The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-02-20

1S 70 Dc continued several days, that
these witnesses be allowed to put
their evidence in writing and return to
their homes"
''This case il so important that the
witnesses should be present in court"
interposed Prosecutor Nippert.
The court took similar view. There
were consultations among the attor-
neys, during which Walling and Jack.
son glared nervously at the dense
crowd around them.
Their faces did not change color
when judge Gregg announced: 1.-THE
charge of murder is nollied; the cases
60 to February IS as fugitives from
Justice"
CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.-The first letter
opened by Col Dietsch Friday morn.
ing was one bearing the post mark,
''Greencastle, Ind" The letter was
from Pearl Bryan's sisters and con-
tanned the most important information
developed in the case for some days.
It read as follows:
GREENcAsTLE. Ind, Feb. 10, "a
Chief Deitsch, Cincinnati:
We identify the hat as one taken from our
stock OF millinery by sister Pearl and the one
she wore from here The Identification is per.
feet The other things we know nothing
about
MRS ]. T. STANLEY,
MRS. E. S. KELLAR,
also identify the hat as that my daughter
Pearl wore when she left home.
MRS A. s BRYAN.
On receipt Of the letter Col. Deitsch
Immediately called in Detectives Grim
and McDermott and instructed them
accordingly. This makes the finding of
the hat the most important clew of any
and everything will be made subser.
Went to following it. The argument
now accepted is that the MUIR
dered girl was assaulted near
the spot and with the improvis-
ed slungshot made of the hand
kerchief identified by Walling as Jack.
sons and the heavy bowlder tied in it.
1t would appear the assault occurred
near this spot and the girl, after being
beaten insensible, was afterward de-
capitated. What seemed very slen.
der clew of woman's scream having
been heard in the neighborhood at first
is now regarded as important and will
be run down. Grim and McDermott
went across the river after receiving
this information and made second
examination of every foot of ground
surrounding the place where the hat
was found. The ''other things" mem
toned by the letter were some hand.
kerchiefs and other linen. The opal
ring found at Phillips pawn shop by
Detective Strieff and said to have been
pawned by a girl answering Pearl Bry-
ans description has also been sent for
Identification.
The police had q new clew to follow
out Friday morning. William Wood,
who is in the county Jail, in talking
conidentially to a fellow prisoner,
stated that there was third man in
the murder of Pearl Bryan, and that
his name would be known at the
proper time. Wood, when seen by a
reporter, declined to talk on the sub
ject.
The Campbell county grand jury Fri.
day made very important change in
the indictment against Scott jackson
and Alonzo Walling, in which the lat
ter was charged with holding Pearl
Bryan while jackson cut off her head.
The indictment was changed so that
neither is made principal or accessory,
but both are jointly charged with the
murder of the girl. No specific action
on the part of either appears in the al
tered Indictment.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 17-All hope of Sc
curing convicting evidence against
jackson and Walling rests in William
Wood. He is the man of all men now
under the eye of and known to the po-
lice who can throw any light on the
cruel butchery of Pearl Bryan.
The man who drove the rig in which
Pearl Bryan was conveyed to the spot
near Ft Thomas where she was so bru-
tally murdered, has been found. He is
George Il. jackson. colored, and was
employed for the occasion by Walling
and jackson, both of whom he readily
identified in crowd of 40 people at
the Jail Saturday night
His long silence is easily explained.
Hired at first under false conditions,
and later compelled to drive to the
scene of the murder with a pistol at
his head, threatened with death if he
ever told of the terrible ride, glad to
escape with his life, he was more than
content to remain within the inclosure
of his employers yard after a long run
from the scene OF the killing through
the mud and rain.
Jackson and Walling, he says, met
him at George and Elm on the night of
Friday, January 81, and engaged him
to take them to Ft. Thomas in sur
rey, drawn by gray horse, which was
in waiting. In the conveyance was a
girl, who was beyond doubt Pearl
Bryan.
Jackson drove the surrey to point
within so yards of where the body OF
the unfortunate girl was found. There
the two men took the girl from
the surrey and walked her away.
She appeared to be stupefed.
A few minutes later jackson
heard groans coming from the di'
rection in which the girl had been led,
and this so frightened him that he ran
away, leaving the surrey and party