New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27

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nam, Ala, thence to Nashville. Tenn..
ana then to Detroit, being in that CITY
"nen last heard from.
=, soon after her meeting with T.eRov
1ney TOOK up their residence with the
sunpulis, and then with the family
~ 20 n. .. Pfister. A story is then told
% % Ho~ the woman once came upon Lee
noy entertaining a chorus girl in a
saIe or Detroit. His explanation was
poe satisfactory, according to Mrs. Lee
ayss account to her friends, and the
S sa;at Is said to have destroyed her
ial'h In her husband.
husband Discovers Affair
AT this juncture, last April Tatun
VINO mad been former sutton in R;r,
Tmihgnam, Ala, came upon the scene
iatum arrived at Mrs. LeRoy's invita-
Ion. She told him of her unhapnv
hh, mar and remarked that her hu r.
, uanu was extremely jealous. She com
pai,.i or illness and said she was re-
ICeisihg treatment at the clinics Of the
Ostrolt Department Of Health.
one began saving up money to leave
nel husband and had accumulated
ABOUT $3.50. She expressed q desire to
70 e pack to Alabama with Tatum. and
Ia1un IS said to have agreed to the
proposition. Leroy is then said to
nave discovered his wife's affair with
that. 'o'i' aleef
Tatum says he went to Detroit in
April Records there show that he
worked In that city for the Detroit
.l,ypesetting Company from May 6 of
TINS year to June 10, the latter date
oeing eight days after the woman 3
BODY had been shipped from the Mich
gan city. A H. Cross, former type
setter at the same place, says that
latum told him he had come there at
tne request of girl, but that he had
dlscoVered she was married and he
wouldn't go out with her.
Said Home Was New York
Mrs. Trumbull said she understood
that the LeRoys were married in To-
ledo, Ohio. She says she and her hus-
band disliked Leroy, but couldn't tell
Just why. He was always neat, his
fingers were we'll manicured and his
features to her seemed feminine. He
told Mrs. Trumbull that his home was
in New York.
Both Mrs. Lottie Brooks, the land
lady of los Harper Avenue, Detroit,
where the LeRoys had an apartment,
and Mrs. Trumbuil agree that Leroy
had peculiar accent. Mrs. Brooks
thought he had a Southern accent,
while Mrs. Trumbull thought it an
Eastern accent. Leroy having been
definitely identified by Branic as A. J.
can. who had come to New York in
l9lS, the police are Convinced that the
accent was due to his foreign origin.
Mrs. Irumbull, in going over the de-
tails OF several threats which Mrs. Lee
Roy had told her that her husband had
made against her life, said:
Zone night not long after Tatum
came to Detroit he and Mrs. Leroy
ana myself went to a theater | hap
pened to see Leroy later sitting be-
hind US and told Katherine. She told
me later that when she got home that
night she saw Eugene take a six-inch
dagger from a drawer. I'm deathlv
afraid he'll kill me some day Kath
crime said.
Wanted to Return South
Shortly after that they moved from
S5 lrumbull Street to 105 Harper Ave
nue.. saw Katherine once after that.
early in June, and she told ME then
she wanted TO leave Eugene and go
back TO Alabama. She said she had
$3.50 saved up, but Eugene was not
working and was staying home just to
watch her Before they moved to Har-
per Avenue Eugene said he didn't think
they would live there long"
Mrs. Leroy, added Mrs Trumbull,
was to have called her up q few DAYS
later. Two weeks later Tatum came to
the Trumbull home and asked what had
happened to Katherine.
Leroy was last seen June 10. leaving
the Harper Avenue apartment house
with two trunks, and without his wife.
LIE Roy's description, as sent out by
the police, is: About twenty-three or
twenty-four Years old. smooth face,
swarthy complexion, jet black hair.
combed straight back; a scar on the
calf Of left leg; teeth good and even;
speaks with slight accent, and can
talk Spanish; is an expert auto me-
chanic.
When last seen he wore dark green
coat, green soft hat, silk shirt, bow tie
and tan oxfords.
The fact that Leroy was none other
than Fernandez was further substan-
tlated by Policeman Trumbull, who de-
clared that lie Roy had told him he had
peen held as suspect IN manslaugh-
ter case in New York. Branic had said
that Fernandez had told him Of an au-
itomobile accident, in which he had
been arrested under the name Of O. j.
Woods. and that upon his release on
bail he fed to Toledo
Woman's Organs Probably Burned
Dr.. Charles Norris, medical exanin-
er, declared yesterday he was not salts
fed with the mere Identification of the
clothes Of the woman, and that he
would not be able TO make a complete
report of his findings for several days.
He said. however, that so far he has
been unable to find any traces Of
Choral, chloroform or alcoholism in
the brain, the only vital organ left in
tact in the body. He was making an
exhaustive laboratory test for certain
poisons which leave their impress on
the brain.
1t is the belief Of Assistant Prosecu-
tor Steed that the woman's organs
were disposed OF by the slayer through
an incinerator at the Harper Avenue
house. He told of the jantor at that
place seeing some bed clothes in the
furnace about June 10, and that soon
afterward he noticed the oder of burn
inging flesh, which he thought at the
time Vas merely garbage. lie explained
tNNt every aoartmcnt in the house has q
chute running directly to the .nclnera-
tor, and that the matter placed IN
these chutes is not handld by anybody
before its consumption in the furnace.