Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-10
Friends of the Murdered Pearl BRYAN
Pledge Themselves.
STORY TOLD BY miss HOLLINGSWORfH
Steps Preparatory to Taking the
Accused to Kentucky.
d A n G ER OF YNCHING

CHICAGO, February 10-A dispatch from
Greencastle, Ind, says:
The headless body of Pearl Bryan, who
was so brutally murdered at Cincinnati, was
brought to Greencastle yesterday, and at
once deposited in vault. When the news
OF its arrival spread over the city hundreds
OF people went to the cemetery, and for
several hours there was a large crowd
around the door of the vault gazing at the
casket through the iron gratings of the door.
In the forenoon Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan the
| parents of the murdered girl, and her sisters
and brothers visited the cemetery and en-
tered the vault Mrs. Bryan was so over
come that she swooned in the vault and the
| father was nearly overcome in similar
| manner.
While the relatives were in the vault there
was meeting of the young and middle-a ged
| men of the city, and it was said later that
twenty-five or thirty of these pledged them
selves to each other to avenge the girls
deatS If the murderers were not hanged by
the law.
The organization thus formed is said to be
regarded simply the nucleus of a larger
one, which will take the law into its own
hands if Jackson and Walling escape the
| extreme penalty in the Cincinnati courts.
INDIANAPOLIS Ind, February 10-The
poilse and reporters have been eNtorting
statements from SIigS Hollingsworth, the
friend CT the murdered Peall Bryan, who
is believed to know a great deal about her
death. She said: Il shall he able to clear
jackson. He is responsible for Miss Bryan's'
condition, but he was not responsible for
her death. 1 don't think either that Wood
has anything to do with this case. ] be-
| came interested in the girl because / had
cnce known her, and chanced to meet her
at the Union station. She tod Ine what had
happened, and said that jackson was to
blame. When i told her whot drugs to get.
she said she would take them in Jackson's
presence, and die there and then, so as to
throw suspicion on jackson and get MIN
into difficulty .
How did you know what drugs to getTs
"A young doctor told me-
What was his pame?"
Il decline to tell"
Did you ask him because of this casers
No: L learned from him at a different
time
The police are trying to get the names Of
the druggists from whom Miss. Hollngs-
worth said she, in company with Pearl
Bryan, secured the drugs.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, February lO.-Jack.
son and Walling, after a somewhat excit-
ing first day in jail, are reported TO be In
good spirits today. 1t looks as IL the men
will shortly be taken to Newport. KY for
trial. as the grand jury is now in session,
and 1t is said is hearing evidence in The
case. The prosecuting attorneys are al-
ready preparing indictments. Besides this
Governor Bradley has sent special officer
to Newport TO gather facts with a view to
the issuance OF demand for the extra
d1tlon OF the prisoners.
While the officers of Campbell county,.
KY, are confident that they can protect
the prisoners in Kentucky, and while citf-
zens of Newport resent the imputation OF
lawlessneSs, il Is still the common notion
that little would be left fey the courts to
do with these prisoners if they should be
placed in the Newport Jail.