The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-16

The Prisoners Will Not BE Sent to
Kentucky Without Fight.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.-Sheriff Plummer
has returned from Frankfort to Newport
with the requisition papers from Governor
Bradley to Governor Bushnell for the ex-
tradition OF Jackson sfad Walling for the
murder of Pearl Bryan. AS the attorneys
want to be heard, Sheriff Plummer will not
go to Columbus till tomorrow night He
will present the papers to Governor Bush
nell Monday. If the lawyers are unsuc-
cessful in opposition to the requisition at
Columbus they will then return here and
seek to release the men on habeas corpus
proceedings.
In speaking of the legal fight that would
be brought about by the attorneys inter-
ested in the case as to the State jurisdic-
ton and whether or not the prisoners shall
be taken to Kentucky or tried in the State
Hon. II. NJ. Rulison, jr., assistant prose-
cutting attorney, gave the following opin-
ion: Every presumption of law and evi-
dence of fact is in favor of the theory that
the murder was committed at the place
where the body was found. Many muir
derer has been convicted and hanged on
much less certain chain of direct and cir
cumstantial evidence than has already thus
far been presented in this case. Kentucky
is certainly the State in which these GRIM
inals should be tried
Ii is generally thought that there is no
doubt that the murder was committed in
Kentucky but the prisoners are averse TO
trial in Newport, and their attorneys will
make every possible effort to delay trial,
following the usual custom in all sucn cases.
Jackson has been provided with counsel in
Newport by his brother-in-law, Professor
Post, OF DePauw University. leading
lawyer of Newport has offered his services
to assist the prosecuting attorney, and they
have been accepted.
Recognizing the insecurity of the Newport
jail, which might afford an incentive TO the
formation of a mob, il IS understood that
Sheriff Plummer, when he secures control
of the prisoners, will exercise the discretion
lodged in him by the Governor to protect
them by placing them in the more secure
structure in Covington.
The ladies of Newport, and those of
Covington as We'll feel that great injustice
has been done them and the State by out
side newspapers making unwarranted ref
erence to mebs and lynching parties wait
ing for Walling and Jackson when the
prisoners are taken to Kentucky for trial.
Some OF the leading women OF Kentucky
have expressed themselves in very forci-
bic manner with reference TO these reports,
and there has been considerable talk of
holding a meeting to protest against such
injustice by the sensational press OF other
States. Lexington women are equally in
terested with those of Coyington and New
port, and letters have been received from
the latter city suggesting that some steps
be taken to express disapproval of such
publications.
Many of the leading women of Newport
and Covington have said that in case there
should be mob they would march down TO
the Newport Jail in a body and demand of
the wouid-be lynchers that they save the
State such disgrace and humiliation, and no
one acquainted with kentuckians believe
class of citizens it is composed. would refuse
TO disperse and grant the request OF the
wives. mothers and daughters, for whose
honor nearly. all the lynching in Kentucky
and the South has been done. Kentuckians
feel keenly the disgrace arising from lynch
ing and Ike methods of dealing out & sum, I'M
law intends that every one shall, when ac-
cused have a fair and impartial triaD. and
a repetition of these disgraceful exhibitions
The women are equally interested with the
representative men in protecting the name
and honor of the State.
A person claiming TO know considerable
more about the death of Peariy Bryan than
has yet ever been told, and who indirectly
hints that she saw the tragedy which ended
the girls life. is the author of a letter re-
ceived in this city yesterday, which is
everything but anonymous. being signed an
Eyewitness" The. epistle is dated al
some point in Mississippi. and bears post
mark indicating that ii came from that
State. The letter Is somewhat dramatic and
romantic, and the story told might be par
alleled with the one related by the Hol-
lingsworth woman In Indianapolis The au-
thor attempts to establish the innocence OF
Jackson and Walling by saying that the
ue2tn OF MISS bryan resulted from an act
of violence OF her own volition. 1t is stated
emphatically that the dead girl was driven
to desperation by the thoughts of certain
disgrace. and that she voluntarily took her
own life. To this IS added that she had
made a request. or even demand OF her be-
trayer or betrayers. that after death her
head be severed from her body and securely
secreted. with a hope that her identity
would not be disclosed and her fate never
be known to her family. The names OF the
betrayer or betrayers are not mentioned
bf,f * r,on pod hat ha or ar M oI n
commit the deed and die near them. The
writer gives no suggestion as to her iden-
tity-for 1t Is made to appear that the au-