The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-12
NO PROGRESS MADE.
Much Concerning the Murder Still n
Mystery-Head Not FOund.

CINCINNATI, o., Feb. l.-Not a step OF
progress made to-day toward the solu-
ton OF the Ft. Thomas Pearl Bryan trag-
edy. No end of steps was taken An search
of the missing links in the chain of events.
1t has been clearly established that Pearl
Bryan confidingly put herself into the
hands of her betrayer, Scott Jackson, on
Monday night, Jan. q, trusting him to
save her and her family from modification
and shame. 1t was case of the fly going
to the spider for deliverance. Where the
too credulous girl stayed on Monday night
and Tuesday night, Jan. q and 2s, is known
beyond doubt Where she spent wednes-
day and Thursday nights, fJan. % and 80,
have remained missing Inks up to the
present writing. On Thursday forenoon and
Friday night she was seen. Her where
abouts from Wednesday morning. when she
left the Indiana House, up TO Saturday
morning. Feb. 1. when her unknown head
less body found. remains a mystery.
The story of Miss Hollingsworth seeing her
in indianapolis Jan. IS is exploded by
the established fact hat she was here
both the 9th and 2Sth Two careful post
mortans absolutely exclude abortion. ac-
tual or attempted, aS well as death by
poisoning. The universal belief here is that
knife cuts in the poor girls hand. made
while she was struggling for life with her
murderers, and the pool of blood where
she lay. set at rest the theory that she was
first killed by anaesthetics and then taken
out and beheaded.
The story in an evening paper that two
colored girls saw three men Saturday morn
ing about 1 o'clock under the Newport
bridge has been probed by the police and
found worthless. Meantime a Kentucky
woman going home in her carriage late Fri
day night heard woman'S screams fol-
lowed by silence, near Fort Thomas. Men
seeing vehicle passing at an unusually late
hour Friday night driven at great speed.
Detectives are working these clews: Mr.. Ir-
jail to-day and identified the prisoners as
the two men he saw higgling with a negro
about the price OF some service on the
morning after the murder. An effort will
be made tomorrow to secure the negro and
have him. identified. thus making him either
witness or third party in the crime.
Coroner Tingley, of Campbell county,
to determine the manner in which Pearl
Bryan met her death Sheriff Plummer tes-
tined that he had secured ample proof OF
| the same evidence woIld show that her deatf
| ensued from the cutting of her throat Dr.
Hey. a surgeon at Fort Thomas. testified
found where the body lay and that a per-
son of Pearl Bryan's description shoult
have lost five quarts. His opinion was that
before the body was deposited where found
RESULT OF EXAMINATIONS
| The official report OF Dr. Robert Caroth-
| ers on the two post mortems held on the
| headless body has been made public DIT
| Corothers says:
by order of Or. w. S. Tingley. coroner
] Of Campbell county. Kentucky, an autopsy
| OF the body of Pearl Bryan was made Feb
by DR.. Robert Carothers, in the presence
of Drs. ]. A. jenkins, y. w. Fishback, c
J. and John Phythian, resulting in the fol.
| lowing observations:
''The body of a decapitated woman with.
out rigor mortis. post-mortem discolora.
| tions or bruises or cuts, except an inciseC
| wound on the palmer surface Of the index
middle and ring fingers Of left hand. clear
| cut to the bone; small wart on the outel
| surface CT the left thumb. and the second
| and third toes of both feet slightly webbed
The instrument with which the head wa.
| severed from the body made a clean an,
| smooth cut of tnree-fourths of the neck, the
| remainder. "A little ragged, passed in th'
inner space between the yertobrae, and th'
| thyroid and the cricoid cartilageS were tax
| en- with the head.
The abdomen was opened and the stom
| ach carefully lgated above and below
and removed and sent to DIR. w. II. Crane
chemist, for analysis. The uterus, beinl
found enlar I'D. was opened by incisioi
| i'm the anterior wall and found 70 contain
male foetus OF four and one-hal
| months CESSATION. The uterus. witt
| foetus was removed and the membrane
were not previously impaired. The o.
that OF first pregnancy. There was NJ
| evidence of inquiry TO some. nor was ther
| evidence of an instrument FOR producing
| an abortion having passed through H.
Second autopsy was held by and In tn
| presence of the physicians named above
The heart was found healthy. and boil
| ventricles empty. The walls OF the righ
| ventricle contained a little ooz!ng blood
The walls of the left none. The othe
organs were examined and found health,
and thoroughly drained of their norma
blood The bladder was empty. The bloo-
vessels where they could be- readi
| reached, were found 10 be empty, excep
a small clot in the pulmonary artery. wher
IL energes from the heart. The body wa
carefully examined for hypodern1lc needl
punctures, and none were found.
No Reward for Pearl Brynn's Head.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE Ind. Feb. 1.-THE Coun
~ Commissioners met to-day. but they thin
they have no authority 10 offer a rewar
for the finding of Pearl Bryans head. .
request was made that they appropriat
$780, but they will probably not see 1t tina
| way.
The Hollingsworth story Is not credite
here to any great extent. The genera
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