The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1908, Page 2

POT EY e 2 Citation SER CHT WTH LER TA WE Speculator Did Not Know Then That Brother-in-Law Was a Murderer. BELIEVES H Prisoner in Court Admits the Crime, but Denies Intent to Kill the Woman. INSANE, (Special to The Evening World.) ' BOSTON, Sept. 4—While the dismem- ered corpse of the woman he had murdered was scattered about two houses, Chester S. Jordan, the perpe-| butchery | at trator of the most ghastly In the history of this State, went about his business as usual yesterday and| joked as he sat at luncheon with his/the greater part of the trunk, while Livermore, specu: brother-indaw, Jesse L. the famous New York cotton Jator, This disclosure regarding the conduct! goatterea with blood. murderer, is the ‘of the self-confessed wife three hours before his arrest, most amazing of to-day’s developments dn the story, next only to the grew- some crime itself, Mr. Livermore arrived here @ay forenoon with his wife, the prison- ‘er's sister, on his yacht, the Venetia, after a crulse along the Maine coast. About noon he went to the office of IR. 8. Barrows, a broker, where Ches- ter Jordan had desk room. There the New Yorker found his stalwart young brother-in-law smoking cigarettes and yester- chatting with casual callers in the Most composed way. Jordan and a third man were the (uests of Livermore for luncheon in a Newspaper Row restaurant, While Vordan did not eat much, he was per- feotly matter-of-fact in his manner ‘and discussed a wide variety of sub- dectu. In the middle of the afternoon, Jor- dan, otill absolutely calm and seil- possessed, parted from his brother-in- law and rode in a street car to the house in Hancock street, where the policeman found him a lijtle later) sitting alongside the steamer trunk ‘that contained his victim's hacked and | mangled torso, | Livermore is going to spend & part of what fortune he tias left after the recent cotton slump in ‘rying to save trom the electric chair fis brot.ier-in- | law. 1 ee Already it is settled that a plea of Insanity wiil be the defense offered in half of the man who Killed his wife, | chopped her up and carted parts of the bedy about with him for forty-eight hours, Mr. Livermore has alrendy retained Attorney Willlam 8. Sehartoa for the defenge. It is further stated that the Livermores and the members of ‘the murderer's immediate family, who| are prominent in society at Somerville, will be able to show that, as far back as six weeks ago, he showed pronounced signs of mental derangement. Arrested at His Home. | Jordan was arrested by the Boston| police last night, after he had brough the trunk with the mutilated torso from his home, No. 509 Medford street, Bomerville. He came here, hoping to gat) for New York with his gruesome trunkload, He believed he could drop the trunk and its contents from the steamer Harvard, and that his crime would never be discovered. He probably would have succeeded had not the stenmer Harvard met with an acci dent which prevented her from making the regular trip yesterday morning. On his arrival here from Somery Jordan engaged George W. Collins, a hackman, to take his trunk to the! South Station, where he Intended board- ‘ng the train for New York, after he found that the Harvard would not sail. Driver Was Suspicious. He changed his mind, however, and, purchasing a ticket on the Cunard wteamer Ivernla, which sails to-day for Liverpool, again called the same hack- man and had him take the trunk to a boarding-house. When the trunk was taken {nto the house Jordan accom- panied it and sat on the trunk smoking cigarette while he talked with tne landlady, Jordan then went off and bought @ roll of wim, wire nippers and eight He | window weights, which he described as Help Wanted To-Day! As Advertised for in The Morning World’s Want Directory. FRIDAY, Sept. 5, 1908 4 Harness Makers + 16 sework 1 8 1 rs 2 Janitreases Bartenders Bookkeepers BOW iiss + Bushelmen |, Day's Work Detectives ‘Dentints 5 Dishwashers . Drivers Drug Clerks Electricians Etevator Runners FEmbrolderers 2 Engineers .. ' 4 Folders Fore indies Foremen Or 2 Total Ss} Help ads.