The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
FOR VENGEANCE.
Greencastle Young Men Form
an Organization
To Lynch the Murderers of
Pearl Bryan
IF THE LAW FAILS.
The Dead Girls Headless
Body
Placed in a Vault in the Gene
terry.

OdICAGOS 0D 4O-A QLSDdtCn
Greencastle, Ind, says: The headless
body of Pearl Bryan, who was so bru-
tally murdered at Cincinnati, was
brought to Greencastle Saturday and at
once deposited in vault
When the news of its arrival spread over
the city, hundreds of people went 20 the
cemetery Sunday and for several hours
there was a large crowd around the door
of the vault, gazing at the casket through
the iron gratings of the door.
In the forenoon Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan,
father and mother of the girl, and her
sisters and brothers visited the cemetery
and entered the vault. The mother was
less trunk of her daughter that she
swooned in the vault and the father was
nearly overcome in q similar manner.
While the relatives were in the vault
there was a meeting of the young and
middle aged men of the city some dis
tance away, and it was said later that
some twenty five or thirty of these
avenge the girls death if the murderers
were not hanged by the law.
The organization thus formed is said to
be regarded simply as the nucleus of
larger one which will take the law into
its own hands if Jackson and Walling
escape the extreme penalty in the Gin
cinnati courts.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10.-The police and
reporters have been extracting state
ments from Miss Hollingsworth. She
says: 81 shall be able to clear Jack
son. He is responsible for Miss Bryan's
condition, but he was not responsible for
her death. l don't think either that
Wood has anything to do with this case.
I became interested in the girl because
h. hAr oh
meet her at the union station. She told
me what had happened and said that
jackson was to blame. When l told her
what drugs to get, she said she would
take them in JacksOn's presence and die
there so as to throw suspicion upon Jack
son and get him into difficulty"
How did you know what drugs to
get?"
"a young doctor told me-"
"What was his name?"
81 decline to tell"
ibid you ask him because of this
case?"
''No; learned from him at a different
time"
The police are trying to get the names
of the druggists of whom Miss Hollings-
worth said she, in company with Pearl
Bryan, secured the drugs.
CINCINNATI, Feb 1O.-Jackson and
WalIing, after a somewhat exciting first
day in Jail. are reported to be in good
spirits today.
It looks as if the men will shortly be
taken to Newport for trial. The grand
jury is now in session and it ia
said is hearing evidence in the
case. The prosecuting attorney is
already preparing indictments. Besides
this Governor Bradley has sent a special
officer to Newport to get the facts with
view to the issuance of demand for the
extradition of the prisoners. While the
officers of Campbell county, Kentucky,
are confident that they can protect the
prisoners in Kentucky and while citi-
zens of Newport resent the imputatiou of
it Is still the common notion
that little would be left for the courts to
do with these prisoners if they should be
placed in the Newport Jail.
Scott jackson today gave a written
statement about his bloody coat found in
the sewer He claims that WaIling wore
his clothing on the night of the murder
A special from Greencastle Ind. says
that no confidence is placed in the
statement of Miss Hollingsworth of In
She is an intimate friend of
Jackson's.