The Cairo bulletin., 1913-10-11
GIRL GIVES CLEW
TO THE MURDERER
OF MISS LEECSON
Six Detectives Rushed to Pa os Pask
for Negro on Description
OF Witness.
JOURNEY OF MAN TRACED ON
STREET CARS FROM SCENE

STREET CARS FROM SCENE
Chicago, Oct 10.-Taking it for
granted that the negro who pawned
the watch of Miss Ida G.. Leegson is
the same man who lured her to the
prairie at West Seventy-hrst street.
and Forty-eighth avenue and muir
dered her last Saturday night, the
police have released all suspects nn-
der arrest as fast as Eli Nierman.
pawnbroker, failed to identify them.
The search for the negro last
night took -four definite directions,
in addition TO general instructions
to police and detectives everywhere
to look for the murderer:
Six men were sent to Palos Park
to make search there on a eiew
given by young woman.
Detectives were sent to Delhi,
Ind, to see a suspect under arrest
there who answers the description
Squads of detectives are nembing
the rooming houses in the Tsstrict
near where Miss Leesson roomed at
122 Hast Twerty-ffth street
Men were sent out anew to search
the vicinity where the crime was
committed
Have Good Description.
The police have already traced on
street ears the journey of a negro
thoneht to be the murderer from the
vicinity Of Argo to the rooming
house district in Twenty-ffth street
If their theory that the murderer
came into Chicago about midnight
en- Saturday be true. it leaves q wide
gap in the time between his leaving
her on the prairie and her actual
qurder. For 'oroncr's Physician
Springer declares that she was killed
only a little more than an hour be
fore her body was found at l:30
Sunday afternoon Also be declares
that she cJuid not have been n
iured and left there unconscious all
that time tie says that she died IN
few minutes after she was choked
and the hyoid bone in her throat
broken.
These discrepancies no man can
explain, but the police have at least
good description Of the negro
known to have been with Miss Laeg
son ON that lonely walk, and All ef.
forts are bent toward finding HIM,
and explaining matters aftcrward,
Identified hv Woman,
After four days of the widest pub
.icity of the. murder Of this cultured
and refined young woman, only q
single relative of her has come for
ward to identify the body and she
refused to tell the coroner her name
or where she lives.
"Yes, that's Ida she remarked
when Undertaken Roderick OF Argo
had permitted her to look at the
body.
Are you a relative?" the under
ltaker asked.
Yes, she was my cousin"
| When urged to give her name and
address the woman said that hey
name is German" but would not
tell her full name or her residence
she has sister somewhere in
California-S. s. Woods is her
name she said
| Two other women went to the
morgue and identified the body "a
that OF Miss Leegson, but would MOI
tell who they are, nor the name Of
a woman friend in Chicago to whom
/ Mss Leegson wrote while she was il
| Mason City, la, in the weeks JUS
prior to her death, One of thesr
| women said that she is the landlady
| with whom Miss Leegson roomeC
while she attended the University o
| Chicago, and the other claimed t.
have been her classmate
Artists Plan Burial.
While the relatives and fricnd
are thus remaining in the back
ground her body is about to b.
{ buried IN the potter S heid. TO pre-
vent this an official Of the Art In
, stitute-who also refused to tell hi
yesterday asked Undertake
Roderick to hold the body for a few
: days, as the art students have start
; ed a subscription to raise funds t
give the girl a more fitting burial
! One witness who saw Miss Leeg
? son on her lonely walk across tn
2 prairie to her death came fOrwar
, yesterday and told what she har
seen. She is Mrs. Ernest GranZoy
2 OF 1927 South Rockwell street.
t II saw her get off a Western ave
nue. car at Seventy-first street lat
2 Saturday evening" she said. "Sh
4 acted lost, and finally came to m
/ and asked the way to some numbe
4 -thirty-two hundred something,
$ think it was-and | told her whic
r way it was.
Not Met at the Car.
n "She walked about half bloch
K and then seemed afraid, and cam
k back to me and asked how far