Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 February 1896 — Page 2
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PUBLIC FEELING.
MAY HOLLINGSWORTH
May
A Public Meeting Thin Morning at mark
A; llliU’k'H store.
A Inrtr^ crowd of Grei-ncaatle and Putnam county citizens met at tlie store of Black »t Black this morning and held a consultation as to the advisability of raising a sum ot money lor the recovery of the head of Miss Bryan, and for the further assisting of the family in the ease. The following paper was drawn up and is now being circulated and liberally signed by Greeueastle and
1 Bn ant s death.
was
Tell How Pearl Bryan Killed and who Did it.
The lourth actor in the great Bryan murder mystery ease was arrested in Indianapolis yesterday atternoon. Marshal Starr devel oped the t«r»t cornet clew in the case, and yesterday afternoon by a
the initials signed to the letter sent to Mr. Starr were those of Hal E. Radclifte, a Baltimore truve.ing salesman, who had been with her on Friday night. This was the| dav before the letter was written. Mr. Starr at once saw that the srirl was a valuable witness and at once placed her under arrest, taking her to the central police station. Then Superintendent Colbert put
line piece of work, made a capture
...... , , ... her in the sweat box for two hours,
that it is reasonably sure, will clear,
Putnam county citizens: Urkkncasti.k, Ind., Feb. 10, ’90.
The undersigned as a further ex pres-
In company with
a Ban nek Times reporter Mr. Starr left at 1 :;!*) p. m. over theVandalia
sion of sympathy for the bereaved family f 0 r Indianapolis. He had in his
inside pocket a letter written on
Seats on sale at I.amles’ Book
Store.
CEO. E. BLAKE, Greencastle, Ind., General Insurance, Heal Estate And Loan Agent. Money Loaned At a Very Low Rate of Interest
of A. S. Bryan agiee to pay the amount set opposite our respective name- lo assist them ill paying the great expense to which they have been subjeeteil by the most atrocious crime to them and
tin- entire community.
This paper will be left at Black A Black's for signets who may not be seen by the canvassers.
A .Mini Scene.
The remains of Miss Pearl Bryan arriyed in this city Saturday at midnight over the Vaiidalia. The reports reaching here early in the night were that the party would come via the Big Four. There were about twenty people at the depot when the train pulled in. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were present also Frank. Mr. E. L. Harris, Mrs. Mary Stanley and Fred Bryan accompanied the remains. The snow
DO YOU
WEAR A NIGHT GOWN AND OF COURSE . . .. YOU SAY YtsS.
Then no matter whether you be man or woman, we have some that will interest you, PRICE
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.i , * 1 and this is her story : the manner and causes of Pearl - 7
•Ian. 28 hist, the day on which Will Wood admits that he put the girl on the train at Greencastle, May Hollingsworth says she was sitting in the ladies’ waiting room at the Union Station at the time the train from Greencastle arrived. She was not there by prearrangement with any one, and simply
February 8, directed to the chief of happened to be present at that precise HI- Tbo envelop, ASSVrJ Z bote mailing stamp of the l nion wait nj room was a young girl, she Su.ion. Imtiftnapolie, Ind , Febru- IlSCW! ary 8, It) a. m. I ha letter was as She stood fora moment and then a look ft Hows • recognition passed over her face, and ' i she advanced with outstretched hand
Feb. 8, 1890. . s.ying, "Aren’t you May Holhngs-
Sir: ; worth?” “Yes, that is my name.” she Some information of importance can replied, hut 1 don t remember you. he obtained concerning the murder of ^ :l111 'call Br\ an, of Greencastle j Miss Pearl Bryan, if you will call on or bon l you rememher m - f I hen May '
arrest Miss May Hollingsworth. No. I Hollingsworth says she recalled meet-!— ; —— Henry street. Indianapolis Ind. I }'" ^Vm^nts U her acquaintance with the parties. I is afraid of her he mg .mphea eu and by " d on indiftIre i's wh e:. ^ said she first met Pearl Bryan at • leteetives seeing her they will find out 1 Terre II,.me three or four years ago she knows of causes of death amlnedl- ipS old her she I While the latter was there visiting a ernes Used If she is held as a witness., ^ j , , , e- • friend al 1 oa.es t ollege. After that will testify what She has told me-at, ‘ ' h e g dd and wa"o “her w b.e -aw her a lew times at Greencastle, informan who will watch her move- ^ ^ but up the time of their .nee.ing in the menu until you see her. bhe has been to^.m r tw Union Nation she had not seenVr for
I ahout two years. Scott Jackson and Will Wood .he had met on various occasions al Terre Haute, Vincennes, her former home,) Greencastle and
until you see her.
