t of Preller is his only detense. explanation was ma n iting ¢t his attorneys, Messrs. Martin aud Fauntleroy, many months ago, and Maxwell will go on the witness stand and repeat it. along UNPURDEN and allow his actions previous to and after the crime declarations. that he neither premeditated or tried concealment from the mo Southern tor S He said his desire a nto HIMSELF rad TO THE PUBLi to substantiate his These actions a crit ment of his arrival at the hotel until lus departure Francisco. Every every word of his has been the prop- in act and almos erty of the public, and these acts and these words torm the stro: in the chain of circumstances which st links they have forged to hold the culprit to his crime. The only act, said Maxwell, about which there bas been any doubt all has been the act of which L am now accused. I recognize now as much as anybody that I made a mi- take in withholding my detense, but what could I do? im a strange world Iwas here aloue with no one to advise me but my counsel and I fol- lowed the advice they gave me to the letter. The attorneys for the de- fense will not deny the identity of | s 2 the remains, but will acknowledge | the death of Preller at Maxwell’s| hands, and insist that the death was | due to accident arising trom circum. stances whith Preller himself had amvited. The following is BROOKS’ STATEMENT: Mr. Preller was suttering from a private disease for which I had pre- viously prescribed, mixing the medi- cines myselt from the bottles in the medicine case I carried with But his ailment had reached a stage when it was necessary for me to make certain investigations. I was a catherte. In using arts Were applied me. obliged to use a catherte, when the _ flamed, 1 had in previously chloroform in order to produce a | condition of narcotism, I ehlorotorm in this manner on a man named Harrison in Liverpool with out serious resuits. | process to Mr. Preller and told him plained what I should have to do. He was| details of the Sunday occurrence in| preparation, S. S. S. May 17 —The not only willing but was very anxious | 20m 144, Southern Hotel, but the Gratefully Meriwether hotel furnished a deci- for me to treat him in this manner, | attorneys retused to give a written Sipney Herzert. ded sensation at 2 0’clock this atter- Duting the day I purchased tour| Statement; and by their advice Treatise on Blood and Skin dis- | noon. Sergeant-atearms Jenkins, of ounces of chloroform which was} Brooks declined to say any more, | eases mailed free. ! the senate. and his son William were standing in a bottle on the edge of | According to his own story the cut- Tue Swirt Speciric Co., Drawer | seated ata table together, when a my wash stand when I was washing some surgical instruments. This | washing of instruments took place Monday afternoon and was intended AS a preparation tor the operation. In washing the instruments I over- turned the ROTTLE OF CHLOROFORM nt headlong into a bas out and all but about one ounce and a quarter or an eunce and a halt going down in the sunk. This robably 3 o’clock, and after getting my instruments ready I went to secure some went to the} drug store. I don’t know where, | but the store was near the hotel (Ferrows) and L asked for the chlo- roform. 7 clerks or some persons there have said that I wes excited! and in ahurrv, This was not so. 1 sat down and it w the cork coming was p out more chloroform. I used | j that this as only a synopsis of the full = business, for there was no hurry A Good Thing. | Ev-President Arthur's Condition. my business, 10) " . . ss A i «olla, eae a ae es Se I a not mistaken, I had a long On one occasion Charles D New York, May 17.—Ex-Presi pau Naas ry that v -| dent Arthur’s co has been was upholding the the ever trials and difficulties might st is always Let ome one in the steadily growing worse store ie i past week, but he has form I ic so far as to have e of the triends be- | e better had commenced About 5 ps un. we THE OPERATION dechne, since red the I administe > holdir > boldar bell of St. Sepulchre’s t g a saturated clo who now | the convicts were BENNETT, W HLER & IN THE—— ram Wagoy, el Gear JEALERS Celebrated Mitchel Cortland Ste to the nose. Preller passe« pe : a hee 1 | cession was torme to | believe the ex-president will | tated rl er a I | 1 e _j| ever again leave his house alive. | uly i 3 ab al . a ¥ L. : Fey y } > 1 gradual de- | . K a s ” tca - : t physi- Halliday Standard hey ! | them with ee Si a ; pest i ene Peas sever | CE’ GTA BD HOTS Go a Te! meg £ ne eae cane } 1 2 and Iron Suction or Force fe virt and un rt from t ‘ red the mob rig a arawale, | Groceries, | cpu Wood work more. I did not giye up Iwa 2 ie a if Glu | i} q ready to drop n exhaustion and -} con nent patien He age DEES | : Spee : my efforts were not relaxed until he , | and know! as he does, the hope- Tron Steel, N alls, &C. 4 Yo rthneast corners been me time lessness ; makes the labor All the clothes he had tou 55 el epee a Sts square, Butler ) Mo. . time were his shirt and | po by his gentleness and un- i = a 3 ah ic 2 giles ie ' E : —_ = poet TL TT SIE SS SE CIR WY) tdid f TIT szy | ne pie t oe o% May 17.