The evening world., 1902-09-25
District Attorney Jer-
ONE Will Speed Ma
chinerY to Railroad.
Him to the Chair.
INSANITY THE PLEA.
IN Spite Of Prisoners Story
About Filling, His Attorney
ls Gathering Medical Testi-
monY.

The machinery Of the law Is NOV
ing swiftly to railroad William
Hooper Young to a death cell In Sing
Sing.
Coroner ParsIow, of Jersey City,
has begun his inquest into the death
ofthe murdered Mrs. Anna Pulitzer.
Joseph H. johnson, the bridge ten
der, who first saw the woman's mu-
tilated body, and Charles X. Evans,
the liveryman who rented Young the
buggy, have testified. The hearing
was postponed until Oct 8 to permit
the summoning of witnesses from
this city.
Money froD- Hh8 Father.
District-Attorney Jerome is preparing
topresent the case to the October Grand
Jury. Young's preliminary hearing be-
viii be brief. HIS attorney viii inter-
pose no objection.
Mr.. Hart has received a lengthy ca
blegram from Young's father In Paris.
strength OF which the lawyer at once
Get about engaging mental experts. Four
physicians were summoned to his .9fice
by telephone, and some of them Will to-
day visit Young at the Tombs.
Capt Titus remains firm as ever that
&C. B. Filling" is a myth. Two OF his
detectives were sent to Harlem Hospital
20 interview the attempted suicide,
Charles Gannett, who was suspected of
being implicated In the Pulitzer murder
because he said he wa from Bridgeport
and talked of not wanting to recover for
SeRr he would be hanged.
No Mystery in Gannett.
Gannett told the Detectives he was a
mechanic Inc had been in Bridgeport
for several months. Later news was
yeoetYed from the Bridgeport police
Identifying Gannstt as a mechanic who
was not wanted for my crime.
Gannett Is conscious to-day and out
IT pain. though the doctors say he can
attempted TO kill himself, but admits
he had no such intention until after he
arrived here. Told that he was going
confessed to any crime he may have
committed. he said he had nothing to
confess and wanted to be let die IN
At Tho request of Chief of Police
Rider, Of Freeport, I. L.. Capt. Titus has
sent two men to that place teJassiat in
the aearchi tor a. hysteriouh .stranger
who: Chief Rider thinks, mas be ELL
assistant Ddstrict.Attorney Caravan
will to-day examine n obtain afldav1ts
i fr0@ c Gamma Crystal E.a wS the d sS%sa w the
! trunk 20 Young's apartment, n Mao
Levy, Young's friend These witnesses
WIN Finish the police Ca Sase mag against inst I
pare the case against Young for pres
:. ontation to the October Grand Jury.
The police have communicated With
Young has lived. From information re-
, cefved, It Is said that Young Will not
ZOE able to establish a history of in
sanity. All that the police have learned
of him 10 that he was a man of low
None Of the experts said to have been
retained BY Young,s attorney have as
Bss VISITS visieed IS 8 SRr nrys ose. not ae e aes his Ris
Rttorney, within twenty-four hours. He
has not exhibited any nervousness. Last
might ne slept vel. awaktng at 7 o'clock
ne tackled the morning papers and q
pack of cigarettes.
Thinks He Saw Filing.
Former Village Trustee Andrew ]:
Weeks. of Babylon, l.. l.. IL CONVINCED
that he carried Filling, the accomplish
of murderer Young. from Ba6ylon 70
said the man asked him for a ride and
ne carried him as far as Clinton ave.
nuo, Bay Shore, where Weeks turned
The man said he was en- route to Port
Jefferson via Central Islip,. and that he
had spent the previous night at a motel
in Massapequa, where he got drunk
n slept latt.
Weeks said the man was no fool, and
looked unlike a who had been on
4 spree. He thought nothing OF the
Incident until he read in an evening
naner of the stranger being seen at
Amityviile. and declares Il is one and
the same party. 1t is believed the man
way of one Of the north shore towns;
THOMAS Crystal, the hackman be-
ueved by the police TO have driven
enea apartments, was taken this af-
ternooT1 to the Tombs. Young. wal
stood up In line with a number OF men
ami CRYSTAL scanned their faces. He
Vas unable to Identify Young as the
occupant Of his cab on h night OF
the murder.