The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-21
A WOMAN'S HEAD.
G. v. Wing Received One In
a Tin Pail.
Supposed to Have Been That Of the
Murdered Pearl Bryan.

COLUMBUS March 21.-Chief of Police
Tie, sch OF Cincinnati has been notified
by q. V. Wing, ,articulator of human skele-
tons for medical students, to send full
descr iptions of Pearl Bryan's head. On
Thursday morning, early, while Wing
was still in bed, man who gave his
name as Cole, brought woman's head in
tin bucket to Wings place. The back
hair was braided, the front hair combed
back aud the color OF the hair. which Is
from 10 to 20 inches in length ~ beau
tiful brown. The hair on the left side
was matted to the head with blood.
Wings suspicious were aroused that some
thing was wrong for the reason that stu
dents do not present work in which blood
is feature of the subject. In addition,
dry leaves were In the matted hair.
The head looked as though II had been
buried or frozen. A medical student
who examined IL said the head, In his
judgment, had been severed by person
who understood something about surgery
The cleavage OF the head from the body
was made on a line with the chin which
would leave most of the neck on the
body. On the back of the head just above
where IL was severed from the body, there
is a cut in the flesh of the skull.
Cole said he would call for the head
In day or two. He seemed to be in
great anu not Detn uehIu iIOH
since He said he wanted the bones pre-
served in GOOD shape and not cut. Mr..
wing, after looking at the work in hand,
decided not to articulate the skull because
he believed there was something crooked
about the. case.
The head i'm the pail was wrapped In a
small blanket. The student who examined
the head was &. 5. Burnside. The man
who brought the head to the house was
about five feet eight inches in height, had
q light moustache and would weigh prob
ably 155 pounds. Mr.. Wing says ii the
head had come from q medical college
the hair would not have been braided.
Another suspicious circumstance was that
II II had come from medcal college the
flesh would have been taken from the
skull. AS 1t was the head was in good
state OF preservation. The eyes were
terribly sunken, and IL was almost i'm
possible to conceive an expression for the
features. Mr.. Wing further says IL the
head has been taken from some grave.
there would have been no blood clots
about it, The presence of leaves in the
hair and the fact that the back hair was
braided led Mr.. Wing rs thoughts to revert
TO the Pearl Bryan murder mystery at Fort
Thomas, KY. He remembered having
read about the possibility Of the head be-
ing buried, and as dications pointed to
The fact that the head which he had in
his possession had been buried or pre-
served in some like manner, he decided
TO ask some advice as to what he should
do.
1t would probably be hard matter to
identify the head in its present condi-
tions, but Mr.. Wing suggested that rn
expression might be procured by placing
glass eyes in the holes where the eyes
have sunk. This will probably be done,
providing the Cincinnati chief of police
places any credence in the story. Mr..
Wing expects TO hear from Cincinnati
soon and.will then know what to do with
the bead. In any event, he states that
unless he hears from the so-called Mr..
Cole, who brought the head to his home
within few days, he will turn the head
over to the city authorities.