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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan + or: the Headless Horror. + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: August 2, 2009 [EBook #29569] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERIOUS MURDER--PEARL BRYAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net from +images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital +Library. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/title.jpg" alt="The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: The Headless Horror" /></div> +<div class="page"><a href="#titlepage">Text of Title Page</a></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents"> +<tr><td align="center"><strong><span class="u">Table of Contents</span></strong></td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#story">The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan</a></td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#history">The History of the Tragedy.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#burial">Pearl Bryan's headless remains buried at Greencastle.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#trial">The Trial of Scott Jackson.</a></td></tr></table> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/pearl.jpg" alt="Pearl Bryan" /><br /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Pearl Bryan.</span></span><br /> +<span class="caption">Engraved after the only Photograph that she ever had taken during her life-time.</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="story" id="story"></a>THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF</h2> +<h1>PEARL BRYAN,</h1> +<h3>——OR:——</h3> +<h2><span class="smcap">The Headless Horror.</span></h2> +<hr style="width: 30%;" /> +<p> </p> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/fancyf.png" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="F" /></div><p>ort Thomas, Kentucky, is most beautifully located near the banks of the +Ohio river, on the Highlands, just above and on the opposite side from +Cincinnati, Ohio. Although a comparatively new U. S. Military Post, it +has long been a historical point, and in the early days of the +Corncracker State, and while yet a portion of the County of Kentucky in +the State of Virginia, was the home of the red men. There are persons +yet living whose parents fought bloody battles with the Indians on the +ground now occupied as a U. S. Fort, and that adjacent thereto; a +picturesque portion of which is the scene of this true narrative of one +of the most terrible tragedies of the nineteenth Century.</p> + +<p>The tragedy referred to was committed at the dead of night in a lonely +spot near the Fort, January 31st, 1896.</p> + +<p>By the manner in which it was committed, it re-called the days of old, +when tyrants beheaded their victims, and the murderer at heart, who was +yet too cowardly to commit the deed, hired some one to do it, requiring +in evidence that the deed had been done, that the head should be severed +from the body and returned to the employer.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>To re-call such deeds of horror to the minds of the people of a highly +civilized nation at the close of the nineteenth Century by the actual +commission of a similar deed, struck horror to the hearts of the people, +and they were worked up to a pitch that had never been witnessed in this +country before. Telephones and telegraph were called into service, and +the finding of the headless body of a young and doubtless beautiful +woman in a sequestered spot near Fort Thomas, was flashed around the +world. So shocked was the country over this ghastly find that the +metropolitan papers from one end of this country to the other informed +their representatives in the Queen City to wire full particulars of the +horrible deed, without any limit to the words to be used.</p> + +<p>It was the most diabolical cold-blooded premediated outrage ever +committed in a civilized community. The entire surrounding country, +including the three cities, Cincinnati, O., Covington and Newport, Ky., +were startled from center to circumference and aroused as it never had +been before. The Sixth Regiment U. S. Infantry, commanded by Col. +Cochran, which is stationed at Fort Thomas, was astounded that such an +outrage should be committed almost within the guard lines of the Fort. +Aged and battle-scarred veterans who had gone through the great civil +war, only a generation before, when brother stood in battle array +against brother, father against son, neighbor against neighbor, flocked +to the spot where the headless body lay, and stood with blanched faces, +struck dumb with amazement, at the boldness of the deed and horrible +manner in which it had been committed.</p> + +<p>In an old orchard in the confines proper of the Fort, about midway +between the Highland and Alexandria pikes, on the farm of James Lock, +and near the fence which acts as a boundary line for Mr. Lock's farm, +was found by James Hewling, a young man, on Saturday morning, Feb. 1., +1896, the decapitated body of a young woman of venus-like form, the +headless body lying with the neck in a pool of blood.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>From the position of the body it was evident that the woman had been +thrown down violently and then her head deliberately severed with a dull +knife. The severance was made below the fifth vertebra. Judging by the +pool of blood, life had been extinct from four to eight hours when the +body was found.</p> + +<p>The clothing of the woman was of poor quality. The dress was light blue +and white, small pattern check, of cotton, worn tight across the back +and loose in front. She also wore a dark blue skirt and a union suit of +underwear. On her hands was a pair of tan kid gloves, well worn. The +black, cloth-topped shoes were of fine quality, in contrast to the other +clothing, and were marked within "Louis & Hays, Greencastle, Ind., +22-11. 62,458." Her stockings were black and blue, new. The rubbers were +old and worn at the heels. The corset had evidently been ripped open and +torn from her body during a struggle which took place near where it was +found. Close by was a piece of the dress, also with blood on it.</p> + +<p>In an almost incredible short time after Hewling gave the alarm, the +soldiers from the Fort, the citizens surrounding it, and hundreds from +the city near-by gathered at the spot and were awe stricken by the sight +which met their eyes.</p> + +<p>Who was the murdered woman and who could have committed the horrible +atrocity? These were questions which were on the lips of every one, and +for the answer of which a most thorough and searching investigation was +at once begun. The best detective talent was immediately put to work. The +people were thoroughly aroused and determined upon having the headless +body identified and the cruel, heartless murderer or murderers brought +to swift justice.</p> + +<p>Leaving the investigation of the deed, we will now go with the reader to +a happy home of a happy family, ranking among the oldest and best +connected families in the state of Indiana, and living on the father's +farm near Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana. Alexander S. Bryan, and +his wife who had lived to honorable old age, respected and loved by all +who knew them, owned this happy home<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> and were the parents of twelve +children, of which at the time of this writing, seven were living, Pearl +being the youngest, of a fine, voluptuous form, with a sweet, lovely +disposition and manners, popular with all who were acquainted with her, +cheerful and happy at all times and was first entering her twenty-second +year. The Bryan family, taking all the relations into account, is the +largest in the state of Indiana, and its standing of the very highest.</p> + +<p>Pearl the baby of the family, petted and feted, had graduated from the +Greencastle High School in 1892, with the highest honors and was the +special favorite of her graduating class. Beautiful in form and +features, highly accomplished, well educated, with a doting father and +mother, well provided with this world's goods, and with whom she was a +favorite daughter, Pearl Bryan had much to live for.</p> + +<p>From the time she left school, aye, even before her graduating year +arrived, she had many admirers, and to look on her was to love, to love +was to lose. She counted her admirers by the score, but to none did she +give her heart, or encourage them in any serious intentions. She was +liked by all, but while she was of a lovable, affectionate disposition, +she allowed none to go beyond the line of admiration, and cupid's swift +and seldom erring shafts, fell harmless by her side.</p> + +<p>Three long years had passed since Pearl had bade "good bye" to her +studies in the Greencastle High School, and although a leader in +society, a guest of honor where-ever she visited, none of her ardent +admirers had made a deeper impression upon her, and her heart was still +her own. Men of high moral character, well supplied with this world's +goods and standing well in business and social circles, would have +eagerly jumped at the opportunity to claim her as their wife. Their +protestations of love however seemed to have no affect upon the mind or +heart of Miss Pearl Bryan.</p> + +<p>Money and position did not have any effect upon her favors, the young +man, struggling hard to make his way in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> life, was as graciously +received and as well treated by her as the young swell, rolling in +luxury and wealth.</p> + +<p>Will Wood, a second cousin of Pearl Bryan, was one of her ardent +admirers, but was treated as one of the family and in no sense as a +lover. He was treated rather as a favorite brother by Miss Pearl, who +made a confidant of him. Wood's father who was a good old Minister lived +only a half mile distant from the Bryan's, and Will spent much of his +time at Pearl's home, and was in her company a great deal. Nothing was +thought of this, at the time, although evil tongues wagged rapidly +afterwards, and many were ready to lay at the door of Will Wood in less +than a year thereafter, direct connection and complicity with a crime +unparallelled in the criminal history of the Nineteenth Century.</p> + +<p>Along in the latter part of 1894, Scott Jackson with his mother moved to +Greencastle, Ind., from Jersey City, N. J. One of Mrs. Jackson's +daughters, the wife of Dr. Edwin Post, of Depauw University, had lived +at Greencastle for many years, and Mrs. Jackson moved there to get near +her daughter. Scott Jackson belonged to a good family, his father being +Commodore Jackson, who commanded many vessels and who stood high in +social circles in New Jersey. Scott cut quite a prominent figure in both +the social and business world. He went to Jersey City with splendid +recommendations. His career there was considerably checkered however, +and he only escaped a long sentence to the penitentiary, which his +partner Alexander Letts is now serving, by turning State's evidence in a +case of embezzlement in which Jackson and Letts had embezzled a large +amount, said to have been $32,000 from the Pennsylvania Railroad +Company.</p> + +<p>Jackson and Letts, it appears, obtained employment of the Pennsylvania +Railroad company, in the Jersey City offices. One of Jackson's duties +was to receive and open the mails.</p> + +<h4>BIG EMBEZZLEMENTS.</h4> + +<p>After a few months extensive robberies in the railroad<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> office were +discovered. They were said to amount to nearly $32,000. They were traced +to Jackson and Letts. It was found, according to testimony during the +two trials that followed, that Jackson abstracted checks from the mail, +and that Letts, to whom he handed them, had them cashed.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile the saloon which they kept had become notorious. They were +acknowledged high flyers in sporting circles. Both had become "plungers" +on the race tracks. It was reported that they made much money, owing to +their lavish expenditures. They "entertained" liberally in their own +particular way, and for a time were looked upon as "good fellows" among +the sporting fraternity, who sought the privilege of their acquaintance. +Jackson was a prominent member of the Entre Nous, an exclusive social +club.</p> + +<p>Suddenly, the Pennsylvania Railroad officials discovered that these two +young men were "sporting" at the expense of the company. Their arrest +followed. At the first trial the jury disagreed.</p> + + +<h4>HE TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE.</h4> + +<p>Before the second trial took place the railroad company discovered such +proof of Jackson's guilt that he found it healthy to turn state's +evidence against Letts. The latter was sentenced to a long term in the +State Prison. Jackson went free and also went away from Jersey.</p> + +<p>News of this escapade and his career in Jersey City never reached +Greencastle and his family there ranking among the best. He was at once +given an entree into society which might well be envied by any young +man. Will Wood, who lived a near neighbor to Mrs. Jackson, and who as +stated was a particular favorite with Pearl Bryan, took a great liking +to Scott Jackson. They were very intimate, in fact became chums.</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/home.jpg" alt="Pearl Bryan's home" /><br /> +<span class="caption">The Home of Pearl Bryan at Greencastle, Ind.—Drawn by our special Artist.</span></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p>Jackson entered the dental college at Indianapolis, and Wood being of a +rather reckless disposition would go to Indianapolis to see Jackson, and +together they would have a big time in the city. Both being fond of +ladies' company, they spent much of their time together in the company +of women of loose moral character and were in several very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> unsavory +escapades, escaping notoriety however under assumed names, which +prevented their families and friends at Greencastle from hearing of +them. With no knowledge of his former career and ignorant of his +escapades while at college at Indianapolis, it is no wonder that he was +a favorite in society when at home. Belonging to an exellent family, he +was outwardly a man whom any father would be proud to have his daughter +associate with. With dimples on his chin and cheeks, a childish smile on +his lips, frank, beautiful, pale violet-blue eyes, he had a most winsome +countenance. But behind the angelic front was hidden a very demon. +Jackson was a monstrosity if you will, a whited sepulchre, and one of +the unaccountable freaks of nature. To those not knowing his habits, a +handsome, affable, pleasing man of fine form and features; to those who +knew him truly, a villain of the deepest dye, a very demon in human +shape.</p> + +<p>Notwithstanding Will Wood knew him as he did, and that Pearl Bryan was +Wood's second cousin the same blood coursing through their veins, Wood +introduced Jackson into the Bryan family in the spring of 1895. It was a +case of love at first sight. From the first meeting between Scott +Jackson and Pearl Bryan, at the colonial mansion of the Bryans on the +hill, Pearl showed that she was most favorably impressed with him. She +who had refused to listen to the wooing whispers of men in high rank and +station in life by the scores, fell at once a victim to the darts from +cupid's shafts sent from Jackson's lips, for after occurrences proved +conclusively that the honeyed words and winsome smiles, which won their +way so easily into the heart of Pearl Bryan, came only from the lips and +never from the heart of him who lent his every effort to win the heart +of the belle of Putnam County, as Pearl Bryan was known, but with no +manly or honorable purpose. Scott Jackson was void of moral principle +and honor, and never did anything with a manly purpose, he was incapable +of such action.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> +<h4>THE RESULT OF AN EXAMINATION OF JACKSON, BY THE BERTILLION SYSTEM, AFTER +HIS ARREST FOR THE MURDER OF PEARL BRYAN.</h4> + +<p>After the arrest of Jackson for the crime, he was turned over to +Sergeant Kiffmeyer, of the Cincinnati police force, who has charge of +the Bertillion system of measuring and identifying criminals for the +local Police Department, and who is recognized as an authority on +criminals.</p> + +<p>After he had completed the measurement of Jackson he said, "Every man's +head tells its own story. Jackson is another H. H. Holmes.</p> + +<p>"Jackson has the cunning to plot and plan, and to conceal.</p> + +<p>"Jackson is a mind far beyond the ordinary. He has a head such as +Napoleon would have.</p> + + +<h4>PICKED OUT OF A THOUSAND.</h4> + +<p>"Jackson knew fully and realized what lay before him in the murder of +Pearl Bryan.</p> + +<p>"Jackson is absolutely incapable of any expression of remorse.</p> + +<p>"The only appeal that can be made to Jackson is through his fear of +punishment.</p> + +<p>"Jackson's skull is abnormal, and unusually long in proportion to its +breadth. It is abnormally developed on the right side in front and on +the left side in the rear of the head.</p> + +<p>"Jackson is a natural monster, or monstrosity, which ever you will. Look +at his portrait," and the Sergeant held up his photograph. "Is that +the face of a criminal?</p> + +<p>"Jackson has other peculiarities. His fingers are disproportionately +long to his height.</p> + +<p>"Jackson has all the characteristics of a criminal by nature."</p> + + +<h4>WAS IT FATE OR WAS IT DESTINE?</h4> + +<p>Was it cruel fate which led pure, beautiful, innocent and attractive +Pearl Bryan into the toils of such a fiend in human shape? Or was it the +blind Goddess of Justice that led Jackson to meet Miss Pearl and +sacrifice her life that the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> demon Jackson might be exposed to the +world, his deeds of evil and misdoings brought to light, and he +expatiate the many crimes which he had committed on the gallows or by +serving a life sentence in the penitentiary?</p> + +<p>Be that as it may they met through the intimate acquaintance and +friendship of each with Will Wood, who little thought when he brought +this pure spotless virgin in contact with the hypocrite and demon, +Jackson, that he was committing a sin, which he would regret to his +dying day, and which would bring disgrace, dishonor and ruin on two +highly respected families and also upon his own head and that of his +aged respected and christian father, who was at the time the Presiding +Elder of a church for the Greencastle District.