Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
ACTOR CHOPPED
WIFE TO PIECES
PORTIONS OF HER BODY WE'RE
FOUND IN A TRUNK AT
BOSTON.
HEAD WAS HID IN A FURNACE.
Chester Jordan, Aged 29 Years, Con-
fesses Killing His Wife After a
Quarrel at Their Home in
Somervile, Mass.

Boston, Mass.-The most brutal
crime committed in Greater Boston
since the death of Susan Geary, a.
chorus girl, four years ago, and one
much resembling it in its details, was
disclosed Thursday night by the dis
covery of the torso of Mrs. Honorahg
Jordan, an actress aged % years, of
Somerville, in trunk in a boarding
house at Hancock street on Beacon
Hill, this city. Later the head and
bones of the limbs were found in the
furnace of the Jordan home at Som.
erville and the scalp, hair and other
grewsome 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 made a
complete confession of the crime.
According tot Jordan's confession,
he accidentally killed his wife Tues
day night in a quarrel at their home
and, becoming desperate over what
he had done, he went out and bought
a butcher knife, razor and shears, cut.
up the body and placed the torso in
a trunk. He then planned to take the
steamer Harvard Wednesday night for
New York and throw the parts of the
body overheard.
The fact that the Harvard was laid
off 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
more favorable opportunity
The discovery of the crime was due
to the suspicious of the hackman,.
George Collins, who had in mind nu-
merous robberies which have taken
place about Boston recently and, sur
missing from it's weight that the trunk
contained silyerware, notified the po-
lice
Collins reported that he had taken
the trunk from the North station, it
having come in from Somerville on,
local train. The hackman said he
left Jordan and the trunk Thursday
afternoon at No. Hancock street.
Sergeant Michael Crowley was de-
tailed to go to the house and investi-
6dIc. JoIudh Was uOI III, DuI the OIL
Ger was shown the back room on the
second floor which Jordan had en-
gagged and found the trunk. At this.
time the trunk was not opened. About.
500 Jordan returned and was COM
manded to open the trunk
Jordan did not appear alarmed, but
hesitated to open the trunk and it
was not until after considerable argyll
ment that he produced the key to the
trunk and inserted it 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 his hands and sobbing.
Crowley staggered back aghast at
the disclosure, for in the trunk before
him lay 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 corners.
Jordan stated that he was married
in September, 1904, to Mrs. Honorah
Eddy, whose maiden name was,
O'Reilly and whose home was in
Somerville. He did not know who,
his wife's first husband was or what
had become of him. The couple went
on the vaudeville stage, Mr.. Jordan
taking the part of tramp and his.
wife that of nurse, in a sketch.