The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-12-15
HIS REMAINS IN A BOX.
police Find the Mutilatsd Body of
A. D. Barnes in a Dry
Goods Box.

chicago. H., Dec. 7.-Eyidences of
r5ar seems a mysterious and brutal mt.S-
r were found today when the chopped
l hacked body of a man was discovered
skrDpiDg-caSe living in an allpv be-
Zen =. Sixty-third and Sixty fourth streets.
I,Ea body had apparently been cut up to
~ fhe case and had evidently been
sE.pped from distant point. The head
- not badly mutilated and the police
Ma for an identification of the remains.
,,ffcb have been placed in the south side
~ sbipping case bears a French STAMP.
.-fs.aring that the body had been shipped
from France. The body is that of a man
about 10 years old, of refined appearance.
TH. head is partially bald and the face
r.au ~haven, except for a long, blonde
m,u,tache. In the case, carefully wrapped
paper was a lock of dark, fine hair.
-g.ieutIy that Of a woman. The police
7r completely in the dark with no clues
rr.g which to base even a theory.
THc box in which the body was found
u> 3la feet long, , feet wide and 10
naha, deep and has evidently been used
several times. It was marked "G p Pc
.er-au numbered 2l62 and stamped
llaa, in France" Traces Of other marks
were found, but they had been carefully
I,hcured, making them unreadable The
atur Investigations of the police and py-
a l.-eIaye the theory that the murder had
occurred al a distant point Doctors said
.aa- the man could not have been dead
a r than two days and it is now thought
.atr the French shipping case was used
.a l.Frrf suspicion.
Wth the body were found clippings of
carpet which were identified as having
come from the Pullman palace car shops,
iaa clippings apparently having been used
rs packing for the body In the case
was found torn bit of paper bearing
r5n address "R. \. Titus, 81 West Fifty
,.eenrh street" 4 portion of a letter
u- also found, but its contents the police
r'ase - make public. An inquest was
aeI TINS afternoon, the police advancing
rHn theory that the man was murdered
Ii rhr vicinity Of Chicago and then boxed
tr Shipment but that the principals.
lHras discovery, abandoned their plan
U arrW the ease into the alley while
their way to a railroad station.
l.Hir tins afternoon the body was idcn-
'aot aS that Of A. ID. Barnes. custodian
t tae lllaWatha building at 2JS Thirty
~.t@Nrh street The Identification was
ma.a ~ an cmpIoye Of the dead man.
Barnes WAS the proprietor of several
@A- book and fruit stands and had been
j. oal.E divorced from his wife. with
.u hc bad had much trouble. The
a- io the murdcrrrS.
Chicago, ILL.,, Doe S.-Tohn r. Jersey
a~ ~tant janitor of the Hiawatha build
m- has confessed that he, with Edmund
i.r..an, another janitor, murdered Albert
L Barnes. custodian of the building
whose mutilatcd remains were found in
.rF goods box in Hyde Park. Rivalry
htHeen Barnes and Jordan for the chief
El..iurship OF the building was the motive
t1r tIe crime.
Jordan is The man who first identified
L rHcs remains at the mOrgue. lie dis
paved extraordinary COOlncSS, but when
u" Undertook 10 explain his movements
a.,r the time Barnes was last seen aIjye
0o statements became contradictory and
l' ponce placed him under arrest At
tan same time they took Jersey to the lock
an though the detectives thought the
i .f.rr was the outcome of liason,
z e which they had just discovered
a.rS A. X. WinSlOdc of 3T44 Rhodes
ohge accused by her own confession
a handwriting to have been on such
terms 81 intimacy with the murdered man
~ +" nave aroused the jealousy Of her
husband, was also arrested. The wYongcd
.-13ad could not be found by The police
hey regarded this as ii suspicious cir
#.u#~taucc
,'''AH- " -tL any bIftI evidence
a-uiust the persons in custody, the police
I,t each Of the prisoners through the
sweating" process Jersey was the first
81 break down, and he made a complete
atcsSion. Meantime detectives who had
Zen working on the outside secured Scy-
srlI persons who had seen Jersey and
] r'lan with the dry goods box in the Vi
Of Hyde Park
Jerseys confession, according to the
..trc- shows that Jordan alone was re
aShIc for Barnes death. jersey said
Jordan, on the afternoon Of the
der, gave him some money, told him
-"t a few drinks ana be back to work
" cock that night. When he reap
aJ lordon told him to help carry out
.priH- case. and in 50 doing some of
aui from the box ran out onto .Icr-
nevc. He asked Jordan what that
and the latter told him that there
lead man III the box and that he
had better keep quiet about what
.l seen. Badly scared, Jersey kept
latii the tcrrorS Of the sweat box
.a.- uS story from him.