Sheriff Plummer, at once
went to Frankfort, Ky., and secured a requisition for the men from
Governor Bradley. He then took the papers to Columbus, O., where
Governor Bushnell, after a close scrutiny honored them and the Sheriff
returned to Cincinnati to serve them on the Sheriff of Hamilton County,
Ohio, in whose custody the prisoners were.

The prisoners were arraigned in the Police Court of Cincinnati a number
of times charged with murder, and their cases continued, to give the
Kentucky authorities an opportunity to take action.

After the indictment of Jackson and Walling in Kentucky, the charge was
changed to "Fugitives from Justice" and on this were they held until the
requisition papers were procured and served.

In the meantime the detectives, police and Kentucky officers were at
work running down rumors and clews which sprang up on every side.

The hat worn by Pearl Bryan, was found on the side of the road just back
of Newport and was fully identified by her sister. The hat was weighted
down with a stone wrapped in a bloody handkerchief which was identified
as the property of Jackson.

George H. Jackson a negro, came forward and told a very plain
straight-forward story of having driven, Jackson, Walling and Pearl
Bryan in a surey drawn by a gray horse from Cincinnati to the scene of
the murder. The police put great faith in this story until it was proven
absolutely false, and that the negro had concocted the story with the
expectation of securing the reward, or for gaining notoriety. An
investigation of his previous record showed it to be a very unsavory
one. No one doubted the guilt of the prisoners under arrest, but great
difficulty was found in securing evidence on which they could be
convicted.

The officers claimed to have sufficient evidence but refused to divulge
it, and the granting of the requisition papers by Governor Bradley of
Kentucky, and the honoring of those papers of Governor Bushnell of Ohio,
showed that there was certainly stronger evidence than had been given
the public.

As soon as the requisition papers were served on the Sheriff of Hamilton
County, Ohio, and an effort made by Sheriff Plummer, to take charge of
the prisoners, and take them to Kentucky, it was evident that a terrible
fight would be made by the counsel for the prisoners to keep Jackson and
Walling from being taken to Kentucky.

Learned and able counsel had been secured by the relatives of each of
the prisoners and f