—398 more than all othe New York papers com by the officer at first denied his iden- tity. Later he admitted who he was. | | Jorda id not appear nervous or! | alarme but hesitated to the | trunk j hands and sobbing. | covering of any sort over the remains. | | “inkers,"” and several sheets of heavy wrapping paper. With these he in tended to wrap up the parts of the body of his wife, welght th and throw t into the Cha er, The Paper and wire were found on tel in the room with the trunk cabman p tone ographed t i ama The the became tents while nto the house de him think it contained rware, and the nervous Jordan satisfied him burglar. There have been many rob- beries of silverware recently and the hack driver, believing he wag on the trail of the thlef, went to the police and told them of the mysterious trunk He described the room in the house to which he had carried it, Police Find Trunk. Sergt. Michael Crowley was detalled to go to the Hancock street house and investigate. About 6.20. ¢ and on be susp! cor Ils w stolen sil anner of the man was a slock Jordan returned accosted in the hallway open nd it was not until after con- argument on the part of the oduced the key to the K and inserted it in the lock. ning his head to one side so he not see inside the trunk, Jordan threw up the cover and then sank back on his kness, burying his face in his Confesses His Crime. Sergt. Crowley staggered back aghast the sight disclosed. In the open trunk before him lay a sickening mass of hacked flesh, a woman's torao filling YARY LINKER WE AMO STAM CUS AT VELEOI Pieces of flesh from other parts of the body were stuffed Into the corners, the entire interior of the trunk being be- There was no without protest to the handcuffs and was led to Station . 3 and locked up. Giving his name and address he declared the body in the trunk was that of bis wife, and ap- peared perfectly willing {o tell the ofi- everything concerning the case. The confession of the husband was be- Heved to be a substantial recital of the incidents of the brutal crime, but several minor details of his confession confiicted with each other and his story was un- Jordan submitted War Craft With Battleships connected in paris. He also gave a Badly Damaged, but No plausible reason in a remark by his + " wife which was incited, according *o Lives Are Lost, his story, by her belief that he was un- faithful. He stated that following her aes. Wend epithet he struck her, knocking her MBLBOURNE, Sept. 4.—The Amer- down a flight of stairs. He claimed ican collier Ajax, which {s accompan. that this blow was the only cause ing the fleet, was in c sion in the har. by which he is responsible, as far bor to-day with the steamer Laura as he knows, for her death, as following Both vessels were badly damaged, but this he remembered nothing until the there was no lo: of life, es 75-YEAR-OLD CAR DRIVER Lost, Police Headquarters was asked to-day to look for Michael Ryan. seventy-five vears old, said to be a hor: no has been miss 0, 435 West Fif next morning, when on awakening he found her body at the foot of tye stairs At this latter time, however, hs wife's neck was slashed from ear to ear. On this portion of his confession the polica placed the least credence, and thelr efforts in to-day's investigation XO. Heise his are centred in @ search for another tall welehs 145 poun stronger motiv medical examiner | hair. Whon last arefi sult, black soft exam! ody for marks! ne used her death, | £0°K# and waiters. of the blow w ‘Broadway Fire That Trapped 400; One oi the Girls Who Was a Heroine THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBE SIMU WIMER BRIDE DIAS HER tart Evening World by a Staff Artist.) | INET MILE eM to Fire Island Closes in i} | Drifting Match, ‘ Although the yaw! Sakana & W, Haviland last in the ninety-three mile oces | owned by {J lin race for the Frederick crossed the finish Thompson Cup, held under the auspices of the Atlantic Yacht Club her time allowance of 3 hours and 1) minutes gave her first place in the long struggle, and posses- vf the handsome trophy, The Mamosia II owned by Charles | Wainwright. nosed in second, while the | Malidic, owned py T, W. Childs, got third place, The first yacht to cross the finish line was the Gardenia, 1. Hedig's fleet craft. She led the others 1 what proved to be a drifting contest in the last stages of the contest, and rossed the ine at 11.4. Her time al- lowance was 28 minutes, Not a mishap marked the long-drawn- vut contest. ‘The yachts, skilfully han- dled by theld m 8, raced all night, and