Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-31
MRS. .YOUNG'S "DEATH''
DENIES INDIGNANTLY THAT
SHE WAS MURDERED.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 31.-The story
built UP by Mrs. Hattie Hull in Identify
ing the body Of the woman found in the
Lampblack swamp at Harrison, N. j.. as
that of her friend, Mrs. Agnes Young,
was shattered here today when Mrs.
Agnes A. Young, Mrs. Hulrs acquaint-
ance, issued a statement in denial. Mrs.
Young is at present employed in the
branch Office Of Wood, Harmon & Co.,
real estate operators at 315 Madison ave.
nue.. this city. She has worked there as
an accountant since July Is. Her home
Is at Harmon on the Hudson.
When Mrs. Yonug reached the Office this
morning she was very much perturbed.
She consulted with the manager Of the
office and then dictated this statement:
Il was assistant accountant at the Ho-
tel Ansonia and knew Mrs. Hull and be-
friended her, but have not seen her for
the past two years. Any other statements
concerning me are absolutely false.
AGNES YOUNG"
She said she never knew a man Of the
name of Charles Meyers. According to
Meyers was with Mrs Young when Mrs.
Hull saw her In the Pennsylvania depot
in Jersey City on Christmas day.
VIII Confront Mrs. Hull.
AS soon as Judge Branigan of Harrison
heard that Mrs. Young was at the Madi-
son avenue Office he called her up on the
telephone. Mrs. Young repeated to him
her statement that she must be the wom-
an whom Mrs. Hull had In mind. Judge
Branigan said he would like to have Mrs.
Young go to Harrison to sepeat her denial
In the presence of Mrs. Hull. who was de-
tanned by the police after she told her
queer yarn.
After talking with Mrs. Young over the
telephone Judge Branig,n said:
II am convinced that The Mrs. Young
with whom l talked is the same woman
whom this romancing youngster men-
toned l asked her about the Ansonia,
and she answered all the questions readily
and correctly. She tells me that she
knows Mrs. Hull, but has not seen her
for two years. I asked her to come to
Harrison to confront Mrs. Hull, but she
said that she did not feel equal to it just
now"
Foolish, Romantic Girl.
When inquiry was made at the real es-
tate office Mrs. Young, it was said. had
gone to her home. It was said that she
was much distressed over the story told
by Mrs. Hull and that she would take
a few days rest
No person in the office would discuss the
case. All declared that for them the
statement of Mrs. Young was sufilcient.
Mrs. F. w. Lange Of West 102d street,
the address given by Mrs. Hull when she
went to Harrison yesterday, was in
dignant today when she read the story.
She said that Mrs. Hull had lived there
about two years ago. at the time of her
marriage, but that she had not seen her
in long while. She said that Mrs. Hull,
who is only seventeen years Of age, was
romancing girl, given to the reading OF
trashy novels and fond of having herself
talked, about. At IS West 104th street.
where Mrs. Hull had room with a. Mrs.
Dewes, 1t was also said that the girl
spent much of her time reading books
that would tend to give her romantic
ideas.
Mrs Catherine Hunter of sos L street
northwest, Washington, who at first feared
the dead woman was her sister. was ad-
vised to the contrary today by telegraph
Her sister has been Ill in a hospital in
New York city.