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Show A MEW." MDRDEJi HYSIIrY A Human Being: Cut TJp and Ft ukd in a Box labeled "Made in France'f Rumors Or War Come From Mexico Pe Lessees is Dead -Other Items. J Chicago, Dec. 7, The chopped and hacked body of a man was discovered today in a shipping case in an alley between Sixty-third and -Siy.Y-fourth streets. The body apparently? had been cut up to fit the case and shipped from a distant point. The head was not badly mutilated and the polite hope to find identification of the remains, which have been placed in tie South Side morgue. j The shipping case b,eir? a French stamp, indicating to f t 2-3 bdy was shipped from gxllOft 2-31 body is that of a man 6x100 ft 3 W old, of refined appeal 20x90 ft 6 1 is partially par-tially bald, the. 45x99 ft 6-7 fven, except ex-cept for a long t ..22x99 7 he. In the case careful 98x90 ft 8 a paper was found lock3 o?j vqn c- dettly thi of toilan. T'ue fc. Tie haye no clue upo3 which to base eyeu a theory. . ; The box was inarked "G. P. Peter-eon," Peter-eon," numbered 2,162." andUatamped 'Made in France' Traces of other marks were found but they had been carefully disfigured, making them unreadable. un-readable. The doctors said the man could not have been dead more than two days and, it was thought the French shipping case wa3 used to divert di-vert suspicion. With the body were found clippings of carpet, which were identified as having come from the Pullman palace car shops, the clippings apparently, having been used as packing pack-ing for the body. . in the case was found a torn bit of paper bearing the address "R. Y. Titus, 237 west, Fifty-seventh Fifty-seventh street.'' A portion of a le't-ter le't-ter was also found, but its contents the police refused to make public. The police advance the theoiy that the man was murdered in the vicinity of Chicago Chi-cago and then boxed for shipment, but that the principals, fearing discovery, abandoned the plan and threw the case into the alley while on the way to the railway station. Late this afternoon the body was identified as that of A. D. Barnes, custodian cus-todian of the Hiawatha building at 258 Thirty-seventh street. Th3 identification identi-fication was made by an employe. Barnes was proprietor of several news, book end fruit'stands and bad recently been divorced from his wife, with whom he had much trouble. 1 |