Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-26
Birmingham, Ala. Man
Starts New Line INQUIRE

Detroit' MICH, July 25-Ds,...
assigned to the task of identisu.'l'e
man who shipped trunk FROM ns
on June 10 in which the muti,a,,saE9'
Of . woman was found in New VIZ
were tonight checking up ,.a,.. w
said to have been made TO pi,~a
ham. Ala. police by Allan A r..F
q linotype operator of that ci,v "
name given on the waybill on ,.'
the trunk was shipped bore the ,.
of "A. A. Tatum."
According odispatches ,scsi,,.,
the police here. Tatum walked -
police headquarters at BirmIns,,s
late Saturday and volunteered a s'..
ment. He is said to have told o~s|
there that he believed that the
dered woman was Katherine J.,s
whom he met in Birmingham. H.,.
admitted. the dispatches said th,
was acquainted with Eugene Isp.
the name given by a man who rs,,.
an apartment at 105 Harper stree, n
troit. the address given BY Tain,
on the trunk waybill He said Lps
was an automobile mechanic.
Tatum first met Katherine Jaa,n
In Birmingham. he said, in June nn
After their meeting he visited he, a,
efal times, twice in Detroit. Pail.
checking up on his statements, h,,,
found that Mrs. Katherine JarI,,
Nashville Tenn" was registered n
the 1nterurban Hotel here October
1919. Tatum said he again visited IA,
jackson woman here in June. 1874 !,
another hotel, but never was at II,
Harper avenue address. She told hin
on that occasion, he said, that she VI,
married and that her husband VI,
extremely jealous"
According to Tatum's story. q,
woman wrote to him every day or tE,
He had last heard from her June o
3, and gave that as his reason for b.
1ieving that something hal happ.rs
to her." AS otherwise she would han
communicated with him. Tatum ai
that he had sent the woman mong
on one or two occasions.
Tatum, according to word receys
from Birmingham, left Detroit Jln
20. Police were endeavoring TO cheek
up on his activities during his sty
there. He is said to have denied Al
knowledge of the crime and indicata
he was willing to come to Detroit
assist in clearing up the mystry
Whether Leroy" who occuplA
an apartment at 1O5 Harper ayerv
with a woman is "Tatum." who's
name appeared on the trunk vay.
bill, and 20. j. Wood" who signed 4
letter asking New York oxpressmsl
to forward a trunk there 10 Leroy
were the same person, was still an
open question to the police. TIN
trunk. shipped here from New York
was partially identified today by Mrs
Lottie Brooks, manager of the apart
ment at 105 Harper avenue. as hal.
ing belonged to LEROY" she quail
ned her identifications, however Dr.
saying she was not sure" she vas
unable to identify. definitely any t
the articles in the trunk as havi,,
been the property of Mrs. LeRoy'
May Be Daughter Of Boston Woman
Boston, July 25-Mrs. Joseph Kr.
cher OF the Hyde Park distric, an
nounced tonight her intention Of g..
ing to New York tomorrow to ysr
the body Of a woman found in a
trunk, in the fear that it may b. thai
OF her daughter Mary. The girl. who
was IA years old, but, according to
ner mother. looked much older, left
her home on March IS last and Ia.
not been heard from since. A
young man who roomed at the Kin.
eher home disappeared at the sam,
time.
MRS. kincher said that from d.:.
eruption of the clothes found in tn.
FUNK she thought they closely re.
semoied those wern by her daughu,
on the night of her disappearana
the girl left note saying that she
was going to Chicago.