Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-19

Young Giant Who Murdered
His vile Calmly Awaits
Ills Doom
One Of Jurors Vent Insane
When Sentence was
Passed o. him
Special TO The Tribune,

| Special to The Tribune, .
BOSTON. MASS, Sept. 19.-Ches
| ter s. Jordan, who killed his wife
four years ago this month. has beer
taken from the Jail in East Cam
bridge to the state prison In Charles
town, there to await death in thu
| electric chair In accordance with the
sentence OF the court. According t
this sentence the noted prisoner
I whose case has attracted country
| wide attention, will be put to death
early in the coming week.
Jordan Is o brotherinlaw Of Jesse
Livermore, the yOuns Wall street
plunger who Is reputed to have made
several million dollars in cotton spec
ulation some years ago. For four
years Livermore has spent freely oil
his immense fortune in a vain effort
to save his relative from the death
chair. The best lawyers in Massa'
chusetts we're retained as counsel and
the case was carried to the supreme
court OF the United States. The only
result was to obtain for the prisoner
q short respite while his case was
awaiting argument before the high
est tribunal in the land.
Officials OF the East Cambridge
Jail, where Jordan has been confined
for four years. declare him to be one
of the most remarkable prisoners
with which they have ever met. From
the hour that he was arrested, while
seated on a trunk In which was hid
den tho headless body of his slain
wife, he has maintained perfect com
posure. The long trial. the sentence
of death, even the news that the gov
ernor had declined to interfere and
by so doing had wiped away his last
lingering hope for life. have failed to
produce the slightest ruffle in the
steady calmness of his appearance
and demeanor. During the years OF
his confinement In Jail the prisoner
spent his days largely in studying the
market reports. in which he displayed
the same quiet interest as might q
a broker in his Office. RE,
Jordan's crime was OF an unusually
gruesome nature. OF giant build and
handsome face. the young man had
sought, and found employment as an
actor, after leaving his boyhood home
In Indianapolis. Early In his stage
career he met aud married Mrs.
Honorah Eddy. The married life Of
the couple proved ~tempestlous. Mrs.
Jordan, according to her husband,
took to drinking and associating with
other men. This led to jealous quar-.
rels between the two and 1t was one
Of these QNarrels that ended in the
death of the wife. "a
The murder was committed in the
home OF the couple in Somerville. In
the heat OF q quarrel, according to
Jordan's own statements, he struck
his wife and the blow caused her
death. The husband went out and
oought d butchers knife and a hack
saw, with which he dismembered the
body. He severed has wife's head,
also the legs. Then he tried to de.
stroy all trace of them by burning
them in the furnace of his home. He
put the rest OF the body in q trunk
and came to Boston with the CHASTITY
burden, stopping at a boarding house
preliminary stoetaking a steamer for
New York. IT was his intention to
get rid Of what remained OF his wife
by throwing the headless torso into
the water while the boat was enroute
for New York. }E
Up to this point all had gone we'll
with the young murderer. But when
he arrived at the wharf he found that
the New York steamer had gone. He
then Ehired o cabman to drive him
Jack; ITO the boarding house. His ner.
v0usness aroused the suspicious OF
the cab driver and after the latter
had carried the trunk to JOrdan's
he mentioned the matter to an
officer: The police, suspected that
the trunk might contain stolen goods,
as up to this time there was no sus.
picion that a murder had been com.
mitted. When the officers entered
the room and examined the trunk
against Jordan's protests they were
dumbfounded by their ghastly discov.
cry, When taken to the station the
young man calmly told the entire
story and an examination OF the
apartment In Somerville bore out the
horror OF the crime to which he con.
fessed.
During the trial Jordan listened to
the revolving details Of the murder
with the utmost nonchalance. After
he had been convicted and sentence
Of death had been passed upon him,
one Of the Jurors went insane. This
was four days later. Counsel for Jor.
dan appealed the case on the ground
that the Juror had been insane dur.
Ing the trial. The Massachusetts
court denied the contention and the
was taken to the supreme
court of the United States. The lat
ter tribunal upheld the decision of
the Massachusetts court and Jordan
was sentenced for the second time to