During his travels, he lived in Seattle; San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Hoboken, New Jersey.

Young drifted away from the LDS Church and according to his relatives in Utah Territory, had become a morphine addict.

It was determined that Pulitzer had died of a drug overdose from chloral poisoning and that the head bruising and abdomen stabbing occurred after her death.

Hooper Young was arrested in Derby, Connecticut, where he was found drunk and dressed like a hobo.

His trial commenced, but on February 10, Young told the court that he was willing to plead guilty to second degree murder.

The judge accepted the plea and sentenced him to hard labor in state prison for the duration of his natural life.

Because a full trial was not completed, Young's motive or the truth behind his claims about another man being involved were never fully examined in court.

Description: white, 5' 8 3/4", slender build, florid complexion, brown eyes, grey hair-balding.

Age at death: 68[citation needed] In Brian Evenson's 2006 novel, The Open Curtain, the protagonist is a disaffected Mormon teenager who obsessively researches Young's involvement in Pulitzer's murder.