Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-20
GRANDSON OF
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Is Suspected Of Being the Murderer Of
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer in New
York.
THE POLICE DRAG NET OUT
A Trunk Shipped by Young and Unclaimed IN Chicago
Is Supposed to Contain Clothing Be-
longing 10 the Murdered
Woman.

New York, Sept. 20.-An autopsy was
performed or~tlle body of Mrs. Joseph
Pulitzer, who was mysteriously mur-
dered in a 5Sth ST. fiat and whose body
was found in the Morris canal, showed
that death was caused primarily by
knife wound in the abdomen. police
drag net has been thrown out for Will
lam Hooper Young, grandson of the
great Mormon leader, Brigham Young,
who is suspected of the crime. Young S
father sailed for France on July 1. Re-
Gently Hooper Young called upon the
superintendent of the flats and deman-
ded the keys, which We're given to him.
Four Mormon missionaries proselyting
in New York, have been living there,
and were asleep when the supposed
murder was committed. A trunk shipp-
ed to Chicago by Young, through the
Wells-Fargo express, was consigned to
80. S. Eiling." The police believe it
contained the clothing belonging 10
Mrs. Pulitzer, as very little of the MUIR
dered woman's apparel has been found.
Further interesting developments oc-
Cured today in the unraveling of the
mystery surrounding the murder of
Mrs. Anna Pulitzer. A restaurant man
ager, Louis Bowker, said that William
Hooper Young, for Whom the police are
looking, had been a constant customer
at his restaurant. Thursday night,
Bowker says a young man called at the
restaurant and asked him to take
charge of the keys to Young's apart
ments, and later the same man return
ed and asked if Young had been in.
Bowker told him he had not. II will
wait q little while for him. said the
man, who remained about Is minutes.
He left, asking Bowker to retain pos
session of the key until Young should
call. Bowker gave the key to police
man.
TRUNK is IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, Ills, Sept. 2O.-A trunk sd
dressed to &c. s. Filling, Chicago"
shipped from New York, Thursday, the
18th, is awaiting claimant here at the
office of the Well-Fargo Express COM
pany.
At the request of the New York po-
warded to New York without opening. |
An interview was obtained today |
with the three Mormon elders, occupy
ing part of the apartment used by |
r
renee Taylor and J. L. Woods. Taylor |
acting as spokesman, said: "The enc
mics Of the Mormon church accuse it's |
members of practicing the blood atone
ment. There is nothing in it. This |
crime could not have been committed |
through any ideas Of Mormonism that |
this young man may have possessed.
He was outside of our church and we
wanted nothing to do with him. The !
"blood atonement' note found in the
apartment, Taylor insisted that it had
nothing to do with the Mormon church.
Captain Titus of the detective bureau,
emphatically declared today that the
motive of the murder was robbery. He
says the diamond earrings which Mrs.
Pulitzer wore were valued at $3.50 and
evidently had been pawned. Captain
Titus then told Of his visit to the apart
ments on West 5Sth street. He said he
found there three empty beer bottles.
One bottle had a crystalized appear
ance and HE thought the woman had
been drugged by some narcotic in the
beer and afterward knocked on the
head: The room showed no signs of a
struggle, but blood was scattered ev-
erywhere.
ALWAYS WEAK MINDED.
Salt Lake, Utah, Sept. 2O.-The
friends and relatives of William Hoop
er Young, grandson of Brigham Young,
who is suspected Of the murder Of Mrs.
Anna Pulitzer in New York, say the
young man had always been consider
ed weak minded, and on several occa-
sions had shown signs of dementia, He
was always considered black sheep of
the family. OF late, 1t is stated, he had
been addicted to the use of morphine.
The theory of moral degeneracy Is not
entertained by Salt Lake acquaintance