The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-20
MURDERED in A FLAT
MYSTERY OF THE KILLING OF MRS.
ANNIE PULITZER CLEARED.
Was Slain In the Apartments of a
Young Man and Her Nude Body
Thrown Into Canal.

NEW YORK, Sept 19.-The mystery of
the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer. whose
nude body was found in the Morris canal,
near Jersey City, has been cleared up by
the discovery that the woman was killed in
a fiat at No. 103 West Fifty-eighth street,
where he clothing was found tonight.
The announcement was made late tonight
by Captain Titus. of the detective bureau
who connects directly with the murder a
man named Hooper Young. whose has re-
Gently been employed in a cheap restaurant.
Titus has learned that the woman's body
was kept for some time under the sink in
the kitchen of the fiat in which she was
killed. Young has not been arrested and is
believed to have fed the city. He is said
to have shipped a trunk to Chicago last
night. He formerly worked for the Ho-
boken Crusader, and the police found his
picture taken with group of employees
This picture was shown to the Hoboken liv-
cry man, who at once picked out Young as
the man who hired a buggy from him on
Wednesday night.
The apartment in which the murdered
woman's clothing was found is situated
within a stones throw of some of the most
splendid apartment houses in the vicinity
of Central Park South.
1t is believed the woman met Young on
the street and accompanied him to the fiat.
Youns's father, who, the police say, is John
w. Young, promoter, Is now in France.
Neishbors h. say that he had lived d,,, mere l
spring, when both went away, leaving the
fiat furnished. They say that Young. jr.,
was first seen in the fat about week ago:
when he slept there each night. The Young
fat 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 murder was committed. 1t is
a 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
Albert Dabney, a lad of about sixteen
years, to go into the house and help him
carry out a trunk. The boy says he as
serted and helped Young carry down a
heavy trunk, which Young said was full of
books. In front of the house was a horse
attached to n light buggy, in which the
TRUNK was placed. Young got in, according
to Dabney. and Grove rapidly down Sixth
avenue.
When the police opened the door leading
to the fiat, which they found In great con-
fusion, there was every evidence of a
struggle on the part of the occupants. In
the small bedroom they found a single
bed. the sheet of which was spotted with
blood. and other stains were found on a
cupboard. Among number of bottles
of chloral
In the room were found one or two arti-
cles of woman's clothing, but they bore no
stain. A stock, such woman wears.
was later identified by Pulitzer as having
been worn by his wife on Tuesday night.
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
bathroom were found two towels and a
mans nightshirt still wet and which ap-
peared to have been used to wipe up blood
stains and then to have been hastily
washed. There was also found old
leather grip in which were scores of let
tiers. all from young women and addressed
to Young.
Coroner Sholer, who examined the fat.
gave Ii as his theory that the woman had
been murdered by Knockout drops in the
form of hydrate of choral and that the
murderer then attempted TO dismember the
body so to more easily place IL in the
trunk, but that he had apparently desisted
and placed it temporarily in the bottom
of the cupboard. Later he placed the body
in the trunk
Hooper Young's father is believed to be a
son of Brigham Young the famous Nor
mon leader, and to come from Seattle,
Wash. Nothing is known at present of the
whereabouts of the young man suspected
| of the murder.