New-York tribune., 1908-01-01
MURDER CLEW Willis.
MRS. AGNES YOUNG ALIVE.
Mystery of Jersey Sacamp Tragedy
Decpens-PoLicc on Neac Trail.

The nystery as to the Identity Of the woman
whose body found in a swamp at Harrison.
N. J.. Thursday last, and who. it was supposed
Monday was Mrs Agnes Young. Of this city.
was deepened yesterday by the discovery that Mrs
Young is alive. She is employed a stenographer
and typewriter in q Madison real estate
ONCE, and not aware that her name
nected with the until she read the morning
papers on her way to work yesterday. She con-
suited her employer. and word the
New Jersey authorities that there had been mis-
take.
Mrs. Young was indignant that her name had
been dragged into the tragedy. and said that she
could not understand how II vas that Mrs. Hattie
Hull could have made such q mistake Sd =
Il Mrs. YouHg's body.
The only things right in the whole story said
Mrs. Young. who does not look bit like the dead
woman. ARE that ] know Mrs. Hull, and at
time assistant accountant at the Hotel An
sonia / met Ms. Hull there. but have seen
her for more than two years never had a
quarrel with her. and know OF no reason why she
should make such a statement. l most certainly
did not go Jersey City with Mrs Hull on Christ
mas Day, but. on the contrary. spent the day at
my home As for the statement that told Mrs.
Hull that was my way to meet Charles Meyer.
@ piano tuner. that is too absurd for words.
never heard OF such a man
She ended her denial OF the whole story told by
Mrs. Hull. by making public the following signed
statement:
Il was assistant accountant at the Hotel An
but have her for the last two years. ANY
other statements concerning false
Mrs Young. who was much upset by the noto-
riety into which she had been brought, greatly
excited and almost i'll from worry. and said that
she would take few days rest TO recover frcm
tho shock.
After Mrs Young had communicated with the
Jersey City Police Headquarters, Mrs. Hull was
brought from the Continental Hotel, Newark
where she is living. before Magistrate Branegan.
The body OF the murdered woman dressed in
The clothes found the shore. and IT was planned
20 confront Mrs. Hull with the body thus clothed.
Mrs. Hull was cross-examined by detectives in
room in the Harrison Police Court. but she in
sisted upon her story that the woman was Mrs.
Agnes Young She was then told that Mrs. Young
had been found alive in New York and that the
body OF the murdered was 10 be buried in
in Potter's Field. Mrs. Hull then broke down and
said:
The woman is my sfster. Minnie Jeanette Gas
ton. She had a lover named Myers. gave Mrs.
Young's 10 my sister who was way
Don't bury her. but ship the body to
daddy; he has plot in St Elmos Cemetery.
Forest Hill. Tenn. and he'll bury her decently.''
The woman made several conflicting statements
and the police decided that she knew nothing
about the dead woman. They escorted her out OF
the state and far from the solution of the
swamp mystery
Alfred Thompson and Frederick Kirkland. who
arrested the morning that the body was
found. were sent to the Hudson County jan yes
from Belper. Derbyshire. England. signed Rachel
R. the same the two letters found Thomp-
SON. received. saying that Thompson al
Belper -ears ago. but eft there with his wife
and children Thompson asked explain
why he told the police he single man. when
he had a wife and children alive.
He told Sergeant Walsh a long story OF marital
unrest. and ended ny saying that his wife and
their FIVE children were living in Dennison.
New Zealand. He said that he was forced to
leave his wife because she drank.
Several whO had insurance policies on
friends relatives whom they had heard from
IN some time viewed the body in Walsh's Morgue
in Harrison. yesterday. he p lice had the body
fixed up nearly lifeike possible. and an
official photograph and description Will he sent
broadcast. in the hope that IL may be identified
Detectives from Harrison we're securing Camden
y. j. in search OF man who they think
connected with the murder. The and his
supposed accumpllce ar said 10 be in Camden. and
the authorities expect To make al least arrest
within tWenty-four hours
The police learned from PIattsburg. y. Y. last
aisht that G. H. Myers. whom Mrs Hull i1pli-
Gated. left there December 20 visit his rela-
tives in RoseyiIie. y J. His friends in Pllttsburg
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