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| William Hooper Young. |
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| Mrs. Anna Pulitzer. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, February 9, 1903.
PLEADED GUILTY.
Sentenced to Prison for the Rest of His Life
FOR MURDER OF MRS. PULITZER.
This Plea a Bomb Shell in the Court Room—Jury Witnesses and Court all Surprised—Lesser Degree Accepted—Story of the Crime.
New York, Feb. 9.—The trial of William Hooper Young, charged with the killing of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer in September last, was brought to a sudden termination this morning when the prisoner pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree. The plea was accepted by Justice Herrick, who immediately sentenced the prisoner to life imprisonment in Sing Sing prison. Young will be immediately removed to Sing Sing.
The entering of the plea came like a bombshell this morning when court opened. Lawyer Hart asked for a conference with Justice Herrick and District Attorney Jerome and his assistants Clark & Stedman. Hart said that his client was ready to submit a plea of homicide in a lesser degree than that of murder in the first degree. District Attorney Jerome insisted that if a plea was entered it should be murder in the second degree. Hart said that he would like to consult his client before proceeding further and he retired lo the jury room, where the prisoner was confined during the conference. Counsel for the defense soon returned and informed the court that his client would enter a plea of murder in the second degree.
Young was brought into court, pale and haggard, and entering his plea, Justice Herrick sentenced him to life imprisonment in the prison at Sing Sing. The proceedings came as a complete surprise to the jury who were excused, and to the witnesses and spectators. It is believed that Mrs. M. L. Willard of Loomis, Washington, the mother of the prisoner, was responsible for the sudden end of the trial and the entering of the plea which will incarcerate her son for life unless he is released by executive clemency. Mrs. Willard came from the West on Saturday and called at once on her son. It was the first time she had seen him for a long time.
Story of the Crime.
Young pleaded guilty to one of the bloodiest and most brutal crimes ever perpetrated in this city. Last September he lured Mrs. Pulitzer, with whom he was in love, to his flat. Here he struck her with some blunt instrument and with fiendish purpose slashed her with a knife. From the appearance of the wounds inflicted the police believe the murder to have been committed by a pervert. Young jammed the body of the woman into a trunk and carrying it down stairs piled it into a carriage waiting at the door. Then followed a wild ride down Broadway, the swaying carriage with its ghastly load attracting the attention of many pedestrians. He took a ferryboat to Jersey City and drove to the Morris canal, into which he dumped the body. The remains were found later and everything pointed to Young as the murderer. When his apartments were examined the mystery was cleared, as every evidence of the bloody attack was visible. Young had in the meantime disappeared, but was later apprehended in Derby, Conn., where he was recognized by his pictures printed in the newspapers. His physical condition of late has been that of a man completely overcome by remorse and nervousness over his crime. His thin emaciated body and unkempt appearance gave every indication of a man suffering from insanity. Experts examined him and pronounced that he was shamming.
Young's grandfather was Brigham Young, the Mormon elder and leader.
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| Queen Lili'ouklani of Hawaii. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Claim of Ex-Queen Lil.
The senate committee on Pacific islands and Poto Rico appears to have a "soft heart" for Mrs. Dominis, former queen of Hawaii, whose claim for payment for what is termed crown lands has been long and persistently pressed before congress. While acknowledging that the former queen has no personal interest in the lands in question, the senate committee practically proposes to give her $432,378 as rental for the lands up to September, 1902.
Everything considered, Queen Lil, who once wanted to cut off the beads of American missionaries, was pretty handsomely treated when the Hawaiians annexed themselves to this country and got rid of her irksome and disagreeable rule, and as it seems to be generally conceded that she never had any personal interest in the so called crown lands the generosity of the senate committee is somewhat difficult to understand. lf she is entitled to the rental of the lands now, she will be entitled to such rental the-remainder of her life.
There is no apparent authority for such charity as the senate committee proposes and no need of it if such authority did exist. It would not alter the case if the money were collected from the people of Hawaii, as has been suggested.
SIDNEY NOYELTY CO.
To Remain in that Town—Sidney Raises Some Money.
The Sidney Novelty Co. has decided not to move from that town. The citizens of that place becoming alarmed at the prospect of the depreciation of in the value of real estate if its greatest industry departed held a meeting and raised $2,000 to help the company rebuild its burned warehouses. The decision was then made to remain there. This sure falls far short of the $15,000 asked for a removal to Cortland, but the entire expense of moving and of erecting new buildings is obviated and as a result the two propositions are not so different after all. Cortland will be sorry to lose this opportunity to secure a desirable industry, but there are others.
