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his property. He had put them in a buggy which he ented on Wednesday egening. [HE BUGGY RENTED BY EVANS. ' The buggy rented by Evans corresponds with the de- fiption of the vehicle which Bridge Tender Joseph John- "son saw drive across Hackensack Bridge between 11 and 12 oe ‘jock on Wednesday night in the direction of the spot here the body was found. Police Inspector Archibald, of Jersey City, brought the weight to Hoboken to-day, and Liveryman Evans promptly identified it as his f y: ‘ “1 couldn’t be mistaken,” he said. “Wednesday afternoon about 6,90 o'clock a young man came into my place. He was in a great hurry _ and explained that he wanted a rig to take his sister over to the Grand _ Central Station. He paid $2 and said he would be back at 8.30 o'clock. DESCRIPTION OF THE MAN. _»*He was about thirty years old, five feet seven inches in height, weighed about 130 pounds, was rather well dressed, had a swarthy com- plexion, a hooked nose, and, I believe, a small dark mustache. 1 wouldn’t swear to the mustache. “] gave him an old-style top buggy with a box that projected two féet inthe rear of the seat, as he said he wanted to carry a rather large ‘valis:, Before he drove out he asked m2 for a weight, and I gave him the one the police say was tied about the woman’s body. My helper, Frank Englehardt, is also sure it is our weight. . *When the man did not bring the buggy back Wednesday night | | reported my loss to Chief of Police Donovan at 5 o'clock Thursday | morning, but the young fellow brought the rig back about 8 o'clock. He) $ was very nervous. “He said he had kept it ina New York livery stable in Fifty-ninth over night, but the horse and rig were covered with mud. The, was all out. 1 demanded more money. He said he had none, but would go out and get me $2. Then he darted out of the door. CAN'T MISTAKE THE BUGGY, “1 think the description of the rig which Bridge Tender Johnson saw driving over Hackensack Bridge at 11 o'clock Tuesday night fits the Buggy | hired out. It isan old-timer, and not many like it are in use. “There ‘was room at the back to strap on a trunk. i “The man did not give his name, but said he was connected with “the Crusader, a weekly paper published in New York,” A significant fact was mentioned by Evans, and that was that the ‘yan wore different suits of clothes on his two visits to the stable. On “his first visit, when he hired the rig, he wore a light suit. When he came with the rig he was dressed in a black suit. An attempt had been le, Evans says, to clean the horse and wagon, both buggy and horse as if they had been freshened up after a journey. “PULITZER DID NOT HIRE THE BUGGY. Pulitzer was not the man who hired the buggy in Hoboken. Charles . Evans, who let out the rig, failed to identity Pulitzer at Police Head- arters this afternoon. Evans came over from Hoboken and was shown a line of seven men in Capt. Titus's office. Pulitzer was one of the men. Evans, after a ing at the line, said that none of the men resembled the man who . eine buggy. _¥~ ‘*Go past them and look carefully at every man,” said Capt. Titus. Evans passed down the line, examining each man carefully. Then she repeated his assertion that there was no one in the line resembling the ‘man who got the rig. _ “Does this man look anything like him?” asked Capt. Titus, pomt- “ing out Pulitzer. ~ “Not in thé least,” replied Evans, ‘The man had a rather repulsive “face and was extremely swarthy. His eyes were so much | ghter than his skin that he had a rather queer expression.” The Detective Department has been notitied by Coroner's Physician werse, of Hudson County, that the woman had been dead for two MISS BOWMAN’S STORY OF THE WOMAN'S VISITOR, - Edith Bowman, an actress, of the “Mrs, Jack" company, who 4s living * temporarily with her mother at No. 160 West Forty-sixth street, where the Murdered woman had rooms, throws some light on the mysterious visitor of Tuesday ‘afternoon. She ass that the visitor was a swarthy man, with a hooked nose. He LICE ARE SEARCHING FOR MAN PULITZER, WHO HAS BEEN FREED FROM SUSPICION, | ment at No, 11 University place. 1 am a Hebrew and thirty years old. “Five years ago | met this woman, loved her and took her to live with me, Her name was Anna Neilson. Her father is Erasmus Neilson, of Perth Ambo}. “The Jast 1 saw of her was at 11.20 o'clock Tnesday night. I was a Greater New York Demorracy watcher in the Fourth Election District of the ‘Twenty-seventh Assembly District. I got home tired and sick. My wife met me on the stoop of our rcoming-house, No. 160 West Forty-sixth street She told me she had gone to dinner at Mock’s restaurant and that when she wus leaving 2 man accosted her. She repulsed lim, but he followed her and pulled, out a roll of bills and toid her it was all hers if she would go to his apartment in Fifty-eighth street WENT OUT TO HER DOOM. “We laughed over the thing. Ti better ge out-and get upper. | “Oh. no, cocon and we'll get seme cake and fruit.’ My shoes hurt me—they were new and T was taking them of. She sald: ‘Oh, we've got no cocoa.’ ‘Never mind? said I. ‘T'll ran over to Eighth avenug and get some.’ “L went to the bakery. They were sure that my wife had been there. She bought some cake and started home. It was plain to me that she had intended coming home, because she didn't even wear any corsets when she left. “The next morning | went to the West Side Court. She had once been arrested for being on tho street alone, They knew nothing of her at the court. T looked for her everywhere, going to Roosevelt Hospital, the Morgue and the West Forty-seventh street station. T could not sleep Wednesday night. Thursday I telegraphed ho: rel- atives in Perth Amboy and received word that they knew nothing ci her. She had gone to the bakery and bought rolls, and 1 met a woman who had seen her In front of the New York Theatre at 12.50 o'clock on Tuesday night with a pasket of frutt, “After that all trace of ber seemed to have gone. I went to Police Head- quarters again on Thursday, and was at home in bed prostrated when Mrs. Froming brougut me The Evening World telling of the finding of a mur- dered woman's body in the Hackensack swamps. TI recognized from the de- scription that it was my wife. J telephoned the Morgue, but could learn little, and then went to Jersey City and saw my wife's dead body.” nT said T was hungry and that we'd she sald; ‘I'll make you a cup of —°+e——____ OTHER STORIES ARE IN CONFLICT WITH PULITZER’S. roomed went to Jersey City with Puli y but knew He is what he sald to-day: case he ceclared, wore jewelry and dressed otherwise in bad taste, This man went to the room of Mri. Pulitzer, remaining there about half an hour. When he de- ) parted his good-by was demonstratively affectionate. ‘ When the men had gone Mrs. Pulitzer sent for Mrs. Fleming and in- ‘Siructed’ her that if the stranger called that evening while Pulitzer was 5 Tome he-was to be informed of the fact. Pulitzer’ got home earlier tha ‘Usual ang/the stranger did not call. position is that Mrs, Pulitzer went out to see this man away home in order to warn him not to call at the house, Mis@Bowman's connection with the case is entirely accidental, as she the West Forty-sixth street house only a few dayx when Mrs. 4USBAND’S STORY OF THE EVENTS BEFORE THE CRIME. by iystery of the murder of Anna Neilson and the attempt to conceal ting the body away in a lonely spot in the swampy marshes of the mback Meadows 1s complicated by the conflicting stories told by the With whom she lived. _At Mrs. Fleming's boarding-house she was known as Lillie Kingston mand women acquaintances used that name when they called to Pulitzer says ‘she was an actress and a chance acquaintance, He ay: fond of her and they went to live together. it first he told the police ne had married her, but now he denies this has cast aspersions on her character. He admits she had received at- tion from other men, and on the afternoon of the day she disappeared Man had called to see her. % PROBLEM FOR POLICE. ® was this young man and was he the man who accosted Mrs, ge she left Mock’s restaurant are important points which the I kuew very ltUe about the Kingstons, or Pulltzers, They lived he less than a mouth and I saw them only a few times in that period, ‘The man seemed to be regularly employed by day and kept to his room by night. Yesterday afternoon Miss Mortimer came over here while Pulitzer or ning World with her and she pointed out the story of the finding of the body. Sho asked ue to tell Pulitser about Wingsten asked me to go with him, and by accommodat- ing him 7 drew all this notoriety and police questioning on myself. I know nothing further about thig case except that we all saw “Kingston” sitting on the step waiting for his wife the night she disappeared, He waited there Kingston was out. She had The E it, which we did, tor hours. Mrs. Owenr, who tas a house at No. 209 West Forty-sixth, which she leased Aug, 1, after a Mrs. Gorman had given It up, was the landlady of the )“Kingstons,” as she knew them, until they moved to Mrs. Fleming's, less than one month ago. She said: : “While the "Kingstons’ lived here they were, so far as I saw, a quiet and orderly couple. They had lived here all told about six months, when they moved away ou account of a quarrel over a leaking water pipe. ; ““Myrs, Kingston’ kept to her room all the time, and we saw very little of her. I never knew any man to ask for her here, and I did not hear that she had any mon friends. Sho was a friond of Mrs. Edgar, who had a flat on the same oor with the ‘Kingstons,’” —_——— + BELIEVES THE WOMAN WAS MURDERED IN THIS CITY. furnish the clue to solve the mystery of her murder, He gald: not fer from