The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-20
WORK OF DETECTIVES.
Husband of the Dead Woman De
 taiued at Headquarters.

New York, Sept 19-Detectives of New York, Jersey City and other nearby chles in New Jersey are working together to unravel the mystery of the death Of Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, whose body was found yesterday in the outskirts of Jersey City' under circumstances indicating murder:
 The husband of the woman, tailor of this city, was brought from Jersey City to police headquarters In this city early today, and after being closely question: cd he was invited to remain at head quarters until the arrival of Captain IT. fus. chief of detectives. this morning.
 Sergeant PhaIer, in charge of the de- sactsve bureau, last night said that Pu- utxer told the police that he was out at the urinary elections on Tuesday and that when hs get home he decided 10 have q light repa3t and asked his wife to get some cocea. She discovered that there was nene in the house and she went to get snms and also ssme bread and fruit According to the police. Pultt xer learned later that his wife had been to the bakery for the bread and there he lost track of her.
 sergeant Phaler learned that Pulitzer had made . statement to the New York police, which was considered so impor- tant that 1t would not be made public.
 Mrs. Eva Fleming. who keeps the boarding house where the Puiitzers lived at 1eo West Forty-stxth Street, said the couple had beon living there about four weeks. That they were very quiet and she had ssen Mrs. Pulitzer only two or three times and would not be able to recoRnise her. She said Pulitzer told her they had been married about five years. The story told by Mrs. Fleming about Mrs. Pulitzer goin gout for eataoles on Tuesday night, differs somewhat from that given out at the detective bureau. According to Mrs. Fleming, Pulitzer told her, after his wife's disappearance and before it was known that she had been murdered, that he had come home at about Il o'clock Tuesday night feeling sick and that his wife suggested she would get some sruir for him. He told her that the streets were crowded with men who had been attending the primaries and that it would not be wise for her to 70 out. She disregarded his advice, how ever, and taking of some of her jewell the last he saw of her until he identi- fied her body at the Jersey City morgue.
 At the detective bureau this morning it was said that the central once had been notified Dy the Newark police to be on the lookout for a black runabout with solid rubber tires and also for a small bay horse. both of which have been miss ing from the livery stable of a man nam ed Mullins, since yesterday morning. Tho police say that Pulitzer formerly had a business of his own. but gave it up and of late has been working at times for his brother, who has a tailor store in this city. The dead woman was a Dane.
 c. W. Pulitzer. brother of Joseph. liv- ing st Il waWerly Place, called at police headquarters this morning and was clos eted with the detectives.
 When the brother left hearQuarters he said he simply had called to see Joseph Pulitzer and that he had no connection with the case. Captain Titus said that the murdered woman's husband was in the hands of two detectives and that they would go over the ground thoroughly to- day. The Captain said he believed that Pulitzer's story was the truth.
 Captain Titus was asked what, If any, clues he had. He replied that the most important clue he had at present was the fact that a man called at the house where the Pulitzers lived on Tuesday He said that detectives were now at work on that end.
 The theory of Chief of Police Murphy of Jersey City is that the woman was killed in New York and that the body was brought across the river on a ferry boat and taken where 1t was found on a wagon, The Chief thinks that some one who admired the woman killed her in a ac of jealousy. He does not believe rob- bery was the motive.
 The 2O-pound weight which was attach d to q strap that was fastened about the dead woman's waist was tdenuneo