Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — That Cedar Lake Sensation. [ARTICLE]

That Cedar Lake Sensation.

The human head found in a paper sack, at Cedar Lake, has created quite a sensation, and as such has been worked for all it is worth, and a good deal more than it is worth, by some sensational papers. Some one, said to have been the sheriff of Lake county, started the ridiculous suggestion that it was Pearl Bryan’s head, and on the basis of that absurd suggestion last night’s Chicago i American had a circus poster all [over its front page about the [matter, from which it is evident [ that that disreputable and villainous sheet is very hard up for a sensation. And what made its ■performance all the more absurd [was that the suggestion that it ( might be Pearl Bryan’s head was l at once disproved by the relatives of the latter, at Greencastle. The head at Cedar Lake had some false teeth and other peculiar dental work, and the Pearl Bryan relatives say that she had no false teeth. I It is now claimed that the head » is a woman’s, it being, as asserted, too small for a man’s.