The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-03-16
Body Found
Jan1n1ed in
Steel Trunk
Railroad Station Attendants
at Ogden, Utah, Uncover
Crime Committed
in Denver. /.
b | o o d in Apartment

Denver, Colo, March 15.-Denyer
police centered their efforts tonight
to locate Fred Jansen. sought for
questioning in connection with the
finding OF the body of woman in =
steel trunk at Ogden, Utah, today.
The body Is believed by the police
TO be that OF Mrs. Belle Jansen. 412{
Clay street, Denver. wife of the man
sought.
Mrs. Jansen disappeared mysteri-
ously Thursday and her husband an
nounced she had been called to Pitts
hurgh, Pa, where a brother was III.
Jansen faded out of sight Friday. .
few hours after a man whose de-
scription Is said TO tally with that
of Jansen checked the murder trunk
TO Weed. Cal, under the name OF
John J. Smith. 4l44 Clay street, Dem
yer.
Washington A. Rinker, chief of de-
|tectives, announced tonight his belief
that the dead woman was Mrs. JAMS
sen. who had been employed several
years by a Denver department store.
Rinker said the police were with
out any clue TO the whereabouts Of
Jansen. The missing mans descrip-
tion follows:
Suspects Description.
Height. feet 6 inches; weight.
l55 TO 40 pounds; complexion, dark;
eyes. dark; nose. long with a bump
about halfway down. then a slight
depression, and a second bump; rough
ly dressed, wearing a dark suit:
speaks English perfectly; is OF Danish
or OF Swedish-German descent.
The Janssens came here from Pitts
burgh. where they lived. according TO
the police. ar 5Igo kinca.d street.
Kenneth Robinson. assistant dis
trict attorney, left for Ogden late to-
day TO take charge Of the investisa-
ton at that end. Police reports frcm
Ogden said the Utah authorities had
found bloody finger prints on the
trunk. and II was believed this dis
covery might ultimately have an Inn
portsnt bearing on the finding OF the
slayer
Apartment in Disorder.
According to a Denver expressman.
he was called by a man who repre-
sented himself as Smith early Friday
morning and asked TO haul a trunk
from the Jansen apartments TO the
Windsor hotel. Later, another ex-
pressman was called in to haul the
trunk from the lobby OF the hotel to
the Union station. where the man
known as Smith checked the trunk
On a ticket to Weed, Cal
The apartment occupied by the
couple was found in disorder and the
police announced they found a red
blotch on one OF the carpet. which
they believe to be blood stain. The
splotch. officers say. showed signs OF
having been repeatedly scrubbed IN
an effort TO remove II.
A salvation Army driver called At
the Jansen home on Friday. IN
response TO Jsnssen's request and re-
moved several OF Mrs. Janssen-s
dresses. bed clothes. a suitcase and a
variety. OF decorations.
Dresses Identified.
The dresses were identified az the
Army this afternoon as b.
longing 10 Mrs. Jansen. Identified
tion was made by employees Of the
department store where Mrs. Jansen
worked
Records at the Windsor hotel
showed that man registered therp
Thursday night as John ]. Smith,
Clerks said the paid two days hotel
bin in advance. Then he disappeared.
Search today Of the room assigned to
him. showed that the bed had nut
been occupied. Janssen served in the
army during the world war and IL
said 70 have been stationed At Fort
Logan. near here.
During the day the police eessA
iished that Jansen had not been
working for more than a month. hav-
ing been discharged from his place
as church ianitor. His employers
ha NE.