, and Saturday March, 7.,
fixed as the date for hearing on the requisition papers. Rumors of all
kinds prevailed, and squadrons of police were placed in line guarding
closely every inch of the way from the jail to the court room. It was
intended at first to convey the prisoners from the jail to the court
room through the underground passage way, or tunnel, which has been
prepared for just such cases of emergency. For this purpose the tunnel
was cleared of every obstacle, but when all was in readiness, it was
discovered that the key to the massive gate at the entrance to the
tunnel from the jail yard had been misplaced and could not be found, and
it was necessary to take them through the streets. Before the prisoners
arrived however, another consultation between the attorneys in the case
resulted in an agreement for another continuance, and Jackson and
Walling were before the court but a few minutes, when they were again
remanded to jail and Saturday March, 7., set for a final hearing on
their requisition. Col. Robert W. Nelson, one of the brightest and
leading legal lights of Kentucky, an able prosecutor, fearless and
aggressive and universally feared by criminals, volunteered his services
to aid in the prosecution of, as he termed it, "villains of the deepest
dye, who are without doubt guilty of the most heinous crime and greatest
outrage ever put upon the fair name and fame of Kentucky."

The attorneys for the defense had selected Judge Buchwalter as the judge
to hear their case for the reason that this same judge had but shortly
before refused to deliver a prisoner, a negro fugitive, charged with
murder, to the Kentucky authorities although Kentucky's Governor had
made a requisition which had been honored and granted by Governor
McKinley of Ohio. Buchwalter held that the negroe's life would not be
safe in Kentucky and refused to hand him over to the Kentucky
authorities. This was a ruling without precedent and the attorneys for
Walling and Jackson hoped to work on the Judges prejudices against
Kentucky and obtain a similar ruling in their cases. Public sentiment
however, was too strong, and no matter how much Judge Buchwalter may
have disliked to honor a requisition from Kentucky, he saw that public
feeling was in no humor to be trifled with in the case of the murderers
of Pearl Bryan. At the hearing of the case on March, 7., the State of
Kentucky, Jule Plummer, Sheriff of Campbell County, agent, through his
attorney