Show telegraphic hwa ST louis aug 9 upon receipt of information that governor morehouse More hoase had refused to interfere maxwell was removed to a new cell to guard against suicide he has not yet been informed of the governors decision maxwells maxwelll Max wells mother and sister are at the jail weep ins ing bitterly when they and the condemned meet la a sensational scene is looked for the news of governor Mo refusal to grant a further burthe respite to maxwell was conveyed to the condemned man by his bis confessor father tihan maxwell blanched and hi his slips lips trembled but he soon recovered after the departure of the priest the following I 1 n g telegram was handed banded maxwell by t the hg e deputy commutation of sentence refused by governor morehouse More boase respite also refused maxwell read the message slowly folded it carefully and placed it in his bis pocket then f followed a pathetic scene mrs brooks the mother of the coude condemned meed and miss brooks I 1 his bis sister had learned of the result at jefferson city through the coro coroners aers clerk john F ryan they asked to be permitted to go inside to meet their son and brother and the request was granted when they reached the cell mrs brooks rushed into Max maxwelll maxwells wells arms embracing embracing him warmly kissing him twice an and crying out uh oh my poor hunted boy then the the sister embraced the doomed brother both ladies were in tears but bat endeavoring to hide bide their emotion maxwell was deeply affected sad aad tor for a time lost control of himself but soon relied and presented an undisturbed exter loi xu in response to a query he said li be would like to see his father before he teed THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINS washington aug 0 19 the secretary of state today received a telegram from the governor of missouri in regard to thu the case of the tae english lati murderer maxwell sentenced sent ened to be hanged tomorrow ile he says sava so far as he can see there is nothing in the letter of the british minister transmitting the request of the british government tor for a respite that would j justify ti him I 1 in I 1 in n delaying the execution especially as it is not net alleged that any facts in connection with the case will be developed by the investigation said to have neen instituted by the english authorities and in regard to which he his has no tion lion whatever ST louis aug 9 there was nothing of special interest transpired after the morning meeting between the mother and son aud and sister and brother until the return ot of mrs brooks and daughter at 4 p in for THE FINAL FAREWELL tb they entered maxwelll maxwells Max arwe wells 16 cell accompanied 1 n ed by two deputy she sheriffs miffs riffs who watched a lied closely to prevent tae passing of any instrument of death by the mother or sister to the condemned man maxwell received the visitors with outward calmness and during trie tae forty minutes his face never brightened the conversation ca was devoted to a resume of the case and the mother denounced Govera governor or morehouse ft the state of missouri and and the united states concluding with the remark that when governor morehouse makes his bis final appeal to heaven it will go unanswered A deputy sheriff uoti notified fled the ladies that their time was up the mother turned and threw her arms about maxwell with the words word oh m my y god my god kissed s huk 1 aanas t twice w ic ce and hiding her eyes with h passed out th the e sister embraced her brother and kissed him but bui he a apparently patently parent ly failed to return the caress of of either and they passed out weeping bitterly the mother staggering in her woe wee maxwell lighted a cigarette and throwing his head back unconcernedly puffed out a volume of smoke and coolly returned to some manuscript he be WAS correcting halt an hour later he partook of a light supper alter After maxwell had bad partaken partaker par taken of supper he returned to his bis cell and soon after received a call from father tihan the priest remained with maxwell longer than usual and it is now fully decided he WILL administer COMMUNION to maxwell in inthe the morning J imar I mar tin one of maxwells maxwelll Max wells attorneys returned from jefferson city on the night train and called on his condemned client at once assuring him his e efforts orts were not ceasing to prevent fe e execution from being carried out A toe the morning mornine martin said he had be beba in telegraphic communication wit wita washington and expected to receive IL cablegram from el england at any Fini nute at 1139 1130 father tihan returned to the all and entered maxwells maxwelll Max wells cell the condemned mas man closed the cell door and com complained plaine d of the lack ot of privacy denouncing w what hat he be termed the unfeeling curl curiosity y of those in the jail the father cc confessor nf assor was with maxwell fifteen minutes and when he be left the cell said to an associated press reporter he will go to his death bravely asser asserting his bis innocence MAXWELLS DEMEANOR for the first time since his tion Maxwell realize he be is doome dand he is beginning to grow restless nervous and leable at this ibis hour midnight hats sitting at a table in his cell rea reading ing a book left