Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-21
WHERE PEARL BRYAN MET HER FATE
The Negro Who Drove the Surrey Leads
the olice to the Scene.

The Negro Who Drove the surrey Leads
the olice to the Scene.
Cincinnati, Feb. 16.-The excitement
in this city and vicinity over the atroc-
ious murder of Pearl Bryan has been
intensified by the astounding develop
ments made last night. People had
time for reading the papers today.
The feeling tonight is one of the silent
but ready sort that portends latent dan
ger. No outbreak is anticipated. and
a successful one here would be out of
the question with the present efficiency
of the police and the military.
While the feeling is of the explosive
sort, the external restraint is sufficient
to prevent an explosion. Every other
man one meets expresses the opinion
that short work should be made of these
men. The thinking and strictly law
abiding element in Covington and New
port have confidence in the courts and
believe in depending on the courts to
mete out justice to the prisoners. 1t is
now probable that they will be taken
to the Covington Jail. which is very
strongly guarded and well situated to
resist a siege.
The detectives have clue to the sur
rey that was employed to carry the
human tigers and their victim to the
scene of the slaughter They think they
have found the surrey on Walnut hin
and they are trying to identify it. Cir
cumstances that give weight to the tes-
timony of George Jackson, the negro
who drove the surrey to Fort Thomas,
are the high name he bears among all
his employers.
Major Widdekind of McGregor ave-
nue., Mount Auburn, the negro's pres
ent employer, says: George II. Jack
son is highly intelligent, very reticent.
has no bad habits. is competent, trust
worthy and efficient as an employe. and
is an active member of Zion colored
Baptist church.
procession of carriages containing
policemen and reporters started out at
l o'clock to Fort Thomas last night
George II. Jackson drove the leading
carriage. The procession struck the
murderer's route at Vine and Third
streets, and, with George II. Jackson
for guide, followed 1t to the bloody
ground. A halt was made at the New
port bridge toll booth to seek another
link In the awful chain that binds these
men to the guilt of Pearl Bryan's MUIR
der. Toll Collector Tarvin said he re-
membered the surrey driven by col
ored man passing over the bridge about
l o'clock on the morning of February
l. 1t contained a man and woman and
there was a white man with the negro
driver on the seat
The procession was led by George
Jackson by a long circuitous route into
the Alexandria pike near Fort Thomas
After driving short distance, Jackson
stopped just where a blind lane set
out from the road and stopped.
Here" said he, lis where they took
the lady, telling me to turn the car
riage around and wait"
Where he stopped in the darkness last
night was about 200 yards from the spot
where Pearl Bryan was found dead on
the morning of February l. When the
negro described the strange noise and
the sounds of scufile in the leaves and
bushes, along with his own sudden
fright and flight, the by-standers shud-
dered and almost imagined they could
hear the rustic of the leaves in the
struggle of Pearl Bryan for her life.