The Meeker herald., 1896-02-22
IMPORTANT WITNESS.
NEW EVIDENCE IN THE clNcIN-
MATT CASE.
Ia which Pearl Bryan Was Carried to
the Place whore She Was Murdered.

Cincinnati, Feb. 1.-THE strongest
link in the chain Of evidence against
the two murderers of Pearl Bryan,
made its appearance this afternoon.
George II. Jackson, colored man,
who is private coachman for Major
Whitfield on McGregor avenue, Mount
Auburn. revealed the story voluntarily
to the police. George H. Jackson is
drillmaster and commander OF the
Caldwell guards. a colored company In
this city. On Friday night, January 81.
he was drilling them until midnight.
He went out afterwards and was
standing moment at the corner of
George and Elm streets in the Tender
loin district Of this city. when tall,
dark-haired man. wearing a corduroy
cap, came along and said to the COM
pany of by-standers
DO any OF you fellows want to mako
/ IS for driving carriage tonight"
jackson accepted the offer. He had
been carriage driver all his life. Pres
emily square box surrey was driven
down to where he was and he was told
! that was the carriage. He was invited
to the seat and man with corduroy
cap and dark moustache took seat be-
side him and said he would direct him.
He told him that there was doctor
and sick lady in the carriage,
that they We're going to take
them over to Newport, and he would
show him how to drive. They drove
down Elm street to Third, on Third to
Broadway, down Broadway to the
Newport bridge, crossed the bridge
over into Newport. There was cur
tain in the surrey at the backs of the
drivers so that Jackson could not see
who was in the inside, but he heard
the voice OF the man and the funny
noise made by woman" After driv-
ing through Newport he became
alarmed and wanted to jump off. This
was after midnight and no one was on
the street. so that he could make no
alarm, but he was very much fright
ened.
The man on the seat beside him put
n revolver to his head and said:
you drive that horse or I'll make an
end of you very quickly"
The horse was large gray "hoss,'
held high head and moved very rap
idly and he was kept moving. The man
on the seat with him took his name and
his residence and learned all about him,
and said:
IF you ever say anything about this
we will kill you, and II we get into
trouble we have friends on the outside
that would follow you up and kill you"
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II believe they have been following
me. It may be imaginat ton, but I
think l have been followed ever since
these men have been In jail. I have
never driven on that road before that /
know of. The man on the seat directed
me how to go. 1t was very crooked
road. We came out at last where they
told me to stop. There We're some
thckets near by. They said the house
where the woman was to go was not
far away They would take her across
there and whistle when they We're
ready to go back. They told me to turn
the horse around and wait for them.
1.-THE man In the surrey got out first
and helped the woman. She leaned on
him heavily, and as she walked along
dragged her feet. 1t was too dark for
me to see anything. The man who
got out of the surrey was not as tall
as the man who sat by me. That man
got off his seat and assisted in taking
the woman away in the darkness. I
looked for hitching block and ex-
pected to find a round one; instead OF
that found a piece of railway rail
about a foot long, with two holes in it.
] hitched the horse to that and waited
a little while. heard very queer
noise, something like scutfiing in the
leaves along with noise that cannot
describe, that l think was made by a
woman. remembered the strange
noises that the woman had been max
ing all the way out That noise heard
In the thicket frightened me and ran
away as hard us l could run. got
home on foot about 4:3O o'clock in the
morning"
Apparently the story of the colored
man is true. He was taken over the
route last night. and the place where
he stopped was only 200 yards from
where Pearl Bryan's body was found
He was taken to the jail and picked out
Walling as the man who rode beside
him on the box Of the carriage. The
stable where the carriage was rented
has been located by the police, and
Jackson identifies the carriage and
horse.
His employer speaks very highly of
the negro, and great confidence is
placed in his story.
In his statement last night he said
he found In the surrey instead Of a
round hitching weight. a piece of rail
road rail about foot long while wait
Ing for the return Of the two men who
had gone away with the girl at the