EXECUTION OF MAXWELL. HIS CONFESSION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 4

EXECUTION OF MAXWELL. HIS CONFESSION.

Sii Sack\ille W e^b, l>iitUh .Minister at YVa-hington, had picscnted to (io\cmor Mot chouse, of Missouu, the itquest ol his Uo\ eminent that a respite of filty days be granted the numleier Maxwell, a/« JBiooks, in order that a thotough inquiry might be made into the fact-. M>rrouiiding the case. Two law) ci-, Me-si-. Fauntleiy and Mait'n, for the pusoner, appealed before the (Jo\ernoi on August 6th in suppoi t of the reque-i, and wete i itlier testily tieated b) His Kxcellcn-x, whe -aid he wa= died tutling with the ca-c. The lawyeis objected io the lemaik, and hope I he would, do hi- duty in the case, as they had endca\ouicd to do then-. On Augu&b 9th, (Joxemor Moi chouse ga\e his hnal answer in the case, refusing fuither to postpone the execution. When appiUed of the fact that nothing could save him, Maxwell betiajed veiy little feeling, but his mother and si-ter weic completely crushed. Ho was hanged on Friday moming, Augu-t 10th, at 0.45. His la-st day on earth \\ab i>as;od in the same cool, nnconecined manner -which charaeteii->ed hi^, \\ hole life in gaol, with the exception of a bnet inlei\al. That exception \\a a when vSherilt Hauington bi ought the new - that the (iONCinoi had lefused to lnfcerfeie any furbher. At that time the little chloiofoimei was engaged in playing his- favounte game or dominoe* with the deputj. When the slieutt enteied, Maxwell Waited to hi> feet, and bieithle=sly asked, '"Whats the newb '*' The sheiiti announced the Go\emoi\ decision, and then foi the hieb time well ga\e way. Hoarsely mutteiing, "It b allo\ci, then !' he staggeied thiough the dooiwayof the cell, Uuno hims-clf on his cob, and turn in <r his f ice to the wall, sobbed without restiaint. His final lea\e taking | of hw mother and sistci was mo-t affecting, and phoibly aftei waids he wiote out an address to hi- English countiymcn compla'ning bliab hi- tnnl hid nob been fairl^' conducted. Spintual eon-alation w\i> adminisbiatedby aCatholic cleig)man, Father Tihan, the pii-oner iiavmg embiacul that faibh some fifteen month-) ago. Maxwell was \ery self possessed, and smoked a cigaiette leflccthely just befoie hi-, death. He was deatlily pale w lien he walked to the gallows, wheie he v <is hanged in company with another muideicr named Landgrat. Tlie latter becime motionle-.-almost with the fall of the dio[), bub Maxwell's body twitched and jerked for o\cr twehe minute-, and fro>n a cut on the face, caused by the lope being drawn o\erhihead, a stream of blood tiickled down and' diopped on the flooi. Hb body wa- i^mo\cd to the moigue, where it was photogiaplied.

MAXWELL'S STATEMENT. On the 12th of last Februaiy Maxwell wiote out a complete statement of the facto concerning his own life and the manner in which he became acquainted with Preller, a d how the latter came by hid death. It was a long document and was unique in a ceitain wav, inasmuch as the muiderei sought to &how that J'rellei'b death was di'c to an accident), and was nob the icsult of a fiendish desire on Maxwell's part to murder him. It wa=< wiitten in a rather sensational -style, and had a \ein of plausibility running through it which might favourably impiess one who was not familiar with the appaient. iacts of the case. After stating all about hi=> first meeting with Pieller on the steamer Cephalonia, Maxwell gave the details of the journey to St. Touis, and the incidents which occurred alter ai riving in that city up to the fatal night. Jic then we;ib on to say as follows regard ins; iYeller's death : On Satin day night it was arranged that I should pa^& the cathetei next day. The arrangement was puiely accidental. I do nob know which of us broached the subject, but I think I began the conversation by saying something about the dreaiiness ot Sunday. Then came the query, How should we pass the day ? and I cannot for the life of me now be certain whether it was I who spoke of pei forming the operation, or whether it was Mr Pieller who .suggested it. At any rate, thcie was no d^fay in coming to an understanding, and before we parted that night 1 told Mr Preller chat I would purchase the chloroform in the morning and go to his loom and perform the operation. He .said no, to wait until he came downstairs to breakfast, when I could perform it in my 100 m. That was about all the talk we had concerning it afc that time. Next day I vent to Furnow's drugstore, and pin chased four ounces of chloroform. I feel confident, when I got the drug that I told Fernow that I was goinn- to use it in a slight operation. Mr Fernow, though, does nob remember having heard me make any such slafcement; and, in-

