The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-14
MORE CLUES FOUND
PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE PEARL
BRYAN CASE DEBPENS

| Rewards is Now Out for the Murdered
Girls Head-UmbreIIa Handle and
Razor Blade Found Near the Scene o
the Crime-Ohio Authorities Willing t.
Surrender waIliDg and jackson, Wh,
VIII Fight Extradition.
Cincinnati, Feb. 13.-The mysteriou:
murder Of Pearl Bryan has several
more clues. An umbrella handle has
| been found near the scene Of the muir
| der, and a handless razor has beer
found in Walling's trunk. There is a
reward of $500 offered by two morning
papers and $50 by the owner of tbs
farm on which the murder was com
mitted, for the discovery Of Pearl Bry-
| ans head, with prospect of $500 more
from citizens of Greencastle, Ind. max
ing SLIGO This, with the intensifying
interest in the solving of the mystery
stimulated the search by everybody
| Tonight the water is being drained our
of the canal and tomorrow the search
will begin in its Shiny bed. Sheriff
Plummer Of Newport, KY, has gone
to Frankfort, KY, for a requisition for
Scott Jackson, and Alonzo NJ. Wall
ing, the men in Jail here jointly in
dicted by the Campbell county grand
jury for the murder of Pearl Bryan.
The charge against Walling and
Jackson was changed here today from
murder to ''fugitives from justice" for
the abandonment Of jurisdiction by
Ohio and facilitating their extradition
to Kentucky
WILL FIGHT EXTRADITION
The prisoners will contest extradition
The authorities and the people of New
port feel aggrieved that there should
be fear of the prisoners being lynched
there. The sheriff says ne can take
care of the prisoners and that if he
finds danger of siege and the New
port jail not strong enough to with
stand it. he can remove them.
Jackson has received a touching let
ter from Mrs. Minnie ]. Post, his sister
1t implores him TO tell his lawyer the
whole truth. Tell it to him at once
my brother, and bravely abide the con-
sequences" she says.
The Incarceration of William Wood
for completely in abortion and in pro-
curing poison surprised the young man.
DIR. Rust was averse to going on his
bond again. His counsel. David Da-
Wis, said X was better for him to be in
Jail. His counsel did not attempt to
get bond for him. Wood is very in
dignant.
Jackson in an interview in Jail to-
night said that he was perfectly will
ing to go TO Newport and in case he
was lynched Walling would be also,
and there would be the satisfaction
that the guilty life went out with the
innocent one. Walling said substanti-
ally the same thing. promising that
Jackson's would be the guilty life.
GIGANTIC LYNCHING PLOT.
Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 13.-A spec
ial to the Sentinel from Muncie, Ind,
says:
A letter received in this city discIoses
a plot to lynch Scott Jackson, AlonZo
Walling, William Wood and the Gasker
brothers. Il says that at least 1000
men will take part in the killing. There
now live in Muncie three families who
formerly resided in the moonshine dis
trict of Kentucky and western West
Virginia. They were members of a
organization which, it Is
said, had over 5000 members. This
one of these men received a
Kentucky to take part in the lynching
The letter stated that the mob would
be furnished with Winchester rifles:
also that paper had been secretly cir
culated in Newport, KY, and l 500 men
had signed it signifying their willing
ness TO join the moOnshiners. 1t was
further said that unless the murderers
We're taken to Kentucky mob of 1000
would bear down on the Cincinnati
jail armed with Winchesters. and lynch
the men. The Gasker brothers are
supposed to have rowed Pearl BRYAN
down the Ohio on the night of the MUIR
der The man VINO claims to have re-
,eived the information was once a
He says he will go TO
Kentucky as requested.
The grand jury of Campbell county,
sitting in Newport this morn
ng, reported indictments against Scott
Jackson and Alonzo NJ. Walling for the
Tillful murder or Pearl Bryan.
The case of William +. Wood was
continued until the 25th and he was lock
ID up until new bond can be given, the |
I'D one having been forfeited.
Cincinnati. o.. Feb. 13-The Com |
nercial Gazette special from Greencas-
lie. Ind, says: The hat sent here from |
found by detectives near
Newport, Ky, has been identified by |
he family and relatives as Pearl Bry- |
ms, and as the one she wore when /
asst seen at home