The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-01-03

YOUNG la AFfH& InfDNNshe ~lstEF >
Name ia Scandal.
Newark. y }. December 3l.-The
identity of the oma whose ead
body was found in Harrison, -. J.,
last Thursday remains a mystery
The story told by Mrs. Hattie Hull
that the dead N was her friend,
Mrs. Agnes Young. vas exploded to-
day when Mrs. Young was found a
live and we'll in New York City.
She is employed as an accountant in
a real estate office in New York and
declared emphatically that she had
not been in New Jersey on Christmas
day and that she did not know any
one named Charles Myers for whom
the police we're searching as a re
suit OF Mrs. HulI's statements. Mrs.
Young obtained first knowledge of
the fact hal her name had been con-
nected with the murder mystery
from this mornings newspapers
while on her way to the office where
she is employed. She expressed in
dignation hat her name had been
drawn into the affair by Mrs. Hull.
Mrs. Hull told the police that she
parted from Mrs. Young on Christ
mas day and tina; M-s. Young was
about to start 70 Harrison in com
pany with Myers.
Mrs. Young declared that while
she knew Mrs. Hull she had not seen
her for to years.
Il am - q loss to nnirrs'0nd. -
she said. .-',hv my name has N any
WY been ~'o.recte6 Wit, TIC "der
mvs+ar- .nn-" 80 F'' '.'t she
must be 3ewcDted TO tell such a
story about RE 70 the police. | have
never been in Harrison in my life,
so certainly could not have been
where the tragedy occurred. Mrs.
Hull's statement that | accompanied
her and 2 man named Charles Ny
ers to Jersey City is absolutely false.
| do not even know & Charles My
erS."
After consultation with her m
Dloyer. Mrs. Young gave ont the fol
lowing statement:
Il was assistant accountant at the
hotel AnsOnia, and I knew Mrs. Hull
and hefriendei Der. but have not
seen her for the last two years. Any
other statements concerning me are
absolutely false.
(Signed) Agnes Young"
A police magistrate who has
charge of the case urged Mrs. Young
by telephone to come to Harrison
and confront Mrs. Hull and see
whether she could identify the body
of the murdered woman, but Mrs.
Young declared that she did not
want to be involved in the case fur
Their.
Mrs. Hull was again questioned
before she was informed that Mrs.
Young was alive and h repeated
her assertion hat the body was that
of Mrs. Young.
When Mrs. Hull was told that
Mrs. Young had been found alive
she declared that the murdered wo-
man was her own half sister, Minnie
jeanette CASTOR, daughter Of R. B..
CASTOR, Of Sevierville, Tenn. She
said that Miss CASTOR was formerly
a member of the chorus Texas Steer
Company" and had been living late
ly at 1892 Amsterdam avenue New
York City. Mrs. Hull declared hat
Charles Myers brought her sister to
New York from the south and hat
she accompanied the latter to a meet
ing with Myers on Christmas day,
when Miss CASTOR was to go to Har-
rison with Myers. Mrs. Hull said
she identified the body as that of
Mrs. Young in order to avoid involv-
ing Miss GastOn's name in a scandal.
She asked that the body be SEN to
Mr.. CASTOR at S%eirville, Tenn.
The magistrate lectured Mrs. Hull
for her deception and ordered a de-
tective to escort her out of New
Jersey.