The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-28
SENT 1T FROM SALT LAKE
History of the Box Sold at Chicago With a
Man in IL.

Salt Lake City, Utah, March Elm
vestig2 ton here today has developed
further facts relating to the box con-
tanning the corpse which was sold as
unclaimed freight at the auction sale
in Chicago yesterday.
The box in question was delivered at
the Union Pacific freight Office here on
the freight charges (51Z55) signed his
name as c. NJ. Morgan and the package
was consigned G.. NJ. Morgan, 1166 JEFF
fersOn street, Chicago. C. N. Morgan
took the train for Chicago on the same
date. He was a man of medium
height, dark hair, moustache and beard
and wore a soft felt hat. The railway
officials here remember that the man
was excited and acted nerous while
transacting business at the depot.
Chicago, March 27-The man whose
body was found here yesterday packed
in box, was murdered. This was set
tied definitely this afternoon when the
coroner's physicians held a postmortem
examination on the body at the county
morgue. Two large holes had been made
in the skull and either would have kill
ed the man.
The post-motem kroved that the body
was that of man five feet six inches
high, weighing about AS pounds. Judg-
ing from the bones the body was that
of a young man about 80 or 80 years Of
age. There were two scalp wounds on
the back and left side of the head. Un-
der these scalp wounds were two skull
fractures. The one on the back was
round, one inch across. The one on the
left was one-fourth by one inch. The
bones in these places had been driven
into the brain. The teeth were all
sound and all present. The hair on the
head was medium long. straight and
dark brown. There was no beard or
moustache. The internal organs were
all in a healthy condition. Around the
body was truss made as if in use for
rupture. The only causes for death
found were the skull fractures.
The police are now endeavoring to
find the expressman who called at I66
South Jefferson street mot 1860 last
week with a second box addressed to c.
W. Morgan.
Chicago. March 27.-Henry Devere
and Bas Marcel appeared at the Armory
police station tonight and said they be
lieved the body in the Wakem and Nc
Laughlin box is that OF JOanes Prosper
Chazel. who disappeared from Salt
Lake City on February IS, 1893. They
have seen the body and feel reasonably
CtI ls1ln lliGL II Is LIlaI u NudLti. VINO
lived with a woman named Miss Ro-
lande, on Franklin avenue. Salt Lake
City. up to February. 1898. at what num-
Der the F'renchrlen do not remember.
Chicago. March 2T-Chazsl l.ved ,..t,-
Ms Eo'9u- -. .'s rs.te and the men
who called al the police station tonight
say that she IS now in Paris, France,
where she in the hope that she would
be able to find some way 10 clear up the
disappearance Of Chazel
Devere and Marcel both believe that
Chazel was murdered and that the
motive therefor was robbery. "a the
latter was quite well off and carried
jewelry IL IS said that as much as two
or three thousand dollars worth was in
his possession just before he disappear
ed. The men said also that the police
Of Paris have been notified Of the disap-
pearance Of Chszel and have for some
time been working on the case At the
instigation Of Miss Rolande. who IS now
living on the Rue d Charities in Paris.