On April 14, 1885, the manager of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, responded to complaints of a foul odor emanating from room 144. Inside a trunk in that room, the manager found the murdered body of Charles Arthur Preller, one of two Englishmen who had checked in two weeks earlier. The killer left a note implying that the death had been a political assassination, but it was, in fact, the tragic ending of a “peculiar relationship.” The hunt for the killer, Hugh Mottram Brooks, would end 8,000 miles away in New Zealand.
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Pictures from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 25, 1885.
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1 comments :
July 28, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Although other trunk murders ( Brighton in 1934 and Charing Cross in 1927, for instance) received more ink...this one crossed continents. Interesting story as always, Mr. Wilhelm
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