deed, ho may bo right, despite my conviction to tho contrary. I took the chloroform to my room, and when Mr Preller came down to my room lie had on his dress-ing-gown, and woro no coat or vest. After exchanging greetings ho walked over to tho washstand, and baking* up the chloroform bottle, said: " I sco you've got it." I said yets, and he took out the cork and cautiously an i fled the contents. "Don't be at'iaid of it," I said banteringly "it wont knock you down — it's not ammonia."

PREPARING 1 FOR THE OPERATION Then he put it again lo his noso and re marked that it had an unpleasant odour ; he also letnarked it-3 colourlessness and askcl me what tho quantity was. .1 anbwerecl him four ounces, and ho look up the Ericsson, which was lying on the top. ! of my ti unk, ami turned over its pages. He asked me how much I thought he could stand and I told him that I didn't know — that if was never known how much any man could s>iand until he had demonstrated his capacity foi it. I again explained tho manner of administration, and pointed out the parogiiiph in Eucsson which treated of the method of. administering chlorofoim. It was between 3 and 4 o'clock when Mr l*i oiler stripped lot the opciation. He removed his dressing-gown and his trouseis and diawoi\-=, and I turned aside the counterp'ine of the bed that he might lie down. His only clothing now was his oversiuit and undeishiil. I must here remind you that it is an established fact, known entirely to the medical haternity, and to many outside of it, that chloiotui m cannot bo administeied to an} one against his will. E\on wheie there is a v\ilhngne-.b on the pai t of tho patient to iecei\c the drug thcic is a ccttain of its inllueneo wheie the individual tights again-t its ollocts, and oUen stout men aic leqimed to hold a patient at this moment It, cannot be administered to a sleeping poison because it will awaken him. Superintendent Walling, of the New Voik police, in hib iccently - published book on the ciimiuaW of New Yoik, lays it down as a positive mie that when anybody tolls a story about being chloioformcd in h -5 bleep and lobbed you may eotlnm dow n atonce as a fraud. In saj ing this hobimply clothed in popular tei ms an <i\iom of medical science. It is well known that you cannot ehloioloim an unwilling pei"on sleeping or waking. This being the case, how, do } ou imagine, could 1, physically Mi I'rellei's interior, compel him to accept chloiofoi m lion 1 my hand.' It io self-e\i-dent that li 9 mutt ha\o been a party to tho pioccedmg — that he must have submitted to its administiation — and, nioic impottant thanalleisc, thathemust ha\ehadan inducement or a icasou for taking the chloiorotin. Thus, up to the \ery moment when my fiiend died 1 can j :s=Lify every step 1 took, c\eiy act of that clay.

