"Mrs. Stanley, I do not know."
The same question was asked Walling to which he coldly and without any semblance of feeling, replied:
"I do not know where it is."
The same evening Pearl Bryan's headless body was taken back to her home in Greencastle accompanied by her brother, sister and friends.
CORONER'S INQUEST.
Coroner W. S. Tingley, of Campbell County, began the formal inquest in the famous case, on Tuesday Feb. 11. E. G. Lohmeyer, a jeweler; A. J. Mosset, a steamboat agent; W. C. Botts, a coal dealer; John Link, ex-Chief of the Fire Department; Michael Donelan, a shoe-manufacturer, and F. A. Autenheimer, a retired steamboat Captain, were selected as jurors. The first witness called was Sheriff Plummer.
"Please state if on February 1 you saw the headless body of a woman on the premises of John Lock, in the Highlands?"
"I did."
"What evidence have you to submit in identifying the body?"
"The body was Pearl Bryan, of Greencastle, Ind. I received information that the body was that of a woman at Greencastle, and went there for that purpose. The clothing found on the headless body and the shoes were identified by Mrs. J. F. Stanley as belonging to her sister, Miss Pearl Bryan. Frederick Bryan corroborated Mrs. Stanley's identification, and afterward identified the headless body as the corpse of their sister, Pearl Bryan."