Jackson and Walling, the hanging.
These five pictures are all from 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. It's from 1896.
the shoe, and it's sale point.
Make no mistake, the scene of the crime was a huge tourist draw.
The are lyrics to to other, different ballads about Pearl Bryan here and here.
identified at least six different songs, with variations within those six, about Pearl Bryan.
One of the most interesting things we've read on the Pearl Bryan Tragedy is this piece by Robert Wilhelm, who has looked at the circumstances, and argues that there may, indeed, have been reason to look beyond Jackson and Walling, who were swung into eternity protesting their innocence, as the real killers.
They found her head! On at least 7 different occasions.
For the record, NKYViews doesn't believe any of these are really Pearl. We could be wrong. We also think this is an inordinately large number of found heads.