Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-27
sSEARCH BEGUN FOR
 < HUSBAND AS SLAYER \ IN TRUNK MYSTERY
E Jealousy and Revenge Thought to be the Mo-
 tiVeS
OTHER MAN GIVES THE @ POLICE HIS VIEWS
Thinks Husband Slew Woman, Put His 88 Name on Trunk to Fix Crime . On Him-Seek Other 48 Trunk

Detroit, Mich, July 76.-Search |for Eugene Leroy, whose wife's nut 3IAted body was found jammed in a frunk shipped from Detroit to New York, assumed nation wide scope today. Police in every large city of the |eSuntry were asked to aid in the 7 a2a rch. after Patrolman Leo Trum AkHIl of the Detroit police department sKSd failed to identify man giving gtTe name of Roy Millen and held by Cticago authorities pending investi- xStion, as Leroy.
 sSsThat jealousy and revenge played { Sart in the supposed murder is the r~S Sorted contention of Allan A. Ia tdn, now in Birmingham, Ala, and p told police there he knew Mrs. { SIs3soy intimately in Detroit several gMInths ago. Tatum's name was ; fftten on the trunk that contained murdered woman's body. He ex- Hf3esed the belief, it is said, that Spy may have killed his wife }1bugh jealousy when he learned SHc Udu Uccll III 1dluul 23y and that Tatum's name was ls9A on the trunk with revenge as motive.
 Detroit detective left today for { Birmingham to bring Tatum to this cj if possible, in an effort to
 1w light on Leroy's whereabounts. second trunk believed to have abSE& sent to New York and thought tt98hontain the vital organs of the ' lered woman is being sought. \ Rsitive Identification of the dead sN1 hn was established, the police 1S# by Patrolman and Mrs. Trum- and others who recognized S1 bing found in the trunk with the M as having belonged to Mrs. Le A sweater which Mrs. Trumbull had borrowed was among the
 Iing.
 lice investigation today indi- S that Mrs. Leroy had been mar previously to her marriage to
 According to information in
 ands of the police she was the < ced wife of southern pugilist
 U Jackson. Her maiden name
 d to have been Katherine Dixon " Ter home was in Starkville, Miss.
 oy's description as sent today
 lice departments in all large follows:
 23 or 24; height feet 10 1-2
 weight 1A5 pounds; smooth 2as swarthy complexion, jet black combed straight back, scar on l&4eg, teeth good, even.
 en last seen, Leroy wore a dark .ssl coat, green soft hat, silk shirt, le and tan oxfords.
 Is Mississippian.
 2 kville, Miss, July 26.-Follow-
 ceipt here late today of pho
 h of woman supposed to be
 the woman whose body was
 in a trunk shipped from De-
 New York, which follows re-
 lreviously by the postmaster of
 lace of telegram asking for
 ation regarding a man named
 Jackson, Sheriff Hastings and
 pf-Police Ramsey went to Stur-
 lss., near here, where "Kid"
 is living.
 on, the officers said, was mar
 bout three years ago. It is
 le couple have been separated
 ut year. His wife, the off
 ld, left Sturgis about year
 Phe was since heard from at
 gham, Nashville and Detroit.
 supposed to have sought em-
 ht at Detroit.
 al months ago, the officers d, Jackson received a letter IS wife from Detroit, asking grant her divorce as she to re-marry.
 arlson of the photograph of 4 nan received here with that of l Of Kid" Jackson, the off J Id, disclosed resemblance,