Mary Hoge's slashed body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk, and the suspect was none other than her stepson.
Jacob Hoge, 48, a baggage manager for the Pennsylvania Railroad told police that his son Joseph, 21, sat on a steamer struck while waiting for an express man to remove it. He thought it was odd, but not as odd as the fact that he couldn't find his wife. He'd only been married 10 months, and he hurried home from work like the newlywed he was. His first wife Sarah, mother of his children, had died in 1929.
