Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-23

For awhile the husband was under sis-
picion Of making away with his WIFE;
but q different direction was given to
the investigation when liveryman iden-s
tilted his strap and weight and described
thesman to whom he had hired q horse
and buggy; the vehicle having had In It
the articles named. The horse and buggy
had been returned to the stable, but the
absence Of the strap and weight was not
then observed.
With that as clue and Pulitzer,s de-
scription of man who had several times
sought interviews with his wife the de-
tectives set out to search for Hooper
Young. The murderer occupied
room in his fathers fat, lo5
west Fifty-eighth street, while the
latter was absent in Europe; but he
seems not to have been there with his
fathers consent, but to have forced him
self in.
Mrs. Pulitzer willingly accompanied
Young to the latter's room in the fiat.
What occurred there is not known; 1t can
only be conjectured. The result, however,
was that he killed her and put her body
into a trunk and swung the trunk on the
back part of the buggy, and drove off
with it, pretending that the trunk con-
tanned books. Many blood-stains were
found In his room; but he had fled. A
scribble of his, picked up in the apart
ment, shows that he had been writing of
Of ho theory was
set up by some that he had murdered the
woman in accordance with some sort Of
religious rita
The woman's clothes, artificial teeth,
and the cakes she had purchased for her
husband, and his (the accused's) own
blood-stained garments and a blood-stain-
ed dagger he put into the trunk
which he had used in carrying off the
body, and shipped to Chicago.
That trunk was brought back to New
York and opened yesterday by the police
The articles it contained afford conclu-
| sive evidence against Young. If Young
had called in witnesses to see him kill
Mrs. Pulitzer he could hardly have made
| the evidence against himself more com
plete. The testimony of the iveryman
the trunk sent by Young to Chicago
| tickets showing where Young had paWnec
| the earrings of the woman after killing
| her, all afford evidence against him al
most as complete as the detectives coulc
have wished had they had the ordering
of it.
In the apartments in west Fifty-eightf
street, in which Mrs. Pulitzer was muir
dered, draft of a letter written BY
Young was found In this letter Young
spoke most bitterly of all his relatives
save his mother. He made what appear
ed to be q yelled reference to contem
plated crime, and said he would have
| one last good time, and if that did no
finish him he would leave the country.
The story about the blood atonement'-
| that he made religious sacrifice of thu
woman-seems to be fake pure ant
simple 1t is more probable that the wo
man was killed for the jewelry that sh'
| wore. Young is a man of bad habits. Hi
father had been compelled to cast hin
off, but has now employed counsel fo
| him. The young man seems to have beer
unfriendly to the Mormon church, ant
disagreed with his father on that ant
| many other questions. At one time h
Twas Washington newspaper correspond
1 ent It is now alleged that he has beer
j unbalanced in mind for many years
4 which seems not unlikely. He is a rave
nous consumer Of cigarettes and an opium
! eater.