The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-21
KNIFE WOUND CAUSED DEATE
Autopsy Performed Upon the Body
of Mrs. Pulitzer.


New York. Sept. 2O.-An autopsy per-
formed on the body of Mrs. Joseph
Pulitzer, who was mysteriously muir
dered in a Fifty-eighth street fiat, and
whose body was found in the Morris
canal showed that her death was
caused primarily by a knife wound in
the abdomen and not by choral. Sew
eraI blows were struck on her head be-
fore death, but the skull was not frac-
tured, and there were no signs Of cere-
bral hemorrhage.
A police dragnet has been thrown out
for William Hooper Young. grandson OF
the great Mormon leader. Brigham
Young. who is suspected OF the killing.
Among the books found IN Young S
room in the Fifty-eighth street fiat was
the cover of a small memorandum, on
the front OF which was stamped in
gilded letters, Practical Reference -
On the inside were a number of notes
headed blood atonement," and fol-
lowed by Biblical references, including
an excerpt from the book Of Corin-
thians. reading:
ITO deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh. that
the spirit may be saved in the day of
the Lord Jesus.
Did Not Live at Home.
II now develops that when Young's
father sailed for France on July l. two
of the sons went back TO Utah Hooper
did not make his home with his father,
but he roOmed in the vicinity. Re
Gently he called upon the superintend-
ent Of the building and demanded the
keys, which were given to him.
The apartment originally G. insisted OF
three suites. These were thrown into
one for the use of the family, but upon
their going abroad one IF them was
cut of and turned over, rent free, to
four missionaries who are PROSECUTING
in New York. These have been living
there ever since. and were aslcrp when
the supposed murder was committed.
Their names are Clarence Snow, Law
renee Taylor, ]. L. Woods and John z
Porter. Mr.. Snow said:
When the elder Mr.. Young went to
Europe he left four of US here rem free
Soon after Hooper demanded the keys.
He lived in suite four. which was en-
tirely shut off from US. and we saw
little of him. Sometimes we heard him
come in, and sometimes we did not.
Tuesday night Porter ami Taylor
were home all the evening. Woods and
l came in about IL O'Clock, and all OF
us went TO bed. / do not thin.s any Of
us heard Hooper come In ;h.C night.
and we certainly heard no disturbance
in his part Of the house"
Traced to Brooklyn.
Detectives have traced Young to
Brooklyn. where he went on Thursday
morning to bid friend good-by. To
this friend he said he was going 10 the
Rocky mountains.
A trunk shipped 10 Chicago by Young
through the Wells-Fargo Express. was
consigned 10 &C. S. Eiliny." The police
do not believe IL contained anything
other than clothing belonging, possibly,
TO Mrs. Pulitzer, as very little of the
murdered womans apparel has been
found.
Richard e. Amer, who was a close
friend OF Young. and at one time his
partner in the publication OF the Ho-
bOken Crusader, has, according 10 the
World. isseud a statement saying that
Young called at his house in Hoboken
last Thursday about 7:30 O'clock.
Young, he says, was driving q horse
and buggy, which. he stated, had been
rented By the liveryman who has since
figured in the Identification OF the
weight found attached to Mrs. Pulit-
zer's body.
Amer says he met Young at Butte,
Mont. in 1901. Young was then travel
ing for a drug house. They became
friends, ana Young. later in the year,
joined him in the publication OF the
paper in Hobdken. They dissolved
partnership last June. however. and
since then had seldom met.