The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-17
THE MURDERERS' WAY
Going Over the Route Where
Pearl Was Beheaded.
JACKSON AGAIN THE DRIVER.
More Convincing Evidence OF the Two
Neighborhood or the Prison.

Cincinnati. Feb. 1.-THE excitement IN
this city and vicinity over the atrocioDs
murder OF Pearl Bryan has been intensified
by the astounding developments made last
night. People Eaa time to read the papers
today. The feeling tonight is Of the sort
that portends latent danger. No outbreak
Is anticipated and the success Of such an
event would be out OF the question with
The present efficiency OF the police and the
military. While the feeling here IS OF the
explosive sort, the external restraint IS
sufficient 70 prevent an explosion. Every
other man one meets expresses the oplni0a
that short work should be made of these
men. The thinking and strictly iaw-ahid-
ing element Of Covington and Newport
have confidence n the courts and believe
IN depending on the courts 10 nete out
justice 10 the prisoners. II IS now proea-
BILE that they VIII be taken 10 the Coving-
ton H1l. which is very strongly guarded
and well situated 10 resist siege.
The detectives have clue 10 the surrey
that was employed TO carry the girl and
her murderers 20 the scene OF the sfaush-
ter. They think they have found the sur
rey on Walnut HIl and they are trying TO
Identify Il. Special circumstances that
give weight TO the testimony Of George VI.
Jackson. the negro who drove the surrey
20 Fort Thomas. are the high name he
bears among all his employers. MIR. Reb-
Tor two years. says: He is the best and
truest alI-round negro l have ever seen"
Maj W!ddekdnd. OF Mount Auburn. the ne
gro's present employer. says: George H
Jackson Is highly Intelligent he has no bad
habits. is competent. trustworthy and eff
Client as an employee. and Is an active men,
Der OF the Second Coiored Baptist church.
He takes two daily papers and IS man OF
more than ordinary intelligence. / have
the most complete confidence in his verac-
lty and integrity Maj widdekind and
the family have noticed that he has been
unusually silent since the murder and that
he has lost appetite. Another circumstance
in his favor IS that there Is an offer OF
500 reward for the discovery OF the cab
driver. George III. Jackson has not made
any claim fer this reward nor has he even
spoken of 1t. In his statement last night
he said he found in the surrey instead OF a
round hitehfng weight a piece OF railroad
rau, about foot long, while waiting for
the return Of the two men who had gone
away with the girl at the place of the
murder. IL had two holes through it. A
leather strap was fastened TO one Of these
holes. That he used IL for a hitch
ing weight and soon after ran away home
as fast as he could run.
Right here IS the great point IN the
chain OF circumstances. IL was just pre-
cisely such piece CT railroad iron that
was wrapped up In Jackson's bloody coat
when Il was taken out OF a sewer in this
city. What emphasizes this evidence IS
the fact of his coat being wrapped around
piece OF railroad iron has never men
TONED IN the newspapers Another clrcurn-
stance that supports George III. Jackson's
story that the conveyance used was sur
rey. and that he abandoned /; in fright
on the tragic night. is the fact that a gen
tleman OF Newport driving toward Fort
Thomas In buggy on that Saturday
morning about } o'clock. met surrey
drawn by a gray horse. with two men on
the front seat. and collided with Il. He
got ont and the men in the surrey drove
on toward Newport at n furious rate. The
mans name Is not given, but he viii be
on hand when required as a witness.
To cInch the matter. a procession OF
carriages containing policemen and re-
porters started at a quarter TO l o'clock
20 Fort Thomas last night. George H.
Jackson drove the leading carriage. The
procession struck the murdererS' route at
Vine and Third streets. and with the ne
gro for a guide followed II to the bloody
ground. A halt was made at the Newport
bridge toll booth 10 seek another link in
the chain. Toll Collector Tarviu said he
remembered the surrey driven by a coli
ored man passing over the bridge about 1
o'clock on the morning OF February /. II
contained a man and woman and there
was a white man and a negro driver on
the seat.
The procession was led by George IT.
Jackson through unfrequented back streets
in Newport and by a long circuitous route
I'm the darkness and finally into the Alex
andrfa pike near Fort Thomas After
driving q short distance George III. Jack
son stopped just where a blind lane set out
from the road. Here" said he as where
they took the lady. telling me 70 turn the
carriage around and wait" George ~.
Jackson has not been 10 the scene OF the
murder since IL was committed. Where
he stopped 10 the darkness last night was
about go yards from the spot where Pearl
Bryan was found dead on the morning OF
February !.
George II. Jackson ia a man Of few
words Here on the spot whore the girl
was led TO her cruel death and AZ about
tho same gloomy hour Of that tragedy the
cOlorea man repeated his story Of the
events Of that fatal night There was
dramatic realism IN the simple. unaffected
recital that moved all present as no coun-
teTfsit presentation on the stage can move
men. The settings OF the scene aided In
ia effect. When the negro described the
strange noise and the sounds OF a scufhe
IN the leaves and bushes, along WITH his
own sudden fright and flight. the bystand-
ers shudders9 and almost imagined they
could hear the rustic Of the leaves IN the
struggle Of Pearl Bryan for her life.
Detectives Grim and McDermott tonight
discovered a rockaway and a gray horse
IN the stable % the Walnut FIll Cab Com
pany which was hired out between 4 and
p n. January q. and was returned al
a. m. February l. President Mullen OF
the cab company, says the man who hired
tt was about The sire and general appear-
anca % Mailing. and ne thought had a
dark complexion The carpet IN the pocka-
way had blood spots on Il and a bloody
pencil was found ia H. The negro, Jack
son. drove he horse tonight and says -
Is less spirited than the one he drove tho
night OF the murder. but thar Il piunEes
forward and takes the bit IN It's mouth ths
same way. he fails 20 identify the Yocka-
way. but says II may be made 20 hook like
a surrey by the use OF storm curtains