thinking of leaving the city so see —
at once, the ter t he better. H. K. R. was going there to hide her disgrace She knows mv name by initials use : , i” I erhaps have an abortion performed and can tell votl where lYive. . rlle, b t' 10 Hollingsworth girl says Mis-
Bryan asked her if she knew of any
’1 had had
Marshal Starr went direct to the j drug that would belt) her. “I had had j Indianapolis. She would not admit
white casket was transferred to the Central ^.etationand consulted » 8i..nlar cxivnenec and knew what to vea" hearse and during the tall ol P u,e superintendent Colber*,. Mr. Starr superiittciideht. -'l t!dd"in.| 11 wlla/to ' “Ifo-Hie tiim- she went tic re on'one white snow the funeral paity re- . eived hundrt . ( i 9 of anonv- T,1, ‘ tueserintio,, was made of iram a.nl reiurn-d on the next She naired to beautiful Forest Hill . ' tlin ‘ e dlflerent articles, one of whicli sa>s M ill Wood has nexer written to * ; r.xous com mu n leal ions in his career 1 was whiskey and another a deadly | * ,H1 ' a hout 1 earls ease and has never cemetery where the casket and its a8 Ina| . 8 i,. l | and oftPn , )11VH no llt poison. The drugs were bought In this I t0 sce , _ lcr to request that she
burden was placed in the public , ‘ . ‘ 1 >’ity and the girl took i hem win to 1 .... . I tention to their contents but the la j Cincinnati. It cost U> cents to get the
mHiaritv of /the Hollingsworth i; r T r . i . pt ,' ,, . n1 um » >0 * itive th “'
n htllP kllloil IkGt-WI name and the general
ahout the whole case led him to follow the pointer given him. He
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vault. The interment will be made!
privately at a later date.
A Beauliful Paca ismadedoubly attractive — a plain face seems less plarn—if accompanied by a graceful figure. The
she killed hersi
mystery "liiil you bu that medicine?” asked
Call and see him before infr elsewhere.
clos-
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Address all communications to Tin; Dau.v Banner Times. Qreencaatle. Ind.
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; the supei inteimei t. ! “I will not answer that question.” “Who ilhl buy it—was it a man or a
! woman?”
••It was a woman.” “Where was it bought?” “It was bought at three different
bug stores.
“Book here. May,” saul he. “You
Be
tucky until 1864 when she removed to I is a rickety brick structure poorly joint;?’
Boone county, Indiana, with her father fumiaiiod the Uml IhiIv \fra \f.rv Then slie answered him definitely, and re,mu 1 there until 1865. She j. ,, 1’ u ^ ^.ving .hat she would not answer that
WalterB, being a haru woiking question under any circumstances* She met the party at the j ‘ Y 011 , . U!,k '; me to say anything
. . , ... son on the ease who accompanied ol a long and serious illness of consump-> t r
lion. Age 50 years, 2 months, 21 days. ^ ‘^ r- ^ ,,,l 1 Her childhood days were spent in Ken- 'll tile letter.
the residence named
No 1 Henry street might as well tell me. the truth.
