New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
MRS. YOUNG GOES VEST.
WOmdn Who Shot Stenogr0pher
Obeys Suggestion of Court

Mrs. Beatrice C. Young Lnaccompanied, left
this city at $40 o'clock yesterday after
noon Erie ferryboat from the West 23d-
st. ferryhouse to catch the O'Clock train for
the West Almost physical wreck because
of the recent troubles through which she has
passed she will Join her brother and baby In
Winona, Mimi. and Will remain there for the
present. at least, to recuperate. 1t had been re-
ported earlier in the day that she had refused
to obey q court order.
She left the house of DR.. and Mrs. Whitehouse.
her old friends. at No. 40 West 26th-st.. about
o'clock. AT 2:3O O'Clock her husband arrived
at 6th-ave and 2cth-st and waited d long time
for her appearance
She went to the house Friday Immediately
after she had been discharged in the Jefferson
Market police court by Magistrate Steinert for
shooting Mrs Catherine Morgan. her husband s
stenographer, in the Hotel Imperial August
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She is not thinking Of suing her husband who
is said to be q relative Of the late Brigham
Young and she does not consider that she is
banished from this State. according to her coun-
sci, James w. Mccarthy. He said yesterday;
the one who originally proposed that
Mrs. Young leave the state Assistant District
Attorney Frederick L. Kernochan thought that
some charge should be pressed against her. I
told him that Mrs Young was to leave the State
be allowed to do so ] gained Mrs Youns's
consent and Magistrate Steinert liked the plan.
When he discharged her he mentioned the mat
ter He never intended it as part OF the sen
tence.
Mrs. Young will not consider suing her hus
band for divorce for the present, any rate. She
Is run down in health and has lost thirty
pounds since her arrest. She has no money. and
her friends sending her West Her brother
is well to do. She is very popular with many
important people in Minnesota. and many let
tiers came to her from them while she was under
arrest with offers Of assistance.
In answer to numerous questions concerning
the peculiar case. Magistrate Steinert said yes
terday:
Mrs Young was released from custody at the
request of all parties interested in the case, and
by sanction of the District Attorneys office Inc
proceedings were entirely regular. There was
no complainant against the woman when she
was arraigned although she could have been
held the testimony of the two witnesses VINO
presented themselves in court, regardless OF tne
attitude of Mrs. Morgan
The air in court was permeated with sympathy
for the wife The essence of her guilt dld not
enter into the matter as viewed by me- Passing
on the case as a committing magistrate, had
to judge the case ii was presented to me-
Counsel for Mrs. Young made a suggestion that
she be discharged on her promise to go back to
MINNEAPOLIS Mimi and take up her residence
there where her child and her brother are. The
suggestion must have appealed to Mr. hneelaho'
counsel for Mrs. Morgan. for he stated that
Mrs Morgan felt that she did not care to press
any charge against Mrs. Young.
Under the circumstances did just what pc
lieve 1 should have done, in diScharglng the de-
PENDANT The case is not closed, except for the
present. 1t can be reopened at any time The
grand jury pass on the case at any time, and
a warrant can be issued for Mrs. Young
There is abundant precedent for such action
It isn't likely that the District Attorneys office
and a city magistrate would neglect their duty
even in exceptional case, like this one