The record-union., 1896-04-01
CHICAGO'S MURDER MYSTERY.
The BODY IN THE TRUNK Is
IDENTIFIED.
w. M. Doriot Testff1es Before the Coro.
ner's Jury That the Body is That
ofHis Nephew, Oliver Pike.

CHICAGO, March 31.-The cornse of
the man found in the packing case a
week ago is that Of Oliver Pike. who
mysteriously disappeared from Seattle
IN July, 1892. He went from his home
in Fayette, Ohio, to Washington six
years ago.
The solution of the identity of the
mystery, which was complicated bv the
POSITIVE claim that the body was that
or Joannes Prosper Chazel, was accom-
plsned py the testimony of the mur-
dered mans uncle, William NJ Doriot.
ana the formers cousin, given before
The Coroner's jury this afternoon at
the County Morgue
Upon this testimony and the evidence
OF the County Physician, the jury found
that the body before them was that of
Oliver Pike, and that he was muir
dered by blunt instrument inf1icting
two fractures of his skull, and that the
murderer was unknown
Coroner McHale gave an order to Mr..
Doriot to take the remains of his nephew
for burial
The body was legally proven to be
that Of Pike by the feet, hands, hair
and teeth, and by the truss which was
worn by the murdered man and found
in the trunk. The truss was sufficient
~ cleared by the chemicals to allow the
experts to tell the support was not man
ufactured in France, but in this coun-
try, and on that proof fell the claims Of
the missing Frenchman, Prosper Cha
eel, who disappeared from Salt Lake
February 1th, 1893, the day before the
express box was shipped from that city
to Chicago
The apparent fatal discrepancy be-
tween the time of Pixies disappearance
from Seattle and the time the body was
shipped from Salt Lake was cleared by
the admission Of Mr.. Doriot on the
stand that he had made a mistake of a
year. This would agree with the ship
ping time from Salt Lake, February
1893.
possible clew is to be found in the
fact that Pike was employed as an at
tendant at the Steillacoom Insane Asy-
lIm for a short time after his arrival
in Washington, and that he was dis
charged in the fall of 1890 after certain
alleged scandals and abuses had oc-
Cured at the institution, of which Pike
had an innocent knowledge, it is said
just before he disappeared he was liv-
ing at Seattle at the home of O. M
Jones, an old friend. He left the Jones
house July Sd to meet friends who were
coming from Port Blakeley, who were
coming to spend the Fourth" and that
is the last seen or heard of him.
The friends of Chazel were sorely dis
appointed when the result of the inquest
was announced. They say he was mur-
dered by julie the Assassin in Salt
Lake for robbery
HIS DOINGS IN WASHINGTON
SEATTLE (Wash.), March 31-Oliyer
Pike, whose remains are said to be in
the box sold at an express bundle auc-
ton in Chicago, came to Washington
six years ago. He worked as an at
tendant at the Steillacoom Asylum for
time. He was discharged in the fall
Of 1890. Then he worked for several
months at Port Blakeley in the big
lumber mill. Subsequently he was in
Aberdeen, Washington. Then he went
back to Blakeley, but in the spring of
1893 went to Everett and started a
laundry. 1t was not success. He came
to Seattle in June, 1893, and stayed with
Mr.. and Mrs. o. M. Jones, old friends.
He left their house at p. m. July Sd
to see some friends from Port Blakeley,
who were coming to Seattle. That is
the last that has ever been heard of
him. Jones was in the asylum as an at
tendant when Pike was employed there.
SEATTLE (Wash.). March Sic. NJ.
Jones of this city, with whom Oliver
Pike resided while here, scouts the the
ory that Pixies murder has any connec-
ton with disclosures concerning the
deaths of the two patients, Shadle and
Mrs. Redpath, at the Steillacoom Insane
Asylum. Jones states that Pike was
discharged from the asylum in 1890,
many months before the mysterious
deaths at Steillacoom.