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The Preller murder case by Thomas Furlong unfolds
The true story of the Clarence Preller murder in 1885 St. Louis centers on murderer Hugh M. Brookes. Railroad detective Thomas Furlong narrates how he enlisted John McCulloch to extract vital testimony, staged a bank confrontation, and orchestrated trials to trap the killer. The scheme yielded a murder conviction and Brookes’s execution, with Furlong sustaining injuries in the process.
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Thomas Furlong
Clarence Preiler
Hugh M. Brookes
Preller
St. Louis
Clarence Preller
Brookes
America
Boston
New Zealand
San Francisco
Maxwell
Southern
Auckland
St Louis
Ashley C. Clover
St. Louia
Marshall F. McDonald
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Furlong
Clover
Tom
Philadelphia
John McCulloch
D. S. H. Smith
Doctor Smith
McCulloch
Mechanics’ Bank
Fourth Street
Dr. Smith
Frank Dingfelter
Dingfelter
Pacific Coast
Dingfalter
Jall
Prélier
H. & Epfe
Pald
Presler
New York
Messrs
McDonald
John F. McCulloch
Wilmington
Del
Fourth and
Pine Streets
Mechanical Bank
Missouri Pasific Railway Company
Mr. Furlong
Dinefelter
MccCulloch
Brand