Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — YOUNG DENIES CRIME. [ARTICLE]

YOUNG DENIES CRIME.

Says Mrs. Pulitzer Was Killed by Charles S. Klling. Admitting his connection with the murder of Mrs. Pulitzer in New York, but denying the actual killing, William Hooper Young, fully identified in the person of Bert Edwards, arrested at Derby, Conn., as the man wanted by the Gotham officers, was taken to that city without extradition. It is a remarkable story Young tells, although the police throw doubt upon it. He asserts himself to have been the scapegoat for a friend. Young says he was absent from his fiat in New York when the crime was committed. He says that he and one Charles Simpson Eiling of Bridgeport, Conn., lured the woman to Young’s flat, where Young left them. On hia return Young says that Eiling, who immediately fled, told him he had killed the wom&n by giving her chloral hydrate in a glass of beer. Anxious to save his friend. Young said that he attempted to dismember the body, but that his nerve failed him and he subsequently removed it in a trunk and dumped It Into the Morris canal. No such man aa Eiling is known in Bridgeport. Eiling la the name to which Young nddressed the trunk to Chicago. Young says he expected Eiling to go to Chicago and claim the trunk.