The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-20
MURDER MYSTERY
QUICKLY SOLVED.
Mrs. Pulitzer Killed in a New York
Flat by William Hooper Young,
a Newspaper Man.

Kearney and this city looking for clues
J Chief Donovan OF Hoboken decided that
/ Hoboken was the place where the truth
| Of the mystery would come out. lie talk
! ed with Liveryman Evans for several
/ hours after the other police officials had
/ dropped him and by questioning ana
/ cross-questioning and rare persistency
I finally got from him one little fact on
which all the subsequent developments
I hinged.
Evans said IN an Indifferent manner
! that when he demanded extra money
| from his customer for keeping the horse
! out all night the man said that he had no
| money. but that he could furnish refer
! ences az the office of the Crusader. a pa
| per published In Hoboken.
without any delay Chief Donovan went
TO the office OF the Crusader and there
found a young man named DIZZY Amer.
| He told Amer that he wanted photo
graphs OF all the men who worked on the
Crusader, and Amer gave him all he
could scrape together. Among the photo
graphs was that OF Young The pictures
were shown to Evans, who said the mo-
ment he saw Young's picture:
That's the man that took my rig. ia
! know him in a thousand. That's the fell
low all right"
Amer and asked him when he had last
seen Young.
TOOK FRIEND TO RIDE.
why" said Amer. Young used to be
my partner In the Crusader. He drove up
TO my house In a buggy Thursday morn
ing. He said he'd been out for a morn
ing drive and asked me II wouldn't ike
to go a little way with him. i said
would. and we went together. After about
half an hour he said he would take the
rig back 10 Evans stable, where ne had
hired II. l left him then. after thanking
him for my ride. and did not see him
again"
Chief Donovan realized right then that
Young was the murderer OF Mrs. Pulitzer.
and without delay he started on a search
for Young's home in this city. The best
he could learn was that IL was on West
Fifty eighth street. Two Hoboken report
ers who had also run down Young as the
man who had hired the carriage from
Evans Joined forces with Donovan, and
the three came to this city.
By Q o'clock last night they had located
Young's home In the Clarence apart
ment house. As they had no authority
to enter the place. they lay around for
some time. hoping that Young would
appear If he did appear they meant
TO nab him right under the noses OF
the New York police and then turn him
In at the nearest station.
But Young did not appear. and the
more the watchers stayed around the
more convinced they became that Young
had fed They finally went to the house
and learned from the hall boy that
Young had departed on Thursday night,
after packing and expressing trunk.
Then they went To the West Forty
seventh street station and notified the
New York police.
EVIDENCE OF CRIME.
Young's fat is on the first floor above
the street and is on the west side OF the
hall. There are three entrances to It, the
forward door entering the parlor. This
door was forced by the Janitor the gas
was lighted and II was seen at once that
hurried departure had been made from
the place.
Things were scattered around but there
was no sign OF any crime there. From
the parlor the searchers went into a II:
brary. and from there TO the bathroom
and kitchen without finding any indica-
ton OF violence. Back of the kitchen are
two bedrooms. The first one was imna-
culate. but the moment the police got IN
the rear room they found what they
were looking for. II was In this room
| that Mrs Pulitzer was murdered.
The evidences OF the crime were every
| where. Blood was on the walls. the bed
| clothes were stained with IL, there was
| blood In the sink and on the floor. and
| the inside OF a small closet In the room
| was smeared with IL. The murderer had
! made no effort to remove the traces OF
hts crime from the place. lie evidently
J realized that II would be a hopeless job.
The murdered womans stockings were
found In the rear parlor but the rest OF
| her clothing was missing.
The furniture OF the fiat was scattered
| around, not indicating so much that there
had been struggle as that the occupant
! OF the place had made hurried de-
parture. Bureau drawers were opened
\ and their contents scattered about. cloth
/ ing from closets and wardrobes were
strewn about, and there was general
! appearance OF confusion.
YoUNG's MOVEMENTS.
! From Alfred Dolby, the hall boy at the
| Clarence, the story OF Youngs move
ments on Tuesday and on Thursday were
: learned This boy says that Young was
in his fiat on Tuesday night. but Just
what time he got there he does not
! know. IL is quite certain that IL was
after midnight when he went In. as he
/ could not have met Mrs. Pulitzer much
/ before that time.
At any rate no one saw Young or the
woman enter the place on Tuesday night
! or early Wednesday morning. although
! they did enter Il about that time. The
I
! on wednesday afternoon. but he did not
see him until Wednesday night at about
! o'clock. Young came In and told Dolby
| that he would want TO move a trunk fun
! OF books from his fiat 20 a buggy that
he would have outside I'm a short time
and that he would want Dolby 10 help
| him. Dolby said that he would be around
all the evening and would help him any
time. Young then went upstairs and
/ Dolby went 10 the front door. and look
Ing out, saw the buggy standing at ;he
| door
IL was the rig that Young had hired
| from Livcryman Evans earlier I'm the
/ evening and the hood was up. Dolby
learned from a neighbor that Young had
| driven % the door In this buggy Looking
az the small space behind it. he wondered
where Young could put a trunk on A.
HANDLED WITH CARE
/ a few minutes later Young came down