Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-23
Murderer Of Mrs. Pulitzer Con
iesses the Killing and Gives
the Details
ANOTHER PARTY
Attempts to Shift the Blame for the
Murder on One Charles S. Filing
Body sIashed in an Effort to Get 1t
to Fit Into Trunk-PoIice Looking
for Filing.

New York, Sept. 23.-At the close OF
an interview between Detective Cap
tain Titus and Young, Titus said Youns
had made the following statement:
About three weeks ago / met a mar
named Charles Simpson Filing in Cen
trail Park He accosted h1e. We talked
land got acquainted, tho he was a de-
/ generate. After that he called on me
Mrs. Pulitzer died Filing and met her
at Broadway and Forty-sixth street by
an appointment l had made. We went
to the fiat. l went out for some whisky
after we got there and left Filing and
the woman alone. When / got back
found Mrs. Pulitzer lying across bed
with a gag in her mouth. Filling had
gone. l ripped open her clothing and
moved her hands back and forth over
her head to induce respiration. When
she did not breathe put my hand I'M
der her waist and felt her heart. 1t was
not beating. Then I decided to notify
the police, but instead of calling a po-
liceman to go TO police headquarters,
which l thought was in the city hall, 1
got on q train and started down town.
and on the way got to thinking what
a lot of disgrace the affair would bring
upon me and my father. That made me
decide to get rid of the body. took
long knife and cut the body, intending
to cut the body up so / could get it in
TO trunk When made the first cut
the odor was SO awful that could go
no further"
Titus said the prisoner described Eli
ing as being a man of about %. smooth
face, 5 feet inches In height, with
bright clear look" in his eyes, pale
face and wearing dark clothes and a
straw hat when last seen. Titus said
Young had not explained how the wom-
an came by the wounds on her head.
When Young reached police head
quarters he was in condition border
ing on collapse. William f. Hart
1oung's lawyer said in reply to In
quiries. Young is an innocent man.
The police believe theyitave got him on
an alleged confession, which he made
i u
proved Young was not even an accom-
plice."
Derby, Conn, Sept. %. - William
Hooper Young, accused of the murder
OF Mrs. Anna Pulitzer in New York.
and captured here last night was iden-
titled positively by his former employ
er, Mac Levy. his former partner, Dix
e Amer, and by Gustav Ernest, a
Brooklyn associate.
Confronted by them, he broke down. |
admitted his identity and to Levy made
/ detailed confession, covering all the I
of the murdeI. In his .
statement Young duplicates an accom-
alice, upon whom he seeks to fasten the /
blame for the actual killing Of the wo-
nan. He has named the man to De-
.ective Sergeants Edward Hughes and |
Peter Finley and to Levy. OF the con-
'ession the detectives refuse to speak,
earring that it might deter the further
accomplishment of the ends of Justice.
There is a suspicion in their minds.
however, that this chapter of Young's
tory is a fiction. constructed by the 4
man in a vague hope of les
ening his own burden of guilt. Levy.
however, processes implicit confidence
n the story OF a confederate
According to the confession the ac-
omnlice was in Youngs room with him
when choral hydrate was given TO Mrs.
'ulitzer in a glass of beer and it was /;
he hand of Young,s confederate that
the fatal dose. Young adj 4
nits that it was himself who inflicted 8
he awful wound i'll the abdomen. He 4
avs that was done after the woman
vas dead and that it was the begin
ing of a bungling effort on his part to :;
ismember her body, an attempt which
e was forced to abandon by it's very {
Detectives Hughes and Finley, after
n hours conference with the prisoner,
rofess ignorance of the true motive of
he crime. Others with whom Young
as talked since he admitted his itlent-
~ say that it was a crime of passion.
no the culprit was willing enough to
rofit by it afterward by the sordiG ,
heft of his victims jewels and ring. Ii
Young seemed willing to go to New3I(
,ork Immediately. His spirit is broken;
is attitude is now that of man who j
as played his final stake and has {
)st. {
The detectives did not worry Young 4
18th many questions concerning his t
since he left his fathers III
at q fugitive murderer. but he told ii
lem voluntarily that he had been /
rinlling heavily ever since he left New
ork, taking spirits in half-pint doses.
nd that he had just begun to recover
is nerve and was trying to sober UP
Y drinking a mixture OF milk and red $
epper. This was the explanation he
ave them of the presence of AN ounce :
= two of red Pepper in the side pocket :
. his coat. =
Earlier in the day he had admitted to \
lie local police that he carried it for =
lie purposes of defense in case he
lould be attacked on the road Hell
lid that IL the man who arrested him
I'd betrayed their purpose he should
Ave used 1t to blind them and then
Guild have tried to escape
Young told a rambling tale, in which :, =
: sought to inculpa,te Charles Simp-
N Filling, of Bridgeport, Conn. He
sscribed Filling as q man he had met !
Central Park and with whom the :.
md of friendship was their similarly I
.praVed habits. =
Filing and he, Young said had to- =
.ther plotted to lure Mrs. Pulitzer to Z
e latte1's rooms. According to his
Young left Filing and the %
oman together and went out to get !,
title of whisky. On his return home i,