The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-02-13
A Girl Friend Who Knows About
1t but Will Not Tell Yet.
+FR VERY MYSTERIOUS STORY
she loes Not Propose TO See Those Boy
Hung and 10 Save Their >ecks
wi / Tell.

body of Pearl Bryan was found.
Lulu May Hollingsworth, one of Pearl
Bryans girl friends, who has been
boarding at No. 81 Henry street, knows
a good deal about the tragedy. Miss
HollinEsworth' knowledge of the case
was brought to light today through
letter written to Marshal w. E. Starr
at Greencastle. The man who wrote the
letter is H. E. Radcliffe, a travelling
salesman from Baltimore. He advised
Marshal Starr to investigate the matter
and the marshal came here this after
noon.
Detective Frank Wilson was detailed
to assist the marshal. They called on
Miss Hollingsworth. She was not in
clined to be communicative at first.
Then they decided to take her to the
police headquarters and have her ques-
toned by Superintendent Colbert.
While her story is not complete in de-
tail, it shows she knows a good deal
about the death of Miss Bryan.
Miss Hollingsworth says that on the
afternoon of January 2S she was at the
Union station and met Miss Bryan. She
had visited in Greencastle and had be-
come acquainted with Miss Bryan. Af
ltI TIE usual BIttllllSS, MISS ali loil
her she was in deep trouble. She OK
planned it's nature, and said that Jack
son was responsible for her condition.
She said it would never do for her peo-
pie to hear of her disgrace and she was
going to Cincinnati to have an abortion
performed She asked Miss Hollings-
worth the nature of drugs used in such
cases, and Miss Hollingsworth told her
what she had heard was good.
AT this point in her story Miss Hol-
lingsworth wavered. She said certain
drugs had been purchased here and that
four drug stores were visited. Sh7
would not tell the names of the drugs,
but said whisky formed a large part of
the mixture. She said the stuff pur
chased cost As cents. She admitted the
stuff was purchased by woman. Miss
Hollingsworth said she was acquainted
with Jackson and Wood, but had never
met Walling.
That same evening Miss Bryan took
train for Cincinnati. She saw Wood
afterward. He came here the following
Friday, and Miss Hollingsworth was at
the depot. Both of them being acquaint-
ed with Miss Bryan, they talked abou,
her trouble. Wood was on his way to
South Bend, Ind, and left shortly after
his arrival here.
Miss Hollingsworth's manner of tell
ing her story convinced the officers she
was holding something back. She was
subjected to a most rigid examination
and on several occasions lost her tenn
per.
81 am positive that Pearl was not
murdered" she said.
"Well, how do you know?"
II know, but I do not propose to tell"
"Why not?"
simply because 1 do not intend to
incriminate myself. There was an oc-
currence between Jackson, Pearl Bryan
and myself that We're l to tell of it
would clear up the mystery surrounding
her death. 1 do not propose to see those
boys hang, and when the last hope is
gone 1 will tell what I know in order to
save their necks. They did not kill
Pearl"
How do you know they did not kill
her?"
Because she died by her own hand
1 have a theory. Pearl took the medi
cine herself. She was in Jackson's room
at the time. 1t had a different effect
lIOIl Widl sic tABCCltu, anu Siit 6iSN
50 bad that Jackson saw she was going
to die. He knew it would never do to
have her die in the house, so he secured
a hack, and assisted by Walling, took
her across the river. She may have
died on the way or may have been dead
before they got her out of the room
and their object in taking her there was
to hide the crime. When near Fort
Thomas they cut off her head and dis
posed of it to avoid identification. See
if it don't come out that way"
HUNTING MISSING LINKS.
Cincinnati, Feb. 9.-All day the detec-
tives from three cities have been out
busily hunting the missing links in
the chain of circumstances by which
the story of the murder of Pearl Bryan
is to be shaped into perfect evidence.
Also the search for the head has been
fruitless, although made by hundreds
of volunteers along with detectives to-
day.
A very material addition to the dumb
witnesses of the deed was discovered
about $50 o'clock tonight. Detectives
Grimm and Watt found the girls hat
In il was a bloody handkerchief and g
big stone to keep it from being blowT
away. 1t was found in an angle be
| tween the Fort Thomas Electric railway
| and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
near their intersections, southeast o.
| Newport. Ky. When the detectives ar
rive they will show the hat to the pris
oners.
1t answers the description of the ha
worn by the girl.
| The mystery Of the whereabouts o
| the girl on Thursday night, Januar!
| 30. the night before the murder, remain
| unsolved. From her arrival here OF
| Monday, January 27, up to IL oclocl
| Thursday forenoon, her movement
have been traced. Then comes a hiatu
| until o'clock Friday evening, whel
she was last seen alive. This was a
Dave Walling's saloon, where she an
Jackson were seen, and where sh
drank a glass of mineral water. Tn
rest of the story has been told, barrin
certain gaps in it which the detective
are now trying to fill.
The finding of the hat tonight weak
ems the theory that a cab was used
take the murderers and their victim
Fort Thomas. 1t looks very much a
II they went by the electric railway
| Fort Thomas, committed the deed, an
] then walked back to the city. and fint