Show ALT LAKES TRUNK MYSTERY I Box Containing the Corpse Was Shipped From Salt Lake ON FEBRUARY EIGHT 1893 Sold as Unclaimed Freight in Chicago on Thursday The Identity of the Shipper and < Consignee Who Are Both Called G M Morgan is ns 3fncli n Mystery Mys-tery UK the Identity of the Ghastly Remain One Theory h That the Dead Man is Cninford of Evanston Evans-ton Wyo n Better One However is That thc Itemalns Arc Those of Prospier ChazzcII n Frenchman The story which came from Chicago over the wires to the effect that the box addressed to G M Morgan 166 Jefferson street Chicago containing the body of a unknown man which was sold as unclaimed property left on the hands of the Northwestern Railway Rail-way company at Chicago on Thursday day was shipped from Salt Lake created cre-ated quite a little stir here yesterday The outer box in which the body was found by Philip Grief tind Charles Haas after they had purchased it without of course knowing what i contained is 2 feet S inches in length contne feet lengh 1 foot 10 inches deep and 1 foot six inches wide I was apparently made expressly to fit the trunk and was lined with marble oilcloth and heavy canvas With the body was found a chenille portiere and a piece of Turkish toweling The trunk was a new one WAS SHIPPED FROM THIS CITY Diligent inquiries at the railroad offices of-fices developed the fact that the box was shipped from Salt Lake on February Feb-ruary 8 1S93 over the Union Pacific I road The bill of lading showed that i was sent by G M Morgan and consigned con-signed to himself at 166 Jefferson street Chicago I weighed 540 pounds was designated a household goods and shipped as freight and the I charges which amounted to 1775 were not paid Owing to the lapse of time oyer three years the railroad employees could not remember anything any-thing either about the box or the person who shipped it neither could any explanation be found as to how an unknown man succeeded in sending a freight consignment without paying the charges Mr W P P St Clair who at that time was agent but is not I here now might however be able to throw some light on that point a though i is doubtful after more than three years have passed If he will remember re-member anything about i so that the shipper of the ghastly freight remains re-mains a mystery There is no such name as G M Morgan in the directory of Salt Lake as far back a 1892 butthat cuts very shipping little figure as anyone freight of that kind would not be very apt to give his real name WAS IT CRAWFORD Several theories have been propounded pro-pounded a tothe identity of the remains re-mains which are m such a decomposed condition that identification is scarcely possible One is that the body is that of William Crawford the wealthy ranchman who disappeared from Evanston Wyo in January 1S93 and I has never been heard of since as far a known The box might have been shipped into Salt Lake from Evanston or brought in by team and then tran shipped to Chicago PROSPIER CHAZZELL Police Officer Matt Rhodes however has a better theory than that and one which is very likely to be the true one A Frenchman named Prospier Chazzell came to Salt Lake late in the year 1892 or early in 1893 He appeared to be a man of wealth and had diamonds dia-monds and jewelry worth many thousands thous-ands of dollars and also had cash in the Deseret bank He kept his diamonds S dia-monds and jewels in a lock box with the Safe Deposit company and lived with a French woman of the demimonde demi-monde He came from Chicago or New York but evidently had not been long in this country as he spoke but very little English Early in February 1893 he disappeared disap-peared and has never been heard of since A day or two after his disappearance disap-pearance the woman he lived with who said she was his wife notified the police and search was instituted Matt Rhodes who then was serving in the capacity of a detective being specially detailed to look up the mystery His suspicions fell upon a number o compatriots com-patriots of the missing man but nothing noth-ing tangible could be found and the suspected parties soon after left this city for Chicago VALUABLES ALL GONE The lock box which was known to contain Chazzells jewels was opened by oder of the court and found empty but there was about 2400 standing to his credit in the Deseret Bank and it is still thereAbout there-About a year ago Chief Pratt received receiv-ed a letter from Paris France from a lady claiming to be the sister of Chazzell desiring information about her brother and stating that she had not heard from him since early in 1893 and that he was then in Salt Lake I Taken altogether this theory seems ayer a-yer plausible one and Matt Rhodes says he Is convinced that the remains found in the trunk in Chicago are those of Proapier Chazzell |