him by father Ti tihan lian maxwell is never without a cigarette and smokes while he reads ST BT louis aug 10 at ten minutes before I 1 maxwell fell aslee asleep and slept as peacefully as a child until 1 30 a m when he turned over in bed and groaned and from that time on his bis slee sleep was restless and broken he hadlett had left orders to be awakened at 2 a in prior to retiring he said if tie he could retain his bis wits to the last he be would die bravely he said he be could not tell what he be would do on the scaffold however until he be got there 3 aam ain maxwell was awakened at 2 a in and now sits in bis bid cell haggard abild and evidently f fully ally realizing the fate that awaits him A RAY OP OF HOPE was broucht to him by his bis at attorney john 1 I martin who received the to following telegram from his bis colleague P W fontleroy who is at jeffers jefferson Jeffer uon on city the british minister has sent a telegram to the governor asking a respite in order to let et an inquiry be made into the circumstances the Ro governor vernor persists in believing that the inquiry meant is to be made by the united states and not by the british government have wired the minister and urged the governor to delay the hanging banging until the doubt be removed he promises nothing RAILROAD COLLISION zanesville ohio aug 9 A passenger train ru into the rear end ol of a frel freight train way badly damaging the passenger locomotive and breaking several cars nobody hurt ANOTHER EXECUTION ST louis aug 9 0 henry laudgraf Lud graf who is to oe be executed on the same gallows with hugh M brooks alias maxwell passed uis aid last day on earth in an uneventful manner during the afternoon he be was visited by his bis attorney 8 S bass whom he be thanked for the effort he be had made to save him from the gallows chattanooga DISASTERS NASHVILLE tenn aug 10 1240 a m A special to the american from chattanooga says a lire is raging there it broke out in the cald welt well griffith block on market street between six and seventh streets and has destroyed ij worth of property and is still spreading at midnight a wall fell and killed five men A FIENDISH HUSBAND louisville ky an aug 9 mrs mary sullivan who after tabrae years of incarceration in the insane asylum at anchorage and the private asylum at cincinnati was recently released as sane has broa brought lit suit against her husband charging chai jing he had bad her put in the asylum to get her property she says she had bad treatment at anchorage which mide made tier her confinement worse than death brawny idiots used by the officials as ad assistants were leit left to bite and tear the patients with little restraint she asserts her fattier father left her considerable pr property 0 perty which her husband threw away in business fail ure are he has since refused to support the family and she tor for many 3 years eals previous to her incarceration bv a purchasing agency made large pru tits with which she supplied tue lue family famay needs need sand and purchased real estate it wits was the latter her husband sou tit to secure T GARRETT INSANE NEW YORK aug 10 lo the world this morning will wili say it has had become clear to the friends of 01 robert rabert garrett I 1 during the past week that be is really insane and that there is but a taint hope of his ultimate recovery la in his bis wakeful moments he is constantly guarded by tried men for fear he be may do something daug dangerous erous even ris his wife and one or two immediate relatives who are with him are afraid to go near the patient whan he be is laboring under the wild hallucinations to which he is subject when garrett talks he becomes excite dand jay gould Is is th the person eperson who seems to appear b before him as the menacing a spectre eckre he talks to everybody near him about jay gould ahoi who 1 be le SUS says robbed him of his telegraphy telegraph a and d other properties and is planning to take away what is left when hi be speaks of jay gould it is generally in connection with the telegraph business and the absorption of the baltimore and ohio telegraph system by the western union this garrett regards as the result of a carefully laid plot by which jay gould conceived to ruin him and the beginning of his troubles ST louis aug 10 maxwell was banged at a in henry landgrat Landgraf who murdered ills his sweetheart was hanged banged with him maxwelll MAXWELL 8 CRIME the crime for or which hugh mbrooks alias maxwell paid the extreme penalty of the law this morning was the murder of charles arthur preller ire iff the southern hotel of this city on april 0 6 ISM 1885 the acquaintance b between e the two men began in liverpool england when both were on their way to this country when they arrived on this side they separated separate dat at boston brooks coming to st louis a and r registering as horace lennox maxwell I 1 tie A few days later preller arrived and the two thereafter were almost constantly together preller freller was last seen alive sunday afternoon april 6 0 in maxwells maxwelll Max wells room by a 4 pell bell boy twice ice that day maxwell purchased a large quantity of chloroform at the drug store score near by telling the druggist he be was using it in an experiment the next day max well made a number of purchases at various places spending