The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-12-08
HEAD and LIMBS OF Jesse
/ GLENN ARE STILL MISSING


sack and covered with the earth. About
twenty yards from where the trunk
was found, Glenn's outer clothing
we're found buried and a search OF
the house In which Marksberry lived
disclosed Glenn's hat, shoes and shirt
hid among the rafters Of the garrett.
Buttons also were found in an ash pile
which led officers to believe that the
dead mans underwear had been burn
ed.
Attempts to find the missing head
and limbs buried on the farm were
unsuccessful yesterday and all at
tempts to get a confession from
Marksberry at the local jail Sunday
afternoon were also futile. For more
than an hour in the presence OF rep
resentatives of the press and officials,
Chief of Police Ort gave Marksberry
as severe a grilling as ever man was
put under and the man did not break
in the least, contending rnat he was
innocent and that he knew nothing
about Glenn's murder. Marksberry
answered all questions put to him
without hesitation and told fairly
we'll connected story.
1t is understood that Marksberry,
through his attorney. Duke Hargett,
will waive an examining trial and VIII
probably be kept in the Covington jail
until the next term of the Bracken
Circuit Court which begins in Febru-
ary
Marksberry Statement
In a statement at the Covington jail
Sunday night Marksberry said:
81 know nothing about Jess's death,
but am as certain to go to the cleo
trio chair for 1t as am standing here,
for l have not witnesses to prove my
innocence. This case has been framed
I'D on me by two men with whom Jess
left my house to go hunting, but
have no witnesses to prove II"
1--WE tried to find girl with whom
Glenn went to Augusta election day,
but failed" he said. "The automobile
got from Jess by trading him an
other machine that I got the day be-
fore from a man who lives at Silver
Grove, friend of Jess. Jess drove
away in this machine Wednesday
morning to meet this man and anoth-
er man at Augusta to go hunting.
have never seen him since, and l be-
lieved they killed him.
81 can prove by a man at Utopia,
Ohio, that Jess was with me when
tried to sell him the three dogs. When
l went back Thursday to complete the
sale to him, he was not at home, and
sold them to another man at Felic-
ity. Ohio.
81 can't imagine how the shirt and
pocketbook got into the attic at my
home. The pocketbook is the one that
Jess had when he left. Jess had $50
in 1t with $50 more that 1 had given
him In trade of the two automobiles.
"The body couldn't have been buried
where they say 1t was found very long,
for / passed that spot every day, and
would have noticed the ground torn up
If it had been there"
Must Have Had Help
A representative Of Glenn's brother
came here Sunday evening to talk
with Marksberry in regard to the
crime not knowing that Marksberry
had been rushed to the Covington jail.
This man says that Glenn's brother is
strongly opposed to a mob believing
that If Marksberry is guilty of the
crime which all indications seem to
prove, he had some assistance in the
Job. The brother says that the execu
ton of the body was done so perfectly
that one person could hardly do the
job by himself and must have had
some assistance. This Bracken coun-
ty. man reported that although there
was much excitement in the neighbor
hood Of Bracken county where Glenn
lived, there was now little danger of
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