J | honest, now'; didn’t you buy that u
w;«s married to Elsberry C’onkrightj April 18th, 1865 and returned to Ken-I womal1 '
tucky and there remained until Oct.7th iloor “"d without ceremony a call 1865, and then returned to Indiana ! was made for Miss Hollingsworth, whieh has been her home until death. T| 1L . g j r i pnme into the room and at Twelve children was born unto them, j flrn wae nervoug in the p re8e nce of ten of which survive her, and one grand- , M , i i child. She is of a family of seven I the 0 ® cer * but soon quieted down hrotliers and sisters: one sister, twoj a ''d wno as cool and collected as a brothers and her father survives her. nickel in a missionary box.
She united with the M. E. church at Farrow's Chapel, in 1869, since whicli time she has lived a consistent Christian life in private and before the world. I
Mr. Marr plied her with all kinds of questions and made her admit i that she met Pearl Bryan in Indi-
.She was a kind and loving mother and , na P°l' 9 on ^ an - w hen Pearl w ife, and four children and husband j went to Cincinnati. Miss Hollings belong to the church to w hicli the i xvorth said the meeting was mother belongs. The following tribute but 8 , e in t , |i8 wa8 was submitted by the children. . .... ■ • c-l , We watched he. breathing throuah the nisht I thou g ht to ,,e '-Ving. bhe knows
And pruytsl she must not k"
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.
lint when the morn came dim and sad Our tcars came then in showers. Her quiet eyelids closed and then she Imd another morn than ours. Her dear, sweet smiles no more we see. No more hei lips can kiss, And yet what comfort 'tls to knoxv she reigns In havenly nllss! Heaven now retains our treasure, Kurth her lonely casket keeps, And the sunbeams love to linger Where our darling mother sleeps. From her lonely, lovely children.
that would incriminate mvself. You knoxv that there is no court iu tne world that would require me to answer that question. Yes, you knoxv more than that; you knoxv no judge would allow me to answer.” She simply stood upon her legal rights, and the superintendent afterwards said he kn w sne had the best of the argument on that
proposition.
“1 do know this,” she continued, “Pearl Bryan died by her own hand. Scott Jackson i» no: guilty of her death. Before this murder occurred there was an aftair in which Pe rl Bryan, Scott Jackson and 1 xvere involved. I will never tell xvhat that "as unless they are condemned to hang. If they are condemned to die, then I will tell the whole story, hut not until then.” •‘When did you see Will Wood?” she
was then asked.
“1 saw him on the Friday following
■Jacksouaml Wood but not Wall-1 the day Pearl was here. Hewasonhis ing. She told among other mat. | w ^y b( ^ d|d , y ®® n 8 d a ’ y t0 him? Djj you
lers at the house that slife had been i talk about Pearl?”
Yes, we talked about Pearl. Nothing
would advise Pearl what lo get to produce an abortion. The drugs she had recommended her to use would produce (he desiied effects in nine hours without any harmful results, if the directions for taking the medicine xvere followed. One of the ingredients of the compound was a deadly poison site admitted, and it not taken properly the
mixture would produce death. As to her past life, she said that she
had lived at Indianapolis most of the time since her arrest three years ago, xvtien she came to this city, after running axvay from Coates College. She said she had been a “good girl” since the 1st of last April. She kept house by herself until about three months ago, xvtien she xvent to live with Mrs. Alice Shull, at No 1 Henry street,
w here she was arrested last night. No amount of persuasion would in-
duce her to reveal the contents of the letter which -he destroyed. When aaketl if it xva.s from Jackson, she said . that she would neither admit nor deny I
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Convention Caklft.
In obedience to the directions of the Indiana Republican State Central committee the republicans of Putnam county are hereby called to meet in mass convention at the
anything concering it. Admitting her ' Uourt House in Greencastle at 11
in Greencastle a year or so ago to visit a Miss Ida Johnson, of Charleston, 111., a student of De Pauw university, and met 8cott Jackson here. She further said
Si'KD news to Telephone 95.
