The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-23
| AM DEAD, He SAYS
The Murderer Young's Let
ter to the Police.
Declares he Has Committed Self Murder.
B leyed to b. in New York Hidden
by Mormons.
(By the Associated Press

New York, Sept. 20.-The energies Of
the whole detective force of New York
are now concentrated ON the task Of
running down Hooper Young, the grand
son of the great Mormon prophet, Brig
ham Young, who is believed to be the
murderer of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, whose
body was found on Thursday morning in
the Morris Canal, near Jersey City.
The contingency that Young may have
adopted an avenue of escape against
which his pursuers have been powerless
to provide, was suggested by a note re-
ceived by mail late today addressed to
Captain Titus, New York Detective Blu
reau, 300 Mulberry street" The envelope
contained a single sheet of rough brown
paper, such as is used in making memo
randa in business Offices, on which was
written
Search in vain. Have killed myself.
III YOUNG
The postmark ehowed that the letter
had been mailed at the General Postofiice
in this city shortly before noon. From
a comparison of the handwriting with
several letters written by Young, the
police are disposed to believe that the
communication Was WIilJSu ny hihi'
Another important link in the chain of
evidence connecting Young with the muir
der was supplied when a dispatch was re-
ceived from Chicago, stating that the
police had opened the trunk shipped by
Young and had found in it the dead Wo-
mans clothing, a memorandum book con-
tanning the name of William Hooper
Young, and a pawn ticket showing that
a pair of diamond earrings had been
pledged at a pawn shop in Park Row.
this city, on Wednesday last, by man
who gave the name of "Stiner."
Prior to the receipt of this dispatch a
Central Office detective had found a pair
of earrings pledged in the same pawn
shop and under the same name. The
earrings were shown tonight to Joseph
Pulitzer, who at once identified them as
the pair worn by his wife when she left
their room on Tuesday night. Captain
Titus received tonight a dispatch from
Superintendent O'Neil, of Chicago, saying
that he had shipped the trunk to New
York and that it contained in addition
to the articles previously mentioned,
some articles of male attire aud dirk
knife smeared with blood.
An interview was obtained today with
three of the Mormon elders who are oc-
cupying part of the apartment used by
Young They are Clarence Snow, Law
renee Taylor and J. L. Woods
They are all young men and gave evil
dence of having passed restless night,
Mr.. Taylor. acting as spokesman for the
party said:
1.-THE enemies of the Mormon Church
accuse it's members of practising the
blood atonement. There is nothing in it,,
and this crime could not have been com
mitted through any ideas of Mormonism
that this young man may have possess
ed. sI1e was outside of our church, and
we wanted nothing to do with him."
Captain Titus, of the Detective Bu-
reau, emphatically declared today that
the motive for the murder was robbery.
He says the diamond ear rings which
Mrs. Pulitzer wore We're valued at $3.50,
Augustus w. Powers, President of the
Enterprise Engraving Company, of this
city, informed the police tonight that he
had seen Young whom he knew well by
sight in Herald Square this afternoon.
The police of the precinct in which the
murder occurred express the belief that
Young is still in the precinct and is be-
ing protected by an alleged Mormon Sc
cret society, which they say was sup
posed to have been broken up by United
States Secret Service men.