The record-union., 1896-03-09
CHOPPED TO PIECES.
Horrible Discovery Made by Rag
Picker at Chicago.
MutiIated Bodies of a Man and Child
Were Found Stuffed In
Barrel.

CHICAGO, March S.-The body of a
man chopped into pieces, together with
an infant with it's skull crushed, was
found in an alley at the rear of 1929
Prairie avenue this afternoon stuffed
in a barrel.
Toney Ungone was picking rags in
the alley back of the home of J. A.
Nourse this afternoon at 2 o'clock, when
ne came across a barrel with an old
shirt tied over the top of it. Supposing
it to be a barrel of trash he commenced
to look for rags, and the first thing
he picked UP was the head of a man
with long gray whiskers. He dropped
1t in terror and ran from the alley to
the street, where he Lctified the first
policeman he could find.
As soon as the police were summoned
they sent the barrel to the Hyde Park
morgue, and on emptying it it was found
that it contained the remains of an
old man about 20 years old and male
infant about 10 days old. The body of
the man was fearfully mutilated. The
head was taken off and two holes had
been bored in the skull at the forehead
with an augur The right leg was cut
off above the knee, two toes from the
foot Of the same leg having been ap
parently severed with a cleaver. The
right arm was pulled out of it's socket,
the left foot was sawed off at the ankle,
and the fingers off the left hand. The
body itself was intact, except the skull,
which was fractured.
The bodies are badly decomposed,
and the killing must have been done at
least two weeks ago. Where the flesh
was sawed and been torn it had turned
black No articles of clothing were
found except a homespun shirt, which,
together with some cotton padding,
was wrapped around the head and
shoulders of the man.
While there is every evidence that
the murder was committed some days
ago, the bodies were not placed in the
alley until last night. Mr.. Nourse no
ticed the barrel in the alley early this
morning, but did not pay any attention
to it, thinking it was a garbage barrel
put out by some Of his neighbors. There
is no clew as to how it got into the
alley.
The neighborhood is sparsely popu-
lated, and few policemen patrol the dis
trict. The ground was frozen so that no
fresh wagon wheel tracks can be dis
covered.
is the mutilated body of a man who was
pulled out of the lake last Sunday,
which is still unidentified, and now the
Hyde Park police have q more horrible
and mysterious case, and in neither
have they anything to go on. AS the
features of their last find, however, are
intact, it is hoped that the bodies found
to-day will be soon identified.
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the brutal hacking Of the body is that
someone did it in the hope of creating
the theory that the body had been dis
sected by medical students. The boring
of holes in the skull, it is thought, was
done especially for this reason, and the
police believe that a woman did the
horrible deed. as such poor job was
made of it. The shirt found would iEdi-
cate that the man was farmer, and it
is not thought that money could have
been the motive for the killing.
The officers, of whom there are now
thirty working on the case, are going on
the theory that the child was illegiti-
mate, and that the old man was the
father. The woman perhaps lived alone
with the old man, and there was a fight
over the birth Of the child, which ended
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las been kept waiting an opportunity
to get a confederate TO dispose of it.
Early in the afternoon. before the dis
covery was made, a. woman called the
Morgue ever the telephone and asked if
the body of an old man had been re-
eeived, and the description she gave
tallies with that of the body found later.
It is thought, however, that this Wa
only a coincidence.
A physician examined the bodies to-
night, and said that the dissecting could
not have been done by medical stu
dent, no matter how inexperienced and
as the remains have not been in a
picking vat, it is almost certain that
murder has been con mItted.