THE ST. LOUIS TRAGEDY. PARTICULARS BY THE MAIL. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2013, 2 June 1885, Page 2

THE ST. LOUIS TRAGEDY. PARTICULARS BY THE MAIL. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Aicm \m», Monday Nu'ht. Amuiicin ]M|itM -, l>-\ the Aitstialia today contain the paiticulai- of the tiaf,e<.ly at Louis, for which T. C. D'Anguier, the French bngadiei, who is assumed to be one Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, and who was arrested in Auckland. DAnguiei, it appeals, mm tiered his fiiend and connade, Aithm Piellei, at St. Louis, and hid the remains in a trunk. The hndv was homhly mangled, find doubled up so th.it it filled the space. At the head .1 pl.iciid was placed with the uiscuption "So dm all tiaituis to the great cause. 1' Suspicion ,it once fell upon his room mate Maxwell. Tho following' telegi.uns lcfoi to the cinue :—: —

Nh\\ Yohk, Apiil 10. PielleiV cousin in this city, Frank Sclilesmger tclcgi.iplied yesterday to the Key. J)r Brooks ot St Louis, asking him to see that Preller's body was piopeilv cared for, and placed in n, recei\ing vault until ho can send further instructions. Schlesinger cables also to Preller's father is in London, and his employer in Bradford. "All doubts I had yesteiday " said Schlesingcr "about the body found in the trunk being my cousin ha\e been r^r-oved. lamcominced that he h dead and that Maxwell murdered him for his money, Preller left tlii-> city with several hundred-dollar bills. I saw them. The hundred - dollar bil which Maxwell offered at tho railroad tien ■- office undoubtedly came from my cousin's pocket. I ha\e leceived a despatch from Francis and Co., informing me that Preller did not sail on the steamer he had arranged to take, while I see by tho papers that Maxwell did do so. Why Maxwell should have muidered my cousin for his money, I cannot imagine. Preller was warmhearted and liberal to his friends and undoubtedly ho would have loaned Maxwell the money he required to make the journey. Tt si-ems to me that Maxwell has not done a very shrowd thing in carrying out plans that had been ai i.mged befoieli.md, and vvi*,h winch Pu'llei'-. fiiend-ueie thoioughly familial. If ho had come to New York and taken the stcainei fioin heie no one would ha \e known him. The man had never been in this city in his life."

Nkw Yokk, April Hi. Tho St. Louis tragedy continues to be the absorbing sensation. Intimate friends of Pieller state that his leligious convictions weio my singular. He belonged to a cmious denomination in the community, of distinctive ideas, very small as yet in Ameiicn, but with quito a foothold in England. Believers refer to one another in such terjns as " kindied spnit," "deal brother," and similar expression*. It is now remembered that Maxwell was in Chicago about two n ion ths ago. Ho culled at one of the newspaper ottices, and confessed himself "dead bioke,*' and proposed to wnte for thepapeis to e.un sufficient money to defray hi& hotel bilL The initi ils of the muulcied man conespond with the mu ks found on tin- clothing in Maxwell's tiiink- uhui .nic-ted m Auckl.md.