</p> + +<p>The acquaintance of Jackson and Miss Pearl soon ripened into friendship +and that friendship into trusting confiding love on the Part of Miss +Bryan, and the accomplishment of the deep, villainous designs upon the +part of Jackson. As Will Wood said in a talk afterward, "Pearl was stuck +on Jackson from the first time they met, Jackson would come and get my +horse and buggy and drive over to Pearl's house, when they would often +go out driving together. Pearl was pretty and ambitious, but I never +thought she would do wrong. Now I can see she was perfectly infatuated +with Jackson from the start; so much that I am firmly convinced, she was +completely in his power, and he took advantage of his influence over +her." Through Jackson's cunning to plot and plan as well as to conceal, +the relations of criminal intimacy between him and Pearl, were never +even suspected by anyone. Jackson was not in Greencastle a great deal, +and this fact enabled him to carry on his illicit relations with her +more boldly than he would otherwise have been able to do. The parents of +the erring girl never for a moment suspected anything wrong. Pearl was +their favorite, the daughter of their old age, had been raised with +every care and precaution, had always moved in the very best of society, +and Jackson to them was a gentleman, a member of one of the best +families of the country, well-<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>thought of and respected in the community +in which they moved, and was not looked upon as a lover, although they +were aware of the fact that Pearl was more seriously smitten with his +charms than she ever had been with those of any of the other many +admirers and friends who had visited their home as the company of Pearl. +Without hesitancy they permitted their favorite daughter to accept the +attentions of Jackson, go out with him when he was visiting home, and +remain alone with him in their parlor until late hours in the night. +They had every confidence in Pearl, and no suspicion of the villainous +intentions of Jackson, or the evil influence he possessed over her.</p> + +<p>With Pearl Bryan, it was the oft told tale, "She loved not wisely but +too well." Jackson, "a criminal by nature" with his "angelic front", +behind which was hidden a demon, with his low moral character, so well +concealed from the public, and with a set design to ruin the pure and +innocent girl, which had been thrown in his way, was not slow to take +advantage of his opportunities and the influence and power, which he +could easily see he held over the unsuspecting girl.</p> + +<p>Loving and trusting Jackson as she had never before loved any man, and +being of a sanguine nervous temperament, with her likes and dislikes of +the strongest possible, with a great deal of animal nature, cheerful and +talkative, yet lacking in force, by nature kind and benevolent to a +fault, and her development of individuality and self-reliance small, she +was one who could be easily persuaded but never driven. Jackson was not +slow to learn this, and with honeyed words and protestations of love, he +won Pearl Bryan's heart. This won, the accomplishment of his devilish +designs, her ruin, was easy. She fell a victim to his lustful desire, +and in a short time discovered that she would soon become a mother. +Almost crazed at this discovery she knew not what to do or which way to +turn. It was the first blot that had ever come on the name of a member +of the proud Bryan family. In her desperation she confided her condition +to her cousin, Will Wood. As Wood claimed,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> no one else in Greencastle +knew or even suspected anything of the true condition of affairs between +Pearl Bryan and Scott Jackson. They had been keeping company with each +other whenever Jackson was in Greencastle, from the early spring of 1895 +until September of the same year, when she discovered her condition, no +one except Will Wood knowing anything wrong about them.</p> + +<p>The discovery of Pearl Bryan that she was in a delicate condition, and +Jackson being the cause of her trouble, and as he said in a letter to +Wood wishing to get clear of the scandal, brings us to the third, and +possibly the most important suspect in the dreadful tragedy near Fort +Thomas, Ky.</p> + +<p>Alonzo Walling, nineteen years of age, was born on a farm near Mt. +Carmel, Ind. His father died when he was but three years old, leaving +his mother in moderate circumstances with two other boys, Clint and +Charles. When Alonzo was thirteen she moved to Greencastle where she +kept boarders and Alonzo commenced at once to work in a glass factory to +help support his mother. He worked there four years, and was thrown out +of work when the factory was closed. Then his mother, by self-sacrifice, +sent him to the Indianapolis Dental college, paying all his expenses, +and it is learned that he worked hard and was one of the formost in his +class. He returned home every evening, and on Saturdays assisted Dr. +Sparks, at Greenfield, in his dental parlors. His term expired in March, +1895, when his mother moved to Oxford and made her home with her sister, +Mrs. James Faucett. Having very poor health, her only thought was to try +and give him a good education.</p> + +<p>It was at the Indianapolis Dental College that he first met Jackson and +became acquainted with him. By some strange and uncontrollable fatallity +Walling was thrown with Jackson again in Cincinnati. Here is his own +statement made Wednesday, Feb. 5., 1896, regarding their acquaintance +and friendship:</p> + +<p>"I met Jackson in Indianapolis, a little more than a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> year ago. We +attended the Indiana Dental College together. I did not know him +intimately there, although we attended the same class. When the school +season was over, I had no idea of meeting him again here in Cincinnati."</p> + +<p>"How did you come to room together here?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I was standing on the doorstep of our boarding-house, at 222 West +Ninth Street, the second day of our school term here in October, when +Scott came along Ninth Street and recognized me. On the strength of our +being acquainted in Indianapolis we roomed together at 222 Ninth Street +and took our meals out."</p> + +<p>Walling had no unsavory record, although he did not stand well at +Greenfield, while living there. That he was directly connected with the +Fort Thomas tragedy there can be no doubt. Sergeant Kiffmeyer, who has +charge of the Bertillion System, and who is quoted regarding Scott +Jackson, said of Alonzo Walling, after taking his measurement. +"Walling's head is that of a commonplace criminal, he is just the +opposite of Scott Jackson, at the same time Walling is utterly void of +any ability or cunning to plot and plan and to conceal. Jackson knew +fully and realized what lay before him in the murder of Pearl Bryan. +Walling had not realized the enormity of the crime, and is supremely +indifferent to the consequences and to the crime committed. No appeal, +not even the fear of punishment, will have any impression on Walling."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="history" id="history"></a>The History of the Tragedy.</h2> +<hr style="width: 30%;" /> + +<p>Never in the history of the crimes committed in this section of the +country has the same interest or the same deep feeling been aroused as +has been in the Ft. Thomas (Ky.) murder.</p> + +<p>The fact that the head was removed from the body and secreted or +destroyed, and the developments which followed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> fast upon each other, +adding day by day new evidence to show the cold-bloodedness of the +crime, the preparations which had been made for its successful carrying +out and the covering up of all traces of the identity of the murderer +and the murdered. The mystery that still surrounds the hiding place of +the dismembered head, have led to this result.</p> + +<p>A murder so horrible and revolting as to appear to place it beyond the +civilization of to-day, had been committed within ear shot of one of the +most popular U. S. Military Posts of this country, and within a few +miles of the center of population of this the greatest and most highly +civilized nation on earth. The murderer had hacked the head from the +body of his victim, and carried it away with him. Whether from pure +savagory and demon spirit or to prevent the identification of his victim +was not known.</p> + +<p>The body was found in an orchard at Ft. Thomas on Saturday, February 1., +at 8 o'clock in the morning. The neck, where it had been severed from +the body, lay in a pool of blood, and from evidences on the body and in +the bush under which it lay, a fierce struggle had taken place before +the victim received her death stroke.</p> + + +<h4>BUT SLIGHT CLEW TO WORK ON.</h4> + +<p>Upon the body or in the clothing there was nothing by which the woman +could be identified, excepting the dealers' names in the shoe, and the +murder or murderers had left no other clew behind by which they could be +identified. Without the head, the mystery seemed unsolvable, and every +effort was made to find it in the vicinity.</p> + +<p>The remaining details of the crime, as far as circumstantial evidence +revealed them, told a story which was truly horrifying. The dumb +evidence given by foot prints, blood-stains, broken tree branches, was +terrible to reflect upon.</p> + +<p>The body was lying upon the bank with the feet higher than the body, and +the clothing so disarranged that the officers were at first led to +believe that the woman had been outraged before she was murdered. The +clothing could easily have been as much disarranged in the struggle +which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> had evidently taken place and when the murderer threw his victim +to the ground.</p> + +<p>The upper part of the woman's dress was open as was the garment beneath, +and her bosom was bare. The skirt-band was unloosed, and the skirt of +the dress was gathered up about the waist. Beneath the stump of the neck +there was a huge pool of blood, and blood was scattered about on the +grass and the leaves of the overhanging bushes. One glove lay in the +bushes and a piece torn from the woman's dress was hanging to a bit of +brushwood several yards from the body. The officers carefully examined +the footprints leading to the spot where the body lay, and they found +that the man and the woman had walked side by side for a short distance +when, for some reason, the woman had attempted to flee and the man had +followed and overtaken her. The tracks were especially distinct here, +for the woman had run through a very muddy spot, which she would have +avoided had she had time to pick her way. The murderer overtook his +victim before she had screamed more than once or twice. He choked her +into silence and dragged her toward the bushy bank. She struggled +desperately, and he tore a handful of cloth from her dress. He threw her +to the ground and slid over the bank with her. He must have drawn his +knife after the struggle began; otherwise he would have used it sooner. +He slashed at her throat. She clutched the knife with the one hand she +had free—her left—and three times the blade laid her palm or fingers +open to the bone. Her struggle was useless, and in a moment her life +blood was pouring from a gaping wound in her throat.</p> + +<p>When she was dead, or, at least, powerless to resist, the assassin +searched for some article concealed on her person. He tore off her +corset, leaving the marks of his bloody fingers on the garment, which he +threw a yard or two from him, and then unbuttoned the under garment +beneath her corset, where a letter might have been concealed. Whether he +found something which aroused him to jealous rage, or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> whether he +finished his awful work in the hope of concealing the identity of his +victim, no one knows.</p> + +<p>The murder must have been committed Friday night for the clothing of the +dead woman was not wet and the rain Friday night had kept up until near +ten o'clock.</p> + +<p>The struggle between the murderer and his victim was a most desperate +one. Half of a man's shirt sleeve was found near the dead body, soaked +in blood. The woman had evidently torn it from her murderers arm in her +desperate struggle for her life.</p> + +<p>The lad Hewling upon discovering the body of the murdered woman, was +horror stricken by the sight and ran towards Mr. Lock's house, badly +frightened and calling lustily for help. Mr. Lock, his son Wilbert and +Mike Noonan, an employ, came running from the house. When they had seen +the body, Mr. Lock went direct to Fort Thomas, telephoned the news of +the ghastly find to the Newport police headquarters, and notified Col. +Cochran the Commander at the Fort.</p> + +<p>Jule Plummer, Sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky, Coroner Tingley and +a number of the other County and City officials respondet the telephone +summons at once and hurried to the scene. The body had not been touched +nor had any one been in touching distance of it when these officers +arrived and viewed it.</p> + +<p>The body was ordered to be taken to undertaker W. H. Whites in Newport, +by Coroner Tingley, at once after he had examined it. Upon this +examination he said that there was no evidence whatever that the woman's +person had been outraged.</p> + +<p>The work of identifying the victim and running down her murderers was at +once begun. The entire detective and police force of Cincinnati, +Covington and Newport, was put to work to unravel the mystery, identify +the remains and capture her murderers.</p> + +<p>There was little or no clew to work on. Detectives Crim and McDermott, +of Cincinnati, were assigned to work actively on the case, and sent to +the scene at once by Col.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> Philip Deitsch, Superintendent of Police of +Cincinnati. Before these sleuth-hounds of the law, Crim and McDermott, +reached the place where the headless body had been found, hundreds of +persons from the three cities, and every soldier stationed at Fort +Thomas, who could possibly get away, had preceded them. The grass and +bushes were trampled down by the crowds of visitors who had come to +satisfy their curiosity, but who, through their eagerness to see and +learn everything possible, had destroyed so nearly every particle of +evidence the murderer had left behind him. The foot prints and other +evidences of the desperate struggle were all destroyed and but little +was left for them to work on.</p> + +<p>Relic hunters were out in great numbers and they almost demolished the +bush under which the body was discovered, breaking off branches upon +which blood spots could be seen. They peered closely into the ground for +blood-spotted leaves, stones and even saturated clay. Anything that had +a blood stain upon it was seized upon eagerly, and hairs of the +unfortunate woman were at a premium, men and boys, and even young women, +examining every branch and twig of the bush in the midst of which the +struggle took place, in the hope of finding one. The inherent, morbid +love of the horrible the mass of humanity possesses was well illustrated +in the scenes witnessed. The heavy rain which fell nearly all afternoon +was not deterrent to these relic hunters' zeal.</p> + + +<h4>AT THE UNDERTAKER.</h4> + +<p>The scene at Undertaker White's establishment, on Fourth Street, in +Newport, where the body was taken to, was one of activity. All day long +and up to a late hour at night the place was besieged with people +anxious to get a look at the remains of the unfortunate woman. The crowd +was composed mostly of men, but there was quite a number of women to be +seen among them. Several persons came in and gave descriptions of +missing friends, and, if they tallied in any way with the corpse, they +were permitted to view it.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>Owing to the close proximity to Fort Thomas, where the body was found, +and the well-known fact that a number of the "women on the town" in +Cincinnati were in the habit of visiting the soldiers at the Fort, many +suspected that some one of the soldiers had committed the crime, and as +the clothes on the body were of the cheapest kind, they thought the +victim was one of these lowe women. Col. Cochran, the commander of the +Fort, would not allow such a stigma to rest upon his post. He instituted +a most thorough investigation, and invited the civil officials to aid +him in his investigation. It did not take long to convince those working +on the case that the soldiers were in no way involved in the terrible +tragedy.</p> + +<p>On Saturday night, not many hours after the discovery of the headless +body, Arthur Carter, of Seymour Ind., arrived with his trio of famous +bloodhounds, Jack, Wheeler and Stonewall.</p> + +<p>The hounds are the same animals that tracked Bud Stone, the colored +murderer of the Wratten family, at Washington, Ind., to his home. Stone +was later arrested, and when charged with the crime made a full +confession, for which he was afterward hanged.</p> + +<p>Mr. Carter said during his brief stop at the Grand Central Depot that +over 20 criminals are now serving time in the penitentiaries of Indiana +and Illinois as a result of the work of the hounds.</p> + +<p>Before being taken to the scene of the murder the dogs were taken to +White's undertaking establishment and given a scent of the unfortunate +woman's clothing. Carter expressed a doubt as to the dogs ability to do +any work in striking a trail by the scent from the clothing, as it had +been freely handled by a half hundred of persons. The dogs, with noses +close to the ground, ran hither and thither in a confused manner. It was +evident that the dogs were useless, as all tracks left by the murderer +and his victim had been obliterated by the thousands of people who had +crossed over the place where the body was found.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>DRAINING THE RESERVOIR.</h4> + +<p>They followed the scent as far as the Covington reservoir, when they +lost it, and were unable to gain it again. In the hope that the head +might be found in this body of water the reservoir was drained on +Monday, involving an expense of about $2,000, but the head was not +discovered, and the hard-working, earnest detectives and Sheriff Plummer +were apparently baffled.</p> + +<p>Clew after clew was followed up only to be abandoned as fruitless. A +large number of young women were reported missing from various parts of +the country, but when traced up and pursued to its end, each clew proved +to be without any tangible basis. There was nothing to work on, but the +officers of the law, kept up the search for the head and the +identification of the remains with most commandable persistency. Every +Suggestion was received and considered, nothing was left undone that +could be done.</p> + + +<h4>THE SHOES.