Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-09
cHlcAco's SENSATIONAL MURDER.
Suspect Jersey Makes . Statement Re
garding It-Miss Mahoney Released.

garding It-Miss Mahoney Released.
| CHICAGO, December S-Jobn ID. Jersey.
who is under arrest on suspicion OF being
implicated In the Barnes murder. broke
down in Inspector Hunts Office this morn
ing. and made the following statement:
Jordan sent for me at 4 O'Clock Thurs
day afternoon. and told me to so over TO
| the Ulawatha fats and see him at $50
that night. Jordan then told me that he
wanted me TO help him carry box out OF
| the basement. i went down 10 help carry
! the box out at about . y. NJ. / asked him
| what was In the box, and he replied
| There is dead man In IL. Don't say
| anything about it,
II helped 10 carry the box out to the
| Nernon-avenue front OF the building.
! After the box was carried out Jordan
| went away. after instructing me to wait
| until he returned. While waiting for him
10 return. / fell asleep on the steps. At
| Il 90 o'clock ] awoke. The box was still
! there. / then went away"
IL was some time after this that the box
was removed by Jordan and the unknown
exDressman.
Continuing his statement, Jersey said:
81 met Jordan the next morning ORR
day) In a saloon He was buying drinks
freely. l asked him what had become OF
the box. Jordan replied that II took an
hour 10 do the job"
Jersey then went on TO say that Jordan
gave him an old suit of clothes and two
shirts. There was blood on Jerseys shirt
sleeves. he says, from the ooZing out or
the box.
For assisting Jordan to remove the box,
Jordan says he was promised job as
assistant janitor. 1t is now supposed that
Jordan wanted Barnes's Job, which pays
S67 month. The woman theory Of the
case is not explained. but is being made
OF secondary Importance. In his state
ment Jersey denied absolutely any fur
Their knowledge of the crime, or that he
was present when the murder was COM
mitter.
The officers then went TO Jordan's cell,
and informed him OF the statement made
by Jersey. The partial confession of his
supposed accomplice nearly overwhelmed
the principal suspect In the case, and for
a few moments IL seemed as If he would
break down. However. he overcame his
impulse to talk, and after few minutes
reflection told the officers he had nothing
to say, but that II Inspector Hunt would
call on him later in the day he might talk
TO that officer.
DuIlIg IHe IlOTuiHE, MiSS 4hdHpIty, WIO
was only held as a witness, was released
under bond.
MISS MAHONEY REARRESTED.
Annie Mahoney, who was released on
bail this morning, was rearrested this
afternoon. She has been accused by Jer-
sey of being the woman who accompanied
Jordan in his search for an expressman.
Jersey goes further than that, and says
that she held the lantern while he and
Jordan carried the boxed body out OF
the Hiawatha fats basement Shortly
after her last arrest Annie Mahoney
confessed 10 Inspector Hunt that Jordan
told her that he had killed the man Tues
day night; that his body had lain in the
basement until Thursday night. and that
she held the lantern while Jordan and
Jersey carried the body out of the base
ment.
The self-confessed accompice Is a sis
ter Of the wife Of John Leindecker, a
prominent politician. Mrs. Leindecker
was present when the confession was
made. and tainted az she started TO leave
Inspector Hunts office.
Annie MahOncy was identified by Philip
Dawson, an eXpCessman, as the woman
who, accompanied by Jordan. called at
his house and tried to hire his horse and
wagon without a driver TO remove the
body Of a child" as they said. lie re-
fused.