The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-21
His Father, Who Is the Son of Brig.
ham Young, Once Tried for Po-
lygamy I'm Utah.
RESULT OF THE AUTOPSY
ON THE BODY OF THE WOMAN THAT
WAS FIsHED FROM A CANAL.
Death Due to Knife Wound Instead of
mcnt' Found in Youne's Room.

the whole detective force of New York
are now concentrated on the task of run
ming down Hooper Young, the grandson
of the great Mormon prophet, Brigham
Young, who is believed to be the murderer
of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, whose body was
found on Thursday morning in the Morris
canal near Jersey City. In this quest the
authorities have the cooperation of every
city and town in the country, to all of
which full descriptions of the fugitive have
been telegraphed.
That the young man may have commit
ted suicide was suggested by a note re-
ceived by Captain Titus late to-day. The
envelope contained a single sheet of rough
brown paper, on which was written:
Search in vain. Have killed myself. H.
Young" The postmark showed tina the
letter had been mailed at the general post
Office in this city shortly before noon. The
police are disposed to believe that Young
wrote the note.
Another important link in the chain of
evidence connecting Young with the muir
der was supplied when a dispatch was re-
ceived from Chicago stating that the po-
lice had opened the trunk shipped by
Young and had found in the lead woman's
I'M q Gil u DOOh COilIdlI1lIs
the name of William Hooper Young and a
pawn ticket showing that a pair Of dia-
mond earrings had been pledged at a pawn
shop in Park row, this city. on Wednesday.
by a man who gave the name 'Stiner."
Prior to the receipt of this dispatch a
Central Office detective bad found a pair
of earrings pledged In the same pawn
shop and under the same name. The per-
son who pledged them gave an address in
Harlem which proved to be fictitious. Joe
Pulitzer identified the earrings as those
worn by his wife.
Captain Titus received tonight a dis
patch from Superintendent O'Neill, of Chi
cago saying that he had shipped the trunk
to New York, and that it contained in ad-
dition to the articles previously mentioned
some articles of male attire and a dirk
knife smeared with blood.
An autopsy was performed on the body of
Mrs. Pulitzer, and it showed that her death
was caused primarily by a knife wound in
blows were struck on her head before death,
but the skull was not fractured and there
were no signs of cerebral hemorrhage.
A police dragnet has been thrown out for
great Mormon leader, Brigham Young, who
Is suspected of the killing. Among the
books found in Young's room In the Fifth
street fiat was the cover of a small memo
randum on the front of which was stamped
In gilded letters, Practical reference" On
the inside were a number of notes headed
Blood and followed by Bib
lical references, including a passage from
the Book of Corinthians, reading: ITO de-
liver such an. one unto Satan for the de-
struction of the flesh that the spirit may
be saved in the day OF the Lord Jesus"
| 1t now develops that when Young's father
sailed for France on July l two of the sons
went back to Utah. Hooper did not make
his home with his father. but roomed in
| the vicinity. Recently he called upon the
superintendent of the building and demand
ed 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 were PROSECUTING In New York. They
have been living there ever since and were
asleep when the supposed murder was COM
mitted. Their names are Clarence Snow,
Lawrence Taylor. j. L. Woods and John
r.: Porter. All are young men.
Mr.. Snow said: When the elder Mr..
Young went to Europe he left four of us
here rent free. Soon afterwards Hooper
demanded the keys. He lived in Suite 4,
which was entirely shut off from us, and
we saw little of aim. Sometimes We heard
him come in and sometimes we did not.
Tuesday night Porter and Taylor were
home all the evening. Wood and I came in
about IL o'clock and all of us went to bed.
~ ~ thAANh o1g IA III q "
come in that night. and we certainly heard
no disturbance in his part of the house"
In connection with the blood atonement'
note found in the apartment, Taylor in
sisted that 1t had nothing to do with the
Mormon Church. Elder Taylor said that
when he and his companions came from
Utah John W.. Young told them they might
have the use of his apartments during their
stay in this city. On July / Mr.. Young and
his daughter sailed for Europe. A few
days later William Hooper Young came to
the house and demanded to have the use
of one room. AS he appeared to nave his
fathers consent, he was permitted to oc-
elders received from John w. Young. writ
ten in Europe, confirmed the sons right to
have the use of a room. Captain Titus, of
the detective bureau, emphatically declared
to-day that the motive for the murder was
robbery He says the diamond earrings
which Mrs. Pulitzer wore were valued at
slSo. and evidently have been awned.
Captain Titus says: This man Young
had lived in st. Paul, Minneapolis and Du-
buque, and letters from all of these places
were found in his room. On Tuesday last
he borrowed 50 from a man whom he had
told he was in hard luck and did not have a
cent" Captain Titus then told of his visit
to the apartments on West Fifth street.
de said he found there three empty beer
bottles. One of the bottles had a crystal
lied appearance, and he thought that the
woman had first been drugged by some
narcotic in the beer and afterward knocked
in the head. The room showed no signs OF
a struggle, but blood was scattered every
where.
Detectives have traced Young to Brook
Ign, where he went on Thursday morning
to bid a friend goodbye. To this friend
he said he was going TO the Rocky noun
tains.
Mr.. Taylor said: 1.-THE enemies of the
Mormon Church accuse its members of
practlcing the blood atonemont. There is
nothing in it, and this crime could not
have been through any ideas of
Mormonism that this young man NAV have
possessed. He was outside of our church
and We wanted nothing to do with him."