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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.
Transcriber's Notes:
The Table of Contents was generated as an aid to the reader.
The original text does not contain pages numbered 1 through 18.
Additional spacing after the block quotes is intentional to indicate both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as presented in the original text.
Usage of possessive apostrophe in the original is sporadic and often incorrect (not corrected).
Phonetic misspellings were corrected only if necessary for clarity or if spelled correctly elsewhere in the original.
The following misspellings and misprints were corrected:
"emidiately" corrected to "immediately" (Page 21)
"gratuated" corrected to "graduated" (page 22)
"dotting" corrected to "doting" (page 22)
"cupids" corrected to "cupid's" (page 22)
"later" corrected to "latter" (page 24, 84)
"accurrences" corrected to "occurrences" (page 26)
"sucessful" corrected to "successful" (Page 32)
"brocken" corrected to "broken" (page 32)
"Deitsh" corrected to "Deitsch"(Page 35)
"of" corrected to "off" (Page 35)
"Mitchel" corrected to "Mitchell" (Page 40)
"Carother's" corrected to "Carothers" (Page 43)
"Pook" corrected to "Poock" (Page 44)
"telegramm" corrected to "telegram" (Page 44)
"own" corrected to "owe" (page 45)
"rembling" corrected to "resembling" (page 45)
"two" corrected to "too" (page 46)
"Deitch" corrected to "Deitsch" (Page 48)
"Jakson" corrected to "Jackson" (page 49)
"undoudtedly" corrected to "Undoubtedly" (page 50)
"Where" corrected to "were" (page 52)
"frow" corrected to "from" (page 54)
"abrations" corrected to "abrasions" (page 58)
"wether" corrected to "whether?" (page 59)
"Kentuky" corrected to "Kentucky" (page 60)
"apparant" corrected to "apparent" (page 61)
"of" corrected to "off" (page 63)
"o'oclock" corrected to "o'clock?" (page 67)
"shoes" corrected to "shows" (page 67)
"ihm" corrected to "him" (page 71)
"Jakson" corrected to "Jackson" (page 71)
"vaise" corrected to "valise" (Page 72)
"barbor" corrected to "barber" (Page 74)
"carefull" corrected to "careful" (Page 75)
"to" corrected to "too" (page 75)
"a" corrected to "at" (page 76)
"writting" corrected to "writing" (page 78)
"lenghty" corrected to "lengthy" (page 79, 93)
"Cirm" corrected to "Crim" (page 81)
"sattin" corrected to "satin" (page 84)
"Highland's" corrected to "Highlands" (Page 86)
"Allonzo" corrected to "Alonzo" (page 87)
"pregancy" corrected to "pregnancy" (page 87)
"Cincinnti" corrected to "Cincinnati" (page 87)
"opeartion" corrected to "operation" (page 87)
"Farnkfort" corrected to "Frankfort" (page 90)
"requisiton" corrected to "requisition" (page 90)
"Hamiton" corrected to "Hamilton" (page 90)
"arrainged" corrected to "arraigned" (page 90)
"detectivs" corrected to "detectives" (page 90)
"connecetd" corrected to "concocted" (page 90)
"pirsoners" corrected to "prisoners" (page 91)
"feard" corrected to "feared" (page 92)
"dicision" corrected to "decision" (page 95)
"Aprl" corrected to "April" (page 101)
"occured" corrected to "occurred" (page 103)
"defendent" corrected to "defendant" (Page 107)
"Jugde" corrected to "Judge" (page 107)
"claass-mates" corrected to "class-mates" (page 110)
"Jacskon" corrected to "Jackson" (page 112)
"severence" corrected to "severance" (Page 114)
"quesiton" corrected to "question" (page 115)
"were" corrected to "where" (page 116)
"Jackosn" corrected to "Jackson" (page 117)
"Jonhson" corrected to "Johnson" (page 119)
"form" corrected to "from" (page 119)
"fonud" corrected to "found" (page 121)
"Jackosn" corrected to "Jackson" (page 121)
"there occassions" corrected to "three occasions" (page 122)
"Jackosn" corrected to "Jackson" (page 124)