New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-20
CANAL MYSTERY SOLVED
MRS. PULITZER SLAIN IN
WEST FIFTY EIGHTH ST.
SEARCH FOR WILLIAM HOOPER YOUNG
WHO is ACCUSED OF THE MURDER.

Captaia Titus Of the Detective Bureau an
nounced late last night that the murder Of Anna
Nelson Pulitzer. whose nude body U-as discoV-
cred in the Morris Canal near keaIney. \ J..
on Thursday afternoon. had been committed by
william Hooper Young in mis- dat. AZ No I'3
West Fifty-eighth-st- The clothing Of the woman
was found there, and there were evidences that
the body had been concealed under the SINK IN
the kitchen before being taken away. Young
left the apartments on Thursday night taking
hagrage with him. and has not been seen since.
he is said to have shipped his trunk TO Chi
caeo. The police have his photograph. which
was taken with a group Of employees Of The
JIohoken Crusader" a weekly campaign paper
Of which he was an editor last October
younr was pointed the man who hired
a buggy in Hoboken on Wednesday evening" ana
who was implicated in the crime by the i"eh'l-
sooti,o of the weight and hitching strap found
o,, the body of the murdered woman DlAIe
Anger Of No. 105 Seventh-st. Hoo"heH' WIZ
had known Young in the west ana ndi @ nse'
a.soctated with him in the conduct OF Inc
Crusader" was called upon at MS h"uSe o''
Thursday morning by Young The latter was
l,,.,,,e, a b,Iq.,, and appeared 10 be under the
.a,,a,. Of 1ioIor Anger went with him 10
r1,ca in Hudson-st When ne left hlIn' NAN an
to,,r later Young told him he was gong u ldNs
tho buqev hack where he got IT, 10 E-' dis "
This tailed with the story ol ihe ~ 80 -
The man who hired the buggy from 'iie vans
e,ahIe on Wednesday evening" win Iiie "ii'o
standing that he was to return within
hours did not put in an appearance uI''i' inc
r4vt morning He said that he had oeeh u 'iie
Grand Central Station in tins CITY 10 ii'ee' "
frie,d and had stabbed the horse overnight IN
F'ifty-ninth-st.
WEIGHT FOR BODY lDkNIlF LED
NJ. t,7,,,+if7cation of the weight and hitching
s+ran found on the body of the nuIueieu "''''
an as those hired with the buggy from llle LN
stable of Charles X. Evans. at NO, To- " asi'
fnston-st Hob0ken. was mace PoSl'INe -
,7a,, afternoon The weight was an Ola one WIN
49,. os-' I,ale and indantations, which made
&c recoqnition easily possible. lhIS Slio" 90
s 5o,,bt that this buggy had been USED 10
, the hodv of Mrs Pulitzer 10 the NaN''
rrh ,,idance which the police optaIheu S1'
tardav went to show that some man Hau 'eel4
IN conmunica ton with Mrs. Pull'zel '0i a.
several weeks Miss Edith Bo"l'ia"' -
Mrs lack" company at Waildch D '-o
Mrs Pulitzer. who had been calleo MS i'3
ston by some people, had receI'eo
Tuesday from a man Whom sic
heavily, huilt and with dark halr. 1t ""' u
derstood that he 10 call again 'ile'
;,,e, for according to Miss Bowman. Mrs Pu-
roitted If her husband was home. captain lI'uS
said that Pulitzer told him that his wife had
complained two or three days before OF oelhs
spoken to in the street by "a big man. WHO
had followed her home and had loitered ABOUT
after she entered the house.
MRS PULITzER'S REPLY TO LIE En-
A voune bov named Henry Tryben VINO ll'eS
with mis- parents in the Holland Apartment
House. Nos. &C and Is West Forty-slNth re-
menobered that two weeks ago he was stopped
bv a heavily built man in the street VINO pei
suaded him to carry letter TO ana piliis
replv from Mrs Pulitzer. The reply Which "
man opened in front Of the boy coh'aihe0 " "
Of banknotes He counted them ana "0
away without thanking or re"arui"s
Trvben This impressed the man On ii' -
mind and he described him as tdil' WIN ~
complexion and in appearance ia'i
Hebrew or a German. These accounts ~
in the descriptions given, and are soiiie '--'
variance with the description OF fouiiS' ~ S
if ANYTHING rather slightly built ana "eisiins
Continued on fourth phGe'