The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-10
Indianapolis.
(From SUNDAYS SECOND Edition.)
Chicago. Murder Mystery solved.

CHICAGO, Dec. S.-The mystery sur
rounding the murder of Alfred Barnes, the
Janitor OF the Hiawatha flats, has finally
been cleared up, and Edward Jordan. the
assistant Janitor of the Hat building, is the
confessed murderer. This afternoon the po-
nee succeeded in getting from Anna Ma
honey, the woman with whom Barnes had
been at one time intimate, an admission
that the crime had been committed by
presence of Jordan and he acknowledged
that 1t was correct. The story of the Ma
honey woman was told In a stolid. indiffer-
ent way, she apparently feeling not the
slightest compunction for her part in the
aw1ul tragedy, and even at times laughing
loudly. Her story was that some time ago
Jordan came to her and said that Barnes
Was anxious to get him Uordan) to put
some strychnine In a glass of whisky which
Allen, against whom Barnes had a grudge.
Jordan, the woman said, declared to her
that he had refused to accede to the wishes
or Barnes n had told him that If he
wanted any poisoning done to do it himself.
Jordan declared that Barnes was perpetu-
ally urging him to poison the officer and
If he did not do as he wished. TIL woman
warned Jordan to beware of Barnes, whom
she declared to be a treacherous man, and
told him that If he did not take good care
OF himself Barnes would put poison I'm the
food and kill him instead Of the policeman.
wednesday night Jordan came to the
woman and told her that he had killed
Barnes in a fight, and that the body was
lying In the cellar of the fiat building. He
asker ner 10 come ana nelp him clean up
the place; She went, as Jordan requested,
and found the body lying on a heap of coal
near the furnace. She and Jordan stripped
the BODY, and she took 50 In money and a
watch that were found In the murdered
mans clothes. She said that she con-
sidered herself entitled to this. as Barnes
up the blood stains around the place as well
as she could and then went away. She also
TOOK all Barnes's clothes in order TO give
color to the story that Barnes had gone to
Dakota. On Thursday she met Jordan and
Jersey on the street, aud they told her
was still In the cellar. She went with Jor-
dan while he engaged an expressman to
take the box away, and then went to the
nat and watched the two men bring the
episode, declaring that Jersey was fright
sned al the time, and he did not begin to
the men when they took the body away
and urged them to carry 1T to the lake
would be sunk in the lake. They refused
to do this and dumped it into the street,
, where t, the ta PPHlise b found dot it; At different
seemed to be greatly amused over some
of the features of the tragedy and freely
was dead. She had been angry with him
for a long time, ever since he had refused
to have anything more to do with her.
f~ession, Jordan was brought in and she
repeated what she had told; Jordan ad,
mitted ne mad killed Barnes, and when
asked what he had done it with,
calmly replied: you have the tool,'
meaning the ak in the possession of the
police. He said: Barnes and / had an ar
gument over a missing bolt in the furnace.
l He called me a liar and rushed at me. I
grabbed the ak and knocked him down. He
never moved or spoke after the first lick.
I had to hit him. for If I had not 1 would
the story told by Annie Mahoney Jordan
corroborated fully.
j. Il. Jersey. the first man arrested, con-
fessed early this morning that he had been
asked 10 assist in the murder, but declined.
1t was his confession that led to the arrest
Il OF Jordan.