TiLIC OVERTURNED BOTTLE. Mi Pieller.- head and shouldets weie lusting woll upon the pillow-. 1 pouted about a diaehm ot ehloiotorm upon a folded napkin which I held in my hand. J. ponied it o\er the washstand bjwl, and leplaeing Lho bottle upon the uiaible .-tand, which was wot ftom the washing of the catheter, can led the napkin to the bcdcide and held it about t>i\ inches iiom Mr I'iollei » lace ami told him to bieathe in a natural manner. The t-upply of the cliloiofoim on the napkin was quickl} exhausted, and when 1 went back to the wa&hstund to iepleni*h it I found the bottle lying- on its side and ncaily empty. 1 had accidentally knocked it over or placed it itieccuiely. I picked it up, but sa\ed only "\eiy, very little of the cbloiofonn. I then went to Fcmow's diug-stoie and obtained owo ounces of chloroform. Mr Feinow bays 1 wj.> nenous und excited and said I wanted all the chloiofoim ho could give me. I fear vciy much that it was Mi' Fetnow himself who was nervous and excited. It i» lidiculous to assert that I e\er made =uch a silly demand. I neihier a-ked for all he had nor tor all he could Wasn't it ju^t a^ easy ior mo to ask for a specified quantity .' And this i- what I did. I pm chased two ounces of chlorofoiin. lam pocithc that I said to Mr Fernow in c\planation ot my second purchase that I had lost my Ih^t ehloi'jfoim by spilling, but he Iris cither foigotten ie or he never heaid my lemaik. At all e\ents the fact f-tancU Mippoited, strengthened and nia^mliccntly magnified l>y the coi loboiati\e e\idence otUied by the piosccution that I appealed in Femou's diug.^toie twice on that Sunday, and each time pui chased a quantity of chloioform— the fir^t time foiu ounces, the second time two ounce-. What do you think of the capacity tor cool-headed \ lllainy of the assassin, piepaimg ior a co\eit crime, who, usin<r chloiofoim with deadly intent, goes tsvice to the same ttore, and, even according to Mv Fci now 's e\idence, imites all possible attention to l.imselt and to hi^ acquisition of the diugV do you think of the minder - evolvei who makes a torchlight pioce-bion of his plans and methods instead of .secretly working in the dark, a-s other a*&a <! &in < 3 do? 1^ it nob preposteious to &ay that theic is suspicion or excuse for plot in any or all of these movements of mme '! If I went about doing a murder in this waj . was I not as gieat a fool as the man who sends word to another that he will kill him at .sight? Y\ ould it not have been less tioublcsome and more '-uccpspful to ha\c pin chased space in a newspaper and di&playf ully advei tised my intention ? And these arc the open day light acts, which, by skilful conjuiing, have been made into links for the chains I wear. The cupels in which the metal that compo-es them was reduced had been chaimed by public prejudice. Jt is just as easy for y^u to take this sameset ot ciicumstances and weave them into blood-curd-ing clues, all ledolent ot the odour of cume and tracking me to the reddcbt iccesses of assassination : perhaps it might be easier than it i& for me to make my plain statement of them and uige my feeble arguments in their behalf.

THE DEATH. Kindly pardon, I pray you, these nunior ou^ digiesaions, but in my anxiety to ju&tify my&elt in your sight and in the .sight ot otherri. I cannot Jielp waudcrieg into argumentative bypaths 'and endeavouring, at least to show that the things which I did without any attempt at di^gut&e of concealment ha\c been misjudged, and, consequently, must have been misiepiesenled and miscolourcd ; they certainly have been held up as deeds planned and executed in the datk, and I leave it to yourself: as a man to £>ay, after having read thus far, whether they are capable of Mich a construction ov deserve such a misapplication, I returned to my room at the hotel. j\J r JJrollcrJ J rolIcr was frtill on the bed. I romoved my coat and prepared the napkin. 1 moistened tho rapkin and hold it again six or eight inches I'iom his face. My friend was soon under the influence. T went to the washstand, and looking over tho catheters sclec"ed one. I inserted it in the urethra or channel about an inch, when I noticed that my friend winced. This was evidence to mo that he Avas not completely under Iho influence, and I poured tome chloioform on the handkerchief again and held it for a half minute or so within six or eight inches of his nose. I had not used an ounce of the drug, and was flattering myeelf over the success and ease with which I had administered it. 1 started to nse tho catheter again when I

was sfcartlod by a sudden sound of stertorous breathing --a deep guttural-like snore— and I immediately pub the catheter aside and went fco my fiiend's head. Stortorous broathing is a warning of danger, and the first thing to bo done when the hard breathing begins is to lower the patient's head. This I did. I took tho pillows from under Mr Preller's head and allowed it fco fall back. Soeii.g that this had no effect and that the breathing grew all the harder, I got alarmed.

