Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1912 — ELECTROCUTED FOR MURDER OF HIS WIFE [ARTICLE]

ELECTROCUTED FOR MURDER OF HIS WIFE

Chester Jordan, Formerly of Indianapolis, Pays Penalty of Crime in Chair at Boston, Mass. In the state prison of Massachusetts at Boston shortly after midnight Monday night, Chester S. Jordan, formerly of Indianapolis, met death in the electric chair for the murder of his wife, committed four years ago. Jordan married an actress after renfoving to the east from Indianapolis, his birthplace. He became infatuated with another woman and decided to put his wife out of the way. Accordingly he killed her, cut the body up and placed it in a trunk. That was Sept. 11, 1908. Jordan went to a rooming house without making any dispo? sition of the body of his wife. There he was arersted two days* later. A hard fight was made to save his life. The body will be shipped to Indianapolis for burial in the Crown Hill cemetery.