Show I IS PRELLER ALIVE The Novel Defense Set Up in the Case of Maxwell Mr FnuioN Will Sue the HetlL1J of His Daughter A Smull Pox Epidemic Vivtailing III the City or Montreal Maxwells Defclue ST Louis August ltThe defense of Maxwell the alleged murderer of Arthur Preller will probably be that no murder was committed at all About a month ago a report re-port was published that his life was heavily insured and that the companies had refused to pay the money i to his relatives claiming tiLFap a jpu uii jobto gdrthfilffruuunce and tlIIiV the body found ui the trunk was not Prellers at all but a subject from a medical college According to telegrams from San Francisco Maxwell now says that tho conspiracy theory was correct and that in due time hewill produce Preller alive and well and show where he got the body found in the trunk Further than this he will say nothing The police here hoot at this defense and still hold that the evidence against him is i sufficient to convict him though they do not claim to I have any other evidence than what is known I to the public They do not believe that Prellers life was insured for any large amount The prisoner will arrive here next Sunday |