Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-14
A Girl Friend Who Knows About
It but viii Not Tel Yet.
HER VERY MYSTERIOUS STORY
She Does Not Propose to See Those Boys
Hung ana TO Save Their Necks
VIII Tell.


Bryan's girl friends. who has been
boarding at No. 81 Henry street, knows
a good deal about the tragedy. Miss
Hollingsworth's 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. 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. 1t shows she knows a good deal
about the death Of Miss Bryan.
Miss Hollingsworth says that on the
afternoon of January 28 she was at the
Union station and met Miss Bryan. She
had visited in Greencastle and had be-
come acquainted with Miss Bryan. Az
ter the usual greetings, Miss Bryan told
her she was in deep trouble. She cx-
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 Holdings
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. She
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 a woman. Miss
Hollingsworth said she was acquainted
with Jackson and Wood, but had never
met Walling.
That same evening Miss Bryan took
a 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 about
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.
IT am positive that Pearl was not
murdered" she said.
well, how do you know"
II know, but / do not propose to tell"
why not?"
"Simply because / do not intend to
incriminate myself. There was an oc-
currence between Jackson, Pearl Bryan
and myself that were I to tell of it
would clear up the mystery surrounding
her DEATH l do not propose to see those
boys hang, and when the last hope is
gone I will tell what l know in order to
save their necks They did not kill
Pearl"
How do you know they did not kill
herr"
Because she died by her own hand.
I have a theory. Pearl took the medi-
cine herself. She was in Jackson's room
at the time. 1t had a different effect
| from what she expected, and she grew
| so 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"
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 beer
fruitless, although made by hundreds
of volunteers along with detectives to-
day.
A very material addition to the dumt
| witnesses of the deed was discovered
about $50 o'clock tonight. Detectives
Grimm and Watt found the girls hat
In it was bloody handkerchief and 6
big stone to keep 1t from being blown
away. 1t was found in an angle be-
tween the Fort Thomas Electric railway
and the Chesapeake e. Ohio railroad
near their intersections, southeast Of
| 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 81, up to II o'clocl
Thursday forenoon, her movement
have been traced. Then comes a hiatus
until o'clock Friday evening, whel
she was last seen alive. This was a
Dave Walling's saloon, where she ant
jackson were seen, and where sh
drank a glass of mineral water. TIL
rest of the story has been told, barring
certain gaps in 1t which the detective
are now trying to fill.
The finding Of the hat tonight weak
ems the theory that a cab was used t
take the murderers and their victim t
Fort Thomas. 1t looks very much a
II they went by the electric railway t
Fort Thomas, committed the deed. an
then walked back to the city. and find
ing this hat too conspicuous to be hid
den, left 1t where 1t would be most like
ly to be unobseryed.
Jackson's razor, found in Walling
: trunk. was turned over to the polio
today.
Medical experts say the girls hea
was cut off with some very sharp instr,
ment-a razor or surgeons knit
, | There are stains on the razor. but the