The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-24
YOUNG A SCAPE GOAT2
Says Annie Pulitzer Was
Killed by Degenerate.
Done in His Apartment During His Absence.
Fear Led Him to Attempt Destruction
of Body.
(By the Associated Press

New York. Sept. 23.-The train from
Derby. Conn, with William Hooper
Young on board, arrived at the Grand
Central station at 9:2O a. M There was
crowd of 400 or 500 at the station when
the train came in. The crowd was or
derly and no demonstration against Young
was made. Young was led to a closed
carriage and accompanied by Detective
Sergeants Hughes and Findlay and Will
liam F. S. Hart, the prisoners counsel,
who came down from Derby with the
party, was driven to police headquarters.
The prisoner plainly was in a condition
bordering on collapse when led up the
steps into headquarters Shortly after
Lawyer Hart appeared and said in reply
to inquiries:
Young is an innocent man. The police
believe they have got him on an alleged
confession, which he made before ne had
legal counsel. 1t will be proven that
Young was not even an accomplice.''
At the close of an intervieWu between
Detective Captain Titus and Young,
Captain Titus said Young had made the
following statement:
About three weeks ago l met a man
pamed Charles Simpson Filing in Cen
tral Park He accosted me. We talked
and got acquainted, though he was a
degenerate After that he called on me
several times at my fiat.
'On the night Mrs. Pulitzer died Filling
and l met her at Broadway and Forty
sixth street by appointment l had made.
We went to the fat together. l went out
FOR some whiskey after we got there, and
left Filing and the woman alone. When
l got back ! found Mrs. Pulitzer lying
across the bed with gag in her mouth,
Filing had gone.
Il ripped open her clothing and moved
her hands back and forth over her head
to induce respiration. When she didn t
breathe / put my hand under her waist
and felt her heart 1t was not beating.
Then | decided to notify the police but
thought that instead of calling a police
man, to go to police headquarters. which,
thought was in the city hall. | got
on train and started down town, and
of disgrace the affair would bring upon
NE and my father That made me decide
to get rid of the body.
~ took a long knife and cut into the
body, intending to cut the body up so that
the first cut the odor was so awful that
/ could go no further.
Captain Titus said that the prisoner
described Filing as being man about Is
years old, smooth face, five feet seven
inches in height, with a bright, clear
look in his eyes, pale face and wearing
dark clothes with a straw hat when last
seen"
Young was arraigned on an affidavit
made by Detective ergeant Hughes and
the hearing was set for September 30th.
The proceedings were brief and without
any unusual incident.
Young was placed in the hospital ward
of the Tombs and d. d. Campbell, the
Tomhs physician, after closely observing
the prisoner for three hours. By direc-
tion OF the district attorney, said that
he had not seen any signs of insanity.
Captain Titus today said that Young
had sold Mrs. Pulitzer's diamonds for
So 80 to person for whom the detectives
were looking. The Captain said that G
search would be made for the Charles
Simpson Filing. named by Young.