Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-08-15
INSPECTOR svRNEs' STORY.

When the attention Of the ofiicials
in the Adams Express ONCE in Balti-
more was directed to the trunk
, marked John A. Wilson, Baltimore.
Nd. To be called for" by the dis
agreeable odor which emanated from
It, there was q suspicion that some
thing was wrong. The trunk was put
| In an open room and was kept for
three days. No one called for It and
the advice of Chief Of Police Frye was
asked.
The trunk was broken open. The
mutilated body Of large-sized man
was found in II. There was no head.
The legs and arms. which had been
clearly cut OF close to the body, were
lying on top Of the remains, with q
lot of bloody paper and clothing
around them. The body and frag-
ments were carefully examined for
marks that might lead to an identih-
cation. All that could be found was
q crooked little finger on the left
hand. Matters were at standstill
10 far as the police investigation was
concerned, when the attention Of In
spector Byrnes was called to the case.
81 was about going home" said In
spector Byrnes, ION Wednesday aft
ernoon when / received telegram
from Chief Frye of Baltimore. A
headless body! That was certainly
novelty, and | became greatly inter
ested. telegraphed for further In
formation. In the answer were three
/ important items. The first was the
address Of a butcher named Siegel, in
Throop avenue, Brooklyn; the sec
ond, q label of Westcott's Express, In
this city, and third, label Of The
London and Manchester Plate Glass
Company, 70 and rs Wooster street.
81 telegraphed for the trunk to be
sent on at once. learned that It had
been seen by reporters and concluded
that the fact that had been notified
would appear in the papers here on
Thursday morning, and II It should
meet the eye Of the murderer, in case
he had not left the city, he would do
so at once. 1t was a case Of jump and
get there. explained the situation
to Detectives Won Gerichten, Titus
and Mclaughlin. and started them
separately on the Siegel, the glass
company and the WeStcott Express
clues.
THE Siegel clue fell fiat; the glass
company threw little light on the
mystery, but the Westcott Express
proved to be the turning point in the
case. It was learned from the Brook
lyn ONCE Of the Westcott Express that
a trunk had been sent to Baltimore
from Bense's liquor store. at 1896 Kent
avenue, several days before. Bense
| told Detective Mclaughlin tat man,
a perfect stranger to him, had brought
the trunk to his place with an Italian.
Bense remembered the names Of VIII
son and Baltimore.
81 made up my mind from the fact
that the trunk had been taken to
Brooklyn from this city. That would
be q guilty mans natural device to
hide o crime.
II reasoned that the trunk had been
taken probably from the east side.
and from some house Fear the Grand
street ferry.
Upon this supposition I sent out a
lot of men to go through the records
Of express companies to see II any Of
the expressmen remembered trunk
like the one Bense had seen. Good
luck attended this effort, and It TO
happened that at the very first place
1T was Dodd's express-at which De-
tective Mclaughlin called he learned
that q similar trunk had been taken
from SAG West 4Oth street to % Ridge
street.
AT the 4Oth street house It was
learned that the trunk belonged to
August Bodies, q butcher. and the