The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-24
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HOPE TO TRACE
TRUNK MURDER
WITH CLOTHES
Detroit Police Confronted
With Mystery Revealed
in New York.

New York. July 24.-The mystery
surrounding the death Of the un-
identified young woman whose
nude and mutilated body was
found yesterday in a trunk at the
American Railway Express COM
pany's warehouse here. has been
shifted to Detroit authorities for
solution, Captain Arthur Carey,
head of the New York homicide bu-
reau, announced today.
Captain Carey said that the
trunk, a rope used to fasten it and
articles Of clothing employed as
wadding, had been sent to Detroit
from whence it had been shipped
here on June 10.
No clue to the identity Of the
slain woman was discovered in the
examination of the body by at
taches of the coroner's Office here.
Letter Given Police.
Andrew J. Branick, a local ex-
pressman, today handed the police
letter signed "a. A. Tatum," the
same as that on the tag attached to
the trunk. The letter addressed to
Branick was dated June IL.
Enclosed in the letter was an ex-
press company receipt, showing
that trunk had been shipped June
10 from Detroit to New York. and
gave the name "a. A. Tatum," as
both sender and recipient. 1t ask
ed that the trunk be removed from
the express warehouse and be held
until Branick called for it. Bran
lex is also said to have furnished
the police with information involv-
ing a ''Mr. and Mrs. Leroy" These
are the names reported yesterday
by the Detroit police as having oc-
cupied an apartment at los Harper
street in that city a few days be-
fore the trunk was shipped. The
Harper street address was given
on the trunk tag as that of
"Tatum." :
Brain Examined.
DR.. Charles Norris. city medical
examiner, reported today that an
examination OF the dead woman'i
brain failed to show any trace ol
an anaesthetic having been admin.
istered before the woman's death
The examination was made to de-
termine if she had died as . result
of an operation.
New York, July 24.-United
Press) The woman whose nude
body was shipped here in a trunk
from Detroit may be identified by
the clothes which were packed
around the corpse, police believed
today.
Several womans garments, in.
cluding q pink sweater, a brown
, petticoat, undergarments and Z
straw hat. a mans overalls ant
other clothing were found in thu
trunk.
Police were expected tDday t.
send the clothes back to Detroit tt
see il anyone could identify them.
Authorities here believed the!
would be able to do nothing fur
ther toward solving the murdel
and said all evidence would hav'
to be gathered in Detroit.
Pin Hopes ON Clothes.
Detroit, Mich, July 24.-Investi
cation of the trunk murder myster,
unearthed yesterday in New Yorl
was practically at a standstill her
today, pending the arrival Of
shipment of the clothing found il
the trunk with the body Of tn
victim.
This clothing. police believe, vii
demonstrate the value or the use
lessness Of the story told by Mrs
Lottie Brooks, wife OF the janito
at los Harper avenue, regardin
mysterious occupants of the build
ing who disappeared about June l,
the date the trunk was shipped.
Mrs. Brooks and tenants of tn
apartment building who knew tn
couple will be asked to identify tn
clothing.
Is Pennsylvania Girll
j Washington. Pc July 24.-(B
United Press.)-Local authorize
were convinced that the body Of
woman found in a trunk in Ne
York yesterday is that OF atherin
Dan, 20, who early in June disal
peared from Canonsburg, nea
here, with Alfonso Talliafrone.
| Washington county detective
!, who went to Detroit and arreste
Talliafrone, said today that the a.
dress from where the trunk va
shipped, 105 Harper street, Is II
place where they arrested Tallis
frone.
Talliafrone was held on Q chare
Of violation Of the Mann act, an
|. the girls sister was held a. . vi
ness In the alleged white slay
case.