For these hot and humid days. Here is a changeable cold salad you can make simple or as fancy as you wish. This is named for an interesting LGBT character who gained noriety in Saint Louis back in 1885. Read about the doomed man who often changed his name after the recipe.
Use with chicken or tuna or even ham. Make it as complicated or as easy as you feel.
Ingredients
1 pound elbow macaroni noodles or any small pasta you like
2 12-oz. cans cooked chicken or tuna, drained well
1 cup mayonnaise + 1 5oz cup of plain Greek style yogurt
1 medium red onion, finely diced
Salt and pepper
Old Bay Seasoning* (optional)
Directions:
Cook pasta in liberally salted water as printed on the box for al dente preparation. Drain then rinse in cold water. Drain again very thoroughly.
Combine noodles, meat, mayo, yogurt, onion and seasonings to taste and stir well. Refrigerate for four hours to blend flavors. It can be stored in an airtight container up to one week.
*Old Bay has a hefty amount of celery seed in it which is perfect in any sort of mayonnaise based salad. Used here is their “Lemon & Garlic”.
Make this yours: use your imagination with one or more of these variations :
Try this with ham and/or frozen peas, chopped celery, hard cooked egg.
Maybe onions and sweet pickle, many folks like to add some mustard.
How about crisp, crumbled bacon, a jar of pimentos, some chopped tomatoes, chopped red or green bell peppers. (if you want some zip: chopped jalapeños)
You can make it a casserole with just condensed mushroom soup and frozen peas.
You can make it a casserole with just condensed mushroom soup and frozen peas.
Another idea is shreaded cheddar cheese, or chopped cucumber with cucumber ranch!
Here I got fancy:
¾ lbs elbow macaroni noodles
2 12-oz. cans cooked chicken
1 cup mayonnaise + 1 5oz cup of plain Greek style yogurt
1 Tbs mustard
1 medium red onion, finely diced
2 ribs celery finely diced
½ cup cherry tomatoes chopped
Bread & Butter pickles sliced and cut into sticks
3 Tbs pickle juice
¼ cup no sugar sweetner for cooking
½ tsp each Salt and pepper
1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning* (optional)
Do your cutting while the water is on to boil for the pasta
Cut up the pickles
The celery and red onion then for the tomatoes use a serated edge knife:
Then boil, shell and cut up the eggs:
Cook the pasta til it is Al Dente, instructions on the box. Drain, rinse and drain again.
While that is in the works, make the dressing. It is easier if you start with the yogurt then refill the container with mayonnaise, easier to measure. Add the Old Bay and a Tbs of mustard. Mix well
Now line up everything to get ready to mix it together.
Start with the well drained pasta, the dressing ( hold back about ½ a cup to add just before you serve), then the rest finishing up with the eggs. Mix and fold, cover and set in refrigerator for at least 4 hours to blend the flavors.
What a great way to survive the heat or plan a picnic!
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Hugh Brooks 
On Sunday, April 12, 1885, the manager of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, entered room 144 responding to guests’ complaints of a foul odor but found nothing amiss. By Tuesday the stench was unbearable. He checked again and it appeared that the occupants had moved out, leaving behind several trunks. Inside one of the trunks, he found the decomposing body of a man wearing only a pair of white drawers. Was this one of the two young Englishmen who had been sharing the room? The death had been made to look like a political assassination, it was, in fact, the tragic ending of a “peculiar relationship”, (gay)!
Hugh Brooks was the son of a schoolmaster in Manchester, England. He had dabbled in the study of law and medicine and was restless to see America.
Charles Preller was a well-born adventurer who traveled the world as a salesman for London upholstery weavers. Preller had the means and success that Brooks lacked. Brooks had created his own pedigree, passing himself as "Walter H. Lennox-Maxwell MD," a physician from London.
They met in Liverpool in January 1885 and became close aboard the steamship Cephalonia, bound for Boston.
Correspondence found later —described as “not fit for publication”—indicated that they had begun a homosexual relationship!
Preller was 32, Brooks 24.
According to newspaper accounts they had planned to travel together to New Zealand. However, Preller had calls to make in North America first. Maxwell stayed in Boston while Preller went to Montreal; they agreed to meet in St. Louis a few weeks later.
Brooks arrived in St. Louis on March 30, checked into the Southern Hotel. Preller arrived a couple of days later. Because of prevailing attitudes of the times, Preller checked into a room of his own. However, it was well known that both men were sleeping together in Brooks room. Hotel employees reported that Preller displayed lots of money, mostly in $100 bills, while Brooks looked to be broke. The relationship apeared to be like ones often found today – an older gay man with money finds himself in a relationship with a younger gay man who wants to spend it.
On April 5, Brooks told several people around the hotel that Preller would be traveling in the country but would return to the hotel in a few days. That night Brooks got drunk in the hotel bar where, according to the head waiter, he displayed a pistol and a roll of $100 bills. He asked:
“If a man committed murder in this country and had $600 could he beat the case?”
The next day Brooks had his beard shaved off. He then went to a trunk dealer and purchased a trunk and two trunk straps. Later that day he paid his hotel bill and disappeared, leaving behind several trunks. It was presumed that Preller would return for them, so the trunks were left undisturbed.