</h4> + +<p>The authorities then turned their attention to the only tangible clew, +the shoes. Sheriff Plummer, of Campbell County, accompanied by +Detectives Crim and McDermott, of this city, proceeded on Monday night +to Greencastle, Ind., to interview the dealers from whom the shoes had +evidently been purchased. They also took along the dead girls clothing. +At the store of Louis & Hayes it was found that the entire lot of shoes, +one dozen pairs, had been purchased by them from Portsmouth. Nine of +these pairs had been sold, and all but two purchasers were readily +accounted for. Then an attempt was made to locate these two pairs, one +of which had, without doubt, been worn by the murdered girl. This seemed +impossible for a time. In the meanwhile every girl who had left the +Depauw Seminary, near Greencastle, was traced down, and found each time.</p> + +<p>In the meantime every thing possible was being done at the scene of the +murder. Two tramps were arrested at Ludlow, Ky., as suspects, but were +afterwards released for lack of evidence. Crowds flocked to the morgue +in New<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>port, where the headless body lay; it being identified a number +of times as the body of some one who after the identification would turn +out to be alive and well.</p> + +<p>Probably the strongest case of identification, which did not identify, +was that of Mrs. Hart, of Cincinnati, who identified the remains as +those of her daughter, Ella Markland. Emil Eshler, a friend of Mrs. +Hart, and William Hess, a saloon-keeper, both thought it was the body of +Mrs. Markland, and were so strongly convinced of it, that they told the +mother of their opinion. She and her husband then went to Newport, where +she made a very careful examination, which resulted in her declaring +that beyond a reasonable doubt the body was that of her daughter. The +woman called at the Cincinnati headquarters and in a long talk with +Chief Deitsch declared that she was fully convinced the body was that of +Ella Markland. Her story of the identification was told at considerable +length and between many sobs.</p> + +<p>She said she had been allowed to thoroughly examine the body at Newport +and that she identified it by the peculiar shape of the legs from the +knee down and by the general contour of the breast, waist and limbs. In +talking to the chief she was asked when she had last seen her daughter +and replied that it was New Year's Eve that she last saw her alive. Mrs. +Markland was afterwards found on Ninth Street in Cincinnati, where she +was working as a domestic.</p> + +<p>Without question the most sensational clew upon which the detectives had +to work, was the unearthing of a true life story, in which passion and +crime were involved, and which for days promised to bear fruit of a most +sensational character.</p> + +<p>This clew was, that the headless body, was that of Francisca Engelhardt, +who had not long ago been married to a Dr. Kettner, who deserted his +first wife in Dakota, and whom she had never seen until he came to +Cincinnati, to marry her, the acquaintance and engagement having been +made through a correspondence advertisement in a Cincinnati newspaper. +The pair were married by Squire Winkler, the girl never knowing that her +husband was a bigamist.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>Three months afterward the first wife, at Mitchell, S. D., heard that +her husband had married a woman in Cincinnati. She wrote but received no +answer, then came on to Cincinnati, and on finding that the report of +her husband being again married was true, she sued for divorce.</p> + + +<h4>FLED TO LOUISVILLE.</h4> + +<p>Meanwhile Kettner fled to Louisville with his second wife, then to +points in Indiana, where he was located from time to time. When his +first wife sued for divorce he was traced to Batesville, Ind. He never +replied to her petition for divorce, and she would have won her suit had +she not been forced to abandon it on account of lack of money. She was +determined, however, to prosecute him for bigamy.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Anna Burkhardt, of No. 1317 Vine Street, with whom the Engelhardt +girl had boarded, called at the Cincinnati police headquarters and told +her story. She furnished Chief Deitsch and Mayor Caldwell with pictures +of both Kettner and Francisca Engelhardt.</p> + +<p>The whole story at once impressed itself so fully upon both the Mayor +and Chief Deitsch that work was immediately begun. Telegrams of a +private nature were sent to points in Indiana and the West. One from +Evansville states that Kettner and his second wife left that town for +parts unknown about a month before. He was then traced through various +cities and towns until on the same day on which the arrest of Jackson +and Walling was made. In response to telegrams from Greencastle, Ind., +Dr. Kettner and wife, were located at Marquette Mich., he having had a +shady record, at every point he had been traced to. Superintendent of +Police Deitsch and Mayor Caldwell, of Cincinnati, considered this the +best clew on which the detectives could work.</p> + +<p>As soon as the intelligence was imparted to Chief Deitsch, he ordered +renewed activity in the case and in the afternoon went over to Campbell +County to personally supervise the work of his detectives.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>IDENTIFIED THE BODY.</h4> + +<p>Chief Deitsch interviewed both Mrs. Burkhardt and her daughter at their +home.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Anna Burkhardt said:</p> + +<p>"I went to Newport Tuesday morning to view the corpse, and can say +almost positively that it is that of Francisca Engelhardt, who married +Dr. Kettner. I could recognize her hand out of hundreds. She had +remarkably beautiful hands, and always held up the right one in a +peculiar position when speaking. When I saw the body at the Morgue I +took her hand and placed it in that position, and the resemblance +strongly confirmed my first conclusion. The size of the body also +corresponds with the stature of the girl I knew.</p> + +<p>"When she lived with us I slept with her, and, therefore, know her +peculiarities. She had a very pretty foot, of which she was exceedingly +proud. She would often hold it up to view and speak about it. The toes +were peculiarly shaped, and I immediately recognized them on the corpse.</p> + +<p>"Before I entered the room with Detective Keating to look at the body, I +fully described her peculiar foot to him. He had never seen the body, +either, and was also immediately struck with the resemblance of the foot +to my description.</p> + +<p>"She came to my house in September, 1893, but she took a position that +same fall in Dr. Reamy's hospital, on Walnut Hills, as telephone girl. +She visited us frequently, however, and often stayed all night with us.</p> + + +<h4>BEFORE SHE MARRIED KETTNER,</h4> + +<p>she received letters from Mitchell, S. D., and told us that they were +from a Dr. Kettner. On April 13, 1894, he came to see her at my house, +and the next day—it was Saturday, April 14—she gave up her position at +the hospital and was married to Kettner by Squire Winkler. My daughter +was a witness to the ceremony. They lived here for ten days after the +marriage, and since that time I have seen neither of them. The woman +also stated a very important fact. She says that the girl wore a +corset having two inside pockets, and was in the habit of carrying +everything of value, such as money and articles that she prized, in +these pockets. When she married Kettner Mrs. Burkhardt warned her in a +friendly way that perhaps he was not honest. In answer to this the girl +drew the marriage certificate from her bosom, displaying it and saying +that she would never part with it, but would carry it in her corset. The +couple made frequent trips to Ft. Thomas, which seemed to be a favorite +resort with them."</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/struggle.jpg" alt="Her struggle was useless." /><br /> +<span class="caption">Her struggle was useless, the life-blood was pouring from a gaping wound in her throat.</span></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> +<h4>KETTNER HAD A MOTIVE.</h4> + +<p>Dr. Kettner had a motive, which made this clew seem the right one for +such a deed as committed at Fort Thomas. Being a bigamist and fearing +that his first wife, who followed him so many miles, would prosecute +him, his only hope was to secure the marriage certificate and other +evidence against him. The Engelhardt girl always carried the marriage +certificate in her bosom, beneath the corset, and more than once said +she would never part with it.</p> + + +<h4>POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION HELD ON THE BODY OF THE UNKNOWN VICTIM.</h4> + +<p>At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon Dr. Robert Carothers, of Newport, made a +post-mortem examination of the body at White's undertaking +establishment. It was made in the presence of Dr. J. O. Jenkins, Drs. J. +L. and C. T. Phythian, Dr. J. W. Fishback and Coroner W. S. Tingley. The +examination occupied over an hour, and was very thorough. The result was +the finding of a fœtus of between four or five months' gestation. The +doctors also came to the conclusion that the woman was not over 20 years +of age, and that she had never before been pregnant. The fœtus was +removed and taken to A. F. Goetze's pharmacy, corner of Fifth and York +Streets, where it was placed in alcohol for preservation.</p> + +<p>The stomach was taken out and turned over to Dr. W. H. Crane, of the +Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, and he made all the known tests +for the various poisons that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> might have been administered. This was +done to ascertain, if possible, whether the woman was drugged before +being taken to the place where the crime was committed.</p> + +<p>Dr. Carothers, who was at the time a professor at the Ohio Medical +College, had been an interne in the Cincinnati Hospital, and his +experience qualified him to judge accurately of other details than those +pertaining only to professional matters.</p> + +<p>"I am satisfied that the girl was not outraged," said he. "The man had a +reason to kill her, and the result of the post mortem shows it. I judge +that it was a premediated and cold-blooded murder. The girl, in my +opinion, was from the country and was comparatively innocent. She was +brought to Cincinnati to submit to a criminal operation. Once here she +was taken to F. Thomas and murdered. Her head was taken away, horrible +as it may seem, merely to prevent the identification of her body."</p> + + +<h4>A NEWPORT SHOE DEALER DOES SOME DETECTIVE WORK.</h4> + +<p>L. D. Poock, a leading shoe merchant of Newport, who took a most +decidedly active interest in the case from the start, claiming as was +proven true afterwards that the marks in the shoes would certainly +identify the remains, did some valuable detective work under the +direction of Sheriff Plummer. Mr. Poock was struck by the narrowness of +the shoes worn by the dead girl, and opened them to discover the size +and width. He recognized the fact that 11 and 22 in the shoe would give +him the information desired if he had but the key.</p> + +<p>While at one of the Cincinnati factories, a salesman stepped forward and +recognized the shoe as one manufactured by Drew, Selby & Co., of +Portsmouth, Ohio.</p> + +<p>Upon this information Mr. Poock, determined upon seeing the whole thing +out, took a train for Portsmouth, and, arriving at the factory of Drew, +Selby & Co., established in 10 minutes that Louis & Hays had given an +order for 12 pairs of black cloth top button shoes April 18, 1895, for +fall delivery. The shipment was made September the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> 3., 1895, and among +the lot there was but one pair of shoes numbered 22-11.</p> + +<p>This clew so thoroughly worked up by Mr. Poock, who kept Sheriff Plummer +and the detectives, who had gone to Greencastle, Ind., posted as to the +result of his investigation regarding the shoes, proved to be the +correct one, the one by which the body of the murdered woman was +positively identified and by the investigation of which the arrest of +the murderers was secured.</p> + + +<h4>THE DETECTIVES AND SHERIFF PLUMMER AT GREENCASTLE, IND.</h4> + +<p>Sheriff Jule Plummer of Campbell County, Kentucky, and Detectives Crim +and McDermott of Cincinnati, who had gone to Greencastle, were kept +thoroughly posted as to the work being done on the Cincinnati or rather +Fort Thomas tragedy. Not a clew or theory with the least resemblance to +truth was neglected.</p> + +<p>The first persons seen were Messrs. Louis & Hays, the shoe dealers from +whom the shoes worn by the victim were supposed to have been purchased. +Mr. Hays said that the shoes were manufactured by Drew, Selby & Co., of +Portsmouth, Ohio, and showed Sheriff Plummer a telegram from the latter +firm which was received that morning. In this it was stated that in the +entire lot of shoes which had been especially made to order for Louis & +Hays, but one pair was numbered 22-11, which is the Portsmouth firm's +mark for size three. This pair was found upon the unfortunate girl. Upon +this theory Sheriff Plummer and Detectives Crim and McDermott went to +work. Of that whole lot of shoes made for Louis & Hays by the Portsmouth +firm, the officers located seven pairs, leaving but two unaccounted for. +The clerks in the shoe store were shown the muddy shoe taken from the +girl's foot. They all recognized it at a glance.</p> + +<p>The articles of wearing apparel which were also brought along were shown +to nearly all of the leading dry goods merchants. None of them were able +to recognize even one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> of the articles. An effort was also made to +identify the gloves worn by the murdered woman. In none of the stores +could a similar pair be found.</p> + +<p>The officers were not discouraged however. The proof was positive almost +beyond a doubt that the shoes worn by the murdered girl had been sold to +her by Louis & Hays in their store at Greencastle. This was the only +tangible clew they had to work on and with it properly run down, they +were perfectly satisfied, they would secure the identification of the +beheaded woman, if not fix the guilt of the crime on some one in the +immediate vicinity.</p> + +<p>Another visit was made to Louis & Hays store at night, the books of the +firm were carefully gone over again and again. Only seven of the nine +pairs of the Drew, Selby & Co., shoes sold by Louis & Hays could be +accounted for, and none of those were the ones worn by the murdered +woman.</p> + +<p>The Fort Thomas tragedy, and the coming of Sheriff Plummer, Detectives +Crim and McDermott to Greencastle, in search of the identification of +the shoes had aroused the people at that place, especially so, the +suspicion of a Mr. A. W. Early, Manager of the Western Union, to whose +noble work, the officers owe nearly all their success and information.</p> + +<p>The description of the body of the dead girl, especially that part, +which described her fingers as resembling those of a seamstress, and the +little wart on the finger, aroused the suspicion of Mrs. Alexander S. +Bryan, whose daughter Pearl, was, as the mother thought, visiting +friends in Indianapolis, Ind. Nothing was mentioned of these suspicions +outside the immediate family, but so strong were the suspicions with +them, that Fred Bryan a brother of Pearl telegraphed to Indianapolis to +Pearl's friends, asking if she was there. The answer came that Pearl had +not been in Indianapolis, although she had left for that city, Jan., 28.</p> + +<p>A. W. Early, the manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company at +Greencastle, saw the telegram and answer from Indianapolis. It was then, +he knew, that he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> possessed positive information, not only as to the +identification of the headless body at the Morgue in Newport, but also +to the fixing of the guilt on one or more persons, one of whom at least +was Early's intimate friend. Realizing this and awe-stricken with the +horribleness of the deed in which his friend was, to say the least, +indirectly implicated, he rushed at once to the hotel and in an excited +manner called the officers out to tell them his story. After a very +hurried conference with Early the officers all left the hotel to go with +Early to his office where he gave the first real clew to the victim and +upon which information, three men Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, +students at the Ohio Dental College, in Cincinnati, and William Wood, a +medical student who was with his uncle in South Bend, Ind., were on that +same night arrested, charged with the murder and complicity in the +murder of Pearl Bryan, whose headless body lay at Undertaker White's +Establishment in Newport, Ky.</p> + +<p>Early's story was that he came to Greencastle Oct. 4., 1895. "Soon after +my arrival at Greencastle I made the acquaintance of Will Wood, a +student at Depauw University. This acquaintance soon ripened into a +friendship which brought us together a great deal and made us confide to +each other much more than is ordinary among young men.</p> + +<p>"So fast did the friendship between Will Wood and myself become that he +would show me his letters. Among those he showed, I remember one from +Scott Jackson, a young man from Greencastle, who is in Cincinnati +attending a dental college.</p> + +<p>"In this letter Jackson confided to his chum, Will Wood, that he, +Jackson and Pearl Bryan had been too intimate, that she had loved not +wisely, but too well, and as a result he had betrayed her, that Pearl +would soon become a mother, and asked Wood's help in this matter.</p> + +<p>"He admitted his intimacy with Pearl, and his responsibility for her +present condition. He quoted recipes calculated to prevent the evil +results of their indiscretion, and asked Wood to get them and give them +to Pearl.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>"Wood did this, as he said he was willing to do anything he could for +Jackson and especially for Pearl, who was Wood's second cousin.</p> + +<p>"These drugs however did not have the desired effect of reversing the +laws of nature.</p> + +<p>"One letter, I remember was in answer to one which Wood had written to +Jackson, informing him that Pearl Bryan was showing the effects of her +indiscretion and intimacy with Jackson, and telling him that the recipes +sent by him had been furnished by Wood.</p> + +<p>"Jackson regretted that his recipes had failed but said something must +be done and suggested that the girl be sent to Cincinnati, stating that +he could arrange to have an abortion performed on her.</p> + +<p>"Wood told me afterward that Pearl had gone to Cincinnati to have a +criminal operation performed, and had told her parents she was going to +Indianapolis to visit friends. She had money with her, sufficient to +cover any expenses she might incur in such an undertaking."</p> + +<p>He then told of Fred Bryan the brother of Pearl, telegraphing to +Indianapolis inquiring about Pearl and receiving an answer that she had +not been there.