Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
Mystery Unraveled.


A dispatch from New York last night
says: The mystery Of the murder of Mrs.
Annie Pulitzer, whose nude body was found
in the Morris canal near Jersey City, has
been cleared up by the discovery that +he
woman was killed in fiat at 1O3 West 5Sth
street, where her clothing was found TO-
night.
This announcement was made late 20
night by Capt. Titus of the detective bu-
reau, who connects directly with the mur-
der man named Hooper Young, who has
recently been employed in restaurant
Titus has learned that the womans body
was kept for some time under the sink n
the kitchen of the nat in which she was
killed.
Young has not been arrested. and Is he
lieved to have fed the city. He is said 10
have shipped trunk to Chicago last night
He formerly worked for the Hoboken Cru
sader, and the police found his picture
taken with group of employees. This pic
ture was shown to the Hoboken liveryman
who at once picked out Young as the man
who hired buggy from him on Wednesday
night.
Location Of the Murderer.
The house in which the murdered wo-
mans clothing was found is situated with
in a stones throw of some of the most
slendid apartment houses in the vicinity
of Central Park South.
All day long detectives have followed
clues They asserted confidently that they
were close on the trail of the murderer,
and the developments tonight prove the
correctness of their theory.
The first important evidence developed
early. 1t was the identification of the
hitching strap and the weight used as a
sinker for the body by a livery stable
keeper in Hoboken. These, he said, were
placed by him in buggy at the special re-
quest of a man who hired the vehicle from
him on Wednesday night and whose photo
graph he has identified. The horse and
buggy were returned the following morn
ing by the same man.
Known in Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE, Utah, September 2O.-Hoop-
er Young, the suspected murderer of Mrs
Pulitzer in New York, is the son of John
w. Young and a grandson of the late Brig
ham Young. John w. Young is a we'll
known railroad contractor having become
wealthy from contracts in the construction
Of Utah and Northern and Utah Central
railways. At the time Of Brigham Younes
death, in 1877, he was one of the foremost
councillors. He was tried under the Ed
munds law, charged with polygamy, but
was acquitted on technicaity. Hooper
Young is well known in Salt Lake. having
resided here up to few years ago.
Trunk Located in Chicago.
CHICAGO, September 2O-A trunk ad-
dressed to &c. s. Filing, Chicago" shipped
from New York at 9:1O pm Thursday. the
18th, Is awaiting claimant here at the
office of the Wells-Fargo Express Company.
According to the shipping bill the consigner
was &C. S. Eiing, northwest corner SD
street and 10th avenue, New York" There
is no one Of that name In the Chicago di-
rectory.
Prior to the locating of the trunk at the
Polk street station Lieut. Andrew Rohan
of the Chicago detective bureau had been
notified to keep on the lookout for its an
pearance and to arrest any one who came
to claim 1t. Lieut.. Rohan said that the
publicity given the case would probably
drive Young away He will communicate
with the New York officials before confis-
eating the trunk.