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Ealse.CHICAGO, October 2.—Experts on bones will bo called on to determine the character of the skull found In Cedar lake. A portion of the scalp and some teeth were dropped from the lake yesterday bjr a searching party, but no other portion of the body was found.Sheri IT Lawrence, of Crown Point, Ind., says: Althouph we are completely at sea repardlnp the Identity of the person whose head was found In Cedar lake, yet we have two points worked out whloh may enable us eventually to clear up the mystery. The head Is that of a woman, and she was a resident of or had visited a larpe city. The mouth-plate and the two false teeth attached to It tell this story. We have had several dentists examine the plate. They all say that It Is from the mouth of a medlum-slsed woman—that It le too small to have been from the mouth of a man.”Sheriff Lawrence has also evolved a startllnp theory In the mysterious And. and that Is thst the head Is none other than that of Pearl Bryan, who was murdered at Ft. Thomas, Ky.. a few years apo. The head of Miss Bryan was taken away In a punnv sack like that which inclosed the find In Cedar lake, and she wore a plate In her mouth.Actinp on this theory. Sheriff Lawrence hae Instructed his deputy to write to the father of Pearl Bryan.IT 18 NOT PEARL BRYAN'S.She Had No Falsa Teeth or DentalPlate.[Special to Ths Indianapolis New*.] OREENCA8TLE. Ind., October 2.—The description of the teeth and dental work of the skull found at Cedar Lake. Ind., shewed that It can not be the head of Pearl Bryan. Pearl Bryan's teeth ooo-talned six pold fllllnps and elpht or ten • assent fllllnps without plates of any de-pcrlptlon or false teeth.
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 02, 1900
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