Description
On January 27, 1896, twenty-three-year-old Pearl Bryan of Greencastle, Indiana, boarded a train bound for Cincinnati. It appears Pearl was intent on convincing the father of her unborn child to do the honorable thing. Instead, he and an accomplice betrayed and tragically killed her, in what many newspaper accounts described as the crime of the century. Through numerous retellings of these events, most of which have been highly sensational and only marginally accurate, this story has taken a life of its own, becoming one of folk legend.
This study of the betrayal of Pearl Bryan is taken exclusively from thousands of pages of trial transcripts, depositions, contemporary newspaper accounts and other primary source documents. Those that are familiar with this story will be pleased to finally get an accurate description of the events. Others should find this account of her short life and tragic death fascinating.
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