THE TYPHOID AT ITHACA, N. Y.
Belief that the Crisis is Past Though Caution is Urged.
It is believed that the crisis is past in the typhoid fever epidemic at Ithaca for owing to the precautions taken the number of new cases each day is growing less. The health department is, however, urging extreme caution, and warns against the use of water not previously boiled for any purposes whatever. Among the things mentioned are washing vegetables in unboiled water, brushing teeth in unboiled water, drinking anything in a glass that has been rinsed in unboiled water and especially for children to put their hands into unboiled water and then put their lingers in their mouths.
No church bells were rung in Ithaca for the first Sunday in the history of the place, but it is the plan to keep the city as quiet as possible in every respect till the illness abates.
THE BAND FAIR
Closes Tonight—Admission Free—Grand Auction Sale of Goods.
The entertainment at the [Cortland] band fair last Saturday night was a fitting close of a week of more than usual enjoyment in the line of minstrel and vaudeville performances. Barney and Lower, in the musical comedy, pleased the large audience by their excellent and original work. Their act was opened by a fine clarinet solo by Mr. Lower. Mr. Barney then entered, trimmed in black, and after a few jokes between the two, they gave an exhibition of bell music, using twenty-four strings of bells. They then put on their double saxophone and clarinet numbers, in which two parts are played and each player fingers the instrument that the other blows. A flute duet was given, and the act was completed by a straight saxophone and clarinet duet, ''Brook's Chicago Marine Band March,'' being the number.
These two gentlemen have been very successful in giving original musical selections, and Mr. Lower is in Syracuse today getting new musical instruments that have been made to his special order with which to put on original musical acts.
Another very enjoyable part of the program was an original sketch, arranged by Mr. F. W. Lanigan, entitled "Fun on the Levee." This was put on by Messrs. Johnson, Wallace, Northrup and Gerrard and was particularly pleasing.
The fair will be concluded this evening by an auction of all goods on hand. The diamond ring contest will be awarded and the $50 in gold will be given away. There will be no admission fee this evening.
Present School to City.
The trustees of the Barlow School of Industrial Arts in Binghamton find that the income of the school does not now reach its expenses and they have offered the school to the city as a public school.
SCIENCE CLUB MEETING.
"Science Notes Awheel"—A Paper by Mr. J. W. Orr.
The Science club listened with interest to a paper on the subject, ''Science Notes Awheel," by Mr. J. W. Orr last Saturday evening. It was the narrative of observations made on a bicycle trip in the southern part of Onondaga county, prefaced by a description of the geological features of the locality. Mr. Orr told of the salt wells of the Solvay Process Co., located near Tully. Water is brought through pipes to where some scores of wells are drilled 1,200 or 1,400 feet deep down to the rock salt. The water drops down through 3-inch tubes till it reaches the salt beds, becomes impregnated with salt, and is forced again through larger tubes to the surface and through pipes to the Solvay works nearly 20 miles away. He also spoke of the Onondaga Indian reservation, of Indian customs and legends, and of wampum. Mr. Orr desires to express his thanks for information on the subjects given by Rev. H. M. Beauchamp of Syracuse. Various interesting specimens were picked up in the neighborhood of Green lake, near Jamesville, among them a walking fern and the exceedingly rare variety of fern called scolopendrium vulgare, or hearts tongue. It is worthy of note that this locality ranks second in the state in regard to the number of varieties of fern that are to be found.
The paper was useful in that it brought to the attention the number of unsuspected opportunities that exist in our immediate neighborhood, of gaining valuable information and of coming into contact with nature in a fresh and interesting way. The paper was also enlivened by frequent touches of dry humor, which are not thrown away on the Science club, detractors of the contrary, notwithstanding.
BREVITIES.
— Meeting of the Lodge of Perfection this evening at 8 o'clock. The King's Daughters will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—A regular meeting of the A. O. U. W. will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Homer-ave. Junior business meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 p. m.
—A regular meeting of the Royal Arcanum Council will be held Tuesday Evening, Feb. 10, at G. A. R. hall at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Presbyterian church of McGraw has extended a call to Rev. Andrew M. Brown of New Hamburg, N. Y., to become its pastor.
—New display advertisements today are M. A. Case, Bargains in drygoods, page 5; Perkins & Quick, Outfits for wood and leather burning, page 8; Warren, Tanner & Co., Remnant sale, page 8.
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