</p> + +<p>It was midnight when the detectives heard of this and went to the house +of Mr. Spivy, of Louis & Hays, and got him to go to the shoe store with +them. On arriving there the books of the firm were again examined and +the name of Pearl Bryan was found on them, and the fact that she had +bought a pair of No. 3 shoes was found. In all their scrutiny of the +books this fact had escaped the detectives and shoe dealers.</p> + + +<h4>IDENTIFIED THE CLOTHING.</h4> + +<p>This settled the fact that Pearl Bryan had purchased the shoes, and at +two o'clock Wednesday morning the officers visited the home of the +Bryans, taking with them the clothes found on the murdered woman. Here +an awful climax came. The mother of Pearl was shown the clothes and one +by one she positively identified them between her sobs and cries of "My +Pearl, my Pearl."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>The dress was one which had been made over for Pearl out of one which +had belonged to a dead sister. The bloody undershirt was at once +recognized. The family sought to find something upon which to base a +hope that it might not be their loved one, and argued that she might +have given her clothes to some one else, but this has positively been +disproven. The murdered woman was Pearl Bryan.</p> + +<p>The blow to their hopes came when the officers told them that the +murdered woman had webbed or deformed toes, and described them to her. +Her sister exclaimed: "My God, it is Pearl! We used to tease her about +those when she was little." The scar on the right hand was then told of +and added a link to the identification.</p> + +<p>Even the hairpins were positively identified as belonging to Pearl. +There were two gold-plated and two rubber ones of an auburn hue. There +remained no doubt as to whom the missing woman was, and there was but +one thing to do—pursue her murderer.</p> + +<p>The whole thing became plain to the officers. They at once determined to +secure the arrest of both Jackson and Wood. They knew that Jackson was +in Cincinnati so they decided to wire Chief of Police Deitsch and have +Jackson arrested and to go in person to South Bend, Ind., for which +place Wood had left on the Thursday previous, for the purpose of +studying medicine with his uncle, and place Wood under arrest.</p> + +<p>They at once sent the following telegram:</p> +<div class="blockquot"> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">"GREENCASTLE, IND., FEBRUARY 5, 1896.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">Philip Deitsch</span>, Superintendent of Police, Cincinnati, Ohio: Arrest +and charge with murder of Pearl Bryan, one Scott Jackson, student +at Dental College, about 24 years old, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, +weighs about 136 pounds, blonde, nearly sandy mustache, light +complexion, may have beard of about six months growth, effeminate +in appearance. Positive identification of clothing by family. +Arrest if in Cincinnati, William Wood, friend of Jackson. Charge as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +accomplice. About 20 years, 5 feet 11 inches, light blonde hair, +smooth face, rather slender, weighs 165 pounds. We go from here to +South Bend after Wood as he left here for that place.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">Crim, McDermott and Plummer</span>."</span></div> + +<p> </p> +<p>Immediately on receipt of the telegram Colonel Deitsch detailed +Detectives Witte, Bulmer and Jackson to look after Jackson. It was +learned that he roomed at the house of Mrs. McNevin, at 222 West Ninth, +next door to Robinson's Opera House. Detective Jackson was stationed in +the house and Witte and Bulmer in the saloon opposite.</p> + +<p>Just when it seemed as though their intended game had discovered the +fact that the officers were after him and had left for parts unknown he +was captured.</p> + +<p>It was after nine o'clock, when almost the last ray of hope had died out +of the officers breasts, that Chief of Police Deitsch received word that +Jackson had just been seen at the Palace Hotel. The chief started out +and ran into a man answering Jackson's description. He informed the +detectives of the fact, the fellow was watched and was seen to walk +slowly down Ninth Street, and on reaching 222 he looked up at the +windows. He strolled slowly to Plum Street and stopped and again looked +back at the house.</p> + +<p>He then walked rapidly north on Plum Street toward Court. When he had +traversed part of the square Detective Bulmer stepped up to him, saying: +"Your name is Jackson, isn't it?"</p> + +<p>The man turned perfectly livid and trembled like an aspen, and as the +detective continued to say, "I want you," he exclaimed, "My God! what +is this for?"</p> + +<p>At the same time the start was made for the Mayor's Office.</p> + +<p>At Ninth Street Colonel Deitsch met the prisoner and said: "Well, +'Dusty' (Jackson's nickname), we have got you."</p> + +<p>"Yes," responded the prisoner, "it looks like it."</p> + + +<h4>AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.</h4> + +<p>When the Mayor's office was reached the prisoner was hustled into the +presence of Mayor Caldwell.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span>The scene in the private office of Mayor Caldwell in the City Hall was +undoubtedly the most remarkable ever witnessed there.</p> + +<p>The Mayor was sitting in his office with his Chief Clerk, Cliff Lakeman, +when Jackson was ushered into his presence by the officers, at the head +of whom was Chief of Police Deitsch. A few minutes later the room was +thronged with representatives of the newspapers and detectives. Coroner +Haerr was also there waiting for possible developments.</p> + +<p>Jackson, the prisoner, sat in the center of a long sofa on the east side +of the room. On the side of him was Chief Deitsch. The latter conducted +the examination, while the Mayor sat in his chair, smoked a cigar and +listened.</p> + + +<h4>THE EXAMINATION.</h4> + +<p>"Is this Mayor Caldwell?" asked Jackson.</p> + +<p>"It is," responded His Honor.</p> + +<p>"The officers say you want to see me."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I want to talk with you."</p> + +<p>"What is your name?"</p> + +<p>"Scott Jackson."</p> + +<p>"You are also known as Dusty?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sometimes."</p> + +<p>"Where is your home?"</p> + +<p>"My home is in Greencastle, Ind."</p> + +<p>"Do you know Pearl Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"I do."</p> + +<p>"Where did you last see her?"</p> + +<p>"It was during the hollidays. I think on January 2."</p> + +<p>"Have you seen her since?"</p> + +<p>"I have not."</p> + +<p>"Do you know William Wood?"</p> + +<p>"I do."</p> + +<p>"What is his business?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know. He used to be connected with the school at Greencastle. Saw him last about January 6."</p> + +<p>Chief Deitsch here read the dispatch under which the arrest was made.</p> + +<p>"What have you to say to that?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span>"The charge is entirely false. I don't know anything about that."</p> + +<p>"That's what everybody says who is arrested," said Chief Deitsch, "but +the identification of the clothes and other facts point to you as the +man who took Pearl Bryan or her body to Ft. Thomas. Where were you last +Friday evening?"</p> + +<p>"I must have been in my room."</p> + +<p>"What time did you go to your room?"</p> + +<p>"I think I had supper about 7 o'clock and went home about 7:30."</p> + +<p>"What did you do?"</p> + +<p>"I studied in my room."</p> + +<p>"Was your roommate there?"</p> + +<p>"I think he was."</p> + +<p>"Where were you Thursday night?"</p> + +<p>"I was home, I think. My roommate was out that evening. When he came in I had retired."</p> + +<p>"How about Saturday evening?"</p> + +<p>"I went out with a friend and went to the theater."</p> + +<p>"Who took supper with you Friday evening?"</p> + +<p>"I think I was alone."</p> + +<p>"Where did you eat?"</p> + +<p>"At Heider's."</p> + +<p>"Ever stay there over night?"</p> + +<p>"I did not."</p> + +<p>"Did your roommate?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I think he did last Wednesday night."</p> + +<p>"You have not been home to-day?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I left there about 10 o'clock this morning."</p> + +<p>"Where did you go?"</p> + +<p>"I went to see a young lady, and took her to dinner, I was with her all afternoon."</p> + +<p>"Where were you?"</p> + +<p>"At the Emery Hotel."</p> + +<p>"Where did you go in the evening?"</p> + +<p>"The young lady went to her place of business, and later I put her on the car. Then I went to Heiders for supper."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>"Where then?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I was just walking around the streets."</p> + +<p>"Who was with you?"</p> + +<p>"I stopped in a barber shop about 9 o'clock and walked a piece with one of the barbers."</p> + +<p>"Did you meet any one else you knew?"</p> + +<p>"I did not."</p> + +<p>"Where were you going when you were arrested?"</p> + +<p>"I was going to the college to see if the boys were dissecting."</p> + +<p>"Why did you pass the house and look up at it?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I don't know. I am turned around now."</p> + +<p>"What have you to say to the telegram?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know what to say. I can't imagine why they mention me in it."</p> + +<p>"Did you read of the murder?"</p> + +<p>"Part of it. It made me sick to my stomach."</p> + +<p>"Were you in Newport lately?"</p> + +<p>"No sir; I was not."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you take an interest in the murder when you read of Greencastle being the probable home of the murdered girl?"</p> + +<p>"I spoke to several people in the house about it."</p> + +<p>"You left the lady this evening and went to supper, and then walked around town?"</p> + +<p>"I did."</p> + +<p>"Did you meet any one else you knew?"</p> + +<p>"I met Walling, I think, after supper."</p> + +<p>"Where did you see him?"</p> + +<p>"Now, I think of it. It was in the barber shop, where I was waiting."</p> + +<p>"See any one else?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"How long have you been at the dental college?"</p> + +<p>"Since October 14., last."</p> + +<p>"Did you come from Greencastle?"</p> + +<p>"I did."</p> + +<p>"Where else have you roomed?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span>"On Carlisle avenue."</p> + +<p>"When was Miss Bryan up to Cincinnati?"</p> + +<p>"Don't know. Didn't know she was here."</p> + +<p>"Where did you last see her?"</p> + +<p>"On January 2., at her home while I was at Greencastle spending the holidays."</p> + +<p>"Were you friends?"</p> + +<p>"Only friendly."</p> + +<p>"Does she live at home?"</p> + +<p>"She does."</p> + +<p>"What do her parents do?"</p> + +<p>"Her father is a farmer and keeps a dairy."</p> + +<p>"What kind of a looking girl is Pearl?"</p> + +<p>"Rather slender. I am a poor judge of height. She was not as tall as I am—almost, though. She was light complexioned."</p> + +<p>"What will she weigh?"</p> + +<p>"Suppose about 105 or 110 pounds."</p> + +<p>"Did she ever live out?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know, but I don't think so."</p> + +<p>"You were in the habit of paying your respects to her?"</p> + +<p>"I called on her a few times."</p> + +<p>"Did you ever go out with her?"</p> + +<p>"Once, I guess."</p> + +<p>"She was not a farmhand?"</p> + +<p>"No, she worked around the house."</p> + +<p>"Was she of a quiet disposition?"</p> + +<p>"As far as I know she was."</p> + +<p>"Do you know of any other men she kept company with?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, but she never kept company with me."</p> + +<p>"Who then?"</p> + +<p>"Well, she gave a party some time ago. I saw a number of gentlemen here."</p> + +<p>"Well, Jackson, this is a serious charge. I will have to hold on to you."</p> + +<p>"I don't see why they accuse me of this."</p> + +<p>"What is your roommate's name?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>"Alonzo Walling."</p> + +<p>"Did you ever correspond with Pearl Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"Once or twice."</p> + +<p>"Ever since January 22?"</p> + +<p>"I think not."</p> + +<p>"Have you talked about the murder?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; at the house. I don't know how the subject was brought up. I was very much interested in the case."</p> + +<p>"Did you read of the girl probably being from Greencastle?"</p> + +<p>"Yes."</p> + +<p>Colonel Deitsch at this point reviewed the evidence against the prisoner +and the Greencastle part of it, and said: "And you didn't inquire about +it?"</p> + +<p>"I read that the Sheriff of Newport was in Greencastle, and that the +shoes found on the dead woman had been purchased from Louis & +Hayes—that they had accounted for nearly all the shoes they sold."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you think the girl would be heard from?"</p> + +<p>"There were so many theories that I didn't know what to think."</p> + +<p>"Do you remember leaving a valise in Legner's saloon last Saturday night?"</p> + +<p>"I do."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you take it away Monday morning and leave another?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"Why did you leave the valise at the saloon?"</p> + +<p>"I was just going as far as the corner and I didn't want to carry it."</p> + +<p>"Did you take it away the same day?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I think I did."</p> + +<p>"What was in it?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing."</p> + +<p>"How far was it from your room?"</p> + +<p>"Just across the street."</p> + +<p>"You say there was nothing in the valise?"</p> + +<p>"I don't think there was."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>"Where did you get it?"</p> + +<p>"I bought it in Indianapolis."</p> + +<p>"How did you happen to take it out Saturday night?"</p> + +<p>"I don't recollect just now."</p> + +<p>"Where is it now?"</p> + +<p>"I loaned it to a student of the name of Hackelman."</p> + +<p>"What did he want with it?"</p> + +<p>"I didn't ask him. I took it to him to the college."</p> + +<p>"What kind of valise was it?"</p> + +<p>"Tan colored."</p> + +<p>"Strap or handbag?"</p> + +<p>"Handbag."</p> + +<p>"Has it been returned?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"What is Hackelman's first name?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know."</p> + +<p>"Have you seen him since?"</p> + +<p>"I have not."</p> + +<p>"Where does he live?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know."</p> + +<p>"How did you come to take that valise to the saloon?"</p> + +<p>"I just left it there."</p> + +<p>"Did you have it with you in the evening?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, but I don't see why I took it down town."</p> + +<p>"Was it heavy?"</p> + +<p>"No, only bothersome."</p> + +<p>"You had two valises, didn't you?"</p> + +<p>"No, only one."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you leave one over at Legner's saloon Saturday, and a different one Monday?"</p> + +<p>"No, I did not."</p> + +<p>"Why don't you tell the truth about this?"</p> + +<p>"I did tell the truth, all but about the valise. I got that back."</p> + +<p>The prisoner persisted in his story that he knows nothing about the +murder, and after a little further examination he was taken down stairs +and locked up on the charge of murder.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> + +<h4>LOCKED UP AT THE STATION.</h4> + +<p>Jackson was taken from the Mayor's office through the long corridor on +the Eighth-Street side of the City Hall by Detective Bill Bulmer, who +walked on the right side of him and held his arm. Employes of the +waterworks, janitors and other attaches of the big building followed in +the wake of the couple until Central Police Station was reached. At the +station house the receiving room was thronged with curious ones who had +heard of the arrest of the dental student. Lieutenant Sam Corbin and +Sergeant Billy Borck were behind the desk. Bulmer took his prisoner up +to the desk, and immediately a big crowd swarmed in to see how Jackson +would act while being registered. Lieutenant Corbin registered the +prisoner. The questions and answers were as follows:</p> + +<p>"What is your name?"</p> + +<p>"Scott Jackson."</p> + +<p>"Where do you live?"</p> + +<p>"I live here now."</p> + +<p>"Whereabouts?"</p> + +<p>"No. 222 West Ninth Street."</p> + +<p>"Old or new number?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know; it's next door to Robinson's Opera House."</p> + +<p>"What is your occupation?"</p> + +<p>"Dental student."</p> + +<p>"How old are you?"</p> + +<p>"Twenty-six."</p> + +<p>"Married or single?"</p> + +<p>"Single."</p> + +<p>"Where were you born?"</p> + +<p>"In Maine."</p> + +<p>"What's the charge against this man?"</p> + +<p>"Murder," replied Bulmer.</p> + +<p>"Is that right?" asked Corbin, looking the prisoner in the eye.</p> + +<p>"I believe that's what they say," replied Jackson.</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/sobs.jpg" alt="Mrs. Bryan identified the clothing." /><br /> +<span class="caption">Between sobs and cries of "My Pearl, my Pearl," Mrs. Bryan identified the clothing.</span></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p>Among other things found in Jackson's pockets were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> two carriage tickets on the Central +Newport Bridge. The tickets may prove to be of a great importance in the +case, as it shows that the prisoner was in the habit of crossing the +bridge.</p> + +<p>After Jackson had been searched he was led back to his cellroom by +Detective Bulmer and Officer Jake Bernhart.</p> + +<p>Jackson had been locked in his cell but a few moments when Detectives +Bulmer and Witte walked into the station and suggested to Lieutenant +Corbin that the prisoner be taken into the room behind the receiving +desk and thoroughly searched. The suggestion was acted upon at once, and +what may prove to be most startling evidence was discovered.</p> + +<p>The clothing of the prisoner was all removed and two scratches were +found on his right arm. One scratch begins just below the elbow and +extends almost to the wrist. It is almost three inches long. The other +scratch is much shorter and is on the wrist.</p> + +<p>Spots of blood were also noticed on the right sleeve of the prisoner's +undershirt. From the appearance of the sleeve attempts had been made to +remove the blood from the shirt.</p> + +<p>"Where did that blood come from?" asked Lieutenant Corbin.</p> + +<p>"I was bothered with bugs the other night and I scratched myself," +answered the prisoner.</p> + +<p>Jackson then said he had been troubled with some sort of a skin eruption +for some time past, and he pointed to some abrasions on his breast to +confirm his story.