New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-24
RECALLS FEELEY HERDER
CAPTAIN SCHMITTBERGER CONNECTS IT
WITH YOUNG'S CRIME

Captain Schmittberger. who was in command
OF the West Twenteth-st station when Mrs.
Kate FAeley was murdered. in October. 1899
last night declared that there were many sur
prisingly similar features in the general de-
scription Of William Hooper Young and the
missing man who had gone to Mrs. FeeIey' $
rooms. in West Eighteenth-st after which the
woman was not seen alive. He would not make
any positive statement without further investi-
cation but asserted that there were many
things that served To connect the two murders
in his mind.
Mrs. FeeIey in October 1899. was living apart
from her husband with Mrs Sarah Carroll in
the tenement house at No. 154 West Eighteenth
81 She advertised for employment from the
home OF her intimate friend. Mrs. Mary Lucie.
on the fifth floor of the same house. A day or
two after advertising a stranger called at the
Eighteenth-st. house. He saw Mrs. Feeley and
engaged her. it was said, 10 look after his in
valid wife. The woman was not seen after
ward by her friends. day or two later por-
lions of wonans body were found in Sew
enteenth-st, in Eighteenth-st.. at Staten Island
in the waters of the bay and other places. The
head was not found.
There is nothing earth" said Captain
Schmittberger last night. that can make me be
lieve the dismembered body was not that of
Mrs. Feeey, although it has never been posi-
lively proved"
Captain Schmittberger said that the missing
man in the FeeIey case was described as bout
five feet six inches tall. rather heavily built
and as having a suit of dark clothing He
was Variously described as having worn boots
with his trousers legs tucked inside their tops
and Of having worn shoes. He looked like an
Italian. but talked English fuently and per
SUasiVely enough TO get Mrs. Feeley go with
him. although she did not seem TO want do
SO. BY some he was said to have had a short
some said he wore SLOUGH hat. others a black
derby
Young is bout ; feet inches tall. and. ac-
COrding to Professor MaCLeyy. who identified
him a. Derby. Conn. was rather heavy three
years ago, and something of an athlete. Young
talks English well and fuently, and is said by
MacLeVy to he q very persuasive talker' He
is dark and swarthy in color. and. Captain
Schmittberger says. has many of the manner
isms in conversation and appearance that were
asCribed TO the missing man IN the Feeley case.
The captain called attention 70 the message
that sent from Chicago purporung to come
from the Feeey woman. and the message sent
to CAPTAIN Titus signed Hooper Young" They
resembled each other in many respects, he said.
He also brought out the use OF similar phrase.
When Young took his trunk 70 ship II by the
WeIIs-Fargo Express TO Chicago and was asked
where he lived he replied, Just around the
Cornef.'
When the missing man in the Feeley case was
asked by Mrs. Feeley where ne HFed oeIore she
vert with him. he replied
Just around the corner meaning IN Elgn-
teenth-st- ~, ..
CAPTAIN Schmittberger also called attention TO
the intention 10 dismember the Pulitzer won1-
ans body and the brutal cutting up OF the
Fe ley woman.