when the leaders hove in sight shortly before noon running for the line one after the other there was a great nf yachts out to welcome their re- to the Atlantic Yacht Club's an- time the yachts of the fi Time. HOM. W478 ISTACHAD OL ») MAN CHALLENGED TO AGH DUEL Southern Witness Re- senis Attack al Government The evidence of the gashing of the ck was plain, and it was belleved that thls caused the woman's aeath, but Jordan's denial of any knowledge of this act made the matter one for) close attention, His story of aphasia) following the blow which knocked Mrs, | Jordan down the stairs !s also a poin Girls Leap for in Fire on | Hearing Before Referee. e the Standard Oil hearing Life [i i Satan 0, par Broadway ee ely encounter upon which the police have laid partic- | ot Georgia i, ee estes : Rosenthal, eénior ular stress In their instructions to the oti It d medical examiner during the latters| epee (a Cul Coe Lider examination of Jordan himself, as It a n ra § read! Of phoee fa Was supposed that he might be a vic- (ontheGovernment ‘im of drugs. This latter idea he de- Mr. Wooton nies. The alleged insanity may account | ' witness for some of the lapses In his confes- | (Continued ’ from First Page.) 1 he stoled sion, altnou vhole, {i Het MB whole; WON'T" | thein all to the root: and onderadethem| fie 6 , m | Se protested nat nae matkably clear. feraae cigs odily and passed them FA Grew hacithareona When brougit before Justice J, H, (° *aY here until the policemen and ui Butler in the Somerville Police Court | “"emen came up, | y rejoined that . The roof of the burning bullding know what the 8 forenoon Jordan entered the forma! plea of not guilty to the charge of hay- ing murdered ois wife. ‘The newly hired lawyer Was with him, The case was continued until Friday, baa i, and Jordan Was remanued to Jail | five stories above the roof of N 5, he seven-story adjoining structure The marooned girls remain¥d cool a this perflous altitude a smc ot smoke puffed up to them Girls Began to Jump. Thereupon a dozen or more lost thelr ‘8. Jordan was M Honorah bddy, whose maiden neme was O'Heluy and whose home was in Somerville in Sep- heads, The K ler girl was the first tember, lwd, Jordan did not know w.o to jump, and she landed in a heap and is, Wife's first husband was or what | rolled over unconscious, ‘Then another | nad hecome of him, + at The couple went un the vaudeville Sitl, known to her companions as étage, Jordan taking the part of a Lizzie, leaped and struck on her feet, tramp, and his wife that of @ nurse, | toppling over upon the unconscious 4 sketch Xe Mrs. Jordan, according to her hus- Kessler girl . band, had taken to drinking of late, She suffered no other damage than a and, he sa: 5 was ser oC DRE i sprained ankle, and was ed down other ¢ id he became jealous y fe RANE aia ie ne PY men employed In the seve 1 police sa building, er girls, unable to Seven ot thelr pan MRS. GREAVES GETS DIVORCE. , made the dang Jusiice Bischoff, in the Supreme Court| '@2ding upon one another ; scram eap. That none of these were injured astonishing, con- The ci sh the distance they fell were veloping when Chief Naughton and “| his men rushed up and picked up the Diamond-Studded Medal For Most Popular Giant The Giants are playing the best baseball that New York has witnessed in years. They are out for the pen- nant, and from now until the close of the seas n the struggle promises to be the most exciting in the history ot the league. As an encouragement to the individual members of tne team The Evening World will present to the most popular player a diamond-studded gold medal, All New York tans can express their preference through The tvening World coupon below. which will be printed daily in the Noon, Baseball and Final editions: EVENING WOLD BASEBALL PRIZE, For the most popular member of the New York National League Team, I vote bain cae the Georgian jumped to Men were | and challenged Mr. Rosenthal roughly | 1 duel, but bloodshed was | | the Standard’s lawyer assert- > was too by | t was taken at this y morning, BROOKLYN (Continued from First Page.) ne na Dah'en to Hannifin to McGann. Lewis ‘ yunder to Dahlen and was + NO RU Third Inning. Bergen. Benue McGann's fly Lewis, NO contributed a single to cen- at catch of | » siruck out, lan, NO RUNS, d. Burch was! Hummel went out, Dahlen to MeGann. and McGann, NO Jordan was tossed out by Tuckey, Al- perman filed out to Hannifin, NO 1 F RUNS. wag an army of ourth Inning: Seventh Innin: » and they held th hien pasted @ fly to Hummel.