The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-07-27
MUT'ILATED BODY
SOUTHERN WOMAN'S
CLOTHES SAID TO BELONG TO
MISSISSIPPIAN.

MlSSlSSlfflAN.
Allen A. Tatum in Birmingham
Volunteers Statement to
Policeman.
Detroit, July 25.-Clothing con-
tanned in the trunk in which the body
of woman was shipped from De-
troit to New York was positively
identified tonight as having been the
property of Mrs. E. Leroy, according
to detectives assigned to the case.
Patrolman Leo Trumbul2, member
of the Detroit force and close per-
sonal friend Of the Leroys, was said
to have made the Identification.
Trumbull also stated that Mrs. Le-
roy was formerly Miss Katherine
Jackson, Southern girl, and that
she and her husband lived at 105
Harper avenue, Detroit, the address
given. on the shipping bill of the
trunk.
Trumbull will be sent to Chicago,
it was announced, to assist IN the
identification of a man who gave hls
name as Roy Milen, and who is be-
lieved by the Chicago authorities to
answer to the description of Le-
roy. ssaa
Detroit. July 25.-Detectives as
signed to the task Of identifying a
man who shipped trunk from De-
troit on June 10, in which the mutt
lated body Of woman was found
in New York, were tonight checking
up statements said to have been made
to a Birmingham, Ala, policeman by
Allen Tatum, linotype operator OF
that city. The name given on the
way bill on which the trunk was
shipped bore the name "A. A.
Tatum'
According = to dispatches received
by the policeehere Tatum walked INTO
police headquarters at Birmingham
and volunteered a statement. He is
said to have told officers there that
he believed the murdered woman
was Katherine Jackson, whom he met
in Birmingham. He also admitted,
the dispatches say, that he was ac-
ouainted with Eugene Leroy, the
name given by man who rented an
apartment at 105 Harper street, De.
troit, the address given by "Tatum"
on the trunk watbill. He said Le-
row was. an automobile mechanic.
Tatum first met Katherine Jackson
in Birmingham, he said, in June,
1919. Following their meeting he
visited her several times, twice in
Detroit. Police, checking up on his
statement, have found that "Mrs.
Katherine Jackson, Nashville" was
registered at the 1nterurban hotel
here October 80, 1919. Tatum said
he again visited the Jackson woman
here in July, 1920, at another hotel
but never was at the Harper street
address. She told him on that occas-
ion, he said, that she was married and
that her husband was Extremely
jealous"
According to Tatum's story, the
woman wrote to him every day or
two. He had last heard from her
June or 5; he said, and gave that
as his reason for believing that
something had happened to her. as
otherwise she would have communi-
Gated with him. Tatum said that he
had sent the woman money on one
or two occasions.
Tatum, according to word received
from Birmingham, left Detroit June
%. Police were endeavoring to check
up on his activities during his stay
here. He is said to have denied all
knowledge of the crime and indi-
Gated he was willing to come to De-
troit to assist in clearing up the mys-
terry.
Whether or not Leroy" who oc-
cupied an apartment at los Harper
avenue with a woman, "Tatum,"
whose name appeared on the trunk
waybill, and go. j. Wood" who
signed letter asking New York ex-
pressmen to forward a trunk there to
"E. Leroy" were the same person was
still an open question to the police.
The trunk shipped here from New
York was partially identified today
by Mrs. Lottie Brooke, manager of
the apartment at 165 Harper avenue,
as having belonged to Leroy. She
qualified the Identification by say
ing she was not sure.
Mrs. Ellie Fellers spent the week
end in Newberry with her sister, Mrs.
Frank R. Hunter.
Mr.. H. A. Boozer and daughter,
Miss Ruhie, of Ninety-Six were week
end guests of Mrs. J. B. Stockman.