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Show I . TRUNK MYSTERY NEARING SOLUTION 1 NUDE Ili'S I BOOK BELIEVED S MRSL LEROY MP Detroit Policeman Identifies V Clothing as Property of A Acquaintance J LINOTYPE OPERATOR M FURNISHES INFORMATION Alabama Man Believes Corpse Was Addressed to Him for Revenge J DETROIT. Mich., July 26.- Detroit JKi police believed today Hiat the mystery S surrounding the shipping of the un- H clad rind mutilated body of a woman l a trunk from this City to New York lB was near solution. JfejC Patrolman Leo Trumbull, of the lo ll cal police force, positively Identified clothing found in the trunk as belong-X belong-X X t ing to Mrs. K Leroy. who lived early; if! in June at the Harper avenue apart- -VI imnt 1,-on, which the trunk was sent I .4 to New Vork. . .. f According to Patrolman Trumbull I ,nd his wife, who were acquainted fA with the Leroys, Mrs. L roj rormi rjy , i.s- was misj. Kith. Tin.' Jackson, I Btarkville, Mlee., and v-"s married to IffV Leroy here a year ago. n bSROY. CHICAGO, July 26; All efforts to: IM ronncct Roy Milieu. a former army aviator. With the mysterious Detroit; trunk murder, failed today when Pa-$Hf Pa-$Hf trolman Lee Trumbull, of the- Deli oil 'TJK police department, was unable to lden- tlfv Mlllen as the missing "Eugene Left? Le-ft? ' t lot H i I N ( ; IDENTIFIED. 8x3 DETROIT, July 25 Clothing con-$jy$ con-$jy$ talneu In the trunk m which the body ot a woman was .shipped from Detroit to Now York was positively identified tonight as having been tne property of Mrs. L Leroy, aeeoiding to detec- lives assigned to the case. Patrolman Leo Trumbull, a member of the Dc-trolt Dc-trolt police force and a close personal per-sonal friend ot the Leroys was said to have made the Identification, sxi Trumbull also y.tated that Mrs. Le- t roj was formerly Mine Katherine rack- jM son, a southern girl, and that she and iM her husband lived it 105 Uarj r ave- BK nuo, Detroit, the- address ;nven on the FFf shipping bill to. the trunk kJaHB Mrs. Trumbull, wife of Patrolman , U Leo Trumbull, said that Katherine iftpSS Jacksoi Leroj the K fall of 1919. Their, married life, Mis Br Trumbull said, was unhappy and on HT one occasion Leroy threatened his H wife with a dagger According to a story told her bj Mrs. Leroy, Mrs. Le- loy confided, Mrs. Trumbull said, that, she had been married before, unhappily, unhap-pily, and had lived in Birmingham, Alabama A A. 'latum of Birming- ham, Ala., visited Mis. Leroy, at her Invttatlop, In Detroit, Mrs. Trumbull Trum-bull said, but was unable to give thei date. Detroit police announced that' the second trunk, presumabiv shipped by Leroy from the Harper avenue address, ad-dress, and believed to Contain c 'i lain p.'tls of the woman's bo y. had been liaced as far BS the Michigan Central slat Ion here. J A n M is FOUND. Detectives assigned to identify the man who shipped a trunk from Detroit De-troit on June tenth, in which the mutilated muti-lated body of a woman was found lu New York, were checking up Blats-ttr Blats-ttr tuenta said to have been made to f i I r- & ' mlngham, Ala . liolice by Allen A. Ta- turn, a linotype operator. The name :UjK, given of the shipper on the bill was !H "A. a. Tatum." iFfT According to dispatches to police, iJEX lure. Tatum walked Into police head- ' ill Quarters al Birmingham ;.-a.'urdu and I volunteered u statement. He if -aid m i have told officers he believed the p urdered woman wa K therine Jack- V Hi.' son, who he met in Birmingham, He ;j mf. admitted, the dispatches said, that he j nan acquainted with Eugene Leroy, if he name given by a man who icnied i n apartment at the address given by t H 'Tatum" on the trunk waybill. He I ) IH ald Leroy was an automobile me- j -hanlc. VISITED HER OFTEN, i II Tatum met Katherine Jackson in II Hirmingham. lie said In June. 1919. t II He visited her often, twice in Detroit. I 1 II Police found that "Mrs. Katherine' J II Jackson. Nashville," was registered at la the nterurban hotel here October II 1H19. Tatum said he visited the Jack- l son woman here In June, 1920, at an- 4wM Other hotol She told him then, he jlBI said, that she was married and that WM. her husband was "extremely Jealous ." III According to Tatum s story th WO- 91 man wrote him every day or two Ho : last heard from her June 4 or G, he 'Hl said, and gave that as his reason for J S believing ' something had happened to II ' Patum is said to have left Detroit June L'S He Is said to have denied knowledge of the i ime and Indicated : iM he was willing to come here to assist wBBj clenrini; the mystery. Ills The trunk, shipped here from New ! i Vork, was partially Identified toda Hl( by Mrs Lettic Urooks, manager of ait W (Continued on Page Two. I i l Nude Woman's Body Believed Mrs. E. LeRoy H (Continued From Page One; j ,ap'irtmnt at number 105 Harper avc- nue, as having belonged to "Leroy." -."i STVYED IN JAIL. I BIRMINGHAM. Ala., luly 2b. K- MY' .pressing far that "E. Leroy" whom I ' he named In his statements to poii. t (here in connection with the Investtga 'tion of tho Detroit to New York trunlj mystery might taks vengeance rn him, Allen A Tatum, a linotype operatof VilJKi I Ot Birmingham, remained it polics 1 i headquarters tonight No charge hat I been placed against him. j Tatum. according to the police, said ' i he saw th? Jackson woman several Hfe" time! ind wny told by her that sha I hnd married a man by the name of E MM Leroy." She also said according M Bftl Tatum. thut her husband was extreme- K ly Jealous of her. V Tatum Is quoted that he never mm Leroy and that the latter must have ill heard of his attentions to his wife, killed her and shipped the trunk to "A. A. Tatum" to get revenge. |
