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Show HOOPER YOUNO CAPTURED ! Itepnrted to lime Made Confenslon HegardlnK Killing of Mm. l-nlltzer. William Hooper Young, for whom the police of New York have been searching In connection with the murder mur-der of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, has been found, and Is also said to have made a confession regarding the killing of Mrs. rulllztr. In the gulze of a tramp he had been wandering about the country for several sev-eral days, and was orrestcd Monday evening by tin- Derby, Conn., police on suspicion. Although bis description corresponded closely with that sent out by the New York ofllcers, the prisoner pris-oner at first stoutly denied any connection connec-tion with the murder, and even when lie waft confronted with a man who was formerly a fellow workman, lie still denied his Identity. Hut upon the arrival of a man with whom he wus Intimately acquainted, the prisoner prison-er acknowledged that lie Is William Hooper Young. He consented to go back to New York without tho formality formal-ity of requisition papers. During the Interview with the officers offi-cers which followed Young's admission of his Identity, lie Is said to have made a confession regarding the crime. The exact nature of this confession was not made public, it was said thai Youug had spoken of an accomplice, but one of the oIlleei'H when questioned about this lcplled: "If you say simply that a confession has been made, you tell tho whole stoiy." |