The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-12-14
BODY FOUND IN A BOX.


shocking Crime In Chicago Apartment
Isutlsiing--A Reminder OF the tronin
Murder-The Mutiiated Remains Placed
la N Hos and Dumped from 70 Wagon In
mn Alley The Murderer and Ills Accom-
plices Al rested.
CHICAGO. Dee. s.-A. u. Barnes. who
was employed as janitor Of the lila
watha apartment building. :5s East
Thirty-seventh street. was murdered
in "A shoclsingly brutal manner Thurs
day night in the basement Of the build
ing and an laborate effort made by
his slayer and accessories after the fact
10 conceal the crime by hiding the
hacked and mutilated corpse in Il hole
under the sidewalk on South Park
avenue. just south Of the elevated rail-
road tracks at Sixty-third street. The
packing ease in which the bloody re-
mains were hidden was discovered yes
terday morning. and last night every
person except. perhaps, one woman,
who is suspected by the police to have
had any knowledge Of the crime, was
under arrest.
The persons who are charged with
the murder, completely in the disposal
of the body, or held as material wit
ncsscs. are:
Edmund Jordan. assistant ianitor,
lliawatha flats. the alleged murderer.
John henson Jersey, alias New
Jersey" IA boon companion of Jordan
and the man who is suspected of being
on the wagon seat with Jordan.
a. H. Winstcad. engineer and fire.
man OF Hat building at Jsii Rhodes
avenue.
Mrs Andrew H. Winstcad. his wife,
who is said To have been intimate with
Barnes.
Annie Mahoncy. mistress of Barnes,
who loaned him II 500 and did not get
il back.
Mrs. Edmund Jordan. wife Of the al
legged murderer, who is also said 10
have been unlawfully intimate with
Barnes.
The police are trying TO Sud another
woman. who called at lie i;iawatha
flats Thursday night early and was
anxious 10 see Barnes, who was out at
the time. This woman is believed by
the police to have accompanied the two
men who drove the body to its place OF
concealmcnt. and Mrs. Winstead or
Mrs. Jordan may have been that wom-
an. the latter more likely.
1t is known by several evewitnesses
that two men. with a woman seated
between them. drove wagon contain
ing box south or Cottage Grove ave
nue. from the IIiawatha flats about II
o'clock Thursday night.
1t Is also in evidence against Jordan
and Jersey that they met shortly after
the time the murder is supposed 10
have been committed. and that Jordan
said TO him that the Job was done.
and it did not take him an hour To do
it," This meeting was in a saloon
near the scene of the murder.
AS 10 the motive for the deed the po-
lice say that Barnes received his
months pay Thursday and no money
can he found in his bloody clothes or
| in the basement where the man met
his death. Robbery on the part of
Jordan, who was a good-for-nothing
| fellow. may have been one of the
motives. Then there was the re-
lationship which is said TO have
existed between the murdered
| janitor and the wife OF the
| supposed murderer-in-chief That may
have prompted Jordan 10 strike the
cowardly blows with the AK. But the
| police believe more than anything else
that Jordan wa nted To get rid of Barnes
for the sake of getting his job. and that
in this view of The case his pal Jersey
was willing to aid in hiding the body,
and as a reward be installed by Jordan
| as his assistant.