Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-24
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| frone there. No trace of the girl was
found. though the detectives spent Sev
cral days at the Harper street address
expecting her to return. County au.
thorities linked the disappearance of the
girl with the trunk mystery upon noting
the proximity of the dates on which the
girl was last heard from and the day
the trunk was shipped from Detroit
New York, July 24.-By A. P.D-
The mystery surrounding the death Of
| the unidentified young woman whose
mutilated body was found yesterday in
trunk at the American Railway FIX
press Co. warehouse here. has been
shifted to Detroit authorities for 50.
luton, Captain Arthur Carey. head of
the New York homicide bureau. an
nounced today.
Captain Carey said that the trunk,
which concealed the woman's body for
more than a month. together with a
rope used to fasten 1t and articles of
clothing employed as wadding. had been
shipped here on June 10. 1t should
arrive there today. he said. in time for
detectives Of the Michigan city to be.
gin their search for the owners.
No clue to the identity Of the slain
woman was discovered in the examina
tion Of the body by attaches of the
coroncr's Office here. Police officials
declined to say whether the marks on
the clothing were likely to prove mate
rial clues to the identity Of the woman
Cause of Death Unknown
Detectives working on the case here
said today that the mystery presented
unusual obstacles in the way of carly
solution. Chief among these is the fact
that the cause of death could not be
determined because all vital organs ex
| Cept the brain had been removed before
the body was thrust into the gruesome
| container in which it was discovered
yesterday.
Andrew !. Branig, local express.
man, today handed the police a letter
signed "a. A. aTtum." the same as
that on the tag attached to the trunk.
The letter addressed to Branic was
dated June IL.
Inclosed in the letter was an express
company receipt. showing that a trunk
had been shipped June 10 from De-
troit to New York and gave the name.
"A. A. Tatum." ms both sender and
recipient and it asked that the trunk
be removed from the express ware
house and eb held by Branic until called
for.
Other Names Figure -.
Branc is also said to have furnished
the police with information involving
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy" These are
the same names as reported yesterday
by the Detroit police as having occu
pied an apartment at 105 Harper street,
in that city. few days before the trunk
was shipped here. The harper street
address was given on the trunk tag as
that of Tatum.
/ Branic told detectives that in the
summer of 1919 chauffeur giving the
name Of O. J. Wood left a trunk in
his care and six months later wrote
from Detroit asking that it be sent
} to "E. Leroy" in care of the Detroit
Y. NJ. c. 4. Branic said he did this.
DR. Charles Norris. city medical pX.
aminer. reported today that an ex-
animation Of the dead womans brain
failed to show any trace of an anaoS-
thetic having been administered before
the woman's death. This examination
was made to determine if she had died
as result of an operation.
Detroit. July PA young couple
calling themselves Mr.. and Mrs. f.
Leroy occupied Hn apartment at l"'
, Harper street. the address found by a
New York expressman in a trunk con
tanning the body of young woman,
according TO a statement given to
tho police by Mrs. Lottic Brooks
manager of the apartment house. TIL"
apartment was rented to the Lerovs on
June I. Mrs. Brooks said she had seen
only the man leave, taking with him
two heavy trunks. He explained, she
san. that mis- wife had left the night
before
When Leroy left. Mrs. Brooks said
two blankets. two sheets and table.
cloth we're missing from the apartment.
The man told her they had been sent 10
tho laundry and would be returned. lie
gave her n forwarding address near
Chcboygan, Mich. and told her to notify
him in case everything was not "all
right" The laundry never wns re-
turned, Mrs. Brooks said. Police are
investigating the address left by LEROY.
Mrs. Brooks described the woman rs
being about nineteen years old. Of me.
dium height and weight and having
dark brown hair.