CUTTING OFF THE SHIRTS. Taking a &mall curved surgical sensors out of my case,! cut ofl' his shift and undershirt, cutting tlic garments as a surgeon would have done so as to expobc tho largest possible surface of the skin to the action of the atmosphere. The cut garments show that I did this. Then I rubbed him vigorously and next took a wet towel .and slapped his brea t with it. I put forth every cflort to gave him. 1 woikcd strenuously and unceasingly for more than threequarters of an hour plying that towel and shaking and rubbing him. E\cry muscle trembled with excitement and exertion. J was in nfo\crot bewilderment. My emotion*, overwhelmed my judgment. 1 stink exhausted and fi ightencd in a chair beside the bed, but not until my friend had long been dead. Why did I not call for help ? My (iod ! I wish I had. Why did I not puil open the door and rush into the corridor at that moment and proclaim myself innocent. 1 ' Could 1 not have done so? lfad my purpo-e been murder as a preface to robbcuy could 1 not ha\o .secured my booty and called in the hotel people to look at my dead triend and tell them that his death was the result of an accident? Had I been cool and calculating, in tho po^ession of my faculties and with a campaign of muidci 1 and lobbeiy already carehilly de\ ised, would it not have been peifceily snie for me to ha\ c made away with the money first and then come boldly loiwaid with my excuse for an explanation of the death ? I did not call for help. 1 did not oiler any excuse. And why 1 ' Not because I knew 1 had not planned a mnrdei and robbery- for thought of such thing" was \oiy remote from my mmd — not because I war innocent of any cnine, and felt my innocence, but because! was in a deliiium of excitement, and gave moic immediate thought to the loss of my fiieud than 1 did to my own danger. 1 cannoo explain my condition oi desciibo it. My brain was burning, ray every ncr\o throbbing, my oen-es wcic in a whiil of giicf and woiry ; I knew not w hat 1 did. 1 sat theio and in de^paii contemi)lated the lifele^-, ligmc ot my iriend. Would to (Jou somebody had come in and roused me from my horror-stricken condition ! Would to Liod that the man Ko e s, who said he was in the acijoiuingroom and heaid noises, had bui"tin the door and come to my rescue ! But nobody came, and with senses paialysed and my own life seemingly wrecked in tho wiock of my friend's I kept my seat, fairly enchanted with honor.

FR K i IITEXED A X D LLQUOR-CR \VA\. I>. They talk of plans. Meiciful Saviour, uheie weic thc> then ? L'laiis ! Mans ! Any plan would ha\e sa\ed and set me light, but [ had none, not c\en the feeblest plan that the most iynoianb mnideier might have de\iecd. T was at Lhc mercy of the ciicunistances and ot my feelings, and when I awoke to a keen sense of my position, the ideas of Amciica which 1 had imbibed horn Dickens lose before me like warning shadows., and stood between me and the dooi through which I might have walked that afternoon into the pine, bright light of innocence. Analyse my physical condition if you can, with sonow and its attending- emotions weighing down upon me at one side and the grim spectic of mob-law, as my ill-trained fancy painted it, using menacingly at the other. A& I ha\e said a hunched tunes, I did not know that an acrused pcicon could testify in his own behalf in this- country. I had a deepfonnded conception that a man who took another s hie \vas dealt with and disposed ot \ciy summaiil} , and that J udge L> nch was the piinciual magistrate of the Wo-l. Being a foieigner, who had no special reason to look into the luwo and no special object in doing so, my ignorance on ilils po nt was nothing e\traoidinaiy. With the fear ot .swift and ceibain punishment for what I had done, and with my judgment knocked to pieces by the severe shock ot my friend's death, Avas it any wonder that I was undecided and failed to do what I now seel should ha\e done? One of my rh-t impul?es, when I came to myseii, had been to call in the hotel people, but dread of being and at rested diove the thought fiom my mind, and before I knew what I was doing and without considering by w hat mental piocess I airived at the deteimunition, 1 had selected concealment and (light as the bc-t means to safety. I suppose thac untiained instinct within n-3 all — the instinct of self-preseivation — piomptcd and (hove me to (his foolish step.

