The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-10
4 NEGROES HELD
IN INQUIRY into
LEECSON'S DEATH
Trail Copper Colored' Man on Cars
From Scene of Staying to
Victims Home.
ONE HUNDRED DETECTIVES
In DISTRICT TO TRAP HIM

Chicago, Oct. 9.-The negro who
killed Ida G. Leegson was trailed
last night from the prairie country.
where he strangled and robbed the
artist, to within two blocks of the
woman's home at 122 East Twenty
fifth street.
The man left the scene of his
crime at 11:15 o'clock Saturday
night.
The police have followed him
from car line TO car line as he
transferred to what is believed to
be his home neighborhood, at Twen-
ty sixth and Indiana avenue.
He asked for no transfer on the
Indiana avenue car, showing that
waen he left ii he was in his home
district.
The hunt is believed to have been
siTplifled by the discovery that the
negro was wounded in his struggle
with the woman. From his actions
or the street cars Saturday night
it is believed that his wound was
serious and painful. The wrist had
been bound tightly to prevent the
flow of blood
Will Look for Teeth Marks.
The artist had no weapon save
hatpin and that had not been bent.
This leads the police to believe that
in her struggles she must have used
her teeth and nails savagely and
probably bit the negro on the hand.
There are 100 policemen within
three blocks of the negros home
Amazed at the discovery of the ne
Froe's lair, Chief of Police Me-
Weeny ordered police dumped into
tho netghborhood in squads
Negro Sleuths Join Hunt.
Thirty negro policemen, from all
parts Of the city. have been placed
in citizens clothes and sent into the
district.
There is not a block Of street in
the black belt" on which Ida Leeg-
sons murderer can appear and walk
100 feet without meeting a police
man
Chief MCWeeny is now convinced
that he has cornered the man who
strangled the artist. and that when
his detectives have finished combing
the lodging houses, saloons, pool
rooms and gambling houses of the
district the man will be under ar
rest. He is confident the trap will
close before night.
From the car crews they interro-
gated the police learned that a big
copper colored negro had boarded
Western avenue car at the southern
terminus at II o'clock Saturday
night, less than six hours after Ida
Leegson had left the ca at the same
spot and begun her march across
the prairies to her death.
The conductor and motorman Of
the Western avenue car noticed the
negro as he boarded the car which
leaves the terminus at 11:15.
Negro Appears Restless.
he arrived several minutes before
the car started.
He paced about the back plat
form. went inside and sat down. got
up and walked again and finally
went out on the front platform to
smoke.
Attention was attracted to the
man both by his stranet actions
and by the fact that his left hand
was carelessly bandaged with a
handkerchief.
The negro swung the hand about
and rubbed it as If he were in pain.
He rode north on Western avenue
to Thirty-ffth street, where he ran
back and got a transfer for which
he had forgotten to ask earlier and
LETT the car.
The crew of the Thirtv-ffth
street car on which he rode east In
Indiana avenue was found. as was
the crew of the Indiana avenue car
or which he rode to Twenty-seventb
street.
VConcluded on Sixth PaxeI