Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-16
William Hopper Young Will Be
Defended by His Church.
HOUSE CONSIDERING PENSION BILLS
Editor Gonzales, of South Carolina,
Has a Fatal Wound.
NOTHING HEARD OF STEAMER ST. LOUIS

New York, Jan. 16.-With the Mol
ineux trial still fresh in the public
memory and the Louis Disbrow MUIR
der trial 10Y on, still another notable
murder case. and one of absorbing in
terest to criminologists, will come up
for trial next week. This is the case
of William Hooper Young, a grandson
of Brigham Young, who was indicted
in October last for the murder of Mrs.
Anna Nelson Pulitzer, a oma whom
he had lured to his rooms in West
~Fifty-eighth street.
The crime was one of the most bru-
tai the police have been called upon to
deal with since the Guldensuppe MUIR
der. For some time prior to his al
legged commission of the crime Young
had been occupying a ROOF in the lux
urious apartments of his father, John
w. Young, a promoter and capitalist
of wealth and high financial position,
and who was at the time absent in
Europe on business. The son had the
reputation of being a ~ne'er-do-well,
drifting from one occupation to an
other and living at various times in
Utah, the state of Washington and
various other parts of the country.
Evidence collected by the police,
strengthened by the confession alleged
to have been made by Young after his
arrest, goes to show that the young
man took the woman, with whom he
had had some previous acquaintance,
to his rooms on the night of the muir
der and there drugged her and hen
proceeded TO cut up the body in the
most diabolical manner The remains
were then taken in a trunk across the
North river, where they were thrown
into the shallow waters of a canal.
The body was found next day weighted
down with a hitching weight. The first
clue to the identity of the murderer
was furnished by a Jersey liveryman
who identified a photograph of Young
as the man to whom he had hired a
rig the day before and who also identi-
fed the hitching strap and weight as
his property. A visit to the Young
apartments furnished ample evidence
of the commission of the crime. About
the same time the Chicago police dis
covered a trunk which had been
shipped to that city by Young and
which contained the dead woman's
clothes and valuables. For two or
three days the New York police
secured the city in search of the young
man. Before the end of the week he
had been captured in Connecticut in
the disguise of a tramp. 1t is alleged
that he made a full confession to the
police, but implicated another person
in the actual murder. The authorities.
however, refused to credit the story of
an a~ccomplice as all the evidence
tended to show that Young alone COM
mitted the crime and hid the body.
The relatives of the accused, who
are leaders in the Mormon church, will
bring to his defense all that their
wealth and influence can command.
The finding in Young's room of writ
ings and Biblical quotations on blood
atonement" have suggested that the
victim was sacrificed by a religious
fanatic, and this has stirred the Nor
mon church to angry protests and bit.
ter denials. The church authorities in
fact. assert that they are not at all in
terested in the defense of the young
man and that despite his descent from
the great Mormon leader he was not
one of their number, having renounced
the faith of his fathers a number of
years ago.
John w. Young, father of the &C
cused, is expected to be present at the
trial. Eminent counsel has been en-
sased to conduct the defense. The DO
lice consider their case so complete
that they expect a plea of insanity to
he entered. 1t is known that Young
for many years has been a victim of
the use of morphine, cocaine and other
drugs.