Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-20
STORY OF THE DEED.


Clothing OF the Dead Woman,
New York. Sept. l9.--The mystery Of
the murder OF Mrs Annie Pulitzer
whose nude body was found in the Nor
rls 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 tonight.
HOOPER YOUNG ACCUSED.
This announcement was made last
night by Capt. Titus Of the detective
bureau who connects directly with the
murder a man named Hooper Young,
who has recently been employed In a
cheap restaurant. Titus has learned
that the woman's body was kept for
some time under the sink in the kitch,
en- Of the fiat in which she was killed.
Young has not been arrested. and Is
believed to have fed from the city. He
Is said TO have shipped a trunk 20 Chi
cago last night He formerly worked
for the Hoboken Crusader, and the po-
lice found his picture taken with a
group Of employees. This picture was
shown to the Hoboken llveryman. who
at once picked out Young as the man
who hired a buggy from him on
Wednesday night,
WHERE CLOTHING WAS FOUND.
The apartment in which the muir
dered woman's clothing was found Is
situated within stones throw Of some
Of the most splendid apartment houses
In the vicinity Of Central Park South.
All day long the detectives followed
clues. They asserted confidently thar
they were close on the trail OF the muir
derer, and Developments tonight prove
the correctness Of their theory.
The first important evidence devel-
oped early II was the Identification
OF the ditching strap and the weight
used as a sinker for the body by a
liver stable keeper IN Hoboken These.
he said, were placed by him in a buggy
at the special request OF man who
hired the vehicle from him on Wednes-
day night, and whose Photograph he
has Identified. The horse and buggy
were returned the following morning
by the same man.
MR.. PULITzER's STORY.
The murdered woman's husband
says he saw her last on Tuesday night
when she left their apartment for the
purpose OF purchasing some rolls and
fruit she did not return, and the the.
DRY Is that She met her murderer. went
with him to his apartments, and that
then as the result OF q quarrel. he
killed her. The theory is horne out
by facts now known concerning the
woman's life. II has developed that
this life was not good one fact
not denied by her husband. II Is now
reasonably certain that the murderer
kept the body In his rooms until Wed.
nesday night. when he hired a horse
and buggy in Hoboken and, returning
TO New York, drove to the Morris
canal. where he threw his victims body
into the water.
The keeper OF the bridge over which
he must have driven 10 reach the
canal saw a buggy answering the de-
scription Of that hired az the stable
In Hoboken crossing the bridge be.
tween n and u o'clock on Wednesday
night He could get only glimpse
OF the driver, but he says that
trunk was tied on behind the vehicle
STATEMENT By POLICE.
Late tonight the police gave out the
story Of the murder and the history
OF Young.
II IS learned from the Hoboken 20.
live that the man who hired the bug
gy had been Identified as Young, and
detectives then traced him 20 the hat
on West Fifty-eighth street, where a
young man was found who had been
asked 10 help Young 90 carry a trunk
out OF the house on Wednesday even.
ing The police had already heard OF
the Pulitzer woman's connection with
Young, whose description filled that
given by Pulitzer OF a man who. his
wife had told him. had accosted her
on Tuesday evening and had asked her
TO 60 10 his fiat on Fifty-eighth street
IL Is believed that the woman az
terward met Young and accompanied
him to the Hat. Young's father who
the police say. Is a John W. Young, a
promoter, Is now In France. Neigh
bors say that he had lived there with
his daughter, Mary Young, until last