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Show ON TRIAL Jury Secured in , New York City New York, Feb. 6. The twelfth juror was secured today in the trial of William Hooper Young, charged with the murder of .vlrs. Anna Pulitzer last Sep- tember, and Assistant District Attorney Clark began his pre-isentation pre-isentation of the case An alien-; : ist employed by the defense sat near Young and prepared evi-: evi-: dence which he is to give later on. In his address Mr. Clark jsaid: , j "We dont care what his namej is, or that he is the - grandson S of Brighaui Young. We don't! care whether he is a Mormon or j not. The religious question has nothing to- do with the case:'' Counsel outlined the stoiy of the disappearance cf Mrs. Pulitzer Pulitz-er and of the finding of the body j of the woman in the Morris canal, ca-nal, of its identification by her husbarui and the evidence upon; which; they expect to convict Young. ' , Young; looked, better today;, but took no interest in the proceedings. pro-ceedings. "Most of the time ' he-sat he-sat with bis head resting on . a table and with his - eyes closed.. The trunk found in Chicago; which contained some of the-clothing the-clothing worn by Mrs. Pulitzer' at the time of her disappearance-Was, disappearance-Was, brought into the court today.. At the conclusion of Mr.. Clark's address the taking -of testimony was begun. , . Daniel F.Powell,, who found the body of Mrs.' Pulitzer, related relat-ed the incidents and described, the locality. Other witnesses told of the finding and disposal of the body and identified the weight : aasd strap which had been attached to it. - Mr. Nielson, the 35-yeau-oid brother of the murdered woman, identified a shirt waist alleged to have bfen found in the trunk. James R Lynch a policeman, testified that he saw a man, assisted as-sisted by the bell , boy . of the house, carry a trunk from the Clarence apartment house and load it in a buggy at ahomt 9:30 o'clock on the evening of Sept. 17. The trunk looked like the one in court. James J. Monroe, a youthful employee of the livery stable where the buggy was hired, identified Young as the man who hired it at about 6 p.m. on Sept. 17. When the assistant district dis-trict attorney told Young to hold j up his head that the witness 'j might see him, Young took noi notice of thev command and it I was necessary for his lawyers j to take him forcibly by the chin I and lift his head from the table, j There was no cross-examina-' : tion and then Moore was dis-. 1 missed. |