The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-09-21
Last Developments lmplicate a
Grandson Of Brigham
Young.
Police Have Drag Net Out and
Are Piling Up Stack of Cir
cunstantial Evidence to
Clear the Mystery.


performed on the body Of Mrs Joseph
Pulitzer. who was mysterie usly mur-
dered in a Fifty-eighth street fiat and
whose body was found in the Morrison
canal, showed that her death was caus-
ed primarily by knife wound In the
abdomen and not by choral Several
blows were struck on her head, but the
skull was not fractured and there were
no signs Of cerebral hemorrhage.
A police dragnet has been thrown out
for William Hooper Young, who is sus-
pccted Of the killing.
Among the books found in Yoang's
room In the Fifty-eighth street fiat,
was the cover Of SIT all memorandum
on the front OF which was stamIeI in
gilded letters Practical Refere: c :"
On the inside were a number Of notes
neAuSu btOOu AtouNutsits ana loioh-
ed by Biblical refences, including an
excerpt from the Book Of Corinthians
reading:
ITO deliver such an one unto Satan
for the desiRuction Of the flesh. that
the spirit may be saved In the day OF
the Lord Jesus"
1t now develops that whsn Young's
father sailed for France on July /, two
of the sons went back to Utah. Hopper
did not make his home with his father.
but roomed In the vicinity. Rcenl ly
he called upon the superintendent of
the building and demanded the k Us,
which were given him.
The apartment originally consisted of
three suites These were thrown into
one for the use OF the family, but up
on their going abroad one OF them was
cut of and was turned over, rent free,
TO four missionaries, who are pros, lyt-
ing in New York.
These have ben living thele ever
since end were asleep when the sup
posed murder was committed. 1h ir
names are Clarence Snow, Lawrenc =
Taylor, ]. l.. Woods and John n. Port
er. Mr.. Snow said
when the elder Nc. Young went to
Europe he left four Of us here ent
free. Soon after Hol psl demanded the
keys. he lived in suite T. which was
entirely shut Off from us and we saw
little of him, Sometimes We heard
him come in ard sometimes we did not.
tuesday night Porter and Taylor
We're home all evening. Wood and 1
care in about II o'clock and all Of us
went TO bed. do not think any Il
us heard Hooper come in that night
and we certainly heard no disturbance
In his part of the house,
Detectives have traced Young to
Brooklyn. where he went on Thurs
day morning to bid friend good bye.
To this friend he said he was 8 ing
to the Rocky Mountains.
A trunk shipped to Chicago by Young
through the wcls-Fargo Expr IS was
consigned to &c. s. Eileny" The po-
lice do not believe It contained any
thing other than clothing longing
possibly to Mrs Pulitzer, as very little
of the murdered woman's apparel has
been found.
Richard E Amer, who was a close
personal friend of Young, and at one
time his partner in the publication Of
the Hoboken Crusader, has, aceo ding
to the World, issued statement say
ing that Young called at his hou in
Hoboken last Thursday about o'clock
Young, he said, was driving horse
and buggy, which he stated had bsen |
rented by the llveryman who has
since figured in the Identification Of the |
weight found attached to Mrs. Pulits-
er's body.
Amer says he met Young at Butte,
Mont, In 1901. Young was then trav-
cling for drug house. They b came
friends and Young, later in the year,
Joined him in the publication of the
paper In Hoboken, They dissolved