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Title: The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan
or: the Headless Horror.

Author: Unknown

Release Date: August 2, 2009 [EBook #29569]

Language: English

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THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER
OF
Pearl Bryan,
OR:
THE HEADLESS HORROR.

A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER
KNOWN AS THE
Fort Thomas Tragedy,
FROM BEGINNING TO END.

Full Particulars of all Detective and Police
Investigations.

Dialogues of the Interviews between Mayor Caldwell,
Chief Deitsch and the Prisoners.

Copyright by BARCLAY & CO.

Illustration: PEARL BRYAN.
Engraved after the only Photograph that she ever had taken during her
life-time.

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF PEARL BRYAN,
OR:
THE HEADLESS HORROR

Fort Thomas, Kentucky, is most beautifully located near the banks of the
Ohio river, on the Highlands, just above and on the opposite side from
Cincinnati, Ohio. Although a comparatively new U. S. Military Post, it
has long been a historical point, and in the early days of the
Corncracker State, and while yet a portion of the County of Kentucky in
the State of Virginia, was the home of the red men. There are persons
yet living whose parents fought bloody battles with the Indians on the
ground now occupied as a U. S. Fort, and that adjacent thereto; a
picturesque portion of which is the scene of this true narrative of one
of the most terrible tragedies of the nineteenth Century.

The tragedy referred to was committed at the dead of night in a lonely
spot near the Fort, January 31st, 1896.

By the manner in which it was committed, it re-called the days of old,
when tyrants beheaded their victims, and the murderer at heart, who was
yet too cowardly to commit the deed, hired some one to do it, requiring
in evidence that the deed had been done, that the head should be severed
f