The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-20
KNOWN
Mystery Surrounding the Death
Of Annie Pulitzer
Was Soon Unraveled by the New
York Police.
SUSPECT HAS FLED.
He Is q Grandson of the De.
ceased Brigham Young.
Chain Of Evidence So Complete
ax. to Leave Little Doubt.

a. to Leave Little Doubt.
New York, Sept. 20.-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 the
woman was killed in fat at 103 West
F1fty-eighth street where her clothing
was found last night
This announcement was made by
Captain Titus Of the detective bureau.
who connects with the murder a man
named Hooper Young, who has recent
ly been employed in a cheap restau-
rant. Titus has learned that the wo-
mans body was kept for sometime un-
der the sink in the kitchen of the fat in
which she was killed. Young has not
been arrested and is believed to have
fled from the city He is said to have
shipped q trunk to Chicago. He former
ly worked for the Hoboken Crusader
and the police found his picture taken
with group of employees. This picture
was shown to the Hoboken liveryman,
who at once picked out Young as the
man who hired q buggy from him on
Wednesday night.
The house in which the murdered wo-
mans clothing was found is cheap
tenement in a block containing many
stables and is within a stones throw of
some of the splendid apartment houses
in the vicinity of Central Park south.
The murdered woman's husband says
that he saw her late on Tuesday. when
she left their apartments for the Dur-
pose of purchasing some rolls and fruit
She did not return and the theory now
is that she met her murderer. went
with him to his apartments and that
then, as the result of quarrel he kill
ed her. The theory is borne out by
facts now known concerning the wom-
ans life. 1t has developed that this life
was not good one. fact not denied
| by her husband. 1t is now reasonably
certain that the murderer kept the wo-
mans body in his rooms until Wednes-
| day night when he hired the horse and
| buggy in Hoboken. and returning ITO
New York drove to the Morris canal
where he threw his victims body into
the water.
The police give out the following story
of the murder and the history of Young.
1t is learned from the Hoboken police
i that the man who hired the buggy had
been identified as Young, and detectives
! then traced him to the fiat on West
ty-eighth street, where a young man
was found who had been asked to help
Young to carry a trunk out of the house
| on Wednesday evening. The police had
| already heard of the Pulitzer woman's
connection with Young, whose descrip-
| ton fitted that given by Pulitzer of a
man who his wife had told him had
| accosted her on Tuesday evening and
| had asked her to go to his fiat on Fifty
eighth street.
| 1t Is believed that the woman after
ward met Young and accompanied him
| to the fat Young's father, who the po-
| lice say is John w. Young, promoter,
| is now in France. Neighbors say that
/. he had lived there with his daughter.
| Mary Young. until last spring. when
both went away. leaving the fiat fur
nished. They say that Young, jr., was
| first seen in the fiat about week ago.
when he slept there each night. The
bath and is handsomely furnished. The
| bedroom next to the dining room is the
one in which it is believed the murder
was, committed. 1t is a very small
| room.
| Young was seen about 9 o'clock on
| Wednesday evening, when he appeared
| in the street In front of the house and
| asked Alfred Dabney, lad about 16
| help him carry out a trunk. The boy
says he assented and helped Young to
carry down a heavy trunk which Young
! said was full of books. In front of the
house was horse attached to a light
| buggy in which the trunk was placed
Young got in, according to Dabney, and
| drove rapidly down Sixth avenue.
| The police say they have learned that
on Thursday morning Young returned
| to the house about o'clock and that
he was seen carrying the same trunk
This time he had the trunk on his
| shoulder and was carrying it up the
| stairway into the fiat. In the evening
between and o'clock Young. it is
| house to the Office of the Wells Fargo
express company in Sixth avenue near
Fifty-ninth street. There he asked that
it be shipped to Philadelphia. He was
told that the company did not ship to
that point, the police say, and he said
| it would do just as well if it was
shipped to Chicago. The trunk was ac-
cepted and shipped to that point The
Chicago police have been notified and
will watch for it's arrival
After they had gathered all this evil
dence the police opened the door to the
fiat. which they found in great confu-
sion There was ever evidence of a
struggle on the part of the occupants.
In the small bedroom they found sin
gle bed. the sheet of which was spotted
with blood, and other stains were
found on a cupboard Among a num-
ber of bottles stood tin vial halt
filed with hydrate of chloral In the
| room were found one or two articles OF
| woman's clothing, but they bore nc
| stains. A stock such as woman wears
| was later identified by Pulitzer as hav-
ing been worn by his wife on Tuesday
night when she went out to get frui;
| and cakes for him. In the bathroom
| were found two wells and mans night
shirt, still wet and appearing to have
| been used to wipe up blood stains an6
| then to have been hastily washed.
There was also found an old leather
!. valise in which were scores of letters
all from young women and addressed
| | to Young.
Coroner Sholer. who examined thu
| fat, gave it as his theory that tht
woman had been murdered by knock
, out drops" in the form of hydrate O
choral and that the murderer then at
I | tempted to dismember the body so a.
i ! to more easily place 1t in the trunk
. | but that he had apparently desisted ant
placed it temporarily in the bottom o
! the cupboard. Later he placed the bod,
in the trunk.
| While in Hoboken, Hooper Young
was connected with a paper called tn,
t | CRUSADER. as business manager. TIL,
| Crusader ceased publication in Jun,
: and Young then moved away. He sait
be came from Seattle. and that he hai