The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-05
Jordan Does Not Recall Cut
ting Head From Corpse
of Helpmeet.
DETAILS HIS EFFORTS
TO HIDE EVIDENCE
Millionaire Cotton Spectator Goes
to Aid of Brother-in-Law
Held for Murder.

the millionaire cotton specuIator Of New
York. has come 10 the aid of his
brother-In-IaW. Chester S. Jordan. who
is charged with numbering his wife I'm
this city. dismembering her body and
trying 10 ship the torso and limbs In
trunk TO Europe 20 hide his crime, and
tine trial is expected to prove a re-
markabIe one There are only two the
ories as 10 its cause. The police say
jealousy. His relatives win uudoubt-
edly claim insanity.
Jordan last night made the following
statement regarding the murder.
Il came from indianapolis. / was
born there tWenty-nIne years ago.
When met my wife she had already
been married once 10 d man named
Charles EDDY. She was thirty years
old. Her maidsn name was HOnOrah
OReiIly. ] married her four years ago.
Right after we We're married We
went TO Butte. Mont, TO live. The cIi-
mate did not agree with my wife and
We only stayed there little while.
Then we moved to Chicago.
Had Been on Stage.
we had both been on the stage and
had made a speciality OF vaudeville.
When We got married We doubled up
and secared a joint engagement. j did
q sketch while nay wife did a CLrn as
e. nurse and sang few songs. We
travelled around the country, but made
our home in Chicago. Several times we
played in Boston.
after about a year I'm Chicago
guess it was q little over a year-we
moved 10 Somervile. Mass, TO live.
1T was after we came 10 SOmervlle
that We began 20 have trouble. Ny
wife was iusanely jealous OF me. She
told me / paid too much attention 20
other women. We quarreled most
constantly. Why, the slightest notice
would pay 10 any woman wouif
arouse my wife to an outburst ElEssi
"a nod would sometimes start her, She
assaiied ne on the slightest -pr5yocs-
This happened last Tuesday. / went
home and about $50 o'clock guess
that's just about when 10 happened
while my wife was getting supper. she
had only been in the house a little
while i denied the charge. She made
it again- i retorted.
vuarrel Grows Warm.
'The quarrel got warm, and I dor.'t
remember every word that was said.
except that fl ran along this way.
"Au the time she was beIatmg me she
held a biz butcher knife. She was
walking back and forth between the
stove and the ice chest. She got hotter
all the time. guess I did. too. Finally
she walked to the refrigerator, got a
piece of bacon and came back Just as
she got 10 the top of the stairs leading
to the lower fiat she called ME a vile
name that drove me mad.
Il lost my head completely. 1 let my
fist fly at her-I did not realize what
was doing. She must have fallen down
stairs when 1 hit her. I lost my mem
OTy. 1 don't remember q ching that
happened. Everything grew black. My
miud was q blank
Suddenly ] awOke in my bed partly
dressed. / dJn't know how 7 got there
1 wasn't drJ NIX. i had not had a drink.
/ cannot account for II. 1 knew Uhero
was a blank somewhere. I tried 10
clear my mind and think Of the last
few hours. But my memory was vague
My brain was cold. 1 couldn't collect
my thoughts.
Finds It Is Day.
''V-hen I finally did get some sort Of
order in my brain, knew it was day
light. 1t was Wednesday morning. the
next day after my battle with my wife.
4 got up out OF bed, finished dressing
in some way or another and started for
the kitchen, where I had had my trouble
NV God, what a sight it was! 1 was
stunned. There lay my wife on the
floor. Her clothes lay near her on the
floor They We're smeared with blood.
There was some blood on the floor
Then 1 knew she was dead-my Wife
was dead, there on the floor
Il looked around. Near her was a
butcher kuife-the one she had held in
the kitchen. 1t was all smeared with
blood.
u knelt on the floor. 1 don't know
why, but I knelt. I looked at my wife
again. 1 saw her throat was cut Il
was CUT in complete circle clear TO the
bone.
"Oh, i can't tell you how 1 felt, how
I JhCUghtl 1 can't describe my feel
ings. l don't know what thoughts came
20 me. i was Crazed.
"Then 1 came To-
My wife was dead. 1 would be ac-
cused OF murder. The evidence was
damuiug. Not a word 1 could say would
save me. What could L do? What
would You do? 1 was in an awful pre-
dicameut.
Il couldn't help her. I couldn't bring
her back TO life i was sure to be ac-
cused of her murder. So L cut up her
body 20 get rid Of the damning evi-
dence.
Hurdes Through TOb