Show I iJ TRUNK Ut K CRIME mM BAFFLES rOU POLICE Detroit Authorities Seek Whereabouts of Missing Missing Miss Miss- ing Couple By Lloyd International News Newa Service Staff Correspondent DETROIT Mich Jul July 24 Was Was t the he mutilated corpse shipped from Detroit to N New w York Tork In Jn a 8 trunk b by A A A. on June 10 a Chicago o woman 1 Detroit police pollee baffled for lor ft fL clue will seek leek th the cooperation of ot Chicago police toda today In an effort t to o unravel th the tho mystery Mr Mn I rill Lottie Ittie Brooks Drooks manager of oC t the he apartment at 10 Harper avenue aye ave nue the address given by the s shippers of ot the trunk coffin told police today that the young couple known as Mr and Mrs Mra LoRoy Ro who departed at about th the tho time Ume t the he trunk was shipped had told told her they were from Chicago Alternative Theories B Because of ot the mutilation of ot the corpse Detroit police ar are UP of tho the belief that the th crime was either the work ork of ot a a. maniac or the cold blooded and purro purposeful ful planning of with a knowledge of ot surgery Hl The homicide squad today be began hegan hegan he- he gan work on two theories First that an me Illegal l operation had re resulted resulted re- re suited In th the death of ot the girl girland Irl and Ind the tho body had been mutilated to fo conceal tho the original crime or secondly that tho the woman had been poisoned and the organs re removed removed re- re I moved for tor the same reason Tho trunk with Its gruesome contents was wall shipped from the Michigan an Central station on June 10 on a n prepaid slip No 2418 at a 1 cost of or UG according to th the tho records record of ot Chief Clerk LibbY of ot the express office According to Mrs 1 Brooks LeRo LeRoy had two trunks hauled away and police pollee believe the other trunk containInG containing containing contain contain- ing the missing parts P of ot tho the bod body wn was shipped to somo some other fictitious fictitious address where it is lying unclaimed Landlady's Story The Tho na de apartments are situated at Harper avenue the address given Iven b by the shipper of the trunk Mrs Mn Brooks Drooks the landlady gives u tho following vondon von vcr don Flon of ot tho the mysterious story of ot Mr Ir and Mrs LeRo LeRoy who red ned one of ot her apartments apartment from Juno 7 j until three da days later Tho The I rented the apartment apart apart- meat ment on June 7 7 Mrs Irs Brooks said ald I I asked thorn thom for tor their e certificate The Tho woman told lold me her mother had It They seemed to quarrel quite a lot b because because be be- cause caus the tho man was v.-as not nol working but I noticed d nothing unusual bout them A few fow days tater later I found a strange movIng moving ing out their two trunks I went to their thelt apartment end and ask asked d Mr Ir LeRoy LoRoy his r reasons for tor not giving me Ine advance notice My wife was called home by a ar a ar ar r eS escape a e saying her folks tolk were Ill and I am following her today h he ho answered according to Mrs In Brooks who ho says ays no telegram was as received ed at the apartment Misting Missing Bedding I checked tho the apartment and discovered a pair or of blankets two she sheet t. t and a. a 8 table cloth were missing When I t asked about abou them LeRo LeRoy said salet tho they were a athe at atthe the laundry laundr I insisted that h he pIl pay nay for tor them but ho demurred and left me tnt an address near nea Mich 1 to write to incase In Inease ease case everything was not all aU right Tho The bed clothing never cam camo I Iback back and my letter to that address ad address dress was os returned unclaimed Mrs Mu ra Brooks says no one by th the tho name ram of or A. 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A was ove I at the apartments and the polio police I Iare ne are working on the theory that tha L I and LeRoy are ara the thc samland same sam same and land that the body booy found in th the trunk I is that of or Mrs Irs LeRoy Surgeon Had Hand HandIn In Mutilation NEW EW TORK YORK July 24 Dr Chi Charles ts Norris who conducted an autopsy on or I Ithe the woman oman victim of New ew York's Yorks S gruesome trunk murder mystery de declared de- de dared loda today that t the e mutilation o. o of ot I Ithe th the body bod had bf bean bAn n don done by bv v nm ni iA n with a a. full lun knowledge of surgery u He Ht knew where to locate In the vital vita organs of ot the body and how bow to re remove remove re- re move mo th them m. m said Mid Dr Norris The brain the brain the only vital orr organ n 5 left in the victims victim's body was body was carefully care care- care I fully examined d for tor traces of h hem m It was declared deClAre that i a up superficial examination failed t to a ashow I show how the existence of any bl blood I I clots clot dispelling the theory that th the e i woman oman may have come to her death deth t by a. a blow on th the hea head I Detroit Police Upset One Clue W WASHINGTON 1 Pa July 24 Th The C bo bodt x dy t of the woman oman found In a a. trunk trun k In n New i ew w York may be that of Kather Rather me Ine ne Dan 20 of Canonsburg near flea r here hert iere according to District Attorney 3 Erwin Cummings B. B Alfonz an Italian and Ida Dan the girls girl's sister are au in In the county Jail jsU here the former accused of violating the white whit slave Ilave act and the latter tatter of complicity According to the authorities Tall- Tall frone and Katherine D Dan n left Canonsburg Canonsburg Can- Can early In June for Detroit and It ills is II said wd they lived In lit a house bouse on Harper street was as arrested ar as- rested In irs Detroit on Juno June 16 36 18 but the therl girt girl rl could not bot be found DETROIT July 24 The The police here were ere shown the Washington Pa dispatch today and said Mid that and MM Dart Dan lived at 1268 Harper per avenue In Detroit Miss Mia Dan returned rl to that ad address rt after June 16 and anti got furs she I left tt according to the police and they ear the tho murdered mur mur- dered trunk girl Irl could not be she |