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Show JORDAN DIES Muderer Goes Bravely to Electric Chair In Massachusetts Lf.ston, Sept 21. At 12:14.30 th'.i morning, in the state prison at Chaileston. Chester S .Tor Jan, 53 yrara old, expiated ;n the electrlr cha'r the murder of his wife, IIo-ncra IIo-ncra (Shannon) Jordan, who v?s i audcille actress, lu their bono Jn Somf'j flle four j-ears ago I M,o Bertram G. Spencer who died in the same chair last Tuesday morning. morn-ing. Jordan maintained to the last the telf control -which has sustained him during all these months, and like Spencer, he chose a Christian Science r3noer to attend him to th? cliaj-. On the march from the d'Vt'i coll he was as erect as his officii1 escort and his step faltered no more than theirs. He took his seat as if carefree care-free and the current was turnej on. A second shock was given and he was pronounced dead at 121 ." 21. The body is to bo buried in 5ndianapolIs, Jordan's nat!e place. Story of Crime. The criminal records of Massachusetts Massachu-setts show no more gruesome murder than that committed on Seotember 1. 190S. In Soraerville. near Doston, by Jordan an actor, then aged 29 His wife Honora, an actress, aged 23, was his victim. Jordan, according to his v. ritten confession, said that his wife was jealous and that on tbo night of Sep-tembei Sep-tembei 1, they quarreled She struck at him, he struck back. His blow felled her and when Jordan tried to lift her up ho found she was dead. Ho then dragged the body into tho kitchen, laid it alongside the sink .'-ml went to bed and to sleep. The next morning he cooked and ate his breakfast in the kitchen Avhile the body of his wife lay on the floor beside him. Then ho went out, bought a butcher knlfo nnd a hnck saw and set about dismembering tho i body. He cut off the woman's head and legs. The head was thrown into the furnace. He shaved all the flesh from the legs and threw tho bonos j Into tho furnace. He then packed the torso and the strips .of flesh in I a trunk and had it shipped to a board- ' ing house in Boston. i Fatal Delay. t Jordan's plan was to take a boat to I New York and drop the trunk Into tho water enroute But the line had stopped running for the season. It delaj-ed Jordan's dcpaiturc from Boston Bos-ton for mere than twenty-four hours and the delay brought about his arrest ar-rest and conviction. George E Collins, the expressman ;who took the trunk from the depot to i the boarding house, became susplcl- I ous because of Its weight. Manv burglaries had beon committed just , about that time in and around Bos- f ton and Collins told tho police that the trunk might be filled with silverware. silver-ware. Sergeant Crowley hurried to the i boarding house Jordan had just re- ! J turned with somo heavy wrapping I paper and leaded weights. Crowlej asked Jordan about his trunk and Jordan at first denied haing ono j The officer finally forced Jordan to take him to his room. i 'Open that trunk,' commanded Crowley Murder Discovered. Jordan's face turned ashen. He threw himself on the floor, grovelling. Obeying the Insistent command of Crowley, the wife-murderer fitted the key into the trunk, turned his face awaj twlstod the lock nnd tho lid flew open. Crowley stood aghast at the sight that met his eyes. Instead of stolen silverware he saw the sickening mass of a woman's rapidly decomposing torso. There was no coering over It. On .May I, 1909, Jordan was convicted con-victed of wife murder. In September of that year one of the jurors who had convicted him died of Insanity. Jordan's attorneys, whose fees wero paid by Jesse Livormore, millionaire brother-in-law of Jordan, asked to have the case reopened on tho contention con-tention that the juror was insane during dur-ing the time he sat in the jury bo The superior court Judges overruled the motion The" case was carried to the higher courts which upheld the ruling of the lower ones. |