DISPOSING OF THE BODY. J know what you will .say when you hav c icad thus far. 1 have heaid you bay ib be* fore. You will accept c\ery one of my statements up to thin -\ery point, and acknowledge that they wear the air of tiuth, and are sound and plausible, but — but, you Mill exclaim, how can the laieeny — the taking 1 of the money — be explained? I agree with you that this is a hard point to yet o\er. Nobody can look at the act blnou&h my eyes or judge it with my heait. 1 frankly avow my guilt in this respect, and can attribute the commission ot this ciimc only to a desire to avail myself of a means which was ready at hand to assist me in making my escape. That the exact import of this larceny may be underStood, 1 must tell my whole story. Piellei was dead ; his body lay on the bed as ho had diod. 1 vas trying to make up my mind what to do. As 1 said belore, I determined on High I. But what should Ido witJi the body '! It must be concealed. I emptied ray /.inc lunik, which had the mi ialb of my adopted name (W. H. L.M.) on it, and pulling it to the side of the bed, I placed the body, which had been lying under the counterpane, in it. 1 then diagged the hunk back to its place against the wall and corded it up. I should have said that I first placed a pair of drawers on the body. My object in doing this was to cover up its nakedness. I remember distinctly that I snatched the drawers fiom the heap of clothing, etc., on the floor, after I had emptied my trunk, and did not notice that they wcie too small until 1 had them almost on. Ah a matter of fact, 1 did not know that the diawers boie the initials of my real name '"H.M.8." and I never saw the initials or was awaie they existed there until the Circuit Attorney handed me tho drawers when I was en the witnessstand in the Criminal Court, when I at once recognised that the lettcis were in my father's handwriting. After coicling up the trunk I went out and drank heavily. 1 was back in my room be- 1 fore midnight and remained there all that fiightful night. Did I sleep ? No. I spent tho night in pacing the room and wondering what would become of me. Then it was that plans came into my head — a hundred of them—the first I had conceived in connection with the occurrence. Thon it was my ciime really began. Put youiself in my place that terrible night— a stranger alone in a vast land, your friend dead, your other

friends thousands of miles away, your life, as you thought, in jeopardy, and your only solace liquor, and Lell me what would you have done i

THE ROBBERY. J have said lhnt> I had half formulated a conclusion to take my chances in flight, and nexb morning 1 was pondeiing this and possibly other things, but flight at any late was uppermost in my mind, when impulse led mo to examine jM l Viellei'b tiouf-ers pockets, in one of them f found a roll ot bills amounting to about !jj>soo, I said I would use this to assist mc in my {light, and I now tegietfully confess that I appropr ated it. 1 aKo took a pan ot sleeve buttons fiom Preller's cufls, which I pub in my own I wiVh, however, to state that the buckskin bag which the pio-ccution first said Mr Proller carried around his body and which they accus.d me of ha\ing cut fiom thereimins, is my own pouch. My ownoiohip in that pouch, about which the pio?-ecution in the days before my tiial made a gicat to-do, is no longer disputed. Anothei thing — the bottle m which I had the chloroform and in which L left a quantity ot chloioform, I think, is not missing, as Iho piosccution has insisted, but is now in the Circuit Attoinej's oflice amrnt; the of her bottles ; at least it Mas among them at the bimo of my ti ial, for I saw it, and it had some liquid in it — what, I cannot say. After taking the money another insane fancy enteied my head. 1 wrote the "So Perish AH Traitors (o the Cause" placaid, and uncording and unlocking the trunk in which fhe lemain? were hidden I pasted tho placaid atone end of the tiunk, near my hiend'o head At the «arne time I cut oil the m jUstache and made the cross maiks on tho breast. I don't know whether 1 used a scalpel oi the ari^sois oi a knife in making the^e maik j . It was simply on the suiface ot tho&kin. D )n'te.\pect me to tell you why 1 did these thing*. 1 h;i\e myself boon tijing for t!ie past two \eava to interpicb my actions on iliat mg.ib, and to penctiate the seciet ot my niuital condition at the time. Liquor and the enoimity ot my misfortune must ha\ c combined tocia/e mo. I finely was not in a sane and le.spon-s-ible .s ate. 1 Mipposc 1 had an idea Uiat the placaid would thr wa political mysteiy about the aflair, and tho trunks wouhl bo accepted a.s the bloody signatuie of a oiganisation, while the REMOVAL OF THE MOUSTACHE was undoubtedly for the purpose of debt' o} ing identity. But lam making all thc&o suppositions now. Jf 1 weie ofleied my fieedom this minute to satisfactory explain tho?e acts L couldn't do it. Po-i tnely, I ha\c no explanation tv them. The only thought I know that wasuppeimost in my nnud all thiough that tiagic night was tho almo>t complete a&suiancc that the autopsy wlncli would follow the discos eiy of the body woudshow that the death wan accidental ; tliat no \iolenoe was u=(. j d, and that I was innocent of any dime in bunging it about; and jet, in lace of this self-satisfying assurance, I died those other expedients and jdtshed my mi-take to the very threshold ot atiocitj. llomblc, wasn't it.' Well, i am Milleiiug for the folly. 1 closed the tu.nk and coukd it again, and hcic I will bung my statement to an end. You know what a (00l 1 made of m^-elt on Monday. It I meant to coincy the im-p'.c-feion that it was Maxwell who had been murdcied and was cjnc.alcd in tho tiunk, a& .-^oine theoiisero gi\c out, whj fchould 1 give a prescription to llickm in s baibcr on Monday and sign it to Maxwell"/ Wh,\ bhould I jiiescnb myself to e\ciybod} who knew me in and about the hotel, and let them see my change"! appeaiance, if I h al my beaid sluued oil tor a cltegui&eV 1 don't belies o I could have more .succc?.sfullv ad\crtiscd myself had 1 hiicd a bias.s hand and walked behind it. It ha* been tiuh wiitten that I "bla/cd my i\aj clcai thiough to the antipodes" — and yet what I did has been 'cimcd a well planned and skilfully executed murder.

