The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
Hooper Young, Grandson of Brig
ham Young, Who Committed
Shocking Murder.
Robbery Probably the Motive, but
Documents Have Been Found Re-
garding Blood Atonement.'
The Trunk He Shipped From New
York Found in Chicago-He
Once Lived in Butte.

New York, Sept. 20.-The mystery of
the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer. whose
nude body found in the Morris canal
near Jersey City, has been cleared up by
the discovery that the woman was killed
In fiat at 103 West Fifty eighth street,
where her clothing was found.
Captain Titus of the detective bureau,
connects directly with the murder man
named Hooper Young, recently employed
In cheap restaurant.
Young is believed to have fled the city.
He Is said TO have shipped a trunk to
Chicago last night.
The murdered wOman'S husband says
that he saw her last late on Tuesday
night. when she went out to buy some
rolls and fruit. The theory is that she
met her murderer. went with him to his
apartments and then, as the result OF
quarrel. he killed her. The theory Is
borne out by facts now known concerning
the woman's life, which was not a good
one, a fact not denied by Pulitzer him
self.
Young asked Alfred Dabhey, a lad about
IS, to help him carry out a heavy trunk,
which Young said was full of books. In
front of the house was buggy in which
the trunk was placed. Young got in and
drove rapidly away.
Hooper Young once said that he came
from Seattle, Wash, and that he had run
paper In the west. He is about 35, five
feet eight inches in height. and pale,
rather sallow complexion. His hair IS
dark, and he has heavy eyebrows stand
ing out prominently.
His father Is reported to be a man of
wealth. He is said to have been concerned
In promoting shipbuilding trust and to
be connected with the Equitable Building
association. He is believed by some to be
son of Brigham Young, the famous Nor
mon leader Another story says he came
from st. Paul.
Among the books found in Young's
room in the Fifty-eighth street fiat was
the cover Of a small memorandum on the
front of which was stamped in gided
letters, practical reference On the in
side were a number Of notes headed
BLOOD atonement," and followed by
biblical references, 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
1t now develops that when Young's
father sailed for France on July 1. two
of the sons went back to Utah. Hooper
did not make his home with his father
but he roomed in the vicinity. ISL.
The apartment, originally consisted Of
three suits. 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 sup
posed murder was committed Their
names are Clarence Snow, Lawrence Tay-
Tor, J. L. Woods and John r. Porter. Mr.
Snow said:
when the elder Mr.. Young went to
Europe he left four Of us here rent free
Soon afterward Hooper Young demanded
the keys. He lived in suite four, which
saw little of him.
A trunk shipped to Chicago by Young
through the Wells Fargo Express, was
consigned to &C. S. Filing" The police
do not believe it contained anything other
than clothing belonging possibly to Mrs
Pulitzer.
Young's Friend Speaks.
Richard E. Anser who was a close
friend Of Young, and at one time his part
ner in the publication of the Hoboken
Crusader, has, according to the World
issued a statement saying that Young
called at his house in Hoboken last Thurs
day morning about 1880 o'clock. Young,
he says. was driving horse and buggy
which he stated had been rented by the
liveryman who has since figured In the
identification Of the weight found to Mrs
Pulitzer's body.
Anser 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, joined him
in the publication Of the paper in Hobo
ken. They dissolved partnership last
June, however and since then had seldom
met
Prior to the location Of the trunk at the
Polk street station, Lieutenant Andrew
Rohan, Of the Chicago detective bureau
had been notified to keep on the lookou
for its appearance and to arrest anyon.
who came to claim it. Lieutenant Rohal
said that the publicity given the cas-
would probably drive Young away.
An interview was obtained to-day will
the Mormon elders. Mr.. Taylor, acting
as spokesman for the party said Tn
enemies Of the Mormon church accuse it.
members of practicing the blood atone
ment. There is nothing in it, and thi