The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-25
SAILED AUGUST 3

New York, Aug. 25. - The British
freighter Dryden upon which Eugene
Leroy was arrested yesterday at Rio
de Janeiro in connection with the
trunk murder mystery, sailed from
New York ON August 10 days after
the body of his supposed wife was
found jammed in trunk in local
warehouse.
The authorities learned week la
ter after the Dryden sailed that a
man answering Leroy's description
was on board and the freighter's cap
tain was asked to hold him.
Eugene Leroy was sought by detec-
tives all over the country and Canada
and Mexico. ...z
Nude Body Found
A few minutes after a emplOye OF
the American Railway Express com
pany here had discovered the nude
and multilated body of young woman
in trunk stored in the unclaimed
baggage warehouse, police OF New
York and Detroit began following the
train Of evidence which led to the
victims identification as Mrs. Kath-
crime Lou Jackson Of Sturgis, Miss,
and the location of A. A. Tatum, whose
name and a Detroit street address
were found marked on the trunk
which concealed the crime for more
than month
At 105 Harper street, Detroit, Ia
tum was unknown but someone there
told detectives that young couple
known as Mr.. and Mrs. E. Leroy had
disappeared from the 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 J. Branic, a New
York expressman who said he knew
Leroy under the name of Fernandez.
He told the police he had handled a
trunk for Fernandez or Leroy, who,
he said, also used the name of 0. j.
Woods. He produced a letter from
Leroy, enclosing check for the trunk
in which the body was later found.
asking that it be removed from the
express warehouse and stored by Bra
mic until Leroy should call for it.
Town too Small
A Detroit policeman, Leo Trumbull,
then came to the front, declaring that
he and his wife, knew the young wo-
man who lived with Leroy as his wife
at the Harper Avenue address. When
the body of the murdered woman ar
rived in Detroit, Trumbull and his
wife identified it as "Mrs. Leroy"
Then from the south came positive
word that "Mrs. Leroy was really
Mrs. Jackson, wife of Kid Mccoy Jack
son of Sturgis, Mississippi
"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 Tatum, the man whose name
appeared on the mysterious trunk,
walked into police headquarters at
Birmingham, Alabama, and explained
his connection with the case.
...M Knew Mrs Jackson
He told the authorities that he had
known Mrs. Jackson in Birmingham,
where he works as a linotype opera
tor. At her invitation, he said, he Wis
tied her in Detroit, where she told him
she had married Leroy and that he
was terribly jealous" Shortly after
ward, Tatum, said:
He returned to Birmingham. He
declared that the next he heard of the
woman was when he read of the dis
covery of her body.
Reports have poured in from every
quarter of the continent indicating
that Leroy had been seen in this or
that place. A $4,000 reward offered
by the police of Detroit stimulated
the search and he was reported vari-
ously as escaping to Canada, hiding in
Mexico, sailing for Brazil and the Ba-
hamas and under arrest in Chicago.