The leader., 1902-09-24
PULITZER MURDER MYSTERY.
II Has Been Solved by the Finding of the
woman's Clothes In New
York Flat,

WV AOihs 0Cpts EV.--I ne mystery
of the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer,
whose nude. body was found in the
Morris canal, near Jersey City, has
been cleared up by the discovery that
the woman was killed in fiat at 1903
West Fifty-eighth street, where her
clothing was found Friday night.
This announcement was made late
Friday night by Capt. Titus, of the
detective bureau, who connects di-
rectly with the murder man named
Hooper Young, who has recently been
employed in cheap restaurant. Titus
has learned that the woman's body
was kept for some time under the
sink in the kitchen of the fat in
which she was killed. Young has not
been arrested and is believed to have
fed the city. He il said to have
shipped trunk to Chicago Thursday
night. He formerly worked for the
Hoboken Crusader, and the police
found his picture taken with group
of employees. This picture was shown
to the Hoboken liverymen, who at
once picked out Young as the man
who hired buggy from him on
Wednesday night.
The apartment in which the MUIR
dered woman's clothing was found is
situated within a stones throw of
some Of the most splendid apartment
houses in the vicinity of Central
Park, south.
On the Trail of the Murderer.
All day long detectives followed
clews. They asserted confidently that
they were close on the trail of the
murderer, and the developments prove
the correctness of their theory. The
first important evidence developed
early. 1t was the Identification of
the hitching strap and the weight
used as sinker for the body by
livery stable keeper in Hoboken.
These, he said, were placed by him
in a buggy at the special request of
a man who hired the vehicle from
him on Wednesday night, and whose
photograph he has identified. The
horse and buggy were returned the
following morning by the same man.
Her Life q Bad One.
The murdered woman's husband
says that he saw her last late on
Tuesday night, when she left their
apartments for the purpose of pur-
chasing some rolls ana fruit. She
did not return, and the theory now is
that she met her murderer, went with
him to his apartments, and that then,
as the result of a quarrel, he killed
her. The theory is borne out by facts
now known concerning the woman's
life. It has developed that this life
was not good one, fact not denied
by Pulitzer himself. 1t is now rea-
sonably certain that the murderer
kept the woman's body in his rooms
until Wednesday night, when he hired
the horse and buggy in Hoboken, and
returning to New York, drove to
Morris canal, where he threw his VIC
TINS body into the water.
The police say they have learned
that on Thursday morning Young re-
turned to the house about seven
o'clock, and that he was seen carry
ing the same trunk he had taken
away the night before. This time he
had the trunk on his shoulder and
was carrying it up the stair into the
fat.
who the Alleged Murderer Is.
While in Hoboken Hooper Young
was connected with a paper called the
Crusader, as business manager. The
Crusader ceased publication in June,
and Young then moved away. He said
he came from Seattle, Wash, and that
he had run paper in the west, but
whether at Seattle or not is not
known. He is about thirty-five years
of age, about five feet seven inches to
nine inches in height, dark hair and
pale complexion. His hair is dark
and he has heavy eyebrows standing
out prominently. His father, John w.
Young, who is said to be in France,
is reported to be man of wealth.
He is believed to be son of Brigham
Young, the famous Mormon leader,
and to come from Seattle, Wash.