Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-09-25
MURDER QUICKLY SOLVED,
HER MURDERER WAS WILL
LIAM HOPPER YOUNG.
A YOUNG MAN ON
A HOBOKEN
DAILY.
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New York, Sept. 19.-Mrs Anna
Nelson Pulitzer, the young woman
whose badly mutilated body was
found anchored at the bottom Of the
Morris canal cut, in Kearney, n. J.,
Thursday afternoon, was murdered
in a fiat in the Clarence apartment
house at 103 West Fifty-eighth
street, this city. Her murderer was
William Hopper Young, a young
man employed on a Hopeken news
paper called the Crusader.
On some pretext which has not
yet been made clear, Young lured
the woman to his fiat at midnight
Tuesday, having met her in the
street while she was returning from
a restaurant in Seventh avenue,
where she had gone to buy some
fruit and rolls for her husband. In
the fiat he killed her. He concealed
the body in a closet. Then he went
to Hoboken, hired a horse and bug
gy at the livery stable of Charles r.
Evans, 1872 Washington street, and
drove back to this city. Having
packed the woman's body in a
trunk, he took the trunk to the
street with the assistance of the hall
boy of the apartment house, tied it
to the rea of the buggy and drove
over on the lonely plank road run
ming from Jersey City to Newark.
About five hundred yards west of
the Hackensack river bridge he
found a suitable spot to get rid of his
CHASTITY burden.
Having dumped the body into the
canal, weighed with a 2O-pound
weight, Young got back into the
buggy, satisfied that he had hidden
the evidences of his crime. But the
outrunning tide revealed his victim
Thursday afternoon, and remarkably
quick detective work, for which the
police of Hoboken, working under
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that city are to be credited, they
traced the authorship of the muir
der in less than t~hirty-siX hours after
its discovery to Young, who at first
appeared to have been a clever crlm-
but turns out to have been a
bungler Of the worst sort.
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Fifty-eigthth street tonight dis
indisputable evidence that the
crime was committed there Tuesday
or early Wednesday morning.
Young himself had fed, having dis
mantled the fiat as much as possible
in the short time that he had at his
disposal. But he left behind him
blood stained garments that the wo-
man had worn, blood stained sheets
and carpets, blood stained wall and
doors and sinks and plenty of other
evidence Of his shocking deed. Al
though the murderer has escaped for
the time the chances Of his being free.
for long are small. His description ;
has been sent broadcast. Young's
motive for killing the woman is not
apparently known. Nothing has
turned up yet that throws any light
on it. The murderer undoubtedly
helped himself to Mrs. Pulitzer's
earrings and other jeWelry,
but that he killed her for these alone
is not believed by the police. The
police say that Young must have
planned it in advance, for everythingi
points to the probability that from
the moment the Woman entered
Young's fiat her fate was sealed. She
struck twice on the head with
some blunt instrument and then
in the abdomen, the stab
wound being the one that killed her,
in the opinion of the doctors who
made an autopsy on her body this
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