Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-20
MRS. PULITZER'S MURDERER
New York Detectives Believe he IL One
Hooper Young,
FIND WHERE He KEPT HER BODY so LONG
II was Under a sink on West FiTty.
Eighth street, where Her CIOthing
Has Been FOund-suspected
Murderer Escapes.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Tne mystery Of
the murder Of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, whose
nude body was found in the Morris canal,
near Jersey City, has been cleared up by
the discovery that the woman was killed
in a fiat at 1O3 West Fifty-eighth street,
where her clothing was found tonight. This
announcement was made late tonight by
Captain Titus Of the detective bureau, who
alleges that the murder was committed by
a man named Hooper Young, who has re-
Gently been employed in a cheap restau-
rant.
Titus has learned that the woman's body
was kept for some time under the sink in
the kitchen 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 to Chicago
last night. He formerly worked for the
Hoboken Crusader and the police found his
picture taken with a group OF employees.
This picture was shown to the Hoboken
liveryman, who at once picked out Young
as the man who hired a buggy from him
on Wednesday night.
The house In which the murdered
woman's clothing was found is a cheap
tenement in a block containing many
stables, but is within a stones throw Of
some Of the most splendid apartment
houses in the vicinity of Central park
south.
Husband Closely QuestIoned.
The husband Of the woman, a tailor Of
this city, was brought from Jersey City to
police headquarters in this city yesterday,
and after being closely questioned he was
invited to emain at headquarters until the
arrival Of Captain Titus, chief Of detect
ives, this morning.
Sergeant Phaler, in charge Of the detect
i've bureau, last night said that Pulitzer
told the police that he was out at the
primary elections on Tuesday night, and
that when he got home he decided to have
q light repast and asked his wife TO pre-
pare some cocoa. He discovered that there
was none In the house and she went to get
some. and also some bread and fruit. Ac-
eording to the police. Pulitzer learned later
mat his wife had been to the bakery for
the bread and there he lost trace OF her.
Sergeant Phaler added that Pulitzer had
made a statement 10 the New York detect
Ives which was considered so important
that 1t would not be made public.
Mrs. Eva Fleming. who keeps the board
ing house where the Pulltzers lived, at 100
West Forty-sixth street, said the couple
had been living there about four weeks,
that they were quiet and that she had seen
Mrs. Pulitzer only two or three times and
would not be able to recognize her She
said Pulitzer told her they had been mar
ried about fve years.
CtOries Are Somewhat Different.
The story told by Mrs. Fleming about
Mrs. Pulitzer going out for eatables on
Tuesday light differs somewhat from that
given out the detective bureau. Accord
ing to We Fleming, Pulitzer told her after
his Wife isappearance and before It was
known 81 bad been murdered that he had
come hom9 at about IL O'Clock Tuesday
night feeling sick and that his wife sug-
gested she would get some fruit for him.
He told her that the streets were crowded
with men who had been attending the
primaries and that it would not be wise
for her to go out. She disregarded his ad-
vice, however, and, taking off SON OF her
jewelry, went out for the fruit and that
was the last he saw OF her until he identi-
fed her body at the Jersey City morgue.
At the detective bureau this morning II
was said that the central ONCE had been
notified by the Newark police to be on the
outlook for a black runabout with solid rub
Der tires and also for a small bay horse
both OF which have been missing from the
livery stable of a man named Mullins since
yesterday morning. The men say that
Pulitzer formerly had a business Of his
own, but gave 1t up and Of late has been
working at times for his brother, who
has a tailor store in this city. The dead
woman was a Dane. s-
G.. M. Pulitzer. a brother OF Joseph, liv-
ing at IL Waverly Place, called at police
headquarters this morning and was clos
eted with the detectives who are working
on the case.
When the brother left headquarters, he
said he had simply called to see JOSEPH
Pulitzer and that he had no connection
with the case.
Captain Titus said that the murdered