The Dickinson press., 1896-02-15
LOVES TO CONFESS
MISS HOLLINGSWORTH TALKS OF
MISS BRYAN'S MURDER.
She Now Says That the Abortion
Was Performed In IdiRnapOlis and
That She Did It-shs Claims to
Have Received a Letter From
jackson, Telling How md Where
the Body Was Beheaded.

indianapolis. Feb. u. - Lulu May
Hollingsworth the young woman who
is supposed to know something about
the Fort Thomas murder mystery,
made another alleged confession TO-
day. She says the death of Pearl
Bryan was caused by an abortion. and
that it was performed in a stairway in
this city. Miss Hollingsworth says
she performed the abortion at the re-
quest Of Miss Bryan. She also claims
to have received letter from Jackson
in which he explains how and where
the woman was decapitated. In the
letter, according to her story. Jackson
said that Miss Bryan died in his room.
that he hired horse and buggy and
employed negro to assist him. The
negro, with the body of Miss Bryan,
drove to Fort Thomas, where Jackson
was In waiting. The negro cut of the
head Of the young woman with a
cleaver and Jackson threw it into the
river from the Suspension bridge. The
police here believe Miss Hollingsworth
is notoriety seeker and discredit her
story. So far she has been unable to
verify her story, and although the Of
ficers have worked constantly they
have been unable to find anything to
substantiate it.
More Evidence.
Cincinnati, Feb. 12.-While the au-
thorfties here are investigating wheth-
or Pearl Bryan was murdered in this
city and her body hauled across the
liver to Fort Thomas the grand jury at
Newport. KY, is inquiring into the
mystery and indictments are expected
for the murder III Kentucky. Although
the decapitated body was found a
week ago last Saturday the head has
not get been found. 1t is not known
where Pearl was murdered and how
she was murdered or when. 1t has
been believed she was murdered FRI
day night, Jan. 81. but to-day the
theory is held that she was murdered
on Thursday night. And now comes
the story of May Lulu Hollingsworth
Of Indianapolis that she was with
Pearl in Indianapolis when the latter
bought drugs with suicidal intent, etc.
AS Miss Hollingswor,h is regarded as
an intimate friend of Jackson the de-
teetives have paid special attention to
the Indianapolis end Of the line to-day
while the search for the head and all
possible information was kept up by
the officers here, at COvingtOn, New
port and elsewhere.
An examination OF the records Of
the dental parlors shows that Jackson
and Walling were present as usual on
Thursday, Jan. so, but neither Of them
was in attendance on Friday, Jan. 81,
and the evidence against both Of the
suspects gets stronger every day. AS
they see circumstantial evidence ac-
cumulating their feeling against each
other crows more intense. -
Parents Give Way.
Greencastle, Ind. Feb. 11-The.head.
Tess body Of Pearl Bryan. who was so
brutally murdered at Cincinnati, was
brought to Greencastle and at once de-
posted in vault. When the news OF
its arrival spread over the city hum
dreds of people went to the cemetery
and for several hours there was large
crown around the door Of the vault
4azing at the casket through the iron
grating Of the door. In the forenoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, father and moth
or of the murdered girl. and her Sis
ters and brothers, visited the ceme-
terry and entered the vault. Mrs. Bryan
was 80 overcome by the sad snectacle
OF the headless trunk of her daughter
that she swooned in the vault and tho
father was nearly ovel come In a sim
liar manner. While the relatives were
in the vault there was meeting of tho
young and middl..aRed men Of the city
some distance away. and it was said
later that some twenty-five or thirty Of
these pledged themselves to each other
to avenge the girls death II the muir
derers were not hanged by the law.
The organization thus formed is said
20 be regarded simply as the nucleus
of q larKer one which Will take the
law into its own hands II Jackson and
Walling escape the extreme penalty In
the Cincinnati courts.