| tb the fifth and sixth | Sweeney hit to right centre for two) Graham bunted out, McIntyre to Jor- ad it out in half an hou! aases, and scored on Graham's timely dan. Hannifin drew four balla. Tuckey Girl Tells of Stampede. | Single to centre, Hannifan fouled out) forced Hannifin, McIntyre to Lewis. a to Jordan. Tuckey struck out. ONE. Browne forced Tuckey, Lewis to Alper. Mary en years old, gave) RU man. NO RU} h floor, lian laced the ball to left for Lewis singled to right. Sheehan a g, but was forced at second by tripled to deep centre, scoring Lewis. Hummel, Sweeney to Hannifan, A) Bergen out, Sweeney to McGann. Me- | wild pitch sent “Hummel to second, Intyre line filed to Sweeney and Shee- | Jordan ton strikes, Al- han was doubled op by Sweeney, un- an was thrown out by Dahlen, assisted. ONE RAV | NO RUNS. Elghth Inning. | Fifth Inning. Bates bunted safely. Beaumont sac- Browne's fly near the pitcher's box | rificed, McIntyre to Jordan. McGann c grabbed by Bergen, Jordan| out, Lewis to Jordan, Bates reaching | ied Bates's high bounder and re- Dahlen filed to Burch. NO tred him unasalsted, Beauwwont was disposed of on his hot grounder by MeMilan bunt- Lewis and Jordan. NO RUNS ed safely, Hummel line filed to Han- is soaked a er to Dahlen, nifan and MeMillan was doubled up, A dled at frst an walked,| Hannifan to McGann. NO RU} I cn i n singled, Sheehan going to sec- ‘i i; " McIntyre also singled, scoring munth donner n urch flied to Grahan Me- neteui sd fied to ale wee pep Med OUI HANRITAH Cork sews to Jordan nnifan out, Me- Ls At senate podenh Intyra to Jordan, NO RUNS. ordan singled. Maloney ran for Jor- | Sixth Inning, |dan. Alperman sacrificed, Graham to » MeGann was thrown out by Sheehan., McGann, Lewis filed to Bates. Sh | i tes ng Dahlen out, Alperman to Jordan, | out, Sweeney to McGann, NO RL En $5.00 h Broad Broad stairs agal fore the fire was out. | but is not divorced It's true that you'll find this new soft hat style shown by $4.00 and Treason why our English importations of this smart shape is cal choice at.. Broadway | R 4, 1908, DOING DRESS AND ENDS LIF \tlantic Yacht Club Event Mrs. Louis Yarsas, Only Six- $ teen Years Old, Fires Bullet Into Her Heart. Louis Mrs. Yarsag, sixteen years old, married for only eight months, (to-day arrayed herself In her wedding dress and ended her life with a pistol lat her heme, No, 163 East Twenty- second street, Bayonne, N. J, The husband {s only twenty years old and fs employed In the Standard OW works at Buyonne. He left his wife this morning as usual to go to work, and she kissed him the same as she | did cn other days. He says there was nothing In her actions to indicate that | she contemplated suicide. | As soon as her husband had left the house the young bride must have start- ed preparations for death, as the break- | fast dishes were found unwashed on ‘ho table. She got out her wedding wcss, which she had not worn since her wedding night, and carefully ar- rayed herself In it, and she also put on white shoes and stockings, Then she locked all the doors and bolted the windows In the apartment and went to her bedroom. She then lay on tne bed and shot herseif through the heart, Her husband returned to the house a few minutes after noon for his lunch- eon, He was surprised to find the door locked. He asked a neighbor if she had seen his wife, but she hadn't, Then he became alarmed and raised a small boy over the transom and the boy opened the door. Yarsas rushed Into the bedroom and there found his wife dead. Yaresas aid his domestic life had been a very happy cne and there was no reason for his wife to end her life. The only reason he could give for the suicide was that the fact that she was goon to become a mother preyed on her mind. BONKELL WOMAN THNED IN AUSTIN MURD neh Deg ee Sent to Jail Until Inquest on Admission That She Was With the Victim, OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 4—Leona Bonnell Was arrested this afternoon In connec- tion with the murder of Dr, Frederick Rustin, She will be detained at the city Jail until the inquest, next Tuesday, No charge has been made against the woman, but she has admitted she was the last person In