SKELETON IN A FLAT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 11 February 1913, Page 3

SKELETON IN A FLAT.

STOLEN JEWELS ASD DYNAMITE. An aged Chicago diamond merchant, Mr J. H. Ivogue, lias been murdered in an atrocious manner in broad daylight in his office, which is situated in thf heart of the city (states the New York correspondent of the 'Daily Mail' on December 22). When an office bov returned to the office after luncheon on Friday he found that Mr Logue had been killed. An examination showed that the diamond merchant had been clubbed, chloroformed, gagged, burned with acid, shot and stabbed. Seventeen knife wounds were discovered. Acid had been poured into his eyes. H's skull was< fractured. His hands were* fastened behind his back with a stout rope, while a gag said to be part of a woman's silk skirt, was held in nositiort with safety pins. Everywhere were blood-stained fingerprints. The office boy states that Mr Logue saw only two callers during the morning—a man and a woman. The woman had with her a watch which she said she wanted valued. When the boy left the office Mr Logue was alone. On returning he found the office locked and in darkness, with the blinds pulled down. H;'s employer's'body was lying behind the counter. Five men and four women have been arrested on .suspicion of being connected with Mr Logue's death. They occupied a flat in one of the most exclusive parts of Chicago. When the police entered the flat they found a gaily tapestried bedroom. The bed wa s overturned and the pictures were askew on the walls. The floor was strewn with silver articles, jewellery, photographs, baby's clothes, "key-hole" saws. £6OO worth of stamps, champagne bottles, and cigar stumps. On the dining table were four cases of brandy and champagne, some of the bottle's being only partly filled-; In a small room were two human skeletons. An inventorv of the contents of the flat has been published lw I the police. Besides those already mentioned the following articles were found: —Bslb of dynamite, two quarts of nitro-gly-cerine. three dozen safe-blowers' drills, three bunches of skeleton keys, six automatic pistols, five uncilt diamonds, and £BOO worth of jewellery'. The police be- | Hero that the murdered man was a receiver of stolen goods.