</p> + +<p>Nothing was discovered in neither garments of the man that would show +that he had attempted to conceal any papers or other evidence after his +arrest.</p> + + +<h4>WALLING ARRESTED</h4> + +<p>Alonzo Walling, Jackson's roommate, was arrested, at 3:30 Thursday +morning, by Lieutenant Corbin, and locked up at Central Station. It was +thought when Jackson was arrested that night that Walling had no +connection with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> the matter, but later developments went to show that he +knew far more than either had admitted.</p> + +<p>It was ascertained that the two men had been very intimate, and that +they were together on the night of the murder. It was also discovered +that Walling had been intimate with a girl in Louisville with whom +Jackson was on more than friendly terms, and that both men had +corresponded with her.</p> + +<p>The cause for Wallings arrest was a chance remark made by Jackson about +two o'clock in the morning. Shortly after being locked up Jackson called +Turnkey Curren to him and said:</p> + +<p>"I want you to get a chair and sit in front of my cell all night," said +Jackson, who then exhibited the first sign of appreciating his position.</p> + +<p>"Are you afraid of getting lynched?" asked the turnkey.</p> + +<p>"Well, never mind that, I prefer to be well guarded whether I'm in +danger or not."</p> + +<p>After ordering his cell watched, Jackson lay down on the bunk in his +cell and tried to go to sleep, but he was exceedingly restless and +rolled around on his couch for a long time without getting any rest.</p> + +<p>About two o'clock Jackson entered into a conversation with the turnkey +in which almost his first question was:</p> + +<p>"Hasn't Walling been arrested yet?"</p> + +<p>"Why should he be arrested?" was asked.</p> + +<p>Jackson refused to answer this question, and his actions showed that he +did not care to talk further about his roommate. When Lieutenant Corbin +heard of Jackson's actions he at once went to 222 West Ninth Street and +arrested Walling, when he was subjected to a rigid examination by the +officer.</p> + +<p>"Were you in Wallingford's saloon with Jackson and a girl last Friday night?" was asked.</p> + +<p>"Yes, I was," replied Walling.</p> + +<p>"Who was the girl whom you were with?" was asked.</p> + +<p>"I don't know who she was," he replied.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span>"Well you had better tell all you know about this matter," said the +officer. "Now tell me who all were in the party at Wallingford's last +Friday night."</p> + +<p>"I don't know anything more about it," said Walling.</p> + +<p>"Well, you may consider yourself under arrest, then," said Lieutenant Corbin.</p> + +<p>Walling was taken to police headquarters and locked up, but Jackson was +not informed of his arrest until the next day.</p> + +<p>At 6.30 the same morning a telegram was received from the Cincinnati +Detectives who had gone to South-Bend, Ind., bringing the startling +information that Will Wood was arrested there, and confessed to the +responsibility for the death of Pearl Bryan, whose headless body was +found in the Kentucky Highlands. He said that he had arranged for Pearl +Bryan to come to Cincinnati for the purpose of having a criminal +operation performed, and that such an operation was performed, resulting +in the death of the girl. Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were both +concerned in it. The body of the woman was taken to the spot where it +was found and the head removed to prevent identification.</p> + +<p>Investigations were still being made at Greencastle Ind., and the wires +between Cincinnati and that staid old Methodist town, were kept hot.</p> + +<p>Excitement was at a fever heat at both points.</p> + +<p>Evidence was accumulating at each end and it seemed the nooses were +rapidly tightening around the necks of Jackson, Walling and Wood.</p> + +<p>The investigation showed that Scott Jackson had met Pearl Bryan at her +home in the early spring of 1895. He left shortly afterward to attend +the dental college at Indianapolis and his visits to Greencastle, while +not frequent, were always to see Miss Bryan. In September he returned to +Greencastle and entered the office of a local dentist. It was then the +criminal intimacy between the two began.</p> + +<p>He became attentive, and with a veneering of the usages of polite +society managed to fascinate the farmer's daughter. His power over her +seemed almost hypnotic.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> So great was his control over her that she is +said to have kept appointments with him in the dental office where he +was serving his apprenticeship.</p> + +<p>He sought to get rid of her and left the town. Jackson left Greencastle +on October 3, and returned to spend the holidays. He seems to have +allowed his love to grow cold, for he paid no attention to the girl whom +he had robbed of all that a woman holds dear.</p> + +<p>In vain did Pearl send for him to come to see her. He answered none of +her entreaties, and left the town without seeing her except when by +chance he met her on the street.</p> + +<p>When it became apparent that she could not much longer conceal her +shame, she told her parents she was going to Indianapolis to visit a +friend.</p> + + +<h4>NEVER PARALLELED WERE THE SCENES ABOUT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.</h4> + +<p>The scenes enacted at police headquarters early in the day, following +the arrest of Jackson and Walling, were never paralleled in Cincinnati.</p> + +<p>Hundreds of persons thronged the corridors in the immediate vicinity of +the offices of the department, while a vast crowd was assembled on the +outside of the building.</p> + +<p>Upon the arrival of Supt. Deitsch he at once repaired to Mayor +Caldwell's office, where a star chamber session of some length was held. +In the meantime the crowd continued to increase, and it became necessary +to call for a detail of policemen to drive back the curious people. In +the Mayor's office were Detectives Crim and McDermott with the Mayor and +Chief of Police, who for nearly two hours held a seance with the accused +men in their effort to reach the truth. The examination of Walling by +the mayor was severe to a remarkable degree.</p> + + +<h4>WALLING'S DAMAGING STATEMENT.</h4> + +<p>He told a long story of his acquaintance with Jackson, but the most +startling points were when he came down to a conversation held in their +room last Christmas day. Then he said: "Jackson took me into a corner of +the room and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> told me that he and Billy Woods had gotten Pearl Bryan +into trouble and that he must get rid of her. He suggested two ways in +which it might be done. One of the plans he suggested was to take her to +a room and kill her there and leave her. Then he spoke up quickly and +said: 'No, I have a sudden thought as something often tells me when I am +on the wrong idea. It would not do to leave her there, so I will instead +cut her to pieces and drop the pieces in different vaults around town.'"</p> + +<p>A few days afterward Walling says that he and Jackson were in +Wallingford's saloon with a number of medical students, and there +Jackson made inquiries as to the poison that would kill the quickest. He +was told that hydrocyanic or prussic acid was the quickest, but that +cocaine was about the next and most deadly.</p> + + +<h4>JACKSON PURCHASED COCAINE.</h4> + +<p>Shortly after that Jackson bought cocaine at Koelble's drug store, on +Sixth Street, between Plum and Elm.</p> + +<p>"Do you know where he was going to take her?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; he said he was going to take her to Ft. Thomas.</p> + +<p>"About two weeks ago he asked me if I would help the girl out of trouble, +and I said I would. He said she was coming here in about a week, and he +would take me to where she was shopping. Last Monday night he told me +the girl would be here that night. The next day Jackson told me the girl +was at the Indiana House, and asked me to go down there. I went with +him, and he went to her room while I waited down stairs. The next day he +told me he had an engagement with the girl at Fourth and Plum Streets, +and for me to go there and tell her he would meet her in the evening. +That is the last I ever saw of the girl."</p> + +<p>"When did he kill her?"</p> + +<p>"I guess he did it Friday night."</p> + +<p>"How did he do it?"</p> + +<p>"Well, if you will go to our room you will find a hypodermic syringe, +which I think will tell the whole story."</p> + +<p>"What do you mean?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span>"Well, he had a bottle of white stuff in the room, and I asked him what +it was. He said it was arsenic and cocaine. I asked him what he was +going to do with it, and he said he was going to give it to the girl."</p> + +<p>"Did he give it to her?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I guess he used the cocaine. I don't think it killed her at once, +and that she tried to fight him off when he went to cut off her head."</p> + +<p>"Where do you think he was on the Wednesday night before the murder?"</p> + + +<h4>MET THE GIRL AT WALLINGFORD'S.</h4> + +<p>"I think he went to see the girl at Wallingford's saloon. I was there, +but I did not go into the back room, where she was."</p> + +<p>"What time did he get home that night?"</p> + +<p>"I think it was after midnight. He came in with a valise, and I saw him +open it and say, 'You are a beaut, you are.' He thought I was asleep."</p> + +<p>"How about Thursday night?"</p> + +<p>"I saw him that night, and I was afraid to stay home and I went to Heider's Hotel."</p> + +<p>"When did he take the girl to Ft. Thomas?"</p> + +<p>"This was on Friday night. I was in Heider's restaurant eating my supper, +and Jackson called me out and told me to go to Fountain Square and wait +with the girl until he came back. He said he would not be gone over 10 +or 15 minutes. He came back, and I left them. I believe he went to the +room and got the hypodermic syringe and the poison."</p> + +<p>"What do you think he did with the head?"</p> + +<p>"Well, in my opinion he buried it."</p> + +<p>"Where do you think it is buried?"</p> + +<p>"I think it is in this neighborhood."</p> + +<p>"What makes you think so?"</p> + +<p>"Well, last Monday night I was standing on Ninth and Plum and Jackson +came along. He had a valise, and asked me to go with him. I told him I +didn't care to, and he left.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> He had the same valise which is now in the +possession of the police with the blood stains in it."</p> + +<p>"What do you think became of her jacket?"</p> + +<p>"Why, she didn't wear a jacket. It was a long fur cape. I don't think he +could get it in the valise with the head."</p> + +<p>"What do you think became of it?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I can't say as to that. These things have all come to me, and I +may recollect something else after awhile."</p> + + +<h4>A DECOY LETTER SENT BY JACKSON TO THE MURDERED GIRL'S MOTHER.</h4> + +<p>In less than a half hour after making the confession Walling again sent +for the Chief of Police and said:</p> + +<p>"I want to see you about another thing that may have a big bearing on +this case," said the prisoner.</p> + +<p>"What is it?"</p> + +<p>"Well, yesterday afternoon Jackson got some paper and envelopes and told +me he was going to the Palace Hotel to write some letters. I asked him +who he was going to write to and he said to Wood. He said he was going +to inclose a letter purporting to be from Pearl Bryan to her mother and +that he was going to have Wood sent it, I think, to Geneva and have it +mailed from that point to Mrs. Bryan. He said he was going to do this to +throw Mrs. Bryan off the track."</p> + +<p>"Do you know that he sent the letter?"</p> + +<p>"He told me on the evening he was arrested that he had sent it."</p> + +<p>This information was given to Mayor Caldwell, and the following dispatch +was sent:</p> +<p> </p> +<div class="blockquot"> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">Cincinnati, Ohio,</span> February 6, 1896.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">Postmaster</span>, South Bend, Ind.: Kindly sent all mail addressed to Wm. Wood from this city to me.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">John A. Caldwell</span>, Mayor.</span></div> +<p> </p> + +<p>Young Wood, who was present, said he had got a letter from Jackson +yesterday, which he had torn up. It went on to ask him to stick to him, +and not to say too much.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> Young Wood was perfectly satisfied to have the +mail sent back here.</p> + +<p>Chief Deitsch after sending the information to Mayor Caldwell continued +his investigation with:</p> + +<p>"I have just talked with Jackson, and he puts all the blame upon you. He +says you performed the abortion somewhere across the river."</p> + +<p>"I don't know a thing about it, except what he told me."</p> + +<p>"Well, now, did you do it or did Jackson? He says you did it."</p> + +<p>"He's putting it all on me now, is he? Well, he's the one who is guilty. I know nothing of it."</p> + +<p>"What did he tell you had become of the head?"</p> + +<p>"I understand that he threw it in the Ohio River."</p> + +<p>"Do you know where the operation was performed?"</p> + +<p>"No, I don't. If I did, it would make it much easier for me to clear +myself. As it is, I can prove where I was Friday night. It will all come +out in a little while."</p> + +<p>"Jackson says that you threw the head into the river, and that the next +day you told him to get rid of anything lying around loose at the +boarding house by throwing it into the river."</p> + +<p>"I never saw the head, and he told me that he threw it into a sewer."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you throw the girl's stockings, skirt and other things, which +were covered with blood, into the river Saturday morning from the +Suspension Bridge?"</p> + +<p>"No, he did this himself."</p> + +<p>"Then he says the skull was cut up and thrown over piecemeal by you."</p> + +<p>"I don't know about the cutting up part, but deny the other."</p> + + +<h4>JACKSON TELLS CHIEF DEITSCH THAT WALLING COMMITTED THE DEED.</h4> + +<p>Scott Jackson spent a sleepless night at the Central Police Station, and +early next morning was taken to Chief Deitsch's private office. He had a +haggard, restless look,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> and when asked to make a confession, sought to +throw the blame upon Wood, and subsequently upon Walling.</p> + +<p>His story was: Wood was the author of Pearl Bryan's ruin. When Jackson +went home to spend the hollidays, Wood told him that Miss Bryan was in a +delicate condition, and, knowing Jackson to be studying medicine, asked +him what could be done in the matter. Jackson said he could do nothing +in the matter, but Wood insisted that he help in an attempted abortion, +as this was the only thing which would save him (Wood) and the girl from +disgrace. Jackson refused to do this.</p> + +<p>"What have you to say regarding the information now in the possession of +the authorities that you and Walling were seen in the vicinity of Fort +Thomas last Friday night in a hack drawn by a gray horse?"</p> + +<p>"That information is erroneous. I was not there, and can establish the fact."</p> + +<p>"Who do you think murdered the girl?"</p> + +<p>"Alonzo Walling."</p> + +<p>"Do you think the murdered girl is Pearl Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, there is no question about that. It is her."</p> + +<p>"How, and where was she killed?"</p> + +<p>"I do not know."</p> + +<p>"For what purpose?"</p> + +<p>"To cover up previous wrong doings."</p> + +<p>"And to shield who?"</p> + +<p>"William Wood."</p> + +<p>"Was Wood supposed to be Miss Bryan's sweetheart?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir; he was."</p> + +<p>"And how was the affair planned?"</p> + +<p>"Wood wrote to me, telling me of the trouble, and asking me to assist +him out of it. I showed the letter to Walling, and he volunteered to +undertake the job. It was then planned to bring the girl here. She +arrived on Tuesday of last week, and what I saw and know of her after +her arrival here, I have told."</p> + +<p>"How do you account for the condition of your<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> trousers, which have been +found and are now in the possession of the authorities?"</p> + +<p>"Well, the only way I can account for that, is that they were in our +room and Walling put them on the night of the crime. I have not seen +them since, and did not know that there was blood and mud on them."</p> + + +<h4>WILL WOOD'S ARRIVAL.</h4> + +<p>It was 9 o'clock Thursday night when Sheriff Plummer and Detectives Crim +and McDermott arrived in Cincinnati with William Wood, the third man in +the terrible tragedy. Nothing else had been talked of during the day. +Both in Newport and Cincinnati the excitement was intense. When early in +the morning it was learned that the two men who were undoubtedly +implicated in the horrible murder had been arrested in Cincinnati and an +accessory to the crime arrested in Indiana and on his way to Cincinnati +under guard, expressions of satisfaction at the arrests were heard on +all sides. The subject of lynching the fiends,—Walling and Jackson—was +freely discussed. That ominious appearance of suppressed excitement, +which shows the keen determination of a mob and which they seek to hide +as much as possible, was seen everywhere in the crowds gathered in knots +all over the two cities. All that was needed in Cincinnati was a few +good, trusty, fearless leaders. In Newport it was different. +Determination and decision were seen on the blanched faces of men +everywhere. Even Chief of Police Stricker and Lieutenant Smith, said it +would be a very risky matter to bring the prisoners to Newport. There is +no telling what would be done. Excitement has reached a very high pitch. +"We will be well prepared for any outbreak of mob violence," said they, +"and upon the slightest indication of any will arrest everybody +concerned in the least with it."</p> + + +<h4>WOOD EXAMINED. SAYS JACKSON BETRAYED THE GIRL. HE IS RELEASED WITHOUT BOND.</h4> + +<p>It was just 11:30 o'clock when Wood was subjected to an examination in +the Mayor's private office. The father and uncle of the young man were +present. The examination was as follows:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span>"What is your name?"</p> + +<p>"William Wood."</p> + +<p>"How old are you?"</p> + +<p>"Twenty years old."</p> + +<p>"Where do you live?"</p> + +<p>"Greencastle Ind."</p> + +<p>"You knew Pearl Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir."</p> + +<p>"Very well?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. She was a second cousin of mine."</p> + +<p>"Does your family visit the Bryans?