Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-25
They Passed Between New York and Detroit Re-
 garding Trunks
RODY MAY BE MISSING
 PENNSYLVANIA GIRL
Trunk is Sent to Detroit Where At tempt Will be Made to Identify
 It Through An Address There

#from handwriting contained on the &letters which passed between Detroit Rand New York are expected to reveal @the identity Of the woman whose mu- kilated body was found in trunk here yesterday, police announced to- might.
 The letters were produced by An hrew J. Branic, an eXpressman. He II Wlso told the officials of two South Americans for whom he stored a runk in 1918, and one of whom later { |rdered the trunk shipped to E. Leroy, i are of the Y. M. c. A., Detroit.
 The name of Leroy is that of the { erson reported as having occupied n apartment at number 1O5 Harper ; treet, Detroit, the address on the ] funk in which the body was found Yesterday.
 i The most recent letter to which the blice attached importance was one eceived by Branic June II, from a an in Detroit. It was signed A. A.. Rtum and ordered him to get q unk sent from there June 10. He lied to locate the trunk, but was bable to find it.
 It was last January, Branic told the lice, that he received the letter di- cting the trunk be sent to E. Leroy hat letter, he said, was in the same Ind writing as the Tatum letter but ls signed s. J. Woods, the name k;,L +bo one of the two South Americans. ! ese men, according to Branic, were 8 own to him first as A. J. Fernan- & and Joseph Yanez.
 $ Fernandez later told him he was rested in connection with an auto bile accident in Brooklyn, involving death of man. He was released bail and left New York. Branic eived letter from him in Detroit December, 1919, and in July, 1919, B asked to get trunk and hold it il Woods wanted it. This trunk ordered sent to Leroy.
 throughout all of the correspond e with A. A. Tatum, c. J. Woods E. Leroy, Branic declared, the ldwriting was the same.
 letroit, Mich, July 24.-The trunk which the body of an unidentified han was found in New York, was lived by Detroit police this even
 Shortly after it's arrival detec hurried out on what they said new lead. It is understood that new clue, came from New York.
 ashington, Pa., July 24.-Authori- of Washington county, Pennsyl- a, announced today that they were ing efforts to ascertain if the
 of the woman, found in trunk New York yesterday, is that of herine Dan, age 20, who went to oit early in June and has not heard from since.
 ? Dan, sister of the missing girl, Alphonsi Talifrone, are prisoners Rll here, and are being held in ectlon with the disappearance of (erine Dan. Talifrone is charged
 violation of the Mann act, and Pllcity in the disappearance of the girl. The sister is being held for Der investigation.
 a statement today, Ida Dan said
 believed her sister is dead. ether she is the girl they found e trunk in New York, wouldn't
 Ire to say," she added. Talifrone he had not heard from the miss irl for some time.
 unty authorities claim that de- of the finding of the body in the
 tally with facts and dates sur
 ling the disappearance of Kathe- Dan. She left home at Canons-
 Pa., early in June for Detroit, was accompanied by Talifrone, 'rities said. The latter was ar
 Tn Detroit and brought to this
 put efforts to find theNgirl in failed. County detectives who tlgated the Detroit end of the
 said today that 1O5 Harper the address found in the trunk
 w York, was the apartment in
 they located Talifrone and
 articles of the missing girls