Show held fir a flitt rna murder DARD special 11 chronicle service NEW aug 20 26 alexander a stout middle aeed reed man is a oner at tile barira barim office suspected 11 0 marder ilia ills arrest recalls the be ghastly discovery made at tho the custom bouse house a number of months ago whoa when tho the hacked body 0 f a man mau w was a a discovered in a barrel of lime that t h t t wai w brought to this country on a steamship from roin denmark and seized for duties by the customs officials the barrel had lain for or borne some days in iho I 1 ha public store before it waa as opened the be lace from which it came was I 1 traced csc j by meana of tags and marks on the barrel barre and the news of the dig die covery was telegraphed to denmark arrived here on frida friday y with hia his wife and two children in the steerage of the camb hamburg arg steamship steam thip nor mania and after r re R isterling at rt the barge e went with willi hia his family to an immigrants boarding house in greenwich street during a conversation with sith the landlord yesterday is alleged to have his v e inadvertently confessed the murder of tho tile maa mita found in the barrel and the shipping of he the body to this ca country the landlord informed the immigration authorities of the cage case and the arrest followed at about noon today to day the immigration authorities are reticent in regard to the affair and will investigate fully permission to talk with the prisoner was refused |