Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-27
PORTER GIVES CLUE
IN TRUNK MURDER
Man Answering the Suspected
SIayer's Description Seen
on Pullman Car
SAID HE FEARED ARREST
by the Associated Press

Chicago, July 27.--Policc TODAY wcro
investigating the report of G. G. Fin
ley, Pullman porter, that man an.
swering to II. Leroy's description, who
came from Detroit to Chicago, recentlv
aroused the porter's suspicion BY rs.
marks about police being in search o,
him.
The police sent wires out to westerr,
railroad centers following the porter.
statement that the man. Accompanies
by woman, said he was going to 10,
Angeles.
The porter said the man expressed
concern about the inspectors on the
train, that he could not sleep. that the
police were after him, and that he wns
restless The striking likeness Of the
description given by the porter to the
man sought by the police for the trunk
murder mystery and the Travellers nerv.
give orders to have westbound trains
watched. .
Birmingham, Ala, July 27.--Positive
Identification of the woman known as
NIrsi Eugene Leroy, whose mutilated
body was found jammed in a trunk BY
New York Express Co. employees. was
claimed today by the Birmingham News
in special story. The paper declares
that the woman was Mrs, Katherine
Jackson. nineteen years old. whose
maiden name was Katherine Lou Fond.
rem. and that her home was at Sturgis.
Miss.
The dead woman's S husband was Kid
! Mccoy Jackson, a young farmer. who
| has never been inside the prize ring. dc.
spite his name, the newspaper declares.
Mrs. Jackson. it adds. was the step.
daughteS of Alfred Vaughn. a Sturgs
farmer. her own father having died when
she was seven years old. The mother
married Vaughn several years later and
died in 1910.
After the death of her mother the
young wife soon disappeared. the News
claims. to be heard from later from
| Birmingham. Nashville and other cities
SO far as is known, the story says. she
never returned to her husband or OBJ d.
tanned divorce.
| to the police by Mrs. Leo Trumbull.
wife of patrolrnan. that Mrs. Eugene
Leroy, victim of Detroit's trunk murder
mystery, had confidcd in her that she
was about to become a mother. injected
a new theory into the case today.
! Police today divided their attention
between hunt for Leroy. husband OF
the slain woman. and second trunk be-.
lieved to contain the vital organs ot
the body. which is known TO have been
sent from the Harper avenue apartment
house. where the Leroys lived.
Police believe that examination az
the organs might reveal whether death
was due to criminal operation, 4.
has been hintcd since Mrs. rrumbu!l
made her statement. 1t was Patrolmau
and Mrs. Trumbull who identified tue
victim through clothing found in tn
trunk. Mrs. Trumbull will 60 to New
York today to view the body.
Th, police declared today they had
established that Mrs. Leroy planned
an attempt at suicide before her death.
That Mrs. Leroy was slain in the
Harper avenue apartment house here
was conclusively proven today, accord
ing to the police, by finding there
blankets identical with those IN which
the body was wrapped before it was
placed in the trunk. Another blanket
has not been accounted for and police
believe the vital organs Of the body were
placed in it and put in the second trunk
A call has been sent to- every express
Office in the country to check over IN
called for baggage, in an effort to locate
the second trunk.