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir."</p> + +<p>"Where you intimate with the girl?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"Did you know that she had been betrayed?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir."</p> + +<p>"How did you find that out?"</p> + +<p>"Jackson told me."</p> + +<p>"What did he say?"</p> + +<p>"He told me that he betrayed her in September."</p> + +<p>"Did he tell any one else that?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir, he did. A young man in Greencastle."</p> + +<p>"He will substantiate your statement then?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir."</p> + +<p>"Did you receive any letters from Jackson about the condition of Miss Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir."</p> + +<p>"When?"</p> + +<p>"About the 10th of January, I think."</p> + +<p>"What did he say?"</p> + +<p>"He said that he was going to have an operation performed on her if he could get hold of enough money."</p> + +<p>"Did the girl know of that at that time?"</p> + +<p>"Yes sir."</p> + +<p>"How did she find that out?"</p> + +<p>"I told her myself."</p> + +<p>"Why did you do that?"</p> + +<p>"Because I wanted to shield her."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>"Was the letter you received from Jackson the only way that you knew +that the girl had been betrayed?"</p> + +<p>"No, she told me herself when I was out at the house several weeks ago."</p> + +<p>"What did you say to that?"</p> + +<p>"I told her to wait until I heard from Jackson."</p> + +<p>"You took a great deal of interest in the case, did you not?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I would have done the same if she had been my own sister."</p> + +<p>"What arrangement did Jackson say he had made when he wrote to you?"</p> + +<p>"He said he had procured a room in Cincinnati, and that she would be taken care of by an old woman."</p> + +<p>"What else did he say?"</p> + +<p>"He said that the operation would be performed by a doctor and chemist who was an old hand at that kind of business."</p> + +<p>"Did he mention the name of the doctor?"</p> + +<p>"No, he said the party was a friend of Walling."</p> + +<p>"Did the plan suit you?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I thought it was just the thing."</p> + +<p>"What did you tell her?"</p> + +<p>"I told her that I thought it would be best for her to go."</p> + +<p>"At that time you thought you would accompany her?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>"Why did you change your mind?"</p> + +<p>"Because my father requested my staying at home."</p> + +<p>"But you met the girl at the depot when she came to Cincinnati?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>"What day was that?"</p> + +<p>"Monday, January 27."</p> + +<p>"Did you have a long talk with the girl?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I talked with her."</p> + +<p>"About the operation?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>"Did she seem pleased?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span>"I never saw her so happy in my life."</p> + +<p>"Did you have any other business at the train?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir, I came to meet my father."</p> + +<p>"Where had your father been?"</p> + +<p>"To a quarterly meeting at Terra Haute."</p> + +<p>"Then Miss Bryan left on the same train that your father came home on?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>"Were you over in Cincinnati before?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"When did you see Jackson last?"</p> + +<p>"When he was at home. It was on a Sunday. I think about the 5th or 6th of January."</p> + +<p>"Where you with him very long?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, nearly all day."</p> + +<p>"Where did Jackson go when he left Greencastle?"</p> + +<p>"He came to Cincinnati on an evening train."</p> + +<p>"Do you know Walling?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"Never saw him?"</p> + +<p>"Never in my life."</p> + +<p>"Ever see a picture of him?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I saw a tin-type of him when Jackson was at home."</p> + +<p>"Would you recognize that picture if you were to see it?"</p> + +<p>"I think I would."</p> + +<p>At this juncture of the examination Chief Deitsch went to get a picture of Walling but failed to find it.</p> + +<p>Wood was taken down to Central Station and registered.</p> + +<p>He gave his name as William Wood, aged 20, residence South Bend, Ind. +After registering he went to the Grand Hotel with his father.</p> + +<p>Excitement was running high by this time. The crowds in and around the +City Hall, where the prisoners were, steadily increased, and the gravest +fears were entertained by the officers. Cordon's of police lined the +passage-ways from the Mayor's and Superintendent's offices to the +cell-rooms<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> below where the prisoners were confined, and every movement +was guarded with the most jealous care.</p> + + +<h4>A BLOODY VALISE. IT HAD CONTAINED THE GIRL'S HEAD, AND WAS LEFT IN A SALOON.</h4> + +<p>There were all kinds of rumors floating about the City Hall when John +Kugel, the saloon-keeper at Ninth Street and Central avenue, walked into +Clerk Vickers office and told him that he thought he had a valise +belonging to Jackson.</p> + +<p>"Then get it quick," said Vickers.</p> + +<p>Kugel hurried over and in a few minutes returned with a brown leather +hand-satchel about 15 inches long. It was taken to Chief Deitsch, who +made an examination. There was nothing in it, but the sides were heavily +stained with blood. Chief Deitsch closed the valise and asked Kugel who +gave it to him. Kugel said that last Monday night about 8 o'clock a +young man with a blonde mustache walked in his place and asked him to +take care of the valise, saying he would call for it the next day.</p> + +<p>After Kugel's arrival at headquarters Jackson was ordered brought +up-stairs and a dramatic scene followed. Jackson was seated facing Chief +Deitsch with the valise at the Chief's feet. Standing around were many +persons at work on the case.</p> + +<p>"Pick up that valise," said the Chief.</p> + +<p>Jackson picked it up and held it in his lap.</p> + +<p>"Open it."</p> + +<p>He did so.</p> + +<p>"What is in there?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing that I can see, except that it is stained."</p> + +<p>"What is it stained with?"</p> + +<p>"It looks like blood?"</p> + +<p>"Don't you know it is blood?"</p> + +<p>Jackson's face flushed and his eyes twitched. He pulled his mustache and +ran his fingers through his hair. He was only a moment answering, but it +appeared to be an hour to those who were waiting for a reply. He finally +moistened his lips with his tongue and said:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span>"I think it is blood, but I have not examined it carefully."</p> + +<p>"Well, then, examine it carefully."</p> + +<p>Jackson picked up the valise and held it close to his face. He peered +down the blood-stained bag and his eyes rolled around his head. He put +his hand to his forehead and slowly said:</p> + +<p>"Yes, that is blood."</p> + +<p>"Isn't that the valise in which you carried the head?"</p> + +<p>"I guess it is, but I did not carry it."</p> + +<p>"Well, who did?"</p> + +<p>"Walling."</p> + +<p>"Well, then, where is the head?"</p> + +<p>"I guess it is in the river."</p> + +<p>Kugel then identified Jackson as the man who had left the valise in the saloon.</p> + +<p>"What did you leave it in Kugel's saloon for?" asked the Chief.</p> + +<p>"I wasn't going to leave it there. I was going to get it and do away with it."</p> + +<p>"Why did you want to get rid of it?"</p> + +<p>"Well, it was better out of the way."</p> + +<p>"Why?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I wanted to shield myself of all those things."</p> + +<p>"What were you so anxious to get rid of them for?" persisted the Chief.</p> + +<p>"I just didn't want them about," was the prisoner's non-committal answer.</p> + +<p>"What was in it first?"</p> + +<p>"A lot of clothing and such things."</p> + +<p>"Whose clothing was it?"</p> + +<p>"Miss Bryan's, I think."</p> + +<p>"What did it consist of?"</p> + +<p>"Well, there was a skirt, a petticoat, some stockings and other things."</p> + +<p>"Where are they?"</p> + +<p>"I guess they are in the river, too."</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/blood.jpg" alt="'Yes, that is blood.'" /><br /> +<span class="caption">Jackson put his hand to his forehead and slowly said: "Yes, that is blood."</span></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>Night Chief Renkert then produced a small alligator valise that he had +found in Lawrence's barber shop, 133 West Sixth Street, where Walling +and Jackson often went. Jackson identified it as Pearl Bryan's. He said +that the blood-stained one was also the property of the murdered girl.</p> + + +<h4>AT WALLINGFORD'S. FRIDAY NIGHT, WITH PEARL BRYAN, JACKSON LEFT THERE IN A HACK.</h4> + +<p>David Wallingford, the proprietor of the saloon at Longworth and Plum, +which Jackson and Waling frequented, and his colored porter Allen +Johnson were brought in by the officers and questioned in the presence +of Jackson and Walling by Chief Deitsch as follows:</p> + +<p>"You knew Jackson pretty well, eh?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, yes; he came into my saloon every night. He frequently brought his +lady friends along, too."</p> + +<p>"Was he in your saloon on Friday night last?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, he brought a lady in with him and went back into the sitting-room."</p> + +<p>"Do you know who the lady was?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I didn't then. Of course I do now."</p> + +<p>"Who was she?"</p> + +<p>"Why, she was Miss Pearl Bryan. I saw Pearl Bryan's picture since, and +haven't the slightest doubt it was her. They were back in the +sitting-room."</p> + +<p>"Did Jackson act queer that night?"</p> + +<p>"No; I can't say that he did. But one thing that looked rather queer was +that he came in a carriage and brought a new satchel in the saloon with +him."</p> + +<p>"Did Jackson order any drinks?"</p> + +<p>"Not after he had ordered whiskey for himself and sarsaparilla for the +girl, they then went away in the carriage."</p> + +<p>"What time was that?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, about 7 o'clock, I think."</p> + +<p>"Did you see him any more that night?"</p> + +<p>"No; he came in the next night (Saturday night), though."</p> + +<p>"Did he bring a satchel with him on Saturday night?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, he brought in the same satchel and put it on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> table. I noticed +that he sat it down rather heavily and I asked him what was in it. He +said: 'Oh, some underclothes,' and we both laughed."</p> + +<p>"Was Jackson as merry as usual?"</p> + +<p>"No, he was rather depressed. He said his head hurt him devilish bad and +he looked worried."</p> + +<p>Johnson played an important part in the affair.</p> + +<p>He persisted in the statement that Jackson, Walling and the girl, Miss +Bryan, were at Wallingford's place on Friday night, and moreover that +Albin the barber who shaved the two chums, was on the box and drove the +cab in which they departed.</p> + +<p>"I tell you I am not mistaken," persisted Johnson. "Let Albin put a cap +on and I can recognize him; he wore a cap that night."</p> + +<p>"Why are you so sure of the night?" was asked.</p> + +<p>"Cause I had an engagement with my girl on that same night, and I +remember distinctly."</p> + +<p>Johnson said that he saw Walling on the outside and saw the woman get +into the cab and drive away.</p> + +<p>All of this Walling denied. Once Walling admitted that he was at the +place, but he changed it again and declared that he was not there until +Saturday night, when he saw Jackson borrow a dollar of the bartender.</p> + +<p>Johnson stood in front of Walling and said:</p> + +<p>"I don't want to get you into trouble, but you know you were there +Friday night, and there is no use of you denying it."</p> + +<p>Walling however, still refused any admission.</p> + +<p>Once during the talk Jackson shook his finger in the face of Walling and +said:</p> + +<p>"Be careful; do not go too far."</p> + +<p>Again he said: "You lie, and you know you are lying."</p> + +<p>To which Walling answered: "You show in your eyes that you are lying."</p> + +<p>The colored porter persisted in all the statements made to the +authorities that Albin, the barber, was driving the cab.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p> +<h4>ALBIN, THE BARBER. SAYS HE DID NOT DRIVE THE MYSTERIOUS CAB FRIDAY NIGHT.</h4> + +<p>Detectives Witte and Jackson were at once sent for Fred Albin the +barber, and were not long in bringing him in. He and Johnson, the +porter, were seated on the same lounge in the Mayor's office and Albin +was examined by Chief Deitsch when he told the following story:</p> + +<p>"I have known Alonzo Walling for about two years. He lived across the +street from my home in Hamilton, O. Last fall he concluded to come to +this city and study dentistry. He told me this and I offered to come to +this city with him. I saw him nearly every evening, and in fact, we +chummed together.</p> + +<p>"About four months ago he introduced me to Jackson. Jackson came to the +shop where I was employed and got shaved about twice a week.</p> + +<p>"He was always considered a peculiar fellow—rather eccentric. I know +little concerning him.</p> + +<p>"I do not know whether it was Friday or Saturday morning that Jackson +came into my shop and had me shave his whiskers off. On that day he had +a grip when he entered, and I asked him what he had in it. He replied +that he would tell me some other day."</p> + +<p>Johnson then repeated his statement regarding Albin's connection with +the crime, after which Chief Deitsch said:</p> + +<p>"What have you got to say about the statement made by Johnson which +implicates you with the murder?"</p> + +<p>"There is no truth in that. I think I wore a cap on Friday night, but I +was not in Wallingford's saloon, as Johnson says. I went home with +Walling about fifteen minutes after 9. Jackson came into the barber shop +several times with the grip. I naturally had some curiosity to know what +it contained but he never would tell me anything definite.</p> + +<p>"One day this week I picked up a paper while Jackson was in the shop and +read an item about the shoes bought at Greencastle. I knew that +Greencastle was the home of Jackson, and I asked him if he had heard +about the shoes coming<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> from his town. He said that he had, but that he +did not believe it. I suggested that he and I go over and look at the +body, but Jackson said that he did not want to see it, as he felt sure +that he could not identify it. During this conversation I noticed that +Jackson acted somewhat peculiar, but I never dreamed what caused it at +the time."</p> + +<p>Col. Deitsch and Mayor Caldwell had a long talk with Albin. He persisted +in the statement that he knew nothing of the murder.</p> + +<p>Clew after clew was run down. Everything reported to the police +regarding the murder, no matter of how little importance was thoroughly +investigated and the officers were kept continually on the run.</p> + +<p>Satisfied that Jackson and Walling were the murderers, and that the +identification of the victim was complete the whole energy of the entire +detective and police force was turned to the finding of the head, and +the identity of the man who drove the cab and the securing of positive +evidence on which the murderers could be convicted.</p> + + +<h4>JACKSON'S LETTER TO WOOD.</h4> + +<p>In response to Mayor Caldwell's notice to the postmaster at South Bend, +Ind., the Mayor on Saturday, Feb. 8., received from that city a letter +written by Scott Jackson to William Wood, South Bend, Ind.</p> + +<p>As soon as he received it the Mayor sent for D. D. Woodmansee the +attorney for Jackson, and with his consent opened the communication. It +was dated Feb. 5., the day on which Jackson was arrested. It was marked +8:30 p. m., less than two hours before his arrest. It was written on +letter-heads of the Palace Hotel, while the envelope bore the style of +Al Heider's Hotel, on Fifth Street. The letter says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">"2-5-96.</span><br /> +<br /> +"Hello, Bill—<br /> +<br /> +"Write a letter home signed by Berts name telling the folks that he +is somewhere & going to Chicago or some other place—has a position +etc—and that they will advise later about it—Say tired of living<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> +at home or anything you want. You know about the way he writes. Send it to some one you can trust—How will Smith at La +Fayette—tell the folks that he has not been at I but at La Fayette +and travelling about the country get the letter off without one +seconds delay—and burn this at once. Stick by your old chum +Bill—And I will help you out the same way—some times. Am glad you +are having a good time— <span class="spacer"> </span>D.<br /> +<br /> +"Be careful what you write to me."</div> +<p> </p> + +<p>"Bert" in the letter means Pearl. In that portion of the communication +which explains that "he has not been at "I." "I" evidently stands for +Indianapolis.</p> + +<p>After the letter from Jackson to Wood was opened and read, a reporter +went to Jackson and asked him if he wrote the letter.</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir, I did."</p> + +<p>"What does that signature, the letter D., mean?"</p> + +<p>"Why, he called me 'Dusty,' and I signed it for that."</p> + +<p>"Who is meant by Bert?"</p> + +<p>"That is a nickname we had for Pearl. We always called her Bert."</p> + +<p>"Then Bert means Miss Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>"Now, why did you write that letter?"</p> + +<p>"Walling told me to write it. He said that something had to be done, and +I did it."</p> + +<p>"Did he dictate it?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, no, I wrote it Wednesday evening after supper."</p> + +<p>"Why did you tell Wood to be careful what he wrote?"</p> + +<p>"Because he was writing vulgar letters. He wrote me two postals to the +college that were awful."</p> + +<p>"What did you do with them?"</p> + +<p>"I tore them right away. Besides all this, I din't know at what time I +might be arrested."</p> + +<p>Walling was then visited and told of the story of Jackson.</p> + +<p>"No, I didn't tell him to write it.</p> + +<p>"I met him on the street Wednesday afternoon, and he told me that he was +going to write."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>JACKSON'S COAT FOUND IN A SEWER.</h4> + +<p>As a result of one of the lengthy cross-examinations to which Walling +was subjected in which he said that the coat worn by Jackson when he +committed the deed had been deposited by himself at Jackson's request in +the sewer hole at the corner of Richmond and John Streets.