—To- ee eae nee | ot te World’s Regs s s city was sold out ank everythin treely, the suit of numer- se © “| through which we pass, and so sat could get, wine, Whiskey, every 5 2 ; mies g é coulis aecr ss sie hurned reac ing, you do not see | ous creditors. Some of the asse‘s Seis beaugies of the literature ibeen sold several weeks ago, WV Gat were my pecans And what is the next re-j but to-day the great buildings were Thad eek any. All I } sult? Itas that, as you do not ap-| closed out. The terms ot sale were bt gece ao dt nates ies 2 s, the beauties | twelve ‘months credit with interest at Gee ae yey eon are no longer created for you. Style | five per cent. The main building, and put the body into my trunk, | «fers because readers read too fast | c overing thirty acres of land, con- from which I had removed ever;- |} I put it in the trunk an hour taining 30 the 1s becoming mor 4,000,000 feet of lumber and skylights style, | thing. glass windows and after Preller’s death, What wa < : ; E — 5 4 : | rare. Some men there built at a cost of over $500,000, was done besides this 1 have no recol-j ; : ee Fes 1 | gainst the slov knocked down at $9,050, and the id consternatt lection — Liqa \ government building, covering eleven for $4,100. The bought by a local and will had possession of me. only was sold iknew acres, ys were buildings were {most horror, I remd be wrecked. é ‘ eration. Speaking gener speculator rooms that night, the same room ae as be sales of The total proceeds of the -class style in literature 1, ana seri which the remains were S were weakenec sut $85,000. tor >to say not. I | would be a he for 1 did | by the extraording | slept egy everybody ts anxious to read. when morning ca and 4 | Another Coachman Happy. j after leaving my room you know, | A Maiter of titude. { New York, May 17.—Grace | for it has all been printed. Months ago I a oc to | Morse, a great niece of old Commo- “Was a catheter found among} publicly tes to the ratyye | dore Vanderbilt, ran away with her | vour medical instruments ?”” properties of Swift’s Specific in the coachman to-day and was married. | treatment ot m which The Morse family are in I | good circumstances, in Tarrytown, N. Y. and moving in “PE don’t know, [carried some of eumatism, fr s away in a valise and | J haa suffered for several years. living+in_ style | my instrume | threw them into the Pacitic.’”’ am again constrained to bear testi- Had you any plans about disposing | mony to the virtue of this famous | the first circles. ‘The coachman’s | of the body?” medicine in the treatment of another | name 1s Geo. Minton. His father “None whatever. I meant to leave | and quite a different disease. has been sentenced tor burglary. Dunng my late visit to the north] | The tamily is in extremely poor cir- malarial | Cumstances and live in an unsavory at times my recovery was | Quarter of the city. He drove Mr. At this period and Mrs. Morse to the depot, where of | they took a train tor New York, and it there expecting that it would be discovered sooner than it was, and thinking that a post mortem would | fever, and reveal the true state ot facts, that} extremely doubttul. Preller had met his death while | of my sickness, however, a copy undergoing such an operation as I} an Atlanta paper came to hand in | 0°? his return found Miss Morse which was a certificate from some | @Waitng him. He then picked up person who had used with success | * Companion as a witness and pro- ceeded toa minister’s, where they was stricken down with have designated."’ **How about Preller’s money ?’’ I asked. Swift’s Specific in a similar case. “LT know nothing about Preller’s | EH; a bottle with me, Limmedi- | Were united and then left tor parts money. I had plenty of money] ately commenced taking it, and [| unknown. Miss Morse, now Mrs. ot my own or I could not} am proud to say that good results Minton, is 22 years old, highly edu- have made the long trip that I did.” | followed at once. I then procured | cated and attractive and has been Mr. Jennings closed by stating}a few bottles trom Boston, and] Much courted. Minton 1s 23 years 1 continued to take three doses daily | of age- hands of | until Trecovered my heal = all the written statement in the Fired at His Father. Ky. Brooks’ counsel, which gives a result largely due to tha anktort. ting off ot Preller’s moustache, the | 3, Atlanta, Ga., or 157 W. 23d St., | dispute arose between them about | | ia x chair in the store tor | Wite died from exposure and waat, more than a quarter of an hour, and | 22d he isa bad character in every was altogether very leisurely about [feepect. inscription about ‘traitors’ found | N. Y. some trivial matter. William Jen- in the trunk and all the other pe : kins 1s cloak-room-ke 3 : her queer) jyemorests “Magazine for June 5 a eens Vas OL ARE incidents connected with the tragedy |. ¢,, me senate. His father became anger - i a his li > : is filled with an unusual array ot ae k aah Willi are to be attributed to his li j : ed ata remark made by rs ns Nquor ane | interesting articles. Jenny June ? 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