The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
WAS MURDERED IN
 TENEMENT HOUSE
Mystery of Mrs. PuIitzer'8
 Death Partly Cleared
SUSPECTED MAN IS MISSING
It Is Supposed Woman Was Stabbed to Death and Her Body Thrown Into canaI-PoIiee Working
 Hard on Case.

New York, September 19.-The mystery l of the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer. whose nude body was round in the Nor ris canal near Jersey city. has been cleared up by the discovery that the woman was killed in a nat at 1Os West Fifty-eighth street. where her clothing was found tonight.
 This announcement was made late to- night by Captain Titus of the detective | bureau, who alleges that the murder was committed by a man named Hooper | Young. who has recently been employed in cheap restaurant. Titus has learned that the body was kept for some time under the sink in the kitchen of the flat in which she was killed. Young has not been arrested. and is believed to have fled the city. He is said to have shipped trunk to Chicago last night. He formerly worked for the Hoboken Crusader com psny. and the police found his picture taken with a group of employees. The pie ture was shown to the Hoboken livery man, who at once picked out Young as the man who hired a buggy from him on Wednesday.
 The house in which the womans cloth ing was found is a cheap tenement in block containing many stables, but is within a stones throw or some of the most splendid apartment houses in the vicinity of Central Park, south.
 It is learned from the Hoboken police that the man who hired the buggy has been identified as Young, and detectives then traced him to the fiat, No. 103 West Fifty-eighth street, where q young wom an was found who had been asked to'h help Young carry a trunk from the house on Wednesday evening. The police had al- ready heard of the Pulitzer woman's con nection with Young, whose description fitted that given by Pulizer of man who his wife had told him had accosted her on Tuesday evening and had asked her to go to his flat on Fifty-eighth street. It is believed that the woman afterwards met Young and accompanied him to the flat. Young's father, who the police say, is John W. Young, promoter, Is now in France. Neighbors say he had lived here with his daughter, Mary Young until last spring, when both went away, leaving the flat fur nished. They say that Young, Jr., was first seen in the flat about week ago, when he slept there each night.
 The Young fiat is one of seven rooms and bath and Is handsomely furnished. The bedroom next to the dining room is the one in which it is believed the mur- der was committed. It is very small room.
 Young was seen about o'clock on Wednesday evening when he appeared in the street in front of the house and asked Alfred Babney, a lad about 16 years of age to go into the house and help him to carry out a trunk The boy says he assented and helped Young to carry down a heavy trunk. which Young said was full of books. In front of the house was a horse attached to a light buggy in which the trunk was placed. Young got in and drove rapidly down Sixth avenue. The police say they have learned that on Thursday morning Young returned to the house about o'clock and that he was seen carrying the same trunk he had taken away the night before. This time he had the trunk on his shoulder and was carrying 1t up the stairway Into the flat In the evening between and 8 o'clock Young, 1t is said took the same trunk from the house to the office or the Wells Fargo Express company in Sixth avenue near Fifty-ninth street There he asked that it be shipped to Phil adelphia. He was told that the com pany did not ship to that point, the police say. and he then said that 1t would do just as well if 1t was shipped to Chi cago. The trunk was accepted and was shipped to that point.
 The Chicago police have been notihed and will watch for it's appearance.
 After they had gathered all this infor- nation the police opened the door lead ing to the flat which they found in great confusion. There was every evidence of struggle on the part of the occupants. In the small bedroom they found single bed. the sheet of which was spotted with blood and other stains were found on a cupboard Among the number of bottles stood a tiny vial half filled with hydrate of chloral.
 In the room were found one or two articles of woman's clothing, but they bore no stain. A stocking, such as women wear, was later identified by Pulitzer as having been worn by his wife when she went out to get fruit and cakes for him. The rest of the feminine apparel he said did not belong to his wife In the bath room were found two towels and a mans shirt. still wet, and which appeared to have been used to wipe up blood stains, and then to have been hastily washed.
 There was also found an old leather grip in which were scores of letters, all from young women and addressed to Young.
 Coroner Sholer. who examined the fiat gave 1t as his theory that the woman had been murdered by knockout drops In the form of hydrate of chloral and that the murdered then attempted to dis member the body so as to more easily place it in the trunk, but that he had ap- parently desisted and placed 1t temporar- fly in the bottom of the cupboard. Later he placed the body in the trunk. !