New-York tribune., 1920-07-30
u. S. Aid Asked
To Get LIE Roy
Out of Mexico
Michigan Governor Seeks
to Have Suspected Slayer
of Trunk Victim Extra
dited; Also Sought Here
Killed Hoxie Girl, Belief
Police Say He Also May
Be the Murderer of q
Soldier in the McAlpin

Soldier in the McAlpin
Preliminary steps were taken yester-
day for the extradition of Eugene lie
Roy from Saltillo, Mexico, where he is
believed to have fed following the
murder of Katherine Jackson Lc Roy,
whose nude body he is charged with
shipping to this city from Detroit in
a trunk. Governor Sleeper of Michi-
gan wrote to the State Department, re-
questing its aid in the arrest and extra
dltion OF the accused man from Mexico.
While the case is rapidly passing out
of the mystery stage, local interest
was considered heightened by the dis
covery OF the police that the suspectec
slayer may also have been the murder
err of Cecil +. Landon, an Oregon SOL
der. at the Hotel McAlpin on August
ia last. Landon registered at the
hotel with roommate who signed
himself "P Pourverer," end who dis
appeared the morning after the muir
der.
The missing Pourverer was also de-
scribed as swarthy, back-haird man.
similar In appearance to LIE Roy who
IS also known as 0. j. Fernandez and
O. j. Woods. The police are inclined
70 believe that the dark complcxioned
alien who applied at the Hoxie house,
at u West Eighty-ninth Street, on an
afternoon OF February last for room
and then murdered seventeen-year-ol
Rehm HoXie, may have been the same
man.
lie Roy Said to Be Degenerate
In connection with the Landon mur-
der. the theory of the authorities is
further substantiated by the fact that
the Landon murder was undoubtedly
the work of degenerate. Landon,
who had just returned from overseas,
was found beaten to death with can
dlestick twelve hours after he had
registered with Pourverer, and was
robbed of $500. The signature Of
Pourverer on the register is identical,
say the police. with the samples OF
the handwrtngs of Fernandez now
IN their possession.
The authorities here, aside from LIE
Roy being charged with murder, also
have warrant for him for violating
his parole resulting from his arrest
last July on grand larceny charge.
This warrant is still good and should
ne be acquitted of the murder charge
in Detroit, the police OF this city will
arrest him on this warrant.
The police were further convinced
Indt retHanueZ is III Mexico Dy letter
which Andrew j. Branic, the express
man, turned over to the authorities
Yesterday. Branic had been asked to
pick up the murder trunk upon its ar
rival here in letter which the sup
posed slayer had signed "a. A. Taturn'
another friend OF the girl, in order to
divert attention toward him. The for
!ner letter was written by Joseph
Ianez, chum of Fernandez, and was
ofr1a 7.
Branic to forward all mail for Yanez,
Fernandez or Wood to Mexico City
Came Here in 1918
Fernandez is now known to have
come here in 1918, in the steerage Of
Southern Pacific steamship. His bag
gage arrived from San Antonio. Tex,
where his home is thought to be-
Mrs. Pelly, at whose house at 147
West Sixty-fourth Street Yanez and
Fernandez stopped after the latter's
parole last July, said yesterday she
remembered turning over two letters
TO the men addressed 0. j. Woods
Charles Pelly, the husband of the land
lady, says he heard Fernandez ad-
dressed as E. LIE Roy in q conversation
in a cafe near his home
The hunt for the second trunk be-
lieved sent out with the murder trunk
from the Harper Avenue apartment in
Detroit developed that q trunk believed
TO contain the vital organs of the VIC
tim was shipped from Detroit to 500
Twelfth Street, Birmingham, Ala,
about the middle of June without the
name of the consignee. A Mrs. John
son who lives at that address, is re-
ported to have confirmed that fact and
said she refused to accept it because
she was afraid it contained dead body"
Birmingham authorities are trying to
trace it.
Brother to Claim Body
While the medical examiner here was
preparing to bury the victims body in
potters fiel, word was received that
the girls brother, l.. a. Fondron, was
on his way north to claim the body
and take it back to Sturgis, Miss,
where her real husband, Kid Mccoy
Jackson, will give it a proper burial.
II is not known what the local officials
will do.
Allen A. Tatum. the linotype opera
tor OF Birmingham, made public
further details OF his affair with the
murdered girl. 81 feel I'm the motive
for the crime" he said, Though |
don't know exactly why lie Roy was
jealous OF me. Katherine told me he
once trailed me with a knife Our
meetings were secret. | worked nights
at the Detroit Typesctting Company
and Katherine and | often met and
went to movies and parks
in one of her letters to me before
came to Detroit she wrote me that
she was living with some fellow.
think she referred to him as my man,
Hal She urged me to come North
and take her back South. She used
endearing terms, frequently starting
her letters with Dear Daddy and tell
ing me how happy l could make "a
lonely girl
when | came North after sending
her money she told me she was mar
ried again, but would not tell to whom.
Just before left for the South | found
| ont it was lie Roy" Tatum added he
met the girl through Fay Dickson,
Birmingham salesglrl, in May, 1919.
Dealers Charge Poultry
Trust Oppresses Them