Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-09-20
JORDAN FORCES
DEATH CHAIR
Wife Murderer Will Be
Electrocuted Early in
the Coming
Week
APPEARS INDIFFERENT

isOSiO-Nt Mass sept l9.-CheSter
s Jordan, who killed his wife four
years ago this month, has been taken
from the Jail in East Cambridge 10
the state prison in Charleston. there
TO await death in the electric chair
/ in accordance with the sentence OF
the court According TO this sentence
the noted prisoner, whose case has
attracted countrywide attention. will
be put to death early IN tn. coming
week
Jordan is a brother-in-law Of Jesse
I Llyermore, the young Wall Street
plunger who is reputed to have made
several million dollars in cotton specu-
lation some years ago. Fer fur wears
Liyermore has spent freely Of his i'm.
mense fortune in vain effort TO save
/ his relative from the death chair The
I best lawyers in Massachusetts were
retained as counsel and the case was
carried TO the Supreme court of the
I United States. The only result was
TO obtain for the prisoner short re-
lspite while his case was awaiting ar.
/ gument before the highest tribunal in
! the land.
Most Remarkable Prisoner
Officials of the East Cambridge
( Jail. where Jordan has been confined
I for four years, declare him to be the
most remarkable prisoner with which
I they have ever met. From the holr
I that he was arrested, while seated
I on trunk in which was hidden the
I headless body of his slain wife he
has maintained perfect composure.
/ The long trial, the sentence of death.
even the news that the governor 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 de.
meanor. During the years of his con.
/ finement in Jail the prisoner spent his
/ days largely in studying the market
reports. in which he displayed the
same quiet interest as might a brok-
er in his Office.
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 and married Mrs. Hon
Orah Eddy. The married life of the
couple proved tempestuous. Mrs. Jor-
dan. according to her husband, took
to drinking and associated with other
men. This led to jealous quarrels
between the two and it was one Of
these quarrels that ended in the death
Of the wife.
Death Due to Excitement
The murder was committed i'm the
home OF the couple in Somerville. in
the heat OF a quarrel, according TO
JOrdan's own statements, he struck
his wife and the blow caused her
death. The husband went out and
bought a butcher knife and a hack
saw, with which he dismembered the
body. He severed his wife's head,
also the legs. Then ne tried to des-
troy all trace of them By burning them
in the furnace of his home. He put
the rest of the body in a trunk and
came to Boston with the CHASTITY bur
den, stopping at a boarding house pre-
liminary TO taking a steamer for New
York. IL was his intention to get rid
Of what remained of his wife by
throwing the headless torso into the
water while the boat was en- route
for New York.
Up to this point all had gone well
with the young murderer. But wheh
he arrived at the wharf he found that
the New York steamer had gone. He
then hired q cabman TO drive him
back to the boarding house. His ner,
Vousness aroused the suspicious of the
cab driver and after the latter had
carried the trunk to JOTdans room
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 suspicion that
a murder had been committed. When
the officers entered the room and eX-
amined the trunk against Jordan's
protests they were dumbfOunded by
their CHASTITY discovery. When taken
to the station the young man calmly
/ told the entire story and an examin-
alton of the apartment in Somerville
bore out the horror Of the entire crime
to which he confessed.
During the trial Jordan listened to
the revolving details Of the murder
with the utmost nOnchalance. Aft
er he had been convicted and sen
tence of death had been passed upon
him. one of the jurors went insane.
This was four days later. Counsel for
Jordan appealed the case on the
ground that the juror had been in.
sane during the trial. The Massachu-
sets court denied the contention and
the appeal was taken to the Supreme
court of the United States. The lat
ter tribunal upheld the decision of the
Massachusetts court and JOrdOn was
sentenced for a second time TO
die in the electric chair