Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-21
YOUNG PROMISES SUICIDE
Farewell Note Received from Supposed
New Ysrk Murderer.
TELLS DETECTIVES SEARCH is VAIN
Declares that He Was Soon 60 XII
HimseIf-Omcers Half Inclined
to Accept Note as
Genuine.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-Captain Titus OF
the detective bureau has Just received
through the mails a short note supposed to
have been written by Hooper Young, sus-
pected OF the murder OF Mrs. Joseph Pull
itzer, it was enclosed in a small envelope,
such as is used in hotels for sending cards
to the rooms Of guests. Inside the envelope
was a small sheet of paper on which was
written:
Search in vain. have killed myself.
III. YOUNG"
After a comparison with the known hand
writing and signature Of the missing man,
Captain Titus, while not openly declaring
that 1t was genuine, said that 1t did not
look like the work Of a crank and that
the signature was written by a man evi.
IDENTIFY used to writing It.
An autopsy performed on the-body of Mrs.
Joseph Pulitzer, who was mysteriously
murdered in a Fifty-eighth street fat 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. Several blows were struck on
the head before death, but the skull was
not fractured and there was no signs Of
cerebral hemmorhage.
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 fat was the cover Of a small memo
randum, on the front Of which was stamped
in gilded letters, practical Reference"
On the inside we're a number Of notes
headed Blood Atonement," and followed
by biblical references, including an excerpt
from the Book OF Corinthians, reading:
ITO deliver such an one unto satan for the
destruction of the flesh. that the spirit
may survive in the day of the Lord Jesus"
Detectives have traced Young to Brook
Ign, where he went on Thursday morning
to bid a friend goodby. To this friend he
said he was going to the Rocky mountains.
A trunk shipped to Chicago through the
Wells-Fargo express was consigned to G..
s. Filing. The police do not believe II
contained anything other than clothing be-
longing, possibly. to Mrs. Pulitzer, as very
little Of the murdered woman's apparel has
been found.
John w. Young, father Of the man sus-
pected Of the murder. who is now in Paris,
has communicated with friends in this city,
informing them that he will return to
New York for the purpose Of defending
his son. Mr.. Young has also cabled instruc-
lions to his most intimate friend to employ
counsel for his son.
Chicago Detective Gets Trunk.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2O.-what is believed to
be convincing evidence that william
Hooper Young is the murderer of Mrs. An
ME Pulitzer, whose body was found in the
Morris canal, near Jersey City, last Thurs
day, was discovered here today by the po-
Itao H. 4, N-,,,I 49, - 49, A.
Chicago from New York. 1t was con-
signed to C. s.. Filing and marked "hold
until called for"
AS no such name is in the Chicago d.
rectory the conclusion was reached that
the name was fictitious. The express off,
cials gave Detective Lieutenant Rohan
permission to examine the package. In the
trunk we're found a blood-stained dagger,
several articles of feminine apparel marked
"A. P" and pulitzer" and nearly 100 let
ters addressed to William Hooper Young.
After a thorough examination the trunk
was resealed and reshipped to New York
over the Erie road,