Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-20

caused primarily by a knife wound In
the abdomen and not by chloral. Sew
eral blows We're struck her on the head
before her death but the skull was not
fractured and there were no signs OF
cerebral hemorrhage.
"A police dragnet has been thrown out
for William Hooper Young, grandson
OF the great Mormon leader Brigham
Young, who Is suspected Of tho killing.
Among the books found IN YOungs
room In the Fifty-eighth street fiat was
the cover Of q small memorandum, on
the front OF which was stamped In
gllded letters, practical Reference.
on the inside were a number Of notes
headed BLOOD atonement," and fol-
lowed by Biblical references, including
an excerpt from the Book OF Corlnth-
ians reading.
ITO deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction OF the flesh, mat
the spirit may be saved in the day or
the Lord Jesus"
1t now develops that when Young's
father sailed for France, on July ], two
of the sons went back 20 Utah. Hooper
did not make his home with his father.
but he roomed I'm the vicinity. Recently
he called upon the superintendent Of the
building and demanded the keys, which
were given TO him.
The apartment originally consisted
of three suites. These were thrown In
70 one for the use Of the family, but
upon their going abroad one OF them
was cut of and was turned over, rent
free, 10 four missionaries who are
proselyting In New York. These have
been living there ever since and were
asleep when the supposed murder was
committed. Their names are: Clarence
Snow, Lawrence Taylor, j. l.. Woods
and John r. Porter Mr.. Snow said
CLARENCE SHOWS STATEMENT
swhen the elder Mr.. Young went to
Europe he left four OF us here, rent
free. Soon afterward Hooper demanded
the keys. He lived in suite four, which
was entirely shut off from us and we
saw little, OF him Sometimes we heard
him come in and sometimes we did not
"Tuesday night Porter and Taylor
were home all the evening. Woods and
! came In about IL o'clock and all Of US
went to bed, / do not think any OF us
heard Hooper come In that night and
we certainly heard no disturbance In
his part Of the house"
Detectives have traced Young to
Brooklyn where he went on Thursday
morning 10 bid friend goodbye. To
this friend he said he was going to the
Rocky mountains.
a trunk shipped 10 Chicago by Young,
through the Wells-Fargo Express. was
consigned 10 &c. s. Eleny" The police
do not believe ii contained anything
other than clothing belonging, possibly,
10 Mrs Pulitzer. as very little OF the
murdered womans apparel has been
found.
WHAT AMER SAYS.
Richard f, Amer, who was close
friend OF Young, and at one time his
partner in the publication Of the Hoo
boken Crusader, has, according to the
World. issued statement saying that
Young called at his house In Hoboken
last Thursday about 1880 o'clock.
Young, he says, was driving n horse
and buggy which he stated had been
rented by the llveryman who has since
figured In the identification OF the
weight found attached to Mrs. Pullt-
zers body,
Amer says he met Young at Butte,
Mont.. IN 1901 Young was then travel
ing for drug house. They became
friends and Young, later In the year,
TONED him In the publication of the
paper in Hoboken. They dissolved
partnership last June, however, and
since then had seldom met.