Days later when the manager opened one of the trunks inside was the body of a man, naked but for a pair of white drawers with “H. M. Brooks” on the waistband. His mustache had been cut off with scissors and a cross was cut, skin deep, in his breast. Also in the trunk was a paper placard with the inscription:
“So perish all traitors to the great cause.”
The writing style matched Maxwell’s signature on the hotel register. St. Louis police believed this to be a deliberate attempt to give the impression that the murder was a political assassination. It was to make the crime appear an act of vengeance on the part of the Fenian Brotherhood, a very active group at the time, with many Irish-Americans sympathizers in the United States.
Among the belongings left behind were several prescription blanks from Fernon’s drug store. Mr. Fernon told detectives that he knew Brooks and that at 2:00 PM on April 5 he sold him four ounces of chloroform and at 4:00 another two ounces.
The body was determined to have been Preller. A St. Louis coroner's inquest, extensively covered by the local press, established the cause of death as poisoning by chloroform, used then as an anesthetic.
This quickly became a gruesome international sensation, fed by the fast-growing urban press and increasingly high-speed telegraphic news services.
Police suspected that Maxwell would now be making the journey to New Zealand alone. A check at the train depot proved a man fitting the suspect's description had purchased a ticket to San Francisco, giving the name of “H. M. Brooks.”
A man fitting the description had checked into the Palace Hotel under the name T. C. D’Auguier of Paris. The clerk said that he had a strong French accent. A man named Robbins, who checked in around the same time, recalled talking to D’Auguier on the train. Speaking with a strong French accent D’Auguier told him he was a French brigadier. As it happened, Robbins spoke fluent French and began addressing D’Auguier in his native language. D’Auguier was forced to admit that he did not speak French, but continued to use the accent for the rest of the trip.
“D’Auguier” had booked passage on the City of Sydney, a steamer bound for Auckland, New Zealand.
St. Louis Police Chief Harrigan sent a cablegram to the U. S. Consul in Auckland. The cost for a cablegram was $3.34 a word and the message was 155 words for a total cost of $517.70—an enormous sum in 1885.
Brooks was taken into custody when the City of Sydney arrived in Auckland. Extradition papers signed by President Grover Cleveland were obtained and St. Louis detectives were sent to New Zealand to pick up the prisoner.
Newspapers all over the country had picked up the story about “the Little Chloroformer”. A large crowd met them at the San Francisco dock. At small depots along the route back to St. Louis, crowds gathered for a glance. St. Louis' old Union Depot was mobbed for the returning Frisco train Aug. 16.
The Four Courts Building Tucker Boilevard (12th St.) and Clark Street
A police wagon whisked them uphill to the block-square Four Courts building. The detectives took Brooks into their bureau where the Post-Dispatch noted, "the newspapermen fell upon him (and) numerous prominent citizens called to see him." Tracy said their prisoner had been pleasant during the voyage but had divulged almost nothing about the crime.
The Four Courts Building, Tucker Boulevard and Clark Street
Brooks' lengthy trial in 1886 was a sensation, covered stenographically by the newspapers. He soon became infamous around the world.
The prosecution's most effective witness was a detective for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He had been planted in jail under false charges as Hugh Brooks’s cellmate. McCollough testified that Brooks had told him he was enraged that Preller refused to pay his passage to Auckland and decided,
“on account of his meanness to fix him.”
The defense challenged the admissibility of this evidence but their objection was overruled.
Brooks testified in his own defense. He claimed that the Sunday after he arrived in St. Louis, Preller complained that he was unwell. From the symptoms, Brooks concluded that he was suffering from a stricture that could be cured by inserting a catheter in the urethra. Preller agreed to the operation and Brooks administered chloroform as an anesthetic.
Though unconscious, Preller began to wince as though in pain during the procedure. Brooks administered more chloroform and Preller’s breathing became labored and despite Brooks’s efforts at resuscitation Preller died.
"I was in a strange land, a stranger," Brooks said, weeping. "I then thought the only thing to do was to get away."
He said he put his own underpants on Preller's nude body "for decency's sake," then put him in the trunk. He said he was drunk much of time before his departure.
Preller’s body was exhumed and examined to determine if there was any truth to Brooks’s story. An autopsy determined that Preller did not have a stricture and had not been treated with a catheter. (there would have been no evidence of a catheter at that time)
By June 4, the case was submitted to the jury and on the following morning, they returned a verdict of guilty.
Appeals and requests for new trials were denied but Brooks was given extra time before his execution so that his parents could arrive from England.
On August 10, 1888, 50 police officers had to hold back the crowd, Hugh Mottram Brooks, alias Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, alias T. C. D’Auguier was hanged in the yard behind the old “Four Courts” building.
Brooks was buried that day in section 11 of Calvary Cemetery, the city's main Catholic cemetery, in a plot his father had bought. Preller's unmarked grave is barely 100 yards away, just across Calvary Avenue, in neighboring Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Perhaps this murder would still be well-known today had it not been for the first in a series of murders which began three weeks later which caught the public attention – the first of Jack the Ripper’s brutal killings!
A Post Script to this story:
As someone familiar with the gay BDSM scene, I can not help but wonder what went on that night. What kind of games two naked men could have been playing that MIGHT have led to an unintentional overdose. Both chloroform and urethra insertion are not that unheard.
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