The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-20
MURDER
WILL OUT
Flood Of Light on the
Killing Of Mrs. Pull
itzer Radiates
From Hobo
ken.
HOOPER YOUNG THE SLAYER
The Tell Tale Weight Starts
a Series Of Astonish-
ing Discoveries.
SCENE OF THE MURDER
Handsome Flat on Fifty-ninth
Street : Witnesses Who
Saw the Body in Tran
sit to the Meadows.
SCENE OF THE MURDER

By remarkably quick detective work
performed By the Hoboken police under
Donovan. the murderer of Mrs. Anna
Nelson Pulitzer, the young woman whose
r,,utilated body was found in the Morris
Canal, on the Hackensack Meadows,
Thursday afternoon, was identified last
night as William Hooper Young, young
man formerly employed on a small Ho-
boken weekly newspaper called 'Ihe
Crusader
Today all that remains to be learned
in connection with the mystery are the
whereabouts of the murderer and the
motive he had for committing the
crime.
Young, who is grandson of Brigham
Young. founder of the Mormon Church
in this country. murdered Mrs. Pulitzer
in his fat in the Clarence apartment
house. at No 103 West Fifty-eighth
street. New York City. 1t was from
this fat that he carted the body away
in trunk ad dumped it into the canal
OH the Hackensack Meadows, using for
the purpose. the horse and buggy which
'lHe news Stdttu sSsteiuo5 vas ~ ~
from Charles r. Evans, u Hoboken liv-
eryman.
THE TELL-TALE WEIGHT.
Through the identification of the
weight found strapped to the body, Liv-
eryman Evans was certain that the man
who hired his rig about 6:2o O'Clock
Wednesday evening was the man who
cartcd the body to the meadows. But this
alone did not clear the mystery. 1t was
accounted for except William Harper
one single remark which the murderer
LET drop while in conversation with Evans
that put the police on the correct trai'.
and it was this remark alone which en-
abled them to solve the mystery SO
quickly. AS was his custom when stran-
gers hired his rigs, Evans asked Young
whether he was acquainted in Hoboken.
Realizing that the liveryman feared he
was not going to bring the rig back
Young replied:
"Oh it will be all right. / am con-
nected with the Crusader.
DONOvAN'S ENERGY.
Chief Of Police Dono n Immediately
had his men hunt up every man who
ever worked on the paper. The Cru
sader' went out of existence last June.
Each man who ever worked on it was
Young, young man about thirty years
of age VIE acted as business manager.
1t was said that he was still i'll the city
but in a very few hours the police learn
ed that he was living in New York.
Meanwhile it was. learned that photo
erapher named Kiefer, at No. 100 Hud-
son street. had some months previous
taken a number of photographs for pub
lication in the CRUSADER" Among
these photographs was one of Young him
self. The picture was hastily secured
and shown to Liveryman Evans. With
out a moments hesitation Evans re-
plied:-
THAT'S THE NAN.
"That's the man who hired my rig.
I'd know him in thousand. That's the
fellow all right"
Chief Donovan then located Dixy
Amer, who published the CRUSADER
with Young. Amer resides at No. 10o
Seventh street.
why" said Amer, Young drove up
to my house in a buggy Thursday morn
ing and asked me to take ride with
him. | went out riding with him for
about half an hour. Then he said he
would take the rig back to Evans's sta
Bile where he had hired it, and | went
nome. did not see him after that"
It was the previous night that Young
had carted the body from his New York