Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-21
THE BRYAN MURDER.
THE MYSTERY IN WHICH PUlLEY'S
PISTOL IS INVOLVED.
Alumni Meeting, Teachers Institute. and
tho State Medical society--Candi-
dates to lie Examined.
rspecl.l toleeram 20 the pIspa,ch.

RALEIGH n. c., May 20.-The interest
has been very great here in the investiga-
tion by the cCroner's jury of the shooting
OF Leinuei Bryan, 20 which reference was
made yesterday IL Will be remembered
that Robert Pulley. the man who was with
Bryan when the latter was killed, swore
that the shot was fred by some one near
by. But no tracks of footprints can be
found IN the direction whence the bullet
IS said to have gone on its fatal errand.
This created n belief on the part of some
people that Pulley himself had done the
shooting. This belief was increased 10y
the fact that the bullet taken from Bryan's
body fitted a pistol which Pulley owned.
Yet here again there was puzzling cir
cumstance. While it appeared that one
chamber Of the pistol had been fired. yet
the barrel was rusted, and evidently no
bullet had been fred through it. Some of
the experts SAID the cylinder might have
been transferred TO another frame. 1t is
sad that there are no hsh-traps on the
river IN half a mile of the place where
Bryan was killed.
PUILEY's PISTOL.
One witness stated that the landowners
Mt the place on the Neuse river where
Bryan was killed had the land posted, and
that n. G. Whitfield, one of these owners,
had warned Bryan and others not 10 fish
there, saying it was his property and he in-
tended to protect and manage it. Bryan
that night. it was in evidence, did not in
tend TO fish on this posted land. A wit
ness named Marlborough said that he was
sent yesterday by the State Solicitor TO the
house Of Robert Pulley, and that when
he arrived there he found that Whitfield,
one OF the owners Of the land, who heard
hlm ordered to go after the pistol, had
already been there and procured the pistol,
telling Mrs. Pulley that he did 80 by the
direction of the Sheriff. Solicitor Argo
thinks be can secure some important wit
nesses. and thus throw some more light on
what Is now very remarkable crime. In
vestigatIon will be resumed next Friday.
The Sheriff has gone after the revolver of
Isaac Williams, the man who guarded the
river there.
UNIVERSITY ALUMNI.
The alumni Of the State University resi-
dent in this county met last night and
elected officers for the ensuing year. DR..
+. Burke Haywood is president. A. b. Stro-
mach secretary, and W. K. Tucker trea-
surer. There are nearly n hundred alumni
who are residents Of Wake and in a few
days there viii he reinlon and banquet
here. There will be large representation
Of the Wake alumni at Chapel Hill ut the
grand reiiniOn June 9TH.
The new assistant professor of agricul-
ture has arrived here from the New York
Agricultural College at Geneva. and has as
sumed his duties at the college, near this
city.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the meeting Of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly of Morehead City.
DR.. George Gillett Thomas, OF Whining
ton. will preside Mt the meeting of the
State Medical Society at Oxford. May
9th -29th. DR.. William Il. Wood, who is
superintendent Of the insane asylum here.
ia also president of the Board of Medical
Examiners which viii meet at the same
time. Quite number of candidates will
be examined by the board.