The Indianapolis journal., 1896-03-05
THE MISSING HEAD.
Possibility that 1t Was Secreted on
the Dayton Sand Bar.
Snacial to the India N nnlis Journal

the Dayton Sand Bar.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
CINCINNATI March A--People are still
asking where is the hiding place of Pearl
Bryan's head? Was it secreted in the Day.
ton sandbar? Carpenter Charles Ross, of
Dayton, says that he saw Scott Jackson
in Dayton the Monday night after the dis
covery of the crime. Wailing told the police
after his arrest that the head would be
found in the bar at Dayton, and that Scott
Jackson had put IT there to avoid identifica-
tion of the poor victim. Ross says that on
the Monday night after the murder he was
standing a corner in Dayton when a
suspicious stranger passed. The next day
a friend named Bristow told him he had
passed strange man walking on Mckin-
ney street toward the river. He carried
a grip and when he met Bristow he hur-
riedly turned and retraced his steps.
the men they had met, and they came to
the conclusion that they were identical.
Bristow went to Pittsburg to take employ
ment and Ross hesitated about telling the
police. In the jail Tuesday night he had a
look at Jackson and said that he was the
man he hai met in Dayton. Jackson denied
could not fix his whereabouts on that even-
ing He claimed that he spent Tuesday
evening at home.
Chief Detsch was in a retrospective
mood when reporter talked murder to
him to-day. Said he: TT would be as
Stunning too much to express an opinion as
AS a citizen, 1 believe that Walling and
jackson killed Pearl Bryan on Friday
night, in Kentucky. great many people
say that this is Cincinnati crime, but 1t
is not. 1t belongs TO Kentucky. and this
department knows it. We have done all
we could to aid the Kentucky officials. and
of the hands of the police department, and
in the hands Of the judge or judges of the
higher court" AS to coachman Jackson's
story, the Colonel said: In the absence
of other evidence must believe what he
says. Until there is real evidence refut-
ing his story will believe it,
New Orleans Colonel Deitsch to-day did
not have a single clew he considered worth
following that had not already been ex-
Hattie Meyers the woman who keeps the
house at No. 312 Elm street. Although the
Meyers woman admits enough concerning
lice that young girls are daily taken there,
she is indignant because the newspapers
have questioned her character. w. H.
Seeds, the bondsman who signed her bond
for $500, says that he knew Mrs. Meyers's
husband when they were both respected
and her character was above reproach. For
lease. Colonel Deftsch denies that he has
had any search made on tips from spir-
ituaist mediums and says his department
deals only with material facts.
Each day the police are attributed with
running down all sorts of clews In the Fort
Thomas mystery that they have never heard
Of Among them are tips from self-styled
mediums communications from mentally ir-
responsible persons who believe they have
got the information desired through dreams,
Hindoo fakirs Voodoo doctors and other
equally frivolous sources. II would take
dozens of detectives to shadow all the
strange ladies' and other anonymous wit
nesses said to exist in the case, and the po-
lice have given up all attempts to do So
The usual number of suggestions from
anonymous correspondents were received by
Colonel Deitsch to-day. A man giving his
name as Harmeyer and calling himself a
psychometrist, called to offer his services
Harmeyer has been using his .psychomet-
rical powers for a month past in a futile
search for missing A. A. Knopfel Another
man writes that he thinks IL would soften
the hearts of the prisoners to have sweet
singer stand in front of their cells and sing
hymns and songs about home and errng
sons with heartbroken mothers. Another
thinks a small organ used to play doleful
music at dusk every evening would elicit
confessions and another thinks the more vi
carious means OF confining them in a dark
dungeon and throwing alocss a lot of rats
in the dungeon would bring them TO time"
The most striking of the lot IS by some
young woman, who wants a reflection OF the
murdered girl thrown sheer glass at sorre
point where the prisoners can see II az cer-
tain hours every night. so they Will finally be
convinced that her spirit Is haunting them
Ii some of these anonymous correspondents
had their way tho prisoners would be fit
subjects for lunatlc asylum In a few weeks.