The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-24
VAST BODY OF
CHICAGO GIRL?
Detroit Police Baffled-Seek
Aid in UnraveIIing Trunk
Murder Mystery.
SURGEONS KNIFE USED
Vital Organs, Including Lungs
and Heart, Removed by I'm
Known Criminal Hand.
(ey LLOYD LEHR1AsD


Detroit Mich. July 24-Was the
hacked and mutiated corpse shipped
from Detroit to New York in trunk
by /" A. A. Tleturn" on June 10, a
Chicago woman?
Detroit police. naffled at every turn
Tor clue, Will seek the corporation
OF Chicago police today in an effort to
unraVel the mysterious trunk murder
by having them make search OF their
records for missing woman answering
the description OF the girl found In the
trunk, her body sliced by O surgeons
knlIe and vital organs removed Mrs.
Lottie Brooks, manager of the apart
ment at los Harper avenue, the adj
dress given by the shipper of the
trunk coffin, told police today that the
young. couple, giving the name OF Mr..
ana Mrs, II. Leroy, who departed under
time the trunk was shipped, had told
her they were from Chicago and had
talked OF that city.
Because OF the fiendlsh mutilation
OF the corpse Detroit police are at a
loss for a motive for the murder. All
the vital organs, including the heart
ana lungs, were removed the tongue was
cut out and the knees broken so that
me BODY could be pressed into the
trunk In the form OF the letter s. lead
ing TO the belief that II was either tile
work OF a maniac or the cold blooded
ana purposeful laundering OF some one
with knowledge OF surgecy.
Completely baffled for any other clue.
the homicide squad today began work.
ing on two theories. First, that an H.
legal operation had resulted in the death
OF the girl and the body had been
chopped and the vital organs removed
70 blot out all trace OF the original
crimes and secondly she had been poi
soned ana the organs removed for the
same reason. The cutting out of the
Tongue lead the homicide squad to place
the most credence In the poison theory
as the tongue might have shown poison
Cost Four Dollars.
Inc trunk with Its srewsome contents
was shipped from the Michigan Central
depot on June 10 on prepaid slim,
NO 22,4iS, at a cost of 81. so. according
TO the records Of Chief Clerk Libby Of
me express office, According to Mrs.
away and police believe the other trunk
containing the heart, lungs, tongue and
other parts OF ~ body was shipped 10
some other fictitious address, where It |
Is lying unclaimed
q. e. Brokaw. superintendent OF the |
Detroit express office. is said to have |
round an expressman who remembers |
the particular trunk and he Ia to be |
questioned by the detectives this morn |
ing. Chief OF Detectives Edward II. |
'NN''' w :" ilNbHdkt ITOIl NEW OTk
today saying the police there were |
sending the clothing found in the trunk |
to Detroit for possible Identification. |
They. also, notified him that a blue serge |
suit found with the body had been pur- !
chased In Pulaski, Mich. Other cloth |
Ing found In the trunk included wom- |
ans brown coat with a fur collar; black |
nat, turned up with black trimming, |
lavender undershlrt and an old rose |
sweater coat Mrs. Brooks will be |
asked TO Identify these as worn by |
MRS, Leroy" together with bed cloth |
ment
The Wn-de-na apartments are To- |
Gated at l0b Harper avenue, the ad- |
dress given by the shipper of the trunk
Mrs Brooks, the landlady, says no
one by the name OF A. A. Tloturn was
ever ut the apartments and police arc
working on the theory that Ticturn and
Leroy are the same man and that the
body OF the trunk murder girl Is Mrs.
Leroy.
shifted TO Detroit.
New York, July 2i.--The mystery