Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-26
TWO MEN ARRESTED
IN TRUNK MYSTERY
Chicago Salesman and Birming-
ham Linotype Operator in
Custody.

| BY Associated Press TO Every Evening
Chicago, July 26--Roy Mellen. %
years old. said by the police to answer
the description of Eugene Leroy, wanted
by the Detroit police as the alleged
slayer of the woman whose mutilated
body was found in a trunk shipped from
there to New York was arrested last
night in local hotel
The arrest was made on an anonymous
tip, police say, and Mellen was taken to
the detective bureau for questioning
Police found trunk in Mellen's ROOM
Ii corresponded in description to the
one in which the woman's body was
found, they said The trunk has not
yet been opened
Alelen told police he was a haber-
dashery salesman and visited Detroit
frequently to see relatives living at
Romeo, Mich, about four miles from
Detroit. He was there month ago,
he said
The trunk bears several express
labels. one showing il was shipped from
Romeo, Mich, to Chicago, July H. con-
signed TO r. H. Miller, at the hotel where
Mellen was arrested.
Another label on the trunk shows it
was received by 'R. H. Miller" at
Romeo, Mich, April ~. of this year.
Detroit police. notified of the arrest,
asked that Mellen be held, according
TO detectives, who made the arrest.
Detroit, July 26-The woman whose
mutilated body was shipped in trunk
from Detroit TO New York has been
positively identified as Mrs L. Leroy,
formerly Miss Katherine jackson of
Starkville, Miss. the police announced
today.
Detroit. Mich. July 26.--Clothing
contained in the trunk in which the body
of q woman was shipped from Detroit
to New York was positively identified
tonight rs having been the property of
Mrs +. Leroy, according TO detectives
assigned 10 the case. Patrolman Leo
Trumbull. a member Of the Detroit
police force and a close personal friend
OF the Leroys, was said to have made the
Identification
Trumbul also stated that Mrs Leroy
was formerly Miss Katherine jackson
a southern girl. and that she and her
husband lived at 105 Harper avenue
Detroit. the address given on the ship
ping bills for the trunk
Trumbull will be sent TO Chicago. IL
was announced, to assist in the identi-
tcation Of the man who gave his name
aS Roy Mellen and who is believed by
the Chicago police to answer to the
description of Leroy.
Detroit, July 26.-Allan A. Tatum.
whose name appears on the shipping
bills of the New York-Detroit murder
trunk, and also on an attached tag, is
IN custody in Birmingham, Ala. He sur
rendered voluntarily, and will be taken
TO Detroit.
Tatum, linotype operator, walked
into Birmingham police headquarters
Saturday and told detectives he believed
the woman whose mutilated body was
found in the trunk shipped from Detroit
June 10 and found in New York last
Friday morning was Katherine jackson.
originally Of Starksvile, Miss
He denied semphatically that he had
anything 10 do with the crime. admit
ting knowing Eugene Leroy. who, ne
said, was mechanical engineer with
some automobile company, and told of
visits made him at the Park Hotel this
city. by the jackson woman. She went
at times by the name of katherine
Dixon, according to Tatum.
Tatum said he could not explain the
use Of his name on the shipping bills,
but believed it was done to divert suspi-