Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-02-14
A Girl Friend Who Knows About
It but viii Not Tell Yet.
HER VERY MYSTERIOUS STORY
She Foes Not Propose to Sec Those Boys
Hung and TO Save Their Necks
VIII Tell.


Lulu May Hollingsworth. one of Pearl
Bryan's girl friends, who has been
boarding at No. 81 Henry street, knows
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, a 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, it shows she knows a good deal
about the death of Miss Bryan.
Miss Hollincsworth says that on the
afternoon of January % she was at the
Union sta ton and met Miss Bryan. She
had visited in Greencastle and had be-
come acquainted with Miss Bryan. At
ter the usual greetings, Miss Bryan told
her she was in deep trouble. She OK
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
l>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 large part of
| the mixture. She said the stuff pur-
| chased cost As cents. She admitted the
stuff was purchased by 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 most rigid examination
| and on several occasions lost her tenn
per.
81 am positive that Pearl was not
murdered" she said
"Well, how do you know?"
"I know, but do not propose to tell
"Why not?'
Simply because I 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. I do not propose to see those
| boys hang, and when the last hope is
gone I will tell what know in order to
| save their necks. They did not kill
| PEARL
| How do you know they did not kill
her?"
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"
HUNTING MISSING LINKS.
| 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 been
| fruitless,. although made by hundreds
| of volunteers along with detectives to-
| day.
A very material addition to the dumb
| witnesses of the deed was discovered
| about $50 o'clock tonight Detectives
| Grimm and Watt found the girls hat.
| In it was a bloody handkerchief and a
big stone to keep it from being blown
away. 1t was found in an angle be-
| tween the Fort Thomas Electric railway
and the Chesapeake & 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 hat
| worn by the girl.
The mystery of the whereabouts Of
the girl on Thursday night, January
80, the night before the murder, remains
| unsolved. From her arrival here on
Monday, January 81, up to II o'clock
Thursday forenoon, her movements
have been traced. Then comes a hiatus
until o'clock Friday evening, when
she was last seen alive. This was at
Dave Walling's saloon, where she and
jackson were seen, and where she
drank glass of mineral water. The
rest of the story has been told, barring
certain gaps in 1t which the detectives
are now trying to fill.
The finding of the hat tonight weak
ems the theory that a cab was used to
take the murderers and their. victim to
Fort Thomas. 1t looks very much as
il they went by the electric railway to
n 4.