</p> + +<p>Detective Witte was at once sent to the scene, and, found a bundle +wrapped in a newspaper in the mud. It was drawn out and found to be a +black coat. On the lining of the sleeves were found blood stains, and in +one of the pockets a lot of tansy flower, which, made into tea, is used +to produce miscarriages. After a thorough cleaning, it was placed in a +box and removed to headquarters, where an examination was made. Blood +spots were found on the sleeves and front. The coat was of a blue black +material, similar to the clothing worn by Jackson at the time of his +arrest.</p> + +<p>Walling was told of the finding of the coat. He displayed no surprise, but remarked:</p> + +<p>"Well, I knew they would find it. I told them not long ago where it was; that I had put it there myself."</p> + +<p>"Whose coat is it?"</p> + +<p>"Jackson's."</p> + +<p>"Why did you put it there?"</p> + +<p>"Because he asked me to."</p> + +<p>"Did you know for what purpose?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; to get rid of it. It was bloody."</p> + +<p>"And you knew this?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, he told me so."</p> + +<p>"Then you know more about the crime than you have admitted?"</p> + +<p>"No, I don't. I have told everything I know."</p> + +<p>In a locker at the Ohio Dental College—Jackson's individual +locker—were found by the police a pair of trousers. Upon the knees were +dried mud and blood, and upon the legs were other blood stains. Jackson +and Walling each claim the trousers belong to the other.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p> + +<h4>JACKSON'S AND WALLING'S PICTURES TAKEN FOR THE ROGUES GALLERY.</h4> + +<p>Mayor Caldwell and Col. Deitsch Friday morning had a private +consultation at which it was decided to hold all examinations of the +prisoners in the Bertillion room, behind the iron bars of the Place of +Detention. No one but Col. Deitsch and the Mayor were allowed to be +present.</p> + +<p>It was about 9 o'clock when both Jackson and Walling were brought into +the Bertillon room and turned over to Superintendent Kiffmeyer. Both +were photographed and had their measure taken according to the rules +governing the Bertillon system.</p> + +<p>The questioning of the prisoners while in the Bertillon room, related to +the disposition made of Pearl Bryan's clothes.</p> + +<p>It was found that Pearl Bryan's clothes had been conveniently wrapped +into five bundles and brought to Jackson and Walling's room at 222 West +Ninth Street. Jackson took two of the bundles and threw them into the +sewer on Sycamore street. Walling put the other three under his arm and +went down Plum Street with the purpose of throwing into the river the +evidences of the bloody and brutal crime in the muddy depths of the +Ohio. Jackson says Walling afterwards told him he had disposed of them.</p> + +<h4>ANOTHER CONFESSION.</h4> + +<p>When Turnkey Henry Underwood was passing Jackson's cell yesterday morning Jackson said:</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm going to see the Mayor and tell him about the clothing."</p> + +<p>"What did you do with the clothing?"</p> + +<p>"Well, there were three bundles. I threw them in a sewer on Richmond Street."</p> + +<p>"Where on Richmond Street?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know exactly, but west of Central avenue."</p> + +<p>"Was the head in the lot?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know where the head is now."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>"Why don't you tell where the head is and it will save you a good deal +of trouble."</p> + +<p>"Well, Walling told me that he threw it overboard."</p> + +<p>"What do you mean by throwing it overboard?"</p> + +<p>"Why, in the river, and that is the truth."</p> + +<p>As soon as the Chief could be seen Turnkey Underwood reported to him the +talks he had with the prisoners. Walling was taken before Mayor Caldwell +and Chief Deitsch, Detectives Crim and McDermott. Walling was asked what +he had to say.</p> + +<p>"Well, I'll tell you how Jackson killed Pearl Bryan.</p> + +<p>"For several days before the murder Jackson would sit about our room and +read a medical dictionary to try and learn all about the effect of +poisons. He finally selected cocaine as the most suitable for his +purpose. At last he took four grains of cocaine and put in sixteen drops +of water. He told me that he was going to give the cocaine solution to +Pearl and make her drink it, and that it would kill the vocal powers. +She would be unable to scream or talk and then he was going to cut her +head off."</p> + +<p>"Do you think he did that?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I am almost sure that was the way he killed her."</p> + +<p>"I don't know how he gave her the poison, but think she took it before +getting into the cab, so that it would have its full effect by the time +she was driven over to Ft. Thomas."</p> + +<p>"Well, what became of the head? You know where it is."</p> + +<p>"I do not. If I did I would tell."</p> + +<p>Jackson was then sent for. He appeared to be worried, and when Mayor +Caldwell asked him if he had bought any cocaine he said:</p> + +<p>"Yes, I bought some cocaine."</p> + +<p>"When?"</p> + +<p>"Last Wednesday night."</p> + +<p>"What did you do with it?"</p> + +<p>"I gave it to Walling."</p> + +<p>"Now Jackson I want you to tell me where the head is.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> You know where it +is, and for the sake of the poor old mother I think you ought to tell."</p> + +<p>"Well, I can't tell you where the head is. I don't know."</p> + +<p>Walling and Jackson were then brought together again. They eyed each +other and then the questions were put to them, but like in every other +interview they denied the charges made by each other. Walling finally +said:</p> + +<p>"Why don't you tell where the head is, Jackson? You know they will find +it sooner or later."</p> + +<p>"I don't know where it is."</p> + +<p>"Why don't you tell? You know where it is."</p> + +<p>"I do not."</p> + + +<h4>TWO POST-MORTEMS.</h4> + +<p>There were two post-mortems held by Coroner Tingley, of Newport over the +remains of the headless body of Pearl Bryan. The first held on the +Monday following the finding of the body and the second, which was +ordered for the purpose of deciding whether the murder was committed +where the body was found or the head cut off after death had been caused +by the administering of anaesthetics. Dr. Charles S. Phythian of +Newport, conducted both post-mortems assisted by Drs. Robert Carothers, +J. L. Phythian, J. O. Jenkins, W. S. Tingley, C. B. Schoolfield and J. +H. Fishbach. The unanimity of opinion was that life was not extinct when +the wounds from which the blood found egress were inflicted.</p> + +<p>Dr. Charles Phythian said:</p> + +<p>"The post-mortem shows beyond a doubt that Pearl Bryan died by the knife +and was conscious when she was killed."</p> + +<p>"Had she been dead when she was taken to the Highlands the blood in her +body would have been somewhat coagulated no matter how soon after +dissolution she was taken there, and while there would have been a great +flow of it if she had been placed there within a short time after death +there must have been a slight coagulation which would have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span> caused at +least a small quantity of blood to remain in the body."</p> + +<p>"The cut on the left hand shows that she fought with her murderer. The +cut goes clear to the bone and proves that she did not receive it by +making the weak attempt at defense that a person in a semi-comatose +condition would have made."</p> + +<p>As was brought out at the first post-mortem there was absolutely not a +drop of blood in the body of the woman; all of it had flowed from her.</p> + +<p>Not a drop of blood was found in the veins nor was any found in the +arteries or heart. Every organ of the body was found in perfect and +healthy condition. The blood vessels were entirely devoid of any blood, +and all the surgeons gave as their opinion that the girl had bled to +death, for had life been extinct before bleeding began the blood vessels +would not have been emptied.</p> + +<p>A microscopic observation was made of the body in hope of discovering a +puncture that might be construed as the place where the needle of the +hypodermic-syringe had been inserted, but no such puncture had been +discovered, though subjected to the most careful examination with the +strongest glasses.</p> + +<p>Fred Bryan a brother of the murdered woman and Mrs. Stanley, a sister, +together with a number of friends from Greencastle, Ind., arrived in +Cincinnati Friday, for the purpose of fully identifying the remains, and +having them removed from the Newport morgue to Greencastle for +interment. The identification was complete, and permission having been +obtained from the authorities, the headless body was prepared for +interment and removed to the undertaking establishment of John P. Epply, +in Cincinnati.</p> + +<p>The body was clothed in a cream white silk dress, the same that the girl +had worn when she graduated from the high school in 1892 at Greencastle. +The feet were incased in dainty satin slippers.</p> + +<p>The casket was one of the most beautiful of its kind made. It was white +cloth-covered, and trimmed with cord<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> and tassel. The handles were of +burnished silver. In the center of the casket lid, on a silver plate, +was the name "Pearl."</p> + +<p>Inside the casket was full-satin-lined, and handsomely trimmed. The +absence of the head was made scarcely noticeable the placing of a square +satin pillow in the head on the casket down to the shoulders of the +corpse.</p> + + +<h4>THE HEADLESS BODY DISPLAYED TO THE MURDERERS.</h4> + +<p>The authorities resolved on a plan which they hoped might make the +prisoners weaken. It was to have them look upon their murdered victim +and have the crime recalled in all its hideousness.</p> + +<p>Mayor Caldwell Chief Deitsch and Sheriff Plummer went to Epply's morgue, +where the remains lay.</p> + +<p>In a short time Detectives Crim and McDermott arrived with the +prisoners. Crim had Walling in charge and McDermott Jackson. The latter +was placed at the head of the coffin and Walling near the foot. Both +faced the brother and sister of the murdered girl, who were on the other +side of the casket.</p> + +<p>Jackson was terribly excited and nervously clasped and unclasped his +hands. His eyes roved from one end of the body to the other and he shook +his head and sighed deeply. His face was terribly flushed, and he looked +as though he might break down every second. On the other hand Walling +was to all appearance the coolest man in the room. He gazed at the +corpse without a shiver and looked around on the faces of those present. +His only noticeable display of agitation was to tap his foot nervously +on the floor.</p> + +<p>Not a word was said until Chief Deitsch, at the other end asked:</p> + +<p>"Walling do you recognize the corpse?"</p> + +<p>"I do not."</p> + +<p>"Do you know who it is?"</p> + +<p>"I believe it is Pearl Bryan."</p> + +<p>"What reason have you for this belief?"</p> + +<p>"What Jackson has told me."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>"Jackson, do you recognize the corpse?"</p> + +<p>"I do not."</p> + +<p>"Do you know that it is the body of Pearl Bryan?"</p> + +<p>"I have not taken a close and careful look at the body."</p> + +<p>"Would you recognize it if you did?"</p> + +<p>"I think I would."</p> + +<p>"Walling did you kill this woman?"</p> + +<p>"I did not."</p> + +<p>"Jackson did you kill this woman?"</p> + +<p>"I did not."</p> + +<p>"And do you deny, in the presence of the corpse, that you killed her?"</p> + +<p>"I do."</p> + +<p>"Who did kill her?"</p> + +<p>"I have every reason to believe that Walling did."</p> + +<p>Determined to make one more effort to secure a confession as to where +the head was, Chief Deitsch arranged for Mrs. Stanley to ask the +prisoners. Almost begging on bended knees, and sobbing heavily she +cried: "Mr. Jackson, I come to you and ask where is my sister's head. +For the sake of my poor mother and for my sister and for my brother I +beg of you to tell me where my sister's head is. It is my last chance +and I want to send it home with the body. Won't you please tell me, I +beg of you?"</p> + +<p>Jackson looked at her, and, without turning a hair, said:</p> + +<p>"Mrs. Stanley, I do not know."</p> + +<p>The same question was asked Walling to which he coldly and without any +semblance of feeling, replied:</p> + +<p>"I do not know where it is."</p> + +<p>The same evening Pearl Bryan's headless body was taken back to her home +in Greencastle accompanied by her brother, sister and friends.</p> + + +<h4>CORONER'S INQUEST.</h4> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> A. Autenheimer, a retired steamboat Captain, were selected as +jurors. The first witness called was Sheriff Plummer.</p> + +<p>"Please state if on February 1 you saw the headless body of a woman on +the premises of John Lock, in the Highlands?"</p> + +<p>"I did."</p> + +<p>"What evidence have you to submit in identifying the body?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Have you discovered by what means she came to her death?"</p> + +<p>"The evidence we have leads us to believe that she died of having her throat cut."</p> + +<p>Dr. Heyl, Assistant Surgeon of the Sixth Regiment, U. S., stationed at +Ft. Thomas testified the manner in which the head was severed plainly +showed that an accustomed hand had performed the work, and it was +obvious to a professional eye that the work had commenced from the back +of the neck.</p> + +<p>Detective Cal Crim of Cincinnati gave his testimony as follows:</p> + +<p>"I was notified by the Chief of Detectives Hazen, to report to Newport +and assist in clearing the mystery of the crime. With Detectives +McDermott and Sheriff Plummer I went to where the body was found, and +came to the conclusion that she was murdered there. There was so much +blood on the ground that it led me to this belief, and I also found +blood high up on the surrounding bushes, which I believed to have been +caused by the blood spurting from the neck. I found blood on all the +under side of the leaves, showing that the course of the blood was +upward, as though the body was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> on the ground when the throat was cut. +The ground was literally saturated with blood. The earth was upturned +and blood was found to a depth of eight or nine inches."</p> + +<p>"State from your examination to your best knowledge and belief who committed the crime?"</p> + +<p>There was a deathlike stillness in the room as the detective answered: +"Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling."</p> + +<p>"What have you found to lead you to that belief?"</p> + +<p>"The dead girl, Miss Pearl Bryan, left her home at Greencastle to visit +a family named Bishop at 95 Center Street, Indianapolis. Her relatives +identified her clothing. We discovered that Scott Jackson had been +intimate with the girl. He left Greencastle October 14., and pregnancy +having become apparent she, at the solicitation of a cousin, named Will +Wood, went to Cincinnati to submit to a criminal operation. Jackson was +to have the operation performed and Walling was to assist in the +performance. The last we know of Pearl Bryan in life was in the company +of Jackson and Walling Friday night preceding the finding of her corpse +between 6 and 7 o'clock, when the three were seen to enter a hack at +Wallingford's saloon, at George and Plum Streets. We have discovered +that Jackson had hired Walling to perform the operation on Miss Bryan. +Jackson's coat was found on evidence furnished by Walling in a sewer +where it had been hidden. A pair of Jackson's trousers, covered with +blood and with mud on the knees, were found in Walling's locker."</p> + +<p>"Has Jackson or Walling made any statements in your presence concerning the crime?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir. Each accuses the other."</p> + +<p>"Can you account for Jackson and Walling the night preceding the finding of the body?"</p> + +<p>"Only up to the time they entered the cab at Wallingford's saloon. Then +all traces are lost. Neither Jackson nor Walling was seen or can give +any satisfactory account of their whereabouts from 7 p. m. of Friday to +3 a. m. Saturday."</p> + +<p>"Have you any other evidence?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>"We found two valises, one having blood stains on the inside, in which +we believe the missing head was carried from the scene of the murder."</p> + +<p>Detective Crim was excused and Detective McDermott was called. He +corroborated Crim's statements. Sheriff Plummer was recalled and gave +testimony corroborative of the two detective's statements. Dr. Robert +Carothers submitted a report of the result of the post-mortem which was +held by order of Coroner Tingley.</p> + +<p>Dr. W. H. Crane, the chemist who made an analysis of the stomach of the +murdered woman, regretted having no written report of the analysis, as +it had not then been completed, but testified to having found cocaine in +the stomach.</p> + +<p>A number of other witnesses testified as to the finding of the body, the +discovering of the foot-prints, blood, etc.</p> + +<p>The examinations were completed, and after the court-room had been +cleared the jury entered into a discussion of the examination.</p> + +<p>The evidence as taken by the court-stenographer was carefully gone over +and debated. Every little technicality was examined and passed on +unanimously, and after an hour's session the jury returned the following +verdict:</p> + + +<h4>THE VERDICT.</h4> + +<p>"We, the jury, of Campbell County, Kentucky, find that the headless body +of the woman found on the premises of John B. Lock, near Ft. Thomas, on +the morning of February the 1st., was that of Pearl Bryan, a resident of +Greencastle, Ind.</p> + +<p>"We further find that cocaine had been administered to Pearl Bryan for +some reasons unknown.</p> + +<p>"We further find that the decapitation took place while Pearl Bryan was +still alive.</p> + +<p>"We further find that Pearl Bryan was last seen in company with Scott +Jackson and Alonzo Walling. The three got into a cab on the Plum-street +side of a saloon, corner of George and Plum Streets, and were last seen +in the cab turning toward Plum Street.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/head.jpg" alt="Where is my sister's head?" /><br /> +<span class="caption">CHIEF DEITSCH.<span class="spacer2"> </span>SCOTT JACKSON.<span class="spacer2"> </span>ALONZO WALLING.<br /> +Mrs. Stanley sobbing heavily cried: "Mr. Jackson, I come to you and ask where is my sister's head?"