The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-12-14
BODY FOUND IN A BOX.


Shocking Crime In n Chicago Apartment
HuIIdIng-A Reminder of the CronIn
Murder-The MutfIated Remains Placed
In a BOX and Dumped from = Wagon in
an AIley-The Murderer and His Accom-
plices Arrested.
CHICAGO, Dec. s.-A. ID. Barnes, who
was employed as janitor of the Hia-
watha apartment building, 25s East
Thirty-seventh street, was murdered
in a shockingly brutal manner Thurs
day night in the basement of the build
ing and an elaborate effort made by
his slayer and accessories after the fact
TO conceal the crime by hiding the
hacked and mutilated corpse in hole
under the sidewalk on South Park
avenue, just south of the elevated rail
road tracks at Sixty-third street. The
packing case 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
nesses, are:
Edmund Jordan, assistant janitor,
Hiawatba flats, the alleged murderer
John benson Jersey, alias New
Jersey" boon companion of Jordan,
and the man who is suspected of being
on the wagon seat with Jordan.
A. K. Winstead, engineer and fire.
man Of fiat building at 3744 Rhodes
avenue.
Mrs. Andrew Il. Winstead, his wife,
who is said TO have been intimate with
Barnes.
Annie Mahoney, mistress of Barnes,
who loaned him 81, 500 and did not get
il back.
Mrs. Edmund Jordan, wife of the al
legged murderer, who is also said to
have been unlawfully intimate with
Barnes.
The police are trying to find another
woman, who called at the Hiawatha
flats Thursday night early and was
anxious to 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
conceslmeut, and Mrs. Winstead or
Mrs. Jordan may have been that wom-
an, the latter more likely.
1t is known by several eycwitnesses
that two men, with woman seated
between them, drove a wagon contain
ing a box south on Cottage Grove ave
nue. from the Hiawatha flats about IL
o'clock Thursday night.
1t is also in evidence against Jordan
and Jersey that they met shortly after
the time the murder is supposed to
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 to the motive for the deed the po-
lice say that Barnes received his
months pay Thursday and no money
can be 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 to strike the
cOwardly blows with the AK. But the
police believe more than anything else
that Jordan wanted 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 reward be installed by Jordan
as his assistant