Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-12-12
HIS REMAINS IN A BOX.
Police Find the Mutilatsd Body of
A. .. Barnes in a Dry
Goods Box.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. I.-EvldenCeS of
what seems mysterious and brutal m>s-
der were found today when the chopped
and hacked body of man was discovered
in a shipping-case lying in an alley be-
tween SiXty-third and SiXty-fourth streets.
The body had apparently been cut UP to
fit the case. and had evidently been
shipped from a distant point. The head
was not badly mutilated and the police
hope for an Identification of the remains,
which have been placed in the south side
morgue.
The shipping case bears French stamp,
indicating that the body had been shipped
from France. The body is that of man
about 40 years old, of refined appearance.
The head is partially bald and TIE face
clean-shaven, except for long, blonde
moustache. In the case, carefully wrapped
in paper, was a lock of dark, fine hair,
evidently that of a woman. The police
are completely in the dark with no clues
upon which to base even theory.
The box in which the body was found
was 315 feet long, 2 feet wide and 10
inches deep and has evidently been used
terson," numbered 2162 and stamped
Made in France" Traces of other marks
were found, but they had been carefully
disfgured, making them unreliable. The
later Investigations of the police and eX-
animation of the body by doctors seemed
10 ulSpTONe lIG lueOTy dudI lAc
occurred at a distant point. Doctors said
that the man could not have been dead
more than two days and it is now thought
that the French shipping case was used
to divert suspicion.
With the body were found clippings of
carpet which were identified as having
come from the Pullman palace car shops,
the clippings apparently having been used
as packing for the body. In the case
was found torn bit of paper bearing
the address "R. Y. Titus, 237 West Fifty
seventh street" A portion of letter
was also found, but it's contents the police
refuse to make public. An inquest was
held this afternoon, the p0Iice advancing
the theory that the man was murdered
in the vicinity of Chicago and then boxed
for shipment, but that the principals,
fearing discovery, abandoned their plan
and threw the case into the alley while
on their way to railroad station.
Late this afternoon the body was iden-
titled as that of A. D. Barnes, custodian
of the Hiawatha building az 25S Thirty
seventh street. The Identification was
made by an employee of the dead man.
Barnes was the proprietor of several
news, book and fruit stands and had been
recently divorced from his wife, with
whom he had had much trouble. The
police claimed at the inquest to have no
clues to the murderers
Chicago, Ill.,, Dec. S.-John R., Jersey,
assistant janitor of the Hiawatha build
ing, has confessed that he, with Edmund
Jordan, another janitor, murdered Albert
ID. Barnes. custodian of the building
whose mutilated remains were found in
dry goods box in Hyde Park. Rivalry
between Barnes and Jordan for the chief
Janitorship of the building was the motive
for the crime
Jordan is the man who first identified
Barnes remains at the morgue. He dis
played extraordinary GOODNESS, but when
he undertook to explain his movements
after the time Barnes was last seen alive
his statements became contradictory and
the police placed him under arrest. At
the same time they took Jersey to the lock-
up, though the detectives thought the
murder was the outcome of a liason
proof of which they had just discovered
Mrs. A. r. Winslode of 3744 Rhodes
avenue, accused by her own confession
and handwriting to have been on such
terms of intimacy with the murdered man
as to have aroused the jealousy of her
husband, was also arrested The wronged
husband could not be found by the police
and they regarded this as a suspicious cir
cumstance.
Failing. to get any direct evidence
against the persons in custody, the police
put each of the prisoners through the
sweating" process. Jersey was the first
to break down, and he made complete
confession. Meantime detectives who had
been working on the outside secured sew
eral' persons who had seen Jersey and
Jordan with the dry goods box in the vi
cinity of Hyde Park.
Jerseys confession, according to the
police, shows that Jordan alone was re-
spensible for Barnes death. Jersey said
that Jordan, on the afternoon Of the
murder, gave him some money, told him
to get a few drinks and be back to work
at 8 o'clock that night. When he reap
peared Jordon told him to help carry out
the shipping case, and in so doing some of
the blood from the box ran out onto Jer
sey's sleeve. He asked Jordan what that
meant, and the latter told him that there
was dead man in the box and that he
Jersey had better keep quiet about what
he had seen. Badly scared, Jersey kept
silent until the terrors of the sweat box
Wrung his story from him