REVIEWING SOME J'OIXTb. Stiip my ca'-o ot the sensations upon sations- which )ni\e been giaitcd upon it, and ot the lies which ha\c been (old and lctold about me, and consider all the cii cmnstancc-5 pniely on then- meut-j and in their oidei and beaiing on each other, ai<d jou cannot possibly aruve at any other conclusion than tin-; : That J caiu-ed Mi l'reller's death accidentally ; that I had no moti\c for killing him 01 any other man ; that 1 made no pioparations to kill anybody, and consequently had no plans which weie ba->ed u{>on n nuiidei. Ur. Xidoleb testilied that in the dissection, dm m« my trials of the pa its upon winch 1 ops rated, h" foui d in the methra an abia-iou 01 ruptuie iiuohinjr one ot the follicle-, winch he .said mitrht have been caused b\ the insertion of a cathetei, and this uiptuie or abiasion wa-» at a point about one inch or an inch and a halt fiom the end of the urctlna. Doeo not this subataulia o that pa) t oi my statement iclatinq to the opeiation ? Then, a^ain, the prosecution, m exhibiting the shirt that hud been v orn by Mr Prcller, could not conceal, had they attempt d to do so, t\e spot of blood w hicli marked the lowest put bof iU back. That spot of blood is there still, it it ha* hod been washed out, and it i» the stiongesb kind ot affirmation of my story. E \ ery bod \ w ho is acquainted at all with opeiations of this kind knows that the inscition of a cathctoi may cause the di awing ot a drop or two ot blood. The blood Kon JL'i oiler's shut. Doe.s it not emphasise J r. Nido'ot's statement, and is it not a full conoboration oJ my own? Another point; theio aio glee'y discharges and stains on the fiont tail ot that shirt. The Cncu t Attoi ney, in s-peaking of them to the juiy, said they were caused by the retention of mine, which, being afterwaid ghen oft, eaueed the discolouration on the cloth. Now, what causes the retention ot the uiinoV Doca nob e-fcricLiue '! Is not thi^ condition of the linen the be?t e\idence in the woild that could be adduced to fc.ii))po t my assertions ? Js theic a claim 1 nuke or a statement 1 ha\c written that has not been siippoited by the witnesses for the Stale? NOT SUFFOCATED OR STRAN(.LEL). The po.st-morlem bliowcd tint Mi' I'reller's heart and lungs weie in a normal condition, which does away entnely widli the absurd charge of &u (location and strangulation. Eveiy tact iaxourp me, and how could it be otherwise, as I ha\c only the truth to tel? Only one feature condemns me, and that is the taking; ot the money ; but 1 believe the absence ot picpaiaoions and pans strengthens my stitement on this point. Everything else is so cleaily fiul distinctly in my favoui that 1 feel that, to say the least, there i? a gia\e doubt in this matter, [ contend that lam entitled to it. The prosecution built its caac on tho assumption that I pretended to be a ]»f>yeician so as to gob at this method ot killing 1 Mr Preller, and that 1 k lkd him foi hi=. money to g-et to New Zealand. I ha\e bhown, or at lrast hase tr ed to show in this statemmt, that I [losses'- some knowledge of medicine and a pretty complete doctor's outfit, acquired long before meeting JMrPrellcr, and bhabl was practically doing all 1 could toward securing 1 piactico as a physician. I have shown, and it was proved at the trial, that I made i.o secret of my financial condition (o Mr L'reller. I have .shown thifc I mado no s>ccict of my purchase of chloioform. J have shown there are indisputable evidences on the