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assertion that site lias talked with no one since the crime, and that she has read nothing about it until the last two days to he true, the police ask how could she formulate her hypothetical case, so complete in all its details, unless she had received a letter from Jackson or some one acquainted with
all the facts.
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was said about the purpose of her visit to Cincinnati. Nothing whatever was said as to her condition.” The woman insisted that she had not seen Will Wood prior to that time, witli reference to I’earl’s ease, and that nothing was said about her visit to Cincin-
nati.
“How lung had you known Heoti Jackson and Will Wood?” “Oh. for several years. I used to visit Greencastle. 1 had a friend in (•allege there, Ida Jackson. I was there about txvo years ago. Then, a year ago, I went down there one forenoon and came hack the same day.” Will Wood had not met her by appointment, she said, and their meeting was accidental. “What makes you so sure that she was not murdered ?” “Well, I have a theory. Suppose, fn instance, that she went to < inciiiniiti and took the dings; suppose that Scott Jackson came to her loom and found her in what lie thought was a dying condition: xvhat would be his first impulse? If she had died there in that room—I am sure she took the medicine in a room, as I understand she was first found xvearing u wrapper—would not he, death become known and would not he be implicated? The first tiling lie would do would be to get her to a place where her body would not he found. I um confident that Hi at is what h> did. I believe he took tier to that lonely spot ami laid her on the ground, where she I died a few moments afterwards. Then would it not lie natural tor him to think j about destroying her identity? What would be more simple than to decapi-I fate her dead body? I tell you xvhat. it j is. that head was thrown in the <>hii>| river. If they drag the river they will find it. “Where did you get the information on xvlc'c'i you base this theory? Have I you seen ativ one from Cincinnati?” ‘•No,” slu* answered. “1 have not seen anyone and I liax’e had no word from anyone concerning the crime, I i didn’t know anything ahout the case j until two days ago.” Then the superintendant tried to induce her to admit that the letter which she destroyed xv:xs from Jackson and | that it contained the details of the crime,, lust us stated in tier hypothetical case, j But she would not admit that, to be true. By dint of cross-questioning the. superintendent then got further details I
SW'cl mill* I<<‘Hinne operations. Joliet, Ills., Feb. 10.—The Illinois Steel company s mills in this city, employing about 2,700 men, resumed work this morning after a six week's shut down. The wage question with the amalgamated association was satisfactorily adjusted. MmljcMlut Joins Her Compitny. Cincinnati, Feb. 10.—Madame Modjeska, who has been ill in this city for several weeks, left last night to join her company in Chicago. Hit physicians think her health is sufficiently restored to enable her to resume tier professional duties. Horne With Siiixl In lift Stomach. Niucs, Mich., Feb. 10.—A valuable horse belonging to a Van Buren county fanner was recently so peculiarly afflicted as to puzzle the veterinary surgeons. The horse died, and the post mortem showed that there was over a peck of sand in the animal's stomach. The sand is supposed to have been swallowed with drinking water, and, accumulating in the stomach, caused that organ to burst. Mother uml Jhiughti'r Heanltea. Hammond, Ind., Feb. 10.—Nineteen years ago Grace Fisher was “put out” to be reared by a family in New York. She was then but 3 years of age, and lost all trace of her mother. Recently she visited a sister in St. Paul and there learned that her mother lived in this (dty. She arrived here Saturday and found her mother. A happy reunion followed, and the joy of the mother and daughter, si parated for 19years, was in-
describable.
o’clock a. m , on Saturday March 7th 1896, for the purposes following to wit: To select twelve (12) delegates to the Congresiional District convention to be held at Greencastle on the 19th day of March 1896; To select twelve (12) delegates to the State convention to be held at Indianapolis on the 7th day of May 1896; To select twelye (12) delegates to the Fifth District Congressional convention to he held at Martinsville on the 16th day of April 1896; Also to select delegates to the Joint Senatorial, Joint liepresentative and Judicial conventions, the time, place and number in each instance to be
hereafter determined.
Arthur Throop, C. B. Case,
Secretary. Chairman.
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