Eugene Leroy Sought as Slayer of His Wife

1920

Arrest of Man in Mexico Seems to Solve Trunk Mystery.

DETROIT, Michigan. — Eugene Leroy, sought as the slayer of Katherine Jackson Leroy, whose mutilated body was shipped from Detroit to New York in a trunk June 10, and Oscar J. Fernandez are the same person. Twelve persons who knew Leroy here positively identified pictures of Fernandez received from San Antonio, Texas, as those of the man they knew.

Among those who identified the pictures were Patrolman Trumbull and his wife and the Pfister couple, and with whom the Leroys lived here.

The man known as Leroy is being sought on a charge of first-degree murder. These steps followed a dispatch from New York that Mrs. Leo Trumbull, wife of a Detroit policeman, had identified the body as that of the woman she had known as "Mrs. Eugene Leroy."

A warrant was immediately issued here for the arrest of "Eugene Leroy, alias O. J. Wood, alias O. J. Fernandez," for first-degree murder.

Then, via San Antonio, came word that Oscar J. Fernandez, believed to be Leroy, was under arrest at Saltillo, state of Coahuila, Mexico. Steps have been taken to extradite him.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 2.