money very freely although before he had not a appeared to have an abundance of caell cash among his purchases was a ticket to san francisco he left that night over the st louis hud and san francisco road THE mysterious TRUNK nothing was thought of his bis sudden departure until th taft ILL of april for foi several days prior to this date the chambermaids noticed an unpleasant odor coming from room and connected it with maxwells maxwelll Max wells trunk on OB the the smell became so pronounced that the abe trunks were removed to the lower floor and opened and a body found which proved to be preller on the breast of the body was a cross cut and on the inside of the trunk a card bore the inscription so perish alt all trat traitors tors to a greab great cause nis HIS CAPTURE AND DEFENSE it was an easy matter to trace maxwell in san francisco who re rep p resented himself as T 8 Daa Dau guier a french army sunday april 12 he sailed for new zealand in the steamer sydney detectives tec tives had bad been close on his track and when the steamer arrived at auckland hews be was a arrested and returned to st louis his defense made at the trial was that the death of preller was accidental being occasioned by chloroform administered preliminary to an 0 operation he be was about to perform he I 1 leflek fled because be presumed he be would not be permitted to testify in his own behalf the most dama damaging ing testimony against him was that odthe of the detective dias felder who became a cell mate and confidant and secured a confession of the crime maxwell was found guilty and sen sentenced tended to hang bang the history ef his bis many subsequent efforts to secure a new trial or a commutation of sentence are still fresh in the public mind A TWO HOURS REPRIEVE maxwells maxwelll Max wells attorneys waited till the lot last in the hope ot of receiving a dispatch from the british government which would induce a further stay of proceedings ce maxwell axwell 51 received abe news of the two hours postponement from 7 to 9 calmly though au an expression of great grbac relief was plainly visible on his bis features landgrat pain paid no attention to it in any way the crowds on OB the me housetops surrounding the jail yard where the execution was to take place remained patiently in their elevated positions irom 5 am until the hour of of execution the view was clear and unobstructed from the roofs of dozens of buildings in the vicinity and hundreds or of people took advantage ot the same the number dumber of spectators admitted to the jail were unusually small for the first time in the history ot of the st louis loaia four courts were telegraph instruments placed in the building by the associated press for a prompt transmission of the news to the public unusual interest ia teresi being in the execution CRIME the crime for which henry landgrat suffered the ibe deatha d ata penalty was committed on the night of march 5 IM 1885 the rue victim was hip sweetheart annie a of less than 18 years yeara jealousy prompted the deed THE LAST TWO HOURS A postponement nt of the execution for two hours was made by the sheriff at the request of maxwells maxwelll Max wells attorneys who duped pl against hope for british interference ane announcement was madeko made to maxwell and laudgraf ato maxwell was nervous pallid ill at ease in the ibe last two hours ate spa of breakfast and shortly after 5 having dressed himself in ao an entire new suit partook of the h holy communion landgrat landgraf remained i cool and collected throughout the nigh tate a hearty breakfast and received sacrament soon after brooks had bad done so at 8 a telegram was received from Je jefferson Aerson city saying that governor governer received another dispatch from the british minister west in brooks behalf but declined to change his decision at the sheriff entered the cell where maxwell and landgraf had bad been placed together and read THE DEATH WARRANT maxwell paled perceptibly showed evidence of increasing weakness and as his bis arms were being pinion edhe bit his lip and gulped several times Laud landgraf grat remained stolid the procession to the scaffold formed with sheriff deputies in front followed by the condemned men with a priest between them then the police then reporters and witnesses As they moved slowly maxwell was a piteous sight with ashen dalor on his bis face pinched and drawn up eyes swollen and lips twitching landgrat moved like a log with a half smile aud and bait sneer aneer on hla his face the priest read the prayers and the men signified they had NOTHING TO SAY the blackcaps black caps were drawn down dounlas an awful look of despair passed maxwells maxwelll Max wells face and his knees trembled the nooses were adjusted and at 8 85 the drop fell landgraf rat never moved a n muscle iscle thereafter not so with max wehl wen when he fell his breast heaved convulsively and his limbs were drawn u upwards while the spectators were s shocked by a stream of blood pouring down the right breast of his bis coat was afterward found to have been caused by a out cut of the noose inflicted by the rope landgraf was pronounced dead in eleven and a halt bait minutes maxwells maxwelll Max wells struggles continued fox for fout fourteen teen minutes landgrat landgraf was cut down at V i 12 maxwell at |