The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-21
so THE OFFICERS ASSERT
She Went to His Room the Night She
Vanished.
THEY QUARRELLEO AND He KILLED HER
This is the Theory of the Police. Hooper is
Believed to Have Left The City
and May b. in
Chicauo
Chicago,
(By the Associated Press


New York, Sept 19.-The mystery Of
the murder of Mrs Annie Pulitzer,
whose nude BODY was found in the Nor
ris Canal, near Jersey City, has been
cleared up, by the discovery that the wo-
man was killed in nat at 1O3 West
FIFTY eight street, where her clothing
was found tonight.
This announcement was made late to-
night by Captain Titus, of the Detec-
tive Bureau. who connects directly with
the murder a man named Hooper Young,
who was recently employed in a cheap
restaurant 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 the city. He is said to have shipped
a trunk to Chicago last night. He form
erly worked for tho Hoboken Crusader,
and the police found his picture taken
with group of employees. This pic
ture was shown to the Hoboken livery
man who at once picked oIt Young as
the man who hired a buggy from him on
Wednesday night.
woman's clothing was found is within
stones throw of some of the most splen
did apartment houses in the vicinity Of
Central Park South.
All day long detectives have followed
clues. They asserted confidently that
they were close on the trail of the muir
derer and the developments tonight prove
the correctaass of their theory.
6rr avid
early. 1t was the Identification of the
hitching strap and the weight used az
a sinker for the body by Charles E.
Evans, a livery stable keeper in Hoboken.
These. he said, were placed by him in a
buggy at the special request of man
who hired rhe vehicle from him on We'd
nesday night. and whose photograph he
has identified. The horse and buggy
were returned the following morning by
the same man.
The murdered woman's husband says
that he saw her last late on Tuesday
night when she left their apartments for
the purpose of purchasing some rolls and
fruit She did not return, and the theory
now is that she met her murderer, went
with him to his apartments and that
then as The result of a quarrel he killed
her The .heory is borne out by facts
ow known concerning the woman's life.
1t has developed that this life was not
a good one a fact not denied by Pulitzer
himself. 1t is now reasonably certain
that the murderer kept the woman's
body in his rooms until Wednesday
night. when he hired the horse and bug
gy in Hoboken, and returning to New
York drove to the Morris Canal. where
he threw his victims body into the
water.
Late tonight the police gave out the
story of the murder and the history of
Young's father. who the police say, is
John w. Young.
The Youno fiat is one Of seven rooms
and bath. and is handsomely furnished.
When the police opened the door lead
ing into it they found it in great confu-
sion. There was every evidence of
struggle on the part of the occupants.
In the small bedroom they found a sim
gle bed, the sheet of which was spotted
with blood. and other stains were found
on a cupboard. Among a number Of bot
ties stood a tiny vial. half filled with
hydrate of chloral.
In the room were found one or two
articles of woman's clothing, but they
bore no stain. In the bath room were
found two towels and a mans night
shirt still wet and which seemed to have
been used to wipe up blood stains and
had been hastily washed.
There was also found an old leather
grip in which were scores of letters, all
from young women and addressed to
Young.
Coroner Scholer who examined the flat,
gave it as his theory that the woman
had been murdered by knockout drops
in the form of hydrate of choral, and
that the murderer then attempted to dis
member the body so as to more easily
place it in the trunk, but that he had
! apparently desisted, and placed it tenn
porarily in the bottom of the cupboard.
Later he placed the body in the trunk.
His father, John w Young, who is
said to be in FRANCE, is reported to be a
man of wealth. lie is believed to be a
son of Brigham Young, the famous
Mormon leader.
Nothing is known at present of the