The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-20

New York, Sept. 20 Mrs. Anna nelson
Pulitzer. the young woman whose badly
mutilated body was found anchored at
the bottom Of the Morris canal cut in
Kearney on Thursday afternoon. was
murdered in a fiat In the Clarence apart
ment house al lO3 West Fifty-elghth
street. this city.
Her murderer was William Hooper
Young. a young man employed on a Ho-
boken newspaper called the Crusader.
On some pretext which has not yet been
made clear Young lured the woman TO
his fiat at midnight on Tuesday, having
met her on tile street while she was re-
turning from a restaurant In Seventh
avenue, where she had gone TO buy some
fruit and rolls for her husband In the
fiat he killed her. lie concealed the body
in n closet.
Then he went 10 Hoboken. hired
horse and buggy at the livery stable OF
Charles r. Evans, 1872 Washington street.
and drove back TO this city. Having pack
ed the woman's body in trunk he took
the trunk TO the street with the assistance
OF the hall boy of the apartment house.
tied II to the rear OF the buggy and
drove over on the lonely plank road run
ming from Jersey City 10 Newark
ABOUT OUU yATuS west OF the lfdCAtnSdtk
river bridge he found suitable spot to
get rid of his CHASTITY burden.
Having dumped the body into the canal.
weighted with a 20-pound disc Of iron,
Young got back into the buggy, satisfied
that he had hidden the evidences OF his
crime. But the outrunning tide revealed
his victim on Thursday afternoon and
remarkably quick detective work, for
which the police of Hoboken. working un-
the direction OF Chief Donovan OF that
city, are TO be credited. traced the au-
thorship OF the murder less than 80 hours
after It's discovery.
BLOOD STAINED GARMENTS.
Young. who at first appeared to have
been clever criminal turns out 10 have
been a bungler Of the worst sort
A visit to Young's fiat In West Fifty
eighth street last night disclosed indis-
putable evidence that the crime was COM
mitted there on Tuesday night or early
Wednesday morning. Young himself had
fed, having dismantled the fiat as much
as possible In the short time that he had
nt his disposal But he left behind him
bloodstained garments that the woman
had worn, blood-stained sheets and car
pets. bloodstained walls and doors and
sinks and plenty OF other evidence of
his shocking deed.
Although the murderer has escaped for
the time the chances of his being free
for long are small. His description has
been sent broadcast, and, though he tried
to guard from anyones knowledge the
destination OF n trunk which he shipped
from the fiat on Thursday night by the
Wells Fargo express. the police learned
tonight that IL had gone to Chicago. They
will know today exactly where Young
sent It, and there is a probability OF the
murderer's apprehension even before ne
learns through the newspapers that his
connection with the murder OF Mrs Pulit-
ger is known.
MOTIVE NOT ROBBERY.
Youngs motive for killing the woman
In not apparent. Nothing has turned up
yet that throws any light on IL. The
murderer undoubtedly helped himself 20
Mrs. Pulitzers diamond earrings and
other Jewelry, but that he killed her for
these alone In not believed by the police.
There must have been some other mo-
tive for the crime, the police say. aad
Young must have planned II IN advance.
for everything points TO the probability
from the moment the woman entered
Young's fiat her fate was sealed
She was struck twice on the head with
some blunt instrument and then stabbed
In the abdomen, the stab wound being the
one that killed her. in the opinion OF the
doctors who made an autopsy on her body
this afternoon.
Young turns out 10 be the man VINO
frequently called on Mrs Pulitzer when
her husband was not at home. IL was
Young who sent messages TO her by boys
he picked UP on the street, and Il was
Young, beyond any doubt, who met Mrs
Pulitzer coming out OF Meck's restaurant
on Tuesday afternoon and asked her TO
accompany him 10 his fiat
The acquaintance between Young and
Mrs Pulitzer was evidently not known
20 Pulitzer. There is evidence too
that Mrs Pulitzer had become afraid OF
Young, for although his attentions had
been received by her for some time she had
never complained OF him TO her husband
until Tuesday. when the invitation TO ma
hat made her so nervous that she tod
Pulitzer about IT,
IN SEMt-NEGLIGEE
When Mrs Pulitzer left her husband
On Tuesday night 10 go TO the store and
get him sYuit and rolls, she meant 10
come back. She went out in a semi
negligee dress. without corset or hat
and even without a coat. She went TO
the bakers and got the things she was
after. 30 II must have been on her way
back that she met Young
What influence he brought to bear on
her that induced her 10 accept an invita-
uon which she had declined earlier I'm the
DAY, no one but Young knows.
Early yesterday morning the mystery OF
Mrs Pulitzer's death was as far from So
luton as II was on Thursday afternoon.
when the mutilated body was hauled out
OF the canal at Kearney. The first lead
that the police got came from Liveryman
Evans. who read In the morning papers
OF the finding OF the body. saw that II
had been anchored with a hitching strap
and weight and Immediately remembered
haf ,.yn. ~
and buggy from him on Wednesday night
had returned them on Thursday minus
the strap and weight ne had taken away
with him.
Evans notified the police. gave a care
fuI description of the man and then went
% Jersey City and identified the strap
and weight that were found around Mrs.
Puiitzers body as the ones that he had
given 20 his customer on "wednesday
night. This satisfied the police that the
man who had hired the horse from Evans
was the man who had taken Mrs pulit-
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