the company of Dr. Rustin before he reached his home on the nigit he was killed, and she is held pending developments. The police early to-day tntimated | that the guilty person in the murder mystery may be placed In custody any ume, Several insurance companies Which carried insurance on the life of Kusun have taken a hand in the in- vestigation and several private detec- tives are now at work on th 5 an inte: Leona Bonnell, in day, stated ner real name Rice, and that her parents and hus- band lived in Des Moines, She has not lived with her husband for some time, She says her ac- quaintance with Dr. Rustin extended over several months, but she had known him only as any other patient | would know a physician. The members of the coroner's jury 4 went to the Rustin home to-day and viewed the body and the surroundings, Ther will hold n inquest Tuesday. Sweeney was retired by Lewlg and Jor- atters. That’s all the more your logi- $2 201 Broadway | 44 Naanau St 208 Broadway | City Hall, Brooklyn 49 Park Row ! Broadway, Brooklyn way way | cd Con Entl wepsptlae Man in Greater Mere roth, Sat oS let tar atta Beautiful Womans Who, en Soot, 14, 1008, at the MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL AT CONFY ISLAND, Will Be Crowned KING AND QUEEN of the Carnival ot th Age of Progres® Week ef Sept, 14 1 vote 10? .rercarcoees # + ky + + (or Queen) Contest Closes 12 Noon Sept. 10, 1908. (EAGT VOTES te EVENING WORLD MARDI GRAS KDLLOB, FP, O, $ + + Mall Ror 1854. | ‘Or votes may ta at World's vations branches 7h, een i sbh Bronte, ( | TRU ae Brooitrm da Washtanton ct. ant tine ate rk Row N.Y. Os Es ahs as aa hs ahs af of Fs af ahaa ha taba ap Be Be BIG BAT CAUSES ROBERTS GA STRENGTH AND ~ ASCRAMBLE ON WL RECOVER cme Charlee B. the Baltimore clubman and financier, who was shot while riding in a rolling chair with Mrs, W, 8. G. Willlams, also of Baltl- | more, ie stronger to-day, and there ts 1 good chance he will recover, While it is still said that Roberts named the man who shot him whea he belleved he was dying yesterday, the police have made no arrest. It ts said they agreed with Roberts that no arrest would be made if he recovered, Roberts's statement | | Virginia “Ieatherwing” Flies Into Salon of La Provence Off Nantucket. CITY, Roberts, night, La Provence, of} had a most uninter- There was a with Until last the French Line, esting trip coming over. big passenger list—1,14 persons, 6M In the cabin But after dinner last night Hermann, the magician, was entertaining a lot of j his fellow travelers in the salon with some deep-sea parlor tricks, when 1 1s said to have something that was big and quick and] been made to Father Quinn, of 8t. Nicholas's Church, rueset brown fell in through the main began to circle Did Mr Roberts tell you the name the audi-} of his assailant?” he was asked to day. I can say nothing,” the priest re piled. T compantonway and about above the heads of jence. For a minute everybody thought iit was one of Hermann’s new feats, | but somebody who got a good look at the thing as It hovered over a chan- | deller yelled “Bat!” and at that some |of the ladies screamed and fled. The | others joined with the men in trying o capture the creature. Even the aged Levi P. Morton became exéited and Joined in the bat-hunt. = After a chase over half the ship the Intruder hid Itself in the stateroom of Purser Salvy-Keatly, The purser caught {t and stored {t In @ pasteboard box with a perforated cover, It was bigger than any bat he, ever saw and of a lighter color, He was going to send St to the Bronx Zoo until one of the ship news reporters, a Southerner by birth, told him that it was a “leather-wing” species of bat common enough !n Ken- tucky and Virginia, But how {t came to be filtting around the Atlantic Ocean oft Nantucket {sy puzzle for the nat- uratists to solve, Mr. and Mrs, Morton have been abroad si April, The former Gov- ernor and former Vice-President would not talk politics. He had been away, he said, so long that he Was rusty re- e belief still holds that Roberts was attacked and shot by @ blacks mailer. There !s a report here to-day that letters written to Roberts by the man have been given to the police by Mrs. Roberts, ASK A BLIND the ilue of eyesight. You woli: be so willing to intrust the fitting of glasses to an over. 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