her home. Hing to clear up. was taken to Police Headquarters at 2 A. M. to-day from Jersey e had Identified the body of the woman in Speer’s Morgue and ent to Chief of Police Murphy and Public Prosecutor Erwin, He. was in ¢harge of Detective-Sergeant Becker, and son-in-law of Mrs. Eva Fleming, at whose we Dene nap ¢ loneliest epot he could York and within @ short time after she loft her husband. “She was an indiscreet woman. Her husband admitted that to me. She y T have no doubt one of her admirers |—very likely the young fellow who ventured to call at her home on Tuesday Jealous rage and then brought her body to the was a Tenderloin girl and a beauty, ‘atternoon-—murdered her ny Pag ’ fm vie nope of averting discovery,” During a lengthy cross-examination Pulitzer made the following state- “I was formerly in the tailoring business in Broadway opposite the Sin- clair House, but am now employed by my brother, G. M. Pulitzer, a tailor Joseph Shields, son-in-law of Mrs. Fleming, with whom the Pulitzers ttle else about the Chief of Police Murphy, of Jersey City, believes thi °° y, at the carrt, weight attached to the body of Mrs. Anna Neilson Pulitzer will agonal: “It Is my belief that the woman was murdered in. New York City and “County Physician Converse says the woman had been dead two days|he when found, which \s conclusive to-my mind that she was murdered in New THE WORLD: ¢RIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19; 1902. ISCHMITTBERGER SAYS SHE WAS KILLED HERE. Police Captain Schmittberger, of the West Forty-seventh street sta- tion, whe has a good record as a detective, said to-day: **1 believe the man who rented the buzgy has a room somewhere in the vicinity of Forty-sixth street. I think the woman Wwas killed in this precinct. “*When she left the house she Wore only a dressing-gown and a skirt and was hatless. She did not go far in that rig. “¢In my opinion her titp for fruit Was a sublerfage. She went out to meet her swarthy friend, having had an engagement with him to call at the house. ; **How the kil’ing came abcut is, of course, a.matter of consec- ture. It looks as though she wanted to go home after entering the room of the swarthy man and a fight resul.ed, in the course of which he murdered her. Then he drove her to the canal.’” Chief Murphy said he was inclined to discredit the statement made to him by Pulitzer and challenged hini In this fashion: Now, tell me the real facts and help us out. You know very well that when a woman goes on the street she doesn't leave her jewelry at home. They are a pirt of her stock in trade and she is pretty sure to wear what- ever she may think will add to her attractiveness,” ; Pulitzer, however, insisted that he had told the truth, and in support of his statements showed the Chief several rings and.a gold watch, which he said his. wife had handed io him before leaving the house, + HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN IS A MAN OF MYSTERY Joseph F. Pulitzer and his affairs have been mysteries in the Tenderloin for several years. Practically all that was known of him was that he was a captain of a precinct in the Twenty-seventh Assembly District for the Greater New York Democracy Hu had two great diamonds on his shirt front and in the saloons and cafes along Broadway, Seventh and Eighth avenues he was known to boast the assertion that he was admired by many women. Among the acquaintances he made in the Tenderloin the question was often asked: “What does he do for a living?” None could answer. To the police Pulitzer has said that he was born in Rivington street and spent his childhood on the lower east side. He sald that while living at his home with his parents at No. £2 Mest One Hundred and Fifth street he be- came acquainted with the Kingston woman and was married to her by Pas- tor Schneider, the “marrying parson” of Second avenue, four years ago. " He said he took her to Philadelphia, where thoy lived on Fifteenth street, near Filbert. Since they came to New York he said they had lived together successively at Nos. 217 West Thirty-eighth street, 212 West Thirty-eighth street, 226 West Thirty-seventh street, 243 West Thirty-eighth street, 209 Wost Forty-sixth street, 205 West Forty-sixth street and 160 West Forty- sixth street. 7+ MURDERED WOMAN WAS BELLE OF PERTH AMBOY. PERTH AMPOY, N. J., Sept. 19.—The mother of Mrs. Anna Neflson Pulitzer knew nothing of her daughter's awful fate until late to-day, when her son Peter broke the news to her. The murdered woman was born and raised here. years old. her fether, Rasmus, ls @ well-to-do retired saloon-keeper. weeks ago he sailed for Denmark to visit his old home. Mrs, Pulitzer was here last when she came with her husband to bid her father good-by, She attracted great attention by her stylish gowns and her display of diamonds. Up tu the time she left here seven years ago she was the belle of Perth Amboy. ler beauty was remarkable. She was tall and blond, and superb- ly formed—a perfect type of Norse beauty. She was twenty-six Five WHO HIRED BUG || CLOTHING IS FOUND NEAR SCENE OF CRIME. While hunting in i ne meadows within . 