New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-20
CANAL MYSTERY SOLVED
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MOVEMENTS LEADING TO MURDER.
So far as the movements of the three people
. concerned in the tragedy can he pieced together
/ from the evidence at hand, the events of Tues
dav night and the following days seem to have
! been as follows: Pulitzer returned to his home
at No 100 West FOrty-sixth-st. late on Tues
dav night after watching at the polls in the
neighborhood, and being hungry. asked for
/ something to eat. Mrs. Pulitzer went out to get
/ something against the protest of her husband
| that the streets were full of men at that hour
! She did not return. Pulitzer learned that his
wife had been to a bakery near by. but could
( find further trace of her.
The murder. according to Captain Titus's pos
tive statement. was committed by Young in his
apartment in Fifty-eighth-st. According to
Charles b. Converse the county physician, who
performed the autopsy yesterday. death was
due TO an ugly wound in the abdomen. There
was no fracture of the skull. but there had been
a hemorrhage of the brain. and evidences that
the woman had been knocked senseess by
blow
The police believe that the autopsy shows
that the woman struck on the head with
wide and fiat weapon, and then stabbed to
death This killing took place at some time
after the woman's disappearance on Tuesday
New-Jersey late on Wednesday. The murderer
chose as a place to conceal the body the aban
doned canal now tidewater ditch affected by
small side streams of the Hackensack and Pas
sale rivers. known the Morris Canal.
plank road runs along the canal and trolley
cars pass frequently. but the canal itself is
longer in use. and if the weighted body had
been thrown the middle of the ditch it might
have remained there undiscovered for years.
But rs it was. it fell near the edge. when the
tide was at flood, so that on its recession, the
body lay exposed to lew.
The man presented himself at Evans's livery
stable. in Hoboken, on Wednesday evening, and
hired buggy. He said he going to meet
a friend at the Grand Central Station. in New
York and would return in two hours. AS he
was leaving he pointed out that there was no
weight hitching strap in the buggy. These
deficiencies were supplied, and he drove away.
Chief Murphy of Hoboken said last night
that there We're six people on that side Of the
river who had identified Young the who
had the buggy Wednesday night In addition
to Evans and his employee, Englehardt, who had
recognized the photograph of Young the
who hired the buggy, there four people who
saw him driving through Communipaw-ave. He
had q trunk strapped the end. They
saw the buggy drive out Communipaw-ave
which joins the plank road, and return hour
later.
Young next seen by Dixie Anger in an
intoxicated condition Thursday morning. He
called in the buggy at Anglers house. in Sew
enth-st.. and later left him to return the buggy,
he said TO Evans. He was next seen at the
stable. where he received warm reception for
having detained the buggy twelve hours over
time. The horse did not appear 10 have done
much travelling. and it discovered, after he
left the stable. that the hitching strap and
weight were missing. On Thursday night Young
left his apartment. in Fifty-eighth-st, taking
his trunk and a couple of bundles and saying
he was going Ito Philadelphia Chicago" In
the mean time, during the day, the body of the
missing woman had been found at the edge Of
the Morris Canal nude strapped and tied with
rope, and weighted down with the weight which |
was later identified that missing from
Young's buggy.
BROTHER IDENTIFIES BODY.
Peter Nelson twenty -four years old. brother of |
the murdered woman, who hears a strong facial |
resemblance to his sister and like her, is below |
the average height. visited the Jersey City |
Morgue yesterday afternoon with friend |
Anton Jansen. They came from Perth Amboy |
They saw the body. The marks of decompo- |
sition were visible, and the young men faltered |
ere young Nelson declared. That is Anna" He |
said his sister married five years ago to |
Pulitzer and that they lived happily. and fire. |
quently visited her parents home at Perth Am |
boy, where she was born twenty-eight years |
ago. He knew nothing of her mode of living
He said his father. now in Europe, sailed |
four weeks ago. and Anna and her husband !
bade good by to him at the pier. Her death |
was the first in the family. he said. He has a |
brother. Antonio. at Corning. N Y, and
other Frank, a seaman on the great lakes. He |
lives with mother in Smith-St., Perth |
Amboy and is employed bartender. He
patiently waited from o'clock until / when
Detectives Becker and Casey arrived at the
morgue with Pulitzer The four conversed in a
low tone. Pulitzer inquired anXOusly of Nelson
if he knew of any enemy his sister had. He re-
piled: Il don't know of any, everyone liked |
her" He also said that Pulitzer had.telephoned
20 him Wednesday asking if his wife a
her mothers home The conversation then
turned to the burial of the body. Nelson asked
If Pulitzer intended burying it, and he replied
ne was not in position financially to do it, but
would aid TO the best of his ability Nelson
then consented to take charge Of the body when
II is released by the officials. and it will be taken
TO Perth Amboy for burial.
AUTOPSY ON THE BODY.
DR.. c. b. Converse, county physician of Hud- |
son County. arrived at the morgue early in the
afternoon, but deferred beginning the autopsy |
saying that the crime had undoubtedly been
committed in York, and he desired that
representative physician of that city be present |
i)r Schwartz corOner's physician, and DR.. Ham
llton Williams arrived at 3 o'clock. DR.. Con- |
verse performed the autopsy, assisted by DR.. !
Bufett and the visiting physicians Prosecutor |
Erwin and Assistant Prosecutor Vickers of |
hudson County. and Assistant District Attorney |
IafVln, OF NeW-Iork, with several detectives, |
witnessed the post-mortem examination The |
autopsy occupied three and one-half hours. The |
physician announced that the wound in the b. |
domen caused death. There To fracture of |
the skull, but there a considerable hemor-