Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-12-11
WOMAN TOOK A HAND.
Annie Mahoney Was Pleased at Murder OF
Janitor Barnes at Chicago.

CHICAGO. Dec 10.-The mystery sur
rounding the murder of Alfred Barnes.
the janitor of the Hiawatha flats, has
finally cleared up, ard Edward Jordan,
the assistant ianitor of the fat building, Is
the confessed murderer. The police sue
ceeded in getting from Annie Mahoney,
the woman with whom Barnes had been
at one time intimate, an admission that
the crime had been committed by Jordan
She repeated her confession in the pres
ence OF Jordan, and he acknowledged that
1t was correct.
The story Of the woman was told in a
stolid, Indifferent way, she apparently feel
Ing not the slightest conjunction for her
part in the tragedy, and even at times
laughed loudly. Her story was that Jordan
told her that Barnes was anxious to get him
(Jordan) to put some strychnine in glass
of whisky which was to be given to a
policeman named Allen, against whom
Barnes had a grudge.
The woman warned Jordan to beware OF
Barnes. Wednesday night Jordan came
to the woman and told her that he had
killed Barnes, and that the body was ~
ing in the cellar He asked her to help
him to clean up the place. She went az
Jordan requested, and found the body ly
ing on heap of coal near the furnace.
She and Jordan stripped the body, and
she took 80 in money and q watch that
were fonnd in the murdered man clothes.
She said that she considered herself en-
titled to this. as Barnes
Had Cheated Her Out OF $500.
She washed up the blood around the place
As we'll as she could and went away. She
also took off all Barnes clothes in order to
give color to the story that Barnes had
gone to Dakota.
On Thursday she met Jordan and Jer.
sey on the street, and they told her that
hey had put the body in a box, which was
still in the cellar, and she went with Jor-
dan while he engaged an express man to
take the body away, and then went to the
fat and watched the two men bring the
body out of the basement.
She laughed heartily in telling of this
episode, declaring that Jersey was fright.
ened all the time, and he did not seem to
have the nerve I had She went with
the men, and urged them to carry the
body to the lake and put stones in the
box and sink it. They refused, and
dumped it In the street,
Where the Police Found II.
At different times in telling the story
the woman seemed greatly amused over
features Of the tragedy, ard freely adj
mitted that she was glad that Barnes was
dead. She had been angry with him for
long time, ever since he had refused to
have anything more to do with her
AS soon as she had finished her comics.
sion Jordan was brought in, and she re.
peated what she had told. Jordan admit
ted that he had killed Barnes, and when
ssked with what he had done it, he re.
piled, calmly. ''You have the tool, mean
ing the AK.
He said Barnes and l had an argument
over a missing bolt in the furnace, and he
called me liar and rushed at me. !
grabbed the ak and knocked him down.
He never moved nor spoke after the first
lick. had to hit him, otherwise would
have been killed myself"
The balance of the story told by Annie
Mahoney, Jordan corroborated fully.