New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-25
CEILING" HOAX RUN DOWN
MAN IN HARLEM HOSPITAL LOohhD
LIKE "ACCOMPLICE.'
fOCNG'S CONDITION BETTER AFTER A
NIGHT IN THE TOMBS-A TRUNK
DEALERS STORY.

DEALERS S1Ots1
The feature of the Pulitzer murder case yes
terday was hoax, and the discovery OF the
, pace where William Hooper Young bought
trunk on Wednesday, the day of the n1uroei-
Young is still being watched in the Tombs nos
pilal ward. The detectives started hot loo' Ao'
the Harlem Hospital, where it was said that
man answering to the description OF Eliiis'
according TO Young, his accomplish ana ''e
actual murderer of the woman e. myth TIC
police Think was there at deaths door from
self poisoning
The man found at a. IN. YESTERDAY III
MS room in the Mount Morris Hotel, at oiie-
hundred-and- thirtieth-st and Thrd-ave. ne
! mad gone 20 the hotel on Tuesday night ana
| registered as Charles Gannett. City soon al
Ter being taken to the hospital he said he came
Ilolh Bridgeport. In a short time rumors sot
| abroad that the man might be Filing. and Cap
tam Titus was told of them.
"hen Gannett' registered he remarked u
george W. HommelI. the night clerk that any
old name would do
At the hospital 1t was said that ''Gannetts
condition was critical that it Impossible
70 get any information from him. After he mad
peeh IN the hospital for some time the patient
remarked:
want to die, and | deserve to die.
detective William Mooney, of the East one
questioning the man, said that he was not the
Filling described by Young. When told accord
| liS To the captain. by of the attendants dl
! 'he hospital that he would live, Gannett SAID
| IF get well they will hang me-
Subsequently the patient said that he had not
| come from Bridgeport only in that he passed
through that place, and he said that he had
! only been 'stringng' the police and attendants
TRUNK BUYER WAS YOUNG
Young said he felt better yesterday than ne
had for several days. DR.. Brown said that
when Young woke up at 60 a. m. he exclaimed;
This is the first nights comfort I've had in
| week Its the first nights sleep.
He was watched all night by two keepers. He
was supplied with money by his counsel, Will
lam F. s. Hart and sent out for rolls and coffee
Not oven his counsel had visited Young
! in the Tombs up 10 > o'clock p. m. There
| had been none of the usual requests by
! curious women Tor talks with the prisoner. He
| ate sparingly of the meals provided from the
| prison restaurant
Young has been positively identified as the
| person who bought the trunk from William
| Canning Of No 10 West Forty second-st.
| week ago yesterday. Detectives Berhenich and
Lohmeyer. Of the West Twentieth-st. station,
were assigned nv Captain schmittberger 70 clear
up the mystery surrounding the purchaser of
| IN" trunk bought from Canning and sent TO
| me clarence apartment mouse ih-N 'a'ei
| on Canning Yesterday with pictures Of Young.
Canine, e+,1iad then, ,r-biia aud without besi.
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| The detectives took Young Canning. son Of the
| trunk dealer who carted the trunk the Clar-
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WAS committee. ~ vas brought 'ace 10 laoe
with the hallhov. who vas present when he
brought tho trunk the house. The hallboy
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! o. ~ 'i'''' an ms
seen Canning. bur later remembered that he
vas the man VII" brought the trunk aho