The Washington times., 1920-07-27
GIRL SLAIN AS
STORK NEARED
Trunk Victim Expected to Be
Mother-KilIed by Operation,
Newest Theory.
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me- war and had been In the army NJ

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the war and had been In the army NJ
one time.
| Within a few minutes after Frank
Bessent, 1876 Canton avenue, had told
police that the coat with the Palatks
| IFlorida)~ basel belonged TO him anu
| had been wofen by Leroy whlle
roomAAle~of hts In. January at that
addresg. me poiice.a4so received In
formation thai. "A KILN Palatks had
written TO "a. j. frTusndez" and aa-
dressed the letter to- fO5 Harper aN-
enue,..ho address Of tns,yttroyS whsh l..
Fernandczn of-New Yofk and Palatka
theory OF the mans true identity en-
tered the case with added, strength
as a result OF the days developments,
Mrs. Trumbulfs statement that she
had met Mrs. Leroy on June anu
| that Mrs. Leroy had told her then
she had decided to tell her husbanc
she was going to leave him leads the
police To believe the murder was COM
mitted by LEROY" as result OF the
| quarrel Mrs Leroy expected when
she told him she was returning 70
Alabama. : i,
Detectives believe the murder ocr
CURED at l05 Harper avenue. although
no blood stains have been discovered,
| no evidence of the crime found. ana
the statements Of other people living
| in the apartment and OF Mrs. Lottle
| Brooks, the lsndlady. apparently
would make II impossible for MUIR
/ der to have been committed there
without noise, or clues left behind,@
chief of Detectives Fox is confident
that Leroy will be found alive or "A
/ suicide within IA few days. lie be-
I a
! after the murder and said today that
! he may be work ing there as an auto
mobile mechanic.
| chief Of Police Fox said today
Leroy often spoke to hir ac-
! uuaintances here about Chicago ana
made inquiries concerning the present
/ wage scale there in an automobile
! shop That of course, was some time
/ prior to the murder.
| HAS NEW YORK RELATIVES.
He has relatives in New York city
and may have gone there. still 1t
I does not appear TO me that he would
20 10 the same city to which he sent
/ The body of his murdered sweetheart.
THE man was deeply cnamored OF
/ Mrs. jackson. ! do not believe they
were married. He is OF the type
that kills the object OF their anec-
tions while in jealous rage, and
| then, unable TO forget the horror OF
! the thing, take their own lives. Usu-
| ally. however. the suicide quickly fol-
, lows the murder. So Leroy may be
! found either dead or alive. He may
/ be an unidentified suicide in some
! distant city. having destroyed any
tell-tale marks on his clothing which
might lead to his Identification.
Chief Fox has appealed to every
! police department in the country to
aid in the capture of Leroy. He has
also asked the heads of the police
departments OF the larger cities to
make careful note of unidentified sui
cides on the possibility that LeRoy
may kill himself If he has not done
! so already.
| While little is known here of Leroy,
not much more is known Of the woma n
he is alleged to have killed. Chief Fox
has been unable to get into communi-
cation with any of her relatives or to
learn who they are He said that she
may have taken an assumed name
prior to her marriage in Starksville,
Miss. to kid" Jackson. a prize fight
er. She was then known as Rather
inc Dixon.
KNOWN AS KATHERINE DIXON.
new twist was given to the case
when two men who knew Leroy ap.
peared at detective headquarters and
told their stories. The first was
Frank Bessent, formerly tenant at
$50 Canton street.
Bessent said the death trunk coat
was stolen from him by Leroy last
January. This is the coat bearing the
label of Palatka, Florida, firm. Bes-
sent said
While he was rooming with me he
! talked a great deal about women.
He said he was not married but he
wanted to get light housek eeping
rooms and live for himself and a
girl"
Leroy had been friendlier with Mrs
Jackson prior to this time. Appar-
emily they separated. temporarily for
some reason. While Mrs Jackson. or
Leroy, showed Mrs. Trumbun and
other of her friends a wedding ring
and said that she was married to
Leroy, no record of a marriage H.
cense issued to Leroy or to her could
be found.
One of her friends here told the
police that she did not believe that
Katherine had been divorced from
kid" Jackson. Efforts to locate
Jackson have so far failed. Bessent
told the police that Leroy was en-
ployed as toolmaker for the Morgan
and Wright Company. Bessent added:
Leroy told me that he was in
the medical department OF the navy
| during the war. He said that lac
learned much about medicine and
surgery. He was in the habit OF, OK
ercising at the Y. VI. c. A. cAry
night, and he was fond Of the swim
ming pool"
J. Stockweli. an cmployc of the
! Disco starter Company, told the
police that Leroy formerly worked
with him for that company. Leroy
told me he was married, and said that
his wife and two-year-old son lived in
New York" said Stockwell.
Police Commissioner Inches, In as
suming personal direction OF the case,
began1a nationwide search for the