Arizona republican., 1920-07-26

Millen told the police he was a haber- dashery salesman and visited Detroit frequently to see relatives living four miles from Detroit. He was there a month ago. he said.
 Tells of Meetings
 DETROIT, July 25-Detectives as- signed to identify the man who shipped a trunk from Detroit on June 10, in which the mutilated body of a woman was found in New York. to- night are checking up statements said to have been made to Birmingham, Ala, police by Allen A. Tatum, lino type operator. The name of the ship per on the waybill was A. A. Tatum. | According to dispatches to police here, Tatum walked into police head quarters at Birmingham Saturday and volunteered a statement. He is said to have told officers he believed the murdered woman was Katherine Jack son, whom he met in Birmingham He admitted, the dispatches said, that he was acquainted with Eugene Leroy, the name given by man who rented an apartment at the address given hy "Tatum" on the trunk waybill- He said Leroy was an automobile me- chanic.
 Tatum met Katherine Jackson in Birmingham, he said in June 1919. He visited her often. twice in Detroit. he said. The police found that Mrs. Katherine Jackson, Nashville" was registered at the Interurban hotel here October 30. 1919. Tatum said he vis- tied the Jackson woman here in June, 1920, at another hotel. She told him then. he said, that she was married and that her husband was 'extreme'- jealousy
 According to Tatums story. the woman wrote him every day or two The last he heard from her was June or 5, he said, and gave that as his reason for believing something had happened to her"
 Tatum is said to have left Detroit June 2s. He is said to have denied knowledge of the crime and indicated he was willing to come here to assist in clearing the mystery.
 Identifies Clothing
 The trunk shipped here from New York, was partially identified today by Mrs. Lottie Brooks. manager of the apartment at No. 1o5 Harper avenue, as having belonged to Leroy"
 Clothing contained in the trunk in which the body of woman was shipped from Detroit to New York was positively identified tonight as having been the property of Mrs. E. Leroy, according to detectives assigned to the case. Patrolman Lea Trumbull. a mem Der of the Detroit police force and a close personal friend of the Leroy's. was said to have made the indentifi- cation. Trumbull also stated that Mrs. Leroy was formerly Miss Katherine Jackson. 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, it was announced. to assist in the iden- tifieation of a man who gave his name as Roy Millen and who is believed by the Chicago police to answer to the description of Leroy.
 Mrs. Trumbul1 wife of Patrolman Trumbull, said that Katherine Jackson married Leroy here in the fall of 1919. Their married life, Mrs. Trumbull said, was unhappy and on one occasion Leroy threatened his wife with a dag ger, according to a story told her by Mrs Leroy. Mrs. Leroy confided, Mrs. Trumbun said, that she had been mar ried before, unhappily, and had lived l in Birmingham, Ala. A. A. Tatum of Birmingham, Ala, visited Mrs. Leroy, at her invitation, in Detroit. Mrs. Trumbull said, but was unable to give the date. Detroit police announced that the second trunk, presumably shipped by Leroy from the Harper avenue address and believed to con- tain parts of the womans body, had 1 been traced as far as the Michigan Central station here.
 Fears Violence-Stays In Jail BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 25-Ex- pressing fear that "E. Leroy" whom he named in his statements to police 1 here in connection with the investiga- | tion of the Detroit-New York mystery, might take vengeance on him, Allen A l Tatum a linotype operator of Bir- mingham. remained at police head | quarters tonight. No charge has been placed against him. Tatum, according | to the police saw the Jackson woman several times and was told by her that she had married a man by the name i of "E. Leroy" She also said, accord | ing to Tatum. that her husband was extremely jealous of her.
 | Tatum is quoted as saying that he never met Leroy and that the latter must have heard of his attentions to | his wife, killed her and shipped the | trunk to "A. A Tatum" to get revenge. STARTS CAMPAIGN TOUR | SALT LAKE CITY, July 25-Parley i P. Christensen. presidential nominee of
 the Farmer Labor party, will leave for l Chicago tomorrow to confer with the
 uled for Saturday. Following a con- ! leaders. MT Christensen will go to New { York, where he is scheduled to make ] several talks. Mir. Christensen said to-