Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-09-04
W0MAN'S BODY
FOUND IN TRUNK
TERRIBLY MUTILATED TRUNK
AND FLESH IN TRUNK-HEAD
AND BONES IN HOME FURNACE
HUSBAND CONFESSES.

Boston, Sept. "A brutal crime
was disclosed last night by the dis
covery of the torso of Mrs. Honorah
Jordan, an actress, aged 23 years, OF
Somerville, in a trunk in 1 board
ing house at Hancock street on
Racon Hill, this city. Later the
head and bones OF the limbs were
found in the furnace of the Jordan
home at Somervlile. and the scalp.
hair and other remains were taken
from the kitchen range OF the house
Chester Jordan, aged 29 years, an
actor, of Somerville. is held by the
police, charged with the murder, and
according to the officers he has made
complete confession of the crime
Jordan Is brother of Mrs. Jessie
Livermore, wife of the well-known
stock and cotton speculator of New
York His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P.
J. Jordan, and a sister, Mrs. Ken
dali, prominent in Somerville socie-
ty, live in the latter city. Mrs
Chester Jordan was known on the
stage as Irene Shannon.
According to Jordan's confession,
he accidentally killed his wife Tues,
day night in a quarrel at their home
and, becoming desperate over wha.
he had done, went out and bought a
butcher knife, and with this knife,
body and placed the torso in a
trunk. He then planned to take the
steamer Harvard for New York last
night and throw the parts Of the
body overheard. The fact that the
Harvard was laid OF, owing to an
accident disarranged his plans, and
he was obliged to hire a hackman to
take the trunk to Boston boarding
house to await a more favorable op-
portunity.
The discovery of the crime was
due to the suspicious of the hack
man, who had in mind the numerous
robberies which have taken place in
Boston recently, and surmising from
its weight that the trunk contained
silverware, notified the police. He
reported that he had taken the
trunk from the north station, it
having come in from Somervills on a
local train. The haekman stated he
left Jordan and the trunk yesterday
afternoon at 7 Hancock street. Sergt.
Michael Crowley was detailed to 30
to the house and investigate. Jor-
dan was not In. but the oficer was
shown the back room on the second
door which Jordan had engaged and
found the trunk.
About $3.50 Jordan returned and
was commanded to open the trunk.
Jordan did not appear nervous or
alarmed. but hesitated to open the
trunk, and it was not until after
considerable argument that he pro-
serted 1t in the lock. Turning his
head, Jordan threw up the cover OF
the trunk and then sank back on his
knees, burying his face In hts hands
and sobbing. Sergt. Crowley stag
gered back for In the trunk before
him lay a sickening mass of hacked
flesh. a woman's torso filling the
greater part of the trunk. while
pieces of flesh from other parts OF
the body were stuffed into the cor
ners. The entire interior Of the
trunk was despatched with bloc,
There was no covering Of any sort
over the remains.
Jordan declared to the police that
after knocking his wife down stairs
and finding that she was dead, h
had placed the body in the kitchen
and went to bed and to sleep. When
he awoke in the morning he cooked
his own breakfast in the kitchen,
eating 1t in the presence OF the body
OF his wife. In the afternoon, Jor
dan said, he dismembered the body.