The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-23
AM DEAD, He SAYS
The Murderer Young's Let
ter to the Police.
Declares Tie Has Committed Self Murder
Believed TO b, in New York Hidden
by Mormons.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, Sept. 20.-The energies Of
are now concentrated on the task OF
running down Hooper Young, the grand
son of the great Mormon prophet, Brig
ham Young, who is believed to be the
murderer Of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, whose
body was found on Thursday morning i'll
the Morris Canal. near Jersey City.
The contingency hat Young may have
adopted an avenue of escape against
which his pursuers have been powerless
to provide, was suggested by a note re-
ceived by mail late today addressed to
Captain Titus, New York Detective Blu
a 800 Mulberry street" The envelope
contained a single sheet of rough brown
paper, such as is used in making memo
randa in busin ess offices, on which was
written:
Search in vain. lave killed myself.
III.
The postmark chowed that the letter
had been mailed at the General PostOtiice
in this city shortly before noon. From
q comparison of the handwriting with
several letters written by Young, the
police are disposed to believe that the
communication was written by him..
Another important link in the chain of
evidence connecting Young with the muir
der was supplied when a dispatch was re
ceived from Chicago. stating that the
police had opened the trunk shipped by
Young and had found in it the dead Wo-
mans clothing, a memorandum BOOK con-
tanning the name OF William hooper
| Young, and a pawn ticket showing that
a pair of diamond earrings had been
| pledged at a pawn shop in Park Row.
" JIvo1norJau lnCf hy a ma
| who gave the name of "Stiner.
Prior to the receipt of this dispatch q
! Central Office detective had found a pair
of earrings pledged in the same pawn
| shop and under the same name. The
earrings were shown tonight to Joseph
| Pulitzer. who at once identified them as
the pair worn by his wife when she left
their room on Tuesday night. captain
Titus received tonight a dispatch from
Superintendent O'Neil, of Chicago, saying
| that he had shipped the trunk to New
York, and that it contained, in addition
to the articles previously mentioned
, some articles of male attire aud a dirk
| knife smeared with blood.
An interview was obtained today with
three of the Mormon elders whO are oc-
! cupying part of the apartment used by
Young. They are Clarence Snow, Law
renee TAYLOR and j. L. Woods.
They are all young men and gave evi-
! Gence of having passed a restless night
Mr.. Taylor, acting as spokesman for the
party said:
THE enemies of the Mormon CnurcI
| accuse it's member of practising th'
blood atonenlent. There is nothing IN IL
| and this crime could not have been com
! mitted through any ideas of Mormonlsn
| that this young man may have possess
( ed. He was outside of our church, am
| we wanted nothing to do with MN.
Captain Titus, of the Detective bu
roam emphatically declared today ina
the motive for the murder was foppery
He saws the diamond ear rings "hlci
| Mrs. Pulitzer wore were valued at 9loo
Augustus w. Powers, President OF IN
Enterprise Engraving mpan OF TN
CITY. informed the police tonight that ~
had seen Young whom he knew Wen u.
cight in Herald Square this AFTERNOON.
The police of the precinct IN Which LII
murder occurred express the pellel INA
yo,1ng is still in the precinct and Is NC
ing protected by IN alleged Mormon SC
cret society, which they say was up
nosed to have been broken up by Ohl'e'
States Secret Service men.