Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-10
CRIME LAID BARE.
And the Perpetrators Of Foul
Murders Uncovered.
THE CHICAGO FLAT-JAN1ToR CASE.

0utchered BY HIS Assistant, Who P10odS
Self Defense-A Woman Of "Nefve" Gets
What Property There Was ON tho Body
Probably Complete Facts Connected
with the Cruel Taking on Of Miss Cling
Adry Haywards Confession.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1O.-The mystery sur
rounding the murder of Alfred Barnes.
ianitor Of the Hiawatha flats, has been
finally cleared up and Edward Jordan,
assistant janitor Of the building, is the
confessed murderer. Thepolice succeeded
in getting from Annie Mahoney, woman
with whom Barnes had at one time been
intimate, the admission that the crime
was committed by Jordan. She repeated
the confession in the presence of jordan
and he acknowledged it correct. The
story of the Mahoney woman was told in
stolid, Indifferent way, she apparently
feeling not the slightest conjunction for
her part in the awful tragedy, and she
even at times laughed loudly during the
recital. Her story was that some time
ago Jordan came to her and said that
Barnes was urging him to give poison to
policeman named Allen, against whom
Barnes had a grudge, and he was afraid
that Barnes would injure him if he did
not do as he wished.
Annie Washed Up the Blood.
The woman warned Jordan to beware
of Barnes, whom she declared to be q
treacherous man, and told him that if he
did not take care of himself Barnes would
put poison in his food and kill him in
stead of the policeman. "Wednesday night
Jordan went TO the woman and told her
that he had killed Barnes in fight andthat
the body was lying in the cellar of the fat
building. He asked her to come and help
him clean up the place. She went, and
found the body lying on a heap of coal
near the furnace. She and Jordan
stripped the body, and she took 80 in
money and watch found in the muir
dered mans clothes. She said she con-
sidered herself entitled to this as Barnes
had cheated her out of 500. She washed
up the bloOdstains around the place as
well as she could and then went away, in
order to give color story that he had
gone to Dakota.
Is Woman with Much .Nerve.'
Thursday she met Jordan and Jersey on
the street and they told her they had put
the body in a box, which was still in the
cellar. She went with Jordan while he
engaged an expressman to take the box
away, and then to the flat and watched
the men bring the body out of the base
ment. She laughed heartily while telling
this episode declaring that Jersey was
frightened all the time and did not begin
to have the nerve l had She went with
the men when they took the body away
and urged them to carry il to the Lake
Shore and put stones in the box so that
1t would be sunk in the lake. They re-
fused to do this and dumped it in the
street where the police found it. The
Mahoney woman freely admitted that she
was glad Barnes was dead. AS soon as
she had finished her confession Jordan was
brought in and she repeated the confession.
JOrdan's Plea Is Self Defense.
Jordan admitted that he killed Barnes
and when asked with what he had done it.
replied calmly: You have the tool"
meaning the ax in the possession of the
police. He said: Barnes and had an
argument over missing bolt in the fur
mace. He called me n liar and rushed at
me. / grabbed the AK and knocked him
down. He never moved or spoke after the
first lick. had to hit him, for if l had
not / would have been killed myself
The balance of the story US told by Annie
Mahoney was fully corroborated by .Jor-
dan. Jersey has also confessed his share
in the crime. The reason Barnes had a
grudge against Policeman Allen was that
Allen had been forced to arrest Barnes
owing to the latter's relations with
women.