Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-25
Knew Leroy Was Aboard.

BY Associated Press.
New York. Aug. 25.-The British
freighter Dryden. upon which Eugene
Leroy was arrested yesterday at
Rio Janeiro In connection with the
trunk smuu'der mystery. sailed from
New York on Aug. 8, ten days after
the body Of his supposed wife was
found jammsd In trunk In local
warehouse.
The authorities learned week
after the Dryden sailed that a man
answering Leroy's description was
on board. and the freighter's cap
tain was requested by wireless to
hold the, suspect for the Rio Janeric
police. g 7.
simultaneously Detroit police Off
scials filed with the state department
at Washington an application for Le-
roy's arrest and extradition, should
he attempt to land In Brazil or any
other country en- route.
UnraveIing Crime.
The trunk murder" mystery in
connection with which Eugene Le-
roy was arrested, has ramifications
which extend from New York to
Michigan. Mississippi and Alabama.
a few minutes after an employe
OF the American Railway Express
Company here had discovered the
nude and mutilated body of a young
woman in a trunk stored in the un-
claimed baggage warehouse, police
of New York and Detroit began fol-
lowing the train OF evidence which
led to the victims identification as
I.irs., Katherine Lou Jackson, of
Sturg1s. Miss, and the location OF
A. A. Tatum. whose name and De-
troit street address were found
marked on the trunk which con-
ceaied the crime for more than a
month.
At lo5 Harper street, Detroit, Tat
nn1 was unknbwn. but someone there
told detectives that young couple
known as Mr.. and Mrs. E. LEROY ha d
disappeared from that address about
June 10. the date on which the trunk
was shipped to New York.
The publicity given these two
names. Leroy and Tatum. brought
forward Andrew ]. Branic, New
{ York expressman, who said he knew
Leroy under the name of Fernandez.
He told the police he had handled a
trunk for Fernapdez OF Leroy, who,
he said., also used the name of o. j.
Woods. He produced a letter from
Leroy enclosing check for the
trunk in which the body was later
found. asking that 1t be removed
from the express warehouse and
stored by Branic until Leroy should
cal for it.
A Detroit policeman, Leo TrIm-
bun, then came ito the front, de-
claring that he and his wife knew
the young woman who lived with
Leroy as his wife at the Harper ave-
nue. address. When the body of the
murdered woman arrived in Detroit,
Trumbun and his wife identified it
! as mrs. Leroy"
Then frora the south came posi-
tive word that Mrs. Leroy" was
really Mrs. Jackson, wife of Kid Nc
Coy Jackson, Of Sturgis, Miss.
The town was too small for Kitty
Lou and she went away" jackson
said. when asked to tell what he
!, knew OF his wife's wanderings.
Next Tatllm. the man whose name
appeared on the mysterious trunk
walked into police headquarters at
Birmingham, Ala, and explained his
connection with the case.
He told the authorities that he
had known Mrs. Jackson in Birm-
ingham, where he works as limo
type operator. At her invitation, he
said. he visited her in Detroit, where
she told him she had married Leroy
and that he was terribly Jealous
Shortly afterward, Tatum said, he
returned to- Birmingham. He de-
, c1ared that the next he heard Of the
woman was when he read Of the
discovery OF her body.
Reports have poured in from every
quarter Of the continent indicating
that Leroy had been seen in this OF
that place. A $1,000 reward offered
by the police Of Detroit stimulated
the search and he was reported var
iously as escaping to Canada, hid
Ing in MEXICO. sailing for Brazil and