40 feet of where the body of Mrs, | Pulitzer was found, Fred Rost, of No. | 22) Eldridge street, New York, found a| sult of clothes and a sut of underwear. From carda and receipts found in them the police belleve they belonged to Adam Weiss, of No. 4 Lexington street, ark this number ft was said Wels there, buy had been missing since lant Monday. He was to have married Mirs Boch, the daughter of the keeper of the boarding-house, to-night. The police believe tha: Weiss, was either accidentally murdered or that he com- mitted suicide. ‘They do not connect tt finding of the clothing with the murder of Mrs, Pulltzer, has been | No trace found. of Welss's body _—_-— BOY GIVES POLICE AN ENTIRELY NEW LEAD. Henry Tryber, fourteen years old, wno | lives with his parents in the Holland apurtment , at Nos, 66 and 68 West} Forty-sixth street, has given the detec- tive a new clue in the case of the mur- der of Mrs, Pulltzer, An effort is being made to find a dark man who was intl mate enough with the woman to get! money from her. “Two weeks ago last Thursday,” says young Tryber. “I was coming through Forty-sixth atreet, Near Sixth avenue I met a tall man with dark hair and complexion, He wore dark clothes, rquare cut and a@ black felt hat. On vatch chain hg wore a heavy carved Bold cigar-cutter, He arked me it L:would carry @ note to Mrs, Pulitzer at No, 160 West Forty- sixth street, and I sald I would. He warned me to walt for an answer and to be careful with it because she would send him some mone: “Tr took the er to_the house and gave it to a servant. She took {t upstairs and eame back after a while with a heavy envelope. I carried it to the man who, was walting down near Sixth avenue. “He opened the envelope and took out a roll of bills and a lot of silver. I ex- pected thas he would give me some- thing, but he didn't. He walked up Sixth’ avenue and turned west into Forty-seventh street. That was the last 1 saw of him. The envelope that contained the money he crumpled up and threw Into the gutter at the cor- ner of Forty-sixth street and Sixth ave- nue. 1 cannot, recall the address, if there was one.” —<————— THEORY THAT A NEGRO KILLED THE WOMAN. = Two of the detectives working on the case have a new theory of a startling Tnature. They assert that the crime was committed by a negro. | They base this theory on the alleged fact that the murdertd woman was a 'frequenter of a saloon on west Forty sixth street, a place of resort for ne groes. One ‘of the men about the place they say, attempted to) forced. bimsat upon the woman, she resisted and h kllied her. Everybody connected with the saloon denies that the woman ever entered place. She lived on the Llock for a year and passed the saloon often, but none of the frequenters of the place can recall her. sd BOY’S SKULL FRACTURED. Joneph Archibald Fell from See- ond Story. Joseph Archibald, nine years old, of No. 162 West Sixty-second street, fell this afternoon from the second floor. His skull was fractured. He was re- moved to Roosevelt Hospital. —__— TRIED TO SELL NEWARK BUGGY: IS ARRESTED. laanc Greenberg, of No, 51 Bast Sev enth street, the man who got a horse and bugsy from Mullen’s livery stable, In Wednesday afternoon and dis apne! with it, was found trying t tl the horse at an auction in East ‘Thirteenth street and arrested, His ar rest was brought about by the wide pub Helty given to the Pulitzer murder, nberg was taken to Poilce Headquarters, where he was examined y Capt. Titus. He admitted taking the horse and buggy, but denied all know!- edge of the murder of Mrs. Pulltzer. saying he did not know her and never ‘dof her. She lived In Baat Tenth treet when she firat became a member of the New York half world and was known to many of the young men in the Red Light district. with another young h y nbers, wit rae at the stable, were taken in and to board his ho horse and bugKy cared for, One of the rubber tires had come off the wheel and was found in the bugay: The dashboard Was bent out i some heavy object had bee - tween At and the seat. The bed of the buggy was half full of dried mud. Greenberg did not rat the stable again until just before noon to-day, when he said he would take the horse out for some exercise. A blanket was thrown over the animal and he rode by rhe had gone, Ike proprietor of the ‘stable, a copy of The Evening World to read the atory of the Pulltzer murder. In the story he saw a description of the ta missing from Newark ‘The description tallied in every re~ t with that of the horse and buggy that had been left In the stable by Greenberg. 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