New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Man Taken as Suspect
ON Anonymous Infor-
nation Detained bv
Police for Questioning
Identity of Victim
Is Made Certain
Friend Recognizes Cloth
ing Shipped With Body
as Katherine .Jackson's

! A man who gave the name of Roy
M'lien was arrested yesterday in
Chicago as Eugene Leroy, the man
for whom the police of several cities
have been hunting as the most i'm
portant element in the solution of
New Iork's latest murder mystery.
One theory is that Leroy is the hus
band of the woman whose nude body
was found in a trunk which had been
in storage in this city for several
weeks, having been shipped from De-
troit,
Another man whose name has been
mentioned in connection with the
case, Allen A. Tatum, went to the police
in Birmingham Ala, yesterday de-
clarlng that he believed he had known
the victim as Katherine Jackson and
that she sometimes assumed the name
Dixon" Her home, ne said. was in
Starksville, Miss. No charge was made
against him, but he declined to leave
Birmingham Police Headquarters, say
ing he was afraid of Leroy's ven
geance.
Clothing Is Identified
Clothing found in the trunk which
contained the dismembered body of the
young woman was positively Identified
IN Detroit last night as belonging to
Mrs. Eugene Leroy, of Starksville.
Miss otherwise known as Katherine
Jackson. Mrs. Leo Trumbull, wife of
Patrolman Trumbull, an acquaintance
OF Mrs. Leroy, made the identification
Her assurance was borne out by Mr..
and Mrs. j. L. Phster, who also knew
the couple.
Patrolman Trumbull's wife said she
met Katherine Jackson at the Inter
urban Hotel Woodward and jefferson
avenues, in the fall of 1919, and two
nights later the girl introduced Eugene
Leroy to them. Two weeks later they
announced their marriage.
The girl confided in Mrs. Trumbull
that she had been married before to a
boxer and had lived unhappily with
h'm in Birmingham, Ala. until a di-
vorce separated them. She said that
this time it was going to be different,
at least that she intended to do her
level best to make it So
They went to live at 23s Lysander
Street, Detroit. Mrs Trumbull re-
membered the rose-colored sweater
coat. she said. Mr.. Leroy had allowed
her to wear it several times. She was
familiar with the mans blue sack coat.
too, that was found in the trunk She
was certain it belonged to Leroy.
Leroy also was known as Fernandez
and was said to be a South American.
He is said also to have admitted hav-
ing used the name "Wood.' AS o. j.
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tor at Kelly Field, Texas, and was on
intimate terms with another inspector
there, known as Joseph Yanez. Yanez,
according to 81 dispatch from San An
tonic, is across the border in Mexico,
Detectives started from Detroit last
night tor Chicago to see if they could
Identify the man arrested there as the
Eugene Leroy who lived for a time at
105 Harper Avenue, Detroit-the ad
dress from which the trunk was
shipped with a woman known as his
wife, Mrs. Katherine Jackson Leroy.
In the room of the man arrested in
Chicago was found small cheap
trunk similar to that in which the body
was discovered. label on it showed
that it had been shipped July II from
Romeo, Mich, to Chicago Romeo is
about four miles from Detroit Millen
told the Chicago police that he was a
haDerdashery salesman and was in De-
troit about a month ago. He went
there occasionally, he said. to visit
relatives who lived in Romeo. His
arrest was the desult of an anonymous
letter sent to the police.
Wrote Often to Tatum
Both Millen and Tatum denied hav-
ing any connection with the murder
Tstum told the police that he last saw
Katherine Jackson in Detroit June 4
or q She kept telling him, he said
that her husband was q fearfully jeal-
Gus man, so he thought the best
thing for him to do was to get home
to Birmingham. He had known the
woman in that city before she went to
Detroit, he said, and had lent money to
her He said that he had gone to see
her in Detroit at her invitation. He
had heard that she was in poor health
and that she was being treated by
Health Department physicians in De
troit
The register of the Interurban Hotel
in Birmingham shows that a woman
who signed herself Mrs. Katherine
Jackson of Nashville, went there Oc-
tober 30, 1919. Christian and sur
name are written in a flowing hand,
but the "Mrs." is in a small and
cramped hand and fills the space be-
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