shirt that Mr Preller wore oi: the deration which I performed. I claim thail killed my friend accidentally through thj opera- < lion, and 1 have hero fully cxplainctexactly how ib was done. All the fads prved by the prosecution strengthen and corporate every claim that I make, and now ill that leniainb is to consult competent phgicians and ask them if there is anything in the facts elicited at my tiial or in this 'resent statement of mine incompatible wbh the claim that Mr Pieller's death, whici I re&iet more than any wonls of mine ian expre a, wad the icsnlt of accident

DJNUFELDJLR. And while I tun speaking of pby&icans, I would like to say this : That any plrsician who is .shown the statemant ot tlab infamous perjuied hireling, Dmgteldei, who sw oio that 1 had put Pie Her to sleep by injecting morphia into hi:? arm, and then need up one bottle oh cblorofoim containing 1 four ounces" in an unsuccessful attempt to iinish the job of killing him, and then wait out and purchased, at the &aine ttoie where 1 had bought the ih&b supply of cboloioform, two ounces more of chloroform to complete the taking of Pielln's life, will tell } ou that .such a story i» absolutely mci edible and iibsmd, and beais upon its face the unmistakable stamp of an infamouse falsehood. For any physician will tell you that it iequiie-5 \eij little moie morphine to destroy hie than (o pioduce unconsciou&ne»s, oi anevhesia,af the doctois call it. If I had injected morphine into Pieller's aim and thus put him to sleep, I would only have had to pies? my finger upon the syiingc a lew nioio times in oide>- to kill him. My moiphine bot'le, when introduced in evidence against me on the tiial, was very ncaily iuil. And not only this, but any phyiit ian who knows anything, either piaetii ally oi thcoietically, about the ufec and cflect of ohloiofoim, will tell you that a \ciy f-n^all quantity ot ch'oiofoi in will pioduce death with unerring- cci faitity \\ hen applied in Mich a way lib not to peinut the commingling of air ,\ith il, while almost any quantity may be u'ed without danger (' ule-.s theie e\ista in I lie patient what is called an idio-sj ncmsy loi chloiofoim), piovidcd the air irf allowed to mingle with it when admini&teicd. In other word«, tint, had 1 de-iisl io take i'lclleTs life by chloiofoim, all I had to do wa.i to &atui.tte a c'oth with a \eiy t mall [>oition of wuat 1 had and to lay it o\er hi^ no-=e and mouth so as to exclude the air. This would ha\e killed him ju.sfc a^ etlectu.dly at if his head va-" cub oh\ What i-> meant by an idio?) ncia^y foi chloiotoim i-> f-imp'y t>uch a system oi condit on of the physical eystem thatCNcn tlic smalle^t([uantity olehloioform may prove fatal in the mo-i", .sudden and une\pected manner, and the doctor will til^o tell you that this idio-yncvasy cannot be detected nor guardcuagain^t in ad\<u cc. Dingltldcr w as a w illiug liar, butnot a &cientilic one. Howc\ei, when the pio s cculion ncodi d a m in foi such a ]ob, they, of necessity, had to hire such a-> weie in the market, and pcihap- aftei- all, it will do me no good to abu^c I)ingfeldei, ioi, so far a.-^ jet appeal?, he has lied ?iicccssfull}', even though unscien'ilioally. \N'atch h s caieer, and )ou will Inul that he will cone to no ooti. Ill (.u JM. Bkouks. Four C'omts, Febiuary 22, 1888.