Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-28
HARRY DALE'S RAWLINGS.
Sad Condition Of the freeport Burglar
in a Cell at Portland.
IS Thought to Know About Pearl Bran's
Murder in Kentucky.

PORTLAND Sept. 27.--Naked in his cell
tortured, as he claims. by the spirit of a
murdered girl-Pearl Bryan-unab,e to
endure the sight of his clothes, on which
ne says there is innocent blood Harry
Dale is raging out his life
~ the last term of the grand jury, in
uciinents We're found against Harry
Daie. charging him with breaking and
entering, larceny and making an assault
with deadly weapon. Dale is known as
the Freeport burglar He is about 20.
ana ana Is mystery to Sheriff Plummer and
his deputies.
About the time when the sunerior court
met. Dale. who had been restless and
sleeping badly. began to cry out in his
s 81. 2;dr ohe night he exclaimed suddenly:
others killed her. l cut Off her head and
buried 1t, but She WAS dead then
lie paused few moments and then
| got away on a freight train ~ -
After that, while seemingly. and II Is
now thought, really insane, Dale told Il
little at time the details of a horrible
murder. He said once: Il was naid $25
for the job F
Where did you bury the head?' was
asked another time. The tortured man
said: in the sand by the river
lie talked during his insane + fits of the
scene OF the murder, and of various
places connected with the crime. He
spoke .,nd of Lndlow Gres,nyile. Covington
L
with Judge Bonney. who said: II re-
member about the Pearl Bryan murder.
It occurred in Kentucky. | was in Wash
ington at the time.
Acting on this hint, Sheriff Plummer
began to work up. the case. He wrote
to the sheriffs of all the counties in Ken
lucky. and 10 the chiefs of police in the
different cities, and at last succeeded
in finding a clue to the rawlings of his in
sane prisoner.
Chief James ". Pugh of covington,
ky.. wrote to Sheriff Plummer that Scott
jackson and Alonzo Waling were under
sentence of death for the murder of
Pearl Bryan of Covington. Ky. and that
Scott Jackson had a friend named Harry
Dale. He says that Dale was q clerk OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at Jersey
City mt one time.
At his request Jackson gave a descrip-
ton of Dale. and it corresponds perfectly
with that of the man here with this ex-
ecptton: y portion of one of Dale's hands
IS gone. while Jackson says his friend
was not manned in the least Jackson
does not connect Dale with the crime.
and in fact denies his own connection
with il.
CHIEF Pugh thinks that Dale. as a
friend Of Jackson might have got the de-
tails of the murder from reading the pa
pers. In his letter to Sheriff Plummei
the chief said that the body Of the muir
dered girl was found, but the head was
not found; and that ii was and is his
opinion that the head was buried in the
sand.
Dale mnutely described several times
the burial of the head. He said that the
girl was dead when he removed tho head.
and that he buried it in the sand on the
bar close by a large rock and near the
river; Dale says he cut of the head with
a knife but over and over again has re-
peated, Il didn't kill her. ! didn't kill
her.
When clothes arc brought near him.
the insane man cries out In agony: take
them away don't you see the blood on
them"
Sheriff Pummor is Convinced that
Dales description of the murder is too
vivid to have been obtained from reading
papers. He describes the burial of the
head. and all the events connected with
the case. in Il way to convince the sheriff
that he was witness to the crime and
helped to dispose of the body if he didn't
actually commit the murder.
The case of Jackson and Walling tho
two men under sentence of DEATH WI
come up for a final hearing on a motion
for a new trial before the Kentucky
court of appeals, Oct. !.
Dale will he taken to the asylum fol
the insane at Augusta. Monday. lie APP
parently ina gines himself haunted by
the spirit of the murdered girl. At times
his agony is something fearful
All that is known of Dale is what Scott
Jackson the convicted murderer. told
Chief Pugh. Sheriff Plummer will be
very glad when his prisoner is lodged III
the asylum at Augusta