The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-07-31
MISSISSIPPI GIRL
MEETS TRAGIC END
was ls-Year-o1d Katherine Jackson,
Formerly KISS Katherine Lou Ton-
dren, Of sturgis, Miss.

| Birmingham, Ala, July 28.-The wo-
man whose body was found jammed in
trunk in the New York office of the
American Express Company. was Mrs.
Katherine Jackson. 10 years old, and her
| home was at Sturgis, Miss, according
to an investigation made by the Birm-
ingham News. According to the story
published by the News, she was the
wife of Kid Mccoy Jackson, young
| farmer, and her maiden name was Kath-
crime Lou Fondren.
PLANNED SUICIDE.
Detroit, July 27.-The statement to
the police today by Mrs. Leo Trumbull,
wife of the patrolman, that Mrs. Eu-
gene Leroy, the victim of Detroit's
trunk murder mystery. had copfided to
her that she was about to become a
| mother, injected new theory into the
case today. The police declare that they
had established the fact that Mrs. Le-
roy had planned suicide before her
death.
WAS MISSISSIPPI GIRL.
Starkville, Miss, July 27.-The 'Kath-
crime Jackson" to whom A. A Tatum
of Birmingham referred as the possible
trunk murder victim, is believed to have
been Unidentified. She may be Katie
Lou" Jackson, of Sturgis
telegram was received by the post
master here asking for information re-
garding a man named kid Jackson"
and whether he had been married to a
woman named Katie Lou" The advice
was sent that a kid" Jackson lived
near Sturgis and had been married to a
Koti I
tograph of the dead girl was received
mere late yesterday afternoon by
young man named Foster ]. Jackson and
accompanied by Sheriff Hastings, Dep
uty Sheriff Mckee and Chief of Police
Ramsey, Jackson went to Sturgis.
where 1t was learned that the girl who
was formerly a Miss Fondren of a pro-
minent family, had married kid" Jack
son some three years ago, but for a
year the couple had been separated.
About year ago the young woman
lett Sturgis, going to Birmingham.
FROM that city she went to Nashville
ana then left for Detroit. About three
months ago several firms in Detroit
wrote to individuals at Sturgis request
ing information concerning her quail
hcatlons. She was seeking employment
at Detroit at that time.
The picture received here by mail was
compared and found to resemble those
held at Sturgis by friends.
AS far as could be learned she is the
same girl referred to by Tatum, the Ii
notype operator in Birmingham.
In February this year her husband re-
ceived letter from her in Detroit,
in which she asked him to grant her a
divorce, as she was expecting to marry
soon. Whether he granted the request
is not known.
When interrogated about the tragedy,
the husband broke down and said he
was deeply grieved.
REVENGE THE MOTIVE
Detroit, July 27.-Search for Eugene
Leroy, whose wifes mutilated body was
found jammed in trunk shipped from
Detroit to New York, assumed nation
wide proportions today.
Police in every large city of the coun-
try were asked to aid in the search af-
ter Patrolman Leo Trumbull of the De-
troit police department had failed to
identify man giving the name of Roy
Miller and held by Chicago authorities
pending investigation as Leroy.
That jealousy and revenge played a
part in the supposed murder is the re-
ported contention of Allan A. Tatum,
now in Birmingham, Alabama, and who
told police there he knew Mrs. Leroy
intimately in Detroit several months
ago. Tatum's name was written on the
trunk that contained the murdered wo-
mans body. He expressed the belief
it is said, that Leroy may have killed
his wife through jealousy when he
learned that she had been in Tatum's
company and that Tatum's name used
on the trunk with revenge as the mo-
tive