People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — HOLLINGSWORTH LET GO. [ARTICLE]

HOLLINGSWORTH LET GO.

Police Ba jr Her Story of Pearl Bryan la False. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12.—After doing more or less talking, Lulu May Hollingsworth, who has made herself notorious by her alleged knowledge of the Pearl Bryan murder, was released from police headquarters yesterday. Police Superintendent Colbert says that he is satisfied that the girl hast been lying all the way through, and as the Cincinnati police say they do not want her, the Indianapolis police have no further use for her. Greencastle, Ind., Feb. 12—The commissioners were called together yesterday to take some action in the Bryan murder case. It is proposed to offer a reward of SSOO for the recovery of the head of the murdered girl, in the hope of stimulating the search for it. The body still awaits burial, and will nef be taken from the vault until the case is finally disposed of. Cincinnati, Feb. 12.—Not a step of progress was made Tuesday toward the solution of the Fort Thomas tragedy. It has been clearly established that Pearl Bryan put herself in the hands of Scott Jackson on Monday night, Jan. 27. Where the girl stayed on Monday night and Tuesday night, Jan. 27 and 2S, is known beyond a doubt. Where she spent Wednesday and Thursday nights, Jan. 29 and 30, is still unknown. On Thursday forenoon and Friday night she was seen. A Kentucky woman going home in her carriage late Friday night heafd a woman’s screams near Fort Thomas. Men in Covington and Newport, Ky„ remember seeing a vehicle passing at an unusually late hour Friday night, driven at great speed.