The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-17

CINCINNATI, Feb. 16.-The excite
ment in this city and vicinity over the
atrocious murder of Pearl Bryan mas
been intensified by the astounding de-
velopments made last night.
People had time for reading the pa
pers today. The feeling tonight. is OF
the silent but ready sort that portends
latent danger. No outbreak is antlcl-
pated, and successful one here
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 to prevent an eX-
pIosion. Every other man one meets
expresses the opinion that
SHORT WORK SHOULD BE MADE
of these men. The thinking and strict
ly law-abiding element in CoVlngt0Gn
and Newport 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 Cov1ngton
Jail, which is very strongly guarded,
and we'll situated to resist a siege. The
Jail in Newport is weak.
The detectives have clue to the
surrey 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
hill, and they are trying to identity
it.
Special circumstances that give
weight to the testimony of George h
jackson. the negro who drove the sur
reg to Fort Thomas, are the high name
he bears among all his employers.
Mr.. Rebestock, a liveryman, for
whom he worked for two years, says:
He is the best and trueSt all round
negro [ have ever seen"
Major Wtddekind of NcGregor ave-
nue., Mount Auburn, the Negroes pres
ent employer, says:
George H. jackson is highly in
telligent, very reticent, has no bad
habits, never drinks liquors or uses
tobacco, is competent, trustworthy and
efficient as an employee, and is an ac-
tive member of Zion Colored Baptist
church. He takes two daily papers
and is man of
MORE THAN ORDINARY
intelligence. I have the most com
plete confidence in his veracity and
integrity
Major Widdekind and the family
ly silent since the murder, and that he
has lost appetite. Another circum-
stance in his favor is that there is an
offer of a reward of $500 for the dis
covery Of the cab driver. George H.
Jackson has not made any claim for
this reward, nor has he even spoken
of it.
In his statement last night he said
he found in the surrey, instead of
round hitching weight, piece of rail
road rail about a foot long, while
waiting for the return of the two men
who had gone away with the girl at
the place of the murder It had two
holes through it. A leather strap was
fastened to one of these holes. That
he used for httching weight and
then ran away as fast as he could
run until he came home. Right here is
THE GREAT POINT
in the chain of circumstances. 1t was
just precisely such a piece of railroad
iron that was wrapped up in Jackson's
bloody coat when it was fished out of
a sewer basin at the corner of John
and Richmond streets several days
ago What emphasizes this evidence
is the fact of his coat being wrapped
around a piece of railroad iron has
never been mentioned in the neWspa-
pers.
Another circumstance that supports
George H. Jackson's story that the
conveyance used was a surrey, and
that George H. Jackson abandoned it
in fright on the tragic night, is the
fact that a gentleman of Newport
driving towards Fort Thomas in
buggy on that Saturday morning about
o'clock. met a surrey drawn by a
gray horse, with two men on the front
seat and collided with it. He got out
and the men in the surrey drove on
towards Newport at a furious rate.
This mans name is not given, but he
will be on hand when required ash a
witness.
TO CLINCH
the mat tier, a procession of carriages
containing policemen and reporters
started out at a quarter to I o'clock to
Fort Thomas last night George H.
jackson drove the leading carriage.
The procession struck the murderer's
route at Vine and Third streets, and,
with George H. Jackson for a guide,
followed 1t to the bloody ground "A
halt was made at. the Newport bridge
toll booth to seek another link in the
awful chain that
BINDS THESE MEN
to the guilt of Pearl Bryan's murder
Toll Collector Tarvin said he remem-
bered the surrey driven by a colored
man passing over the bridge about /
o'clock on the morning of February
1. 1t contained a man and woman
and there was white man with the
negro driver on the seat
The procession was led by George H
Jackson through unfrequented back
streets in Newport and by a long cir
cuitous route Of mud roads, in the
darkness under a cloudy sky, and fin
ally into the. Alexandria pike near
Fort Thomas. After driving a short
distance George H 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" George H.
Jackson has not been to the
SCENE OF THE MURDER
since it was committed. 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 George II.
| jackson is man of few words. Here
on the spot where the too confiding
girl was Led to her cruel death. and al
about the same gloomy hour of that
! tragedy, the colored man repeated his
story of the events of that
fatal night. There was dra-
matte realism in the simple,
unaffected recital of this dusky child OF
nature which moved all present as no
counterfeit presentation on the stage
can move men. The settings of the
scene aided in its effect When the
negro described the strange noise and
/ the sounds of scuffie in the leaves