Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-09-21
MRS, PULITZER WAS
SLAIN BY HER LOVER
Police Drag Net Thrown Out
For Hooper Young.
GRANDSON OF BRIGHAM YOUNG.

man was NlIlSd IN roun9s hOoHt
During a Quarrel and Afterward Car.
ried to Canal.
New York Sept. 2O.-An autopsy
er, who was mysteriously murdered
in Fifty-eighth street fiat and whose
body was found in the Morris canal,
showed that her death was caused
primarily by a knife wound in the abb
domen and not by choral. Several
blows were struck on her head be-
fore death, but the skull was not frac-
tured and there were no signs of cere-
bral hemorrhage.
A police dragnet has been thrown
out for William Hooper Young, grand
son of the great Mormon leader, Brig
ham Young. who is suspected of the
killing.
He formerly worked for the Hobo
ken Crusader and the police found his
picture taken with a group of EN-.
ployes. This picture was shown to
the Hoboken liveryman, who at once
picked out Young as the man who hired
buggy from him on Wednesday
night.
The house in which the murdered
woman's clothing was found is cheap
tenement in block containing many
stables, but is within a stones throw
of some of the most splendid apart
ment houses in the vicinity of Cen
trail park, south.
The murdered woman's husband
says that he saw her last late on Tues
day night, when she left their apart
ments for the purpose of purchasing
some rolls and fruits. She did not
return, and the theory now it that
she met her murderer, went with him
to his apartments and that then, as
result of quarrel, he killed her. The
theory is borne out by facts now
known concerning the woman's life.
It has developed that this life was
not good one, fact not denied by
Pulitzer himself. 1t is now reason
ably certain that the murderer kept
the woman's body in his rooms until
Wednesday night, when he hired the
horse and buggy in Hoboken, and, re
turning to New York, drove to the
Morris canal, where he threw his vic
TINS body into the water.
The keeper of the bridge over
which he must have driven to reach
the canal. saw buggy answering the
description of that hired at the stable
in Hoboken. crossing the bridge be-
tween II and II o'clock on Wednesday
night. He could only get glimpse
of the driven, but he said that trunks
was tied on behind the vehicle.
Among the books found in Youngs
room in the Fifty-eighth street fiat
was the cover of a small memoran.
dunn, on the front of which was stamp,
ed in gilded letters Practical Ref
erence." On the inside were a num-
Der of notes headed Blood atone
ment" and followed by Biblical refer
ences, including an excerpt from the
book of Corinthians, reading:
ITO deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that
the spirit may be saved in the day
of the Lord Jesus"
It develops that when Young's faith
err sailed for France on July 1, two of
the sons went back to Utah. Hooper
did not make his home with his faith
err, but he roOmed In the vicinity, Re-
Gently he called upon the superinten.
dent of the building and demanded the
keys, which were given to him.
The apartment originally consisted
Of three suites. These were thrown
into one for the use of The family, but
upon their going abroad one Of them
was cut off and was turned over, rent
free, to four missionaries who are
PROSECUTING in New York. They have
been living there ever since and
were asleep when the supposed muir
der was committed. Them names
are Clarence Snow, Lawrence Taylor,
]. i. Woods and John r. Porter.
Missionary Snow said;
when the elder Mr.. Young went TO
Europe he left four of us here rent
free. Soon afterwards Hooper de-
manded the keys. We lived in suite
No. 4, which was entirely shut OF
from US and We saw little Of him.
Sometimes we heard him come in and
some times we did not
Tuesday night Porter and Taylor
were home all the evening Wood
and came in about II o'clock and
all of use 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 to bid friend goodby. To
this friend he said he was going TO
the Rocky Mountains 4 trunk ship.
ped to Chicago by Young through the
Wells-Fargo express was consigned To
c. e. Eilenny.
The police do not believe the trunk
contains anything but clothing be
longing to Mrs. Pulitzer
Mrs. f. f. Amer, who was close
friend of Young and at one time his
partner in the publication Of the Ho-
| boken Crusader. has, according to The
World. issued statement saying Mr..
| Young called on him at Hoboken last
Thursday morning about 1880 o'clock.
Young. he says. was driving horse
and buggy. which he stated had been
rented by the livery man who has
since figured In the identification u
the weight found attached to Mrs
Pulitzer's body.
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