</span></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span>"We further find in the end of justice that this verdict, and the report +of the post-mortem, the chemical analysis of the stomach and the report +of the Court-stenographer be filed with the verdict."</p> + +<p>On the Wednesday following, the grand jury of Campbell County Kentucky, +in session in Newport, returned an indictment against both Jackson and +Walling, charging them with the murder of Pearl Bryan and alleging that +the crime was committed near Ft. Thomas, Ky. Sheriff Plummer, at once +went to Frankfort, Ky., and secured a requisition for the men from +Governor Bradley. He then took the papers to Columbus, O., where +Governor Bushnell, after a close scrutiny honored them and the Sheriff +returned to Cincinnati to serve them on the Sheriff of Hamilton County, +Ohio, in whose custody the prisoners were.</p> + +<p>The prisoners were arraigned in the Police Court of Cincinnati a number +of times charged with murder, and their cases continued, to give the +Kentucky authorities an opportunity to take action.</p> + +<p>After the indictment of Jackson and Walling in Kentucky, the charge was +changed to "Fugitives from Justice" and on this were they held until the +requisition papers were procured and served.</p> + +<p>In the meantime the detectives, police and Kentucky officers were at +work running down rumors and clews which sprang up on every side.</p> + +<p>The hat worn by Pearl Bryan, was found on the side of the road just back +of Newport and was fully identified by her sister. The hat was weighted +down with a stone wrapped in a bloody handkerchief which was identified +as the property of Jackson.</p> + +<p>George H. Jackson a negro, came forward and told a very plain +straight-forward story of having driven, Jackson, Walling and Pearl +Bryan in a surey drawn by a gray horse from Cincinnati to the scene of +the murder. The police put great faith in this story until it was proven +absolutely false, and that the negro had concocted the story with the +expectation of securing the reward, or for gaining notoriety. An<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> +investigation of his previous record showed it to be a very unsavory +one. No one doubted the guilt of the prisoners under arrest, but great +difficulty was found in securing evidence on which they could be +convicted.</p> + +<p>The officers claimed to have sufficient evidence but refused to divulge +it, and the granting of the requisition papers by Governor Bradley of +Kentucky, and the honoring of those papers of Governor Bushnell of Ohio, +showed that there was certainly stronger evidence than had been given +the public.</p> + +<p>As soon as the requisition papers were served on the Sheriff of Hamilton +County, Ohio, and an effort made by Sheriff Plummer, to take charge of +the prisoners, and take them to Kentucky, it was evident that a terrible +fight would be made by the counsel for the prisoners to keep Jackson and +Walling from being taken to Kentucky.</p> + +<p>Learned and able counsel had been secured by the relatives of each of +the prisoners and from the start it was evident a big legal battle was +on and that every effort, would be put forth to them, not only to save +the murderers from paying the penalty of their horrible crime but also +to keep them from being sent to Kentucky, where in the eyes of the law, +the crime had been committed and the only place where they could be put +on trial for their lives.</p> + +<p>Notwithstanding Gov. Bradley of Kentucky, had promised that he would put +the entire Militia force of Kentucky at the command of Sheriff Plummer +to protect the prisoners from violent deaths at the hands of a lawless +mob, the attorneys for the accused made the claim, and attempted to +prove it, that the lives of their clients would not be safe in Kentucky.</p> + +<p>Habeas corpus proceedings were resorted to and every scheme and plan for +delay was brought into play. A fierce and bitter legal battle was fought +between the attorneys for the prisoners and those for the state, before +Judge M. L. Buchwalter of the Hamilton County, O., Court of Common +Pleas.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>Every technicality and motive for delay known to the law was resorted to +by the attorneys for the defense. The cases were called again and again +in the Police Court simply as a formality, their continuances having +been agreed on before the cases were called, notwithstanding the law +providing that there shall be a hearing before a Judge of the Common +Pleas Court, in extradition cases as soon as the requisition papers +shall have been honored by the Governor of the State. The requisition +papers issued by Governor Bradley of Kentucky on Governor Bushnell, of +Ohio, had been honored by the last named official for weeks previous to +the arraignment of Walling and Jackson, before Judge M. L. Buchwalter, +of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. Interest in the case did not +abate in the least. The Jail where the prisoners were confined, was +daily literally besieged with visitors, and loud murmurings were heard +on all sides. Mob violence was feared, and this fact more than any other +caused the delay in the hearing of the arguments on the requisition +papers. Everyone felt that the papers would be honored by the Judge, and +the prisoners remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of Campbell County, +Kentucky, but it was feared the lives of the prisoners would be placed +in serious jeopardy, if they were sent to Kentucky, before the +excitement had in some measure died out. On April, the 30., the +prisoners were brought before Judge Buchwalter, and Saturday March, 7., +fixed as the date for hearing on the requisition papers. Rumors of all +kinds prevailed, and squadrons of police were placed in line guarding +closely every inch of the way from the jail to the court room. It was +intended at first to convey the prisoners from the jail to the court +room through the underground passage way, or tunnel, which has been +prepared for just such cases of emergency. For this purpose the tunnel +was cleared of every obstacle, but when all was in readiness, it was +discovered that the key to the massive gate at the entrance to the +tunnel from the jail yard had been misplaced and could not be found, and +it was necessary to take them through the streets. Before the prisoners +arrived however, another consultation between the attorneys in the case +resulted in an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> agreement for another continuance, and Jackson and +Walling were before the court but a few minutes, when they were again +remanded to jail and Saturday March, 7., set for a final hearing on +their requisition. Col. Robert W. Nelson, one of the brightest and +leading legal lights of Kentucky, an able prosecutor, fearless and +aggressive and universally feared by criminals, volunteered his services +to aid in the prosecution of, as he termed it, "villains of the deepest +dye, who are without doubt guilty of the most heinous crime and greatest +outrage ever put upon the fair name and fame of Kentucky."</p> + +<p>The attorneys for the defense had selected Judge Buchwalter as the judge +to hear their case for the reason that this same judge had but shortly +before refused to deliver a prisoner, a negro fugitive, charged with +murder, to the Kentucky authorities although Kentucky's Governor had +made a requisition which had been honored and granted by Governor +McKinley of Ohio. Buchwalter held that the negroe's life would not be +safe in Kentucky and refused to hand him over to the Kentucky +authorities. This was a ruling without precedent and the attorneys for +Walling and Jackson hoped to work on the Judges prejudices against +Kentucky and obtain a similar ruling in their cases. Public sentiment +however, was too strong, and no matter how much Judge Buchwalter may +have disliked to honor a requisition from Kentucky, he saw that public +feeling was in no humor to be trifled with in the case of the murderers +of Pearl Bryan. At the hearing of the case on March, 7., the State of +Kentucky, Jule Plummer, Sheriff of Campbell County, agent, through his +attorneys, M. R. Lockhart, Commonwealth's attorney and Col. R. W. +Nelson, appeared in court and demanded the custody of the prisoners, +presenting the requisition papers, properly approved by Governor +Bradley, of Kentucky, and Governor Bushnell of Ohio. The prisoners were +represented by Judge James D. Ermston, of Cincinnati, and Messrs. +Andrews and Sheppard, of Hamilton, O. A bitter fight was made, but right +and justice won and after a fierce legal battle between the opposing +counsel, Judge Buchwalter rendered a lengthy decision remanding the +prisoners to the custody of Sheriff<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> Jule Plummer, as the agent of the +Commonwealth of Kentucky. He also dismissed the habeas-corpus +proceedings which had been instituted but granted a stay of the +executive of his orders for eight days to give the attorneys for the +prisoners ample time to appeal the cases and take them to the Circuit +Court. Judge Andrews for the prisoners, announced that the bill of +exceptions to Judge Buchwalter's rulings, would be prepared at once for +presentation to the Circuit Court. The case was at once taken up on +appeal and on March, 14., Judges Swing, Cox and Smith of the Circuit +Court of Hamilton County began its hearing. When the higher Court +convened an immense throng crowded the rooms, the most noteable among +the spectators being the aged father of the murdered girl, Alex. S. +Bryan, his three sons, Fred, Frank and James, and ten other gentlemen, +who had come from Greencastle, Ind., to Cincinnati, to lend their aid to +the prosecution of the prisoners. S. A. Hayes, one of the brightest +legal lights of Indiana, was one of the party and he will doubtless aid +the State of Kentucky in the prosecution of both Walling and Jackson +when they are put on trial for their lives.</p> + + +<h4>ALLEGED ERRORS SET FORTH.</h4> + +<p>The grounds of error set forth were as follows:</p> + +<p>"That there is manifest error in said judgement and proceedings at, by +and before said Court of Common Pleas in this to wit:</p> + +<p>"1. Said court erred in remanding this plaintiff in error to the custody +of said defendant in error.</p> + +<p>"2. Said court erred in not discharging this plaintiff in error from the +custody of said defendants in error and restoring him to liberty.</p> + +<p>"3. The judgement and order of said Court of Common Pleas is against the +weight of the evidence and contrary to law.</p> + +<p>"4. That there was no evidence whatever submitted to said Court of +Common Pleas or to said Governor of Kentucky,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> who issued the said writ +of requisition, and there was no evidence whatever submitted to the +Governor of Ohio, who issued said warrant on said requisition, that this +plaintiff in error was a fugitive from justice.</p> + +<p>"5. That the charge of indictment against this plaintiff in error does +not accuse him according to law of any crime.</p> + +<p>"6. That there was no evidence submitted to said court or to either of +said Governors that the offense set forth in said alleged indictment is +a crime under the laws of said State of Kentucky.</p> + +<p>"7. That there are other errors prejudicial to plaintiff in error +manifest in said record and proceedings."</p> + +<p>The prayer of the petition is: "Wherefore this plaintiff in error prays +that said judgement and order may be reserved to all things he has lost +thereby, and that he may be discharged from the custody of said +defendants in error and restored to his liberty."</p> + +<p>After hearing the arguments on this bill of errors, the Court took the +matter under advisement until the Monday morning following when the +three Judges of the higher court met and rendered a decision sustaining +Judge Buchwalter and remanding the prisoners to the custody of the +Kentucky authorities. Walling and Jackson were at once informed of the +decision of the Court. The effect of the information on the two +prisoners was of marked difference. Walling smiled sarcastically, and +said:</p> + +<p>"I had hoped we would not be taken over the river, and we have fought +desperately to prevent going there. We have made the best fight +possible," and winking his eye, added: "We have received no orders to go +there yet."</p> + +<p>Jackson grew as pale as death and was visibly agitated and trembling, +when told that the Court had decided against him. Said he: "Of course I +do not want to go to Kentucky."</p> + +<p>"Do you fear being mobbed over there?"</p> + +<p>"I not only fear that we may be mobbed, but I don't believe we would be +given a fair trial. How can I think otherwise when an authority like +Sheriff Plummer told me that if<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> we were taken over to Newport the +people there would lynch us sure?"</p> + +<p>"Did the Sheriff tell you that?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, and then modified it by saying: 'I will, of course, do all I can, +as an officer of the law, to prevent it, but we are all Kentuckians over +there, and they are hard to restrain.' Since he told me that, I have not +had any great longing to visit his State."</p> + + +<h4>WILD DRIVE TO KENTUCKY.</h4> + +<p>St. Patrick's day, March, 17., 1896, will ever live green in the memory +of Alonzo Walling and Scott Jackson. It was on this day they were taken + +to Kentucky, quietly and without much ado. Sheriff Plummer appeared at +the Hamilton County, O., Jail in Cincinnati, and the prisoners were +given in his charge. Walling was at once handcuffed to Detective Crim +and Jackson to Detective McDermott. The crowds about the Jail and the +reporters had no idea what was going on until patrol wagon No. 3, backed +up to the door and Sheriff Plummer, followed by his prisoners and the +detectives went to get in. Immediately the crowd went wild and a mighty +yell went up. "They're going to Kentucky," was yelled by a thousand +voices. Cabs were telephoned for by reporters, spring wagons were +pressed into service and before the officers and prisoners could get in +the patrol wagon fully twelve or fifteen vehicles were ready to follow. +The horses were forced to a run and those following increased their +speed accordingly. The crowd increased. Fear was unmistakeably seen on +the countenances of both prisoners. Down Sycamore Street to Eighth the +horses went on a wild run. Before reaching Eighth Street, Sheriff +Plummer said that it would be impossible to thwart the fast increasing +throng and in order to throw them of their guard, ordered the driver to +turn west off Sycamore on Eighth and drive to Central Police Station. A +large crowd awaited them there and the prisoners were quickly hustled +into the cells. The crowds increased until the large iron doors had to +be closed to keep the crowds from the driveways and corridors of the big +City Building. The prisoners were kept there for two<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> hours or more. +Every movement of the officers was watched closely, especially by the +reporters. Detectives Crim and McDermott, went quickly to the cells +where the prisoners were confined, and without any notice, the prisoners +were again handcuffed to them. Suddenly the large iron doors flew open, +and patrol No. 1, dashed into the court-yard, when the party was again +loaded in quickly. Once in the wagon, a wild drive to Newport was made. +East on Eighth Street to Broadway dashed the team of splendid +police-horses, down Broadway to Second and over the Central Bridge on a +full run thence up York Street in Newport, up to Third to the jail.</p> + +<p>Everywhere the people stopped and stared at the strange chase, as patrol +and vehicles containing press-representatives galloped by, throwing mud +and snow in all directions, and unconsciously the correct conclusion was +arrived at in nearly every case—that Jackson and Walling were being +taken across the river.</p> + +<p>The Newport jailer had been notified that the men were on the way over, +but he did not expect them as quickly as they made the journey. It was +but about four minutes after 4 o'clock when Patrol No. 1, dashed up to +the entrance to the Newport jail, the run from Ninth and Central Avenue +having been made in less than fifteen minutes. On the Central bridge the +horses broke into a gallop, and everybody in sight began to run. Before +the Newport end was reached a surging crowd pushed up York and down +Third Streets upon both sides, but they were not fast enough for the +horses.</p> + +<p>When the trip to Central Station became known in Newport the news spread +like wildfire, and soon a crowd of at least one thousand people had +assembled and impatiently awaited the coming of the prisoners, the +unusual activity at the jail indicating that they were to be brought +there.</p> + +<p>Policeman patrolled Gate Street and kept the people constantly moving, +while the door of the jail office was locked and admission refused to +everyone, even reporters being excluded.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>About 4 o'clock there was a cry of "Here they come!" from the people on +York Street, and in a few seconds patrol No. 1, turned the corner and +dashed down to the jail entrance. As the patrol wagon turned the corner +the crowd closed in and hurried after it, to check it, and when the jail +was reached the entire street was blockaded.</p> + +<p>Sheriff Plummer stepped from the wagon, and was closely followed by +Walling, handcuffed to Detective McDermott, and Jackson, handcuffed to +Detective Crim. Both prisoners were pale and trembling, evidently +believing that the crowd was there for motives other than curiosity. +There was no demonstration from the people, and the prisoners were +quickly hurried into the jail-office and the door slammed and locked in +the faces of the crowd of reporters who attempted to enter.</p> + +<p>The Newport Jail is by no means a desireable place of confinement from a +sanitary point of view and is poorly ventilated. Both prisoners keenly +realized the great change in their accommodations. Regarding this +Jackson said:</p> + +<p>"This is quite different from the Hamilton County Jail, where everything +was at least nice and clean. If I could only exercise a little it would +not be so bad. I am really losing the use of my legs, and I cannot see +what harm there would be in allowing me to walk in the corridor with one +of the guards. I am glad that we are to be taken into court on Monday. +That will be at least a little relief."</p> + +<p>"What plea will you enter?"</p> + + +<h4>WILL NOT PLEAD GUILTY.</h4> + +<p>"Oh, that, of course, will be for my attorney to decide, but it will +certainly be not guilty."</p> + +<p>When Walling was seen, he appeared to be in much better spirits than +Jackson. He was lying on his cot, deeply interested in the novel which +he has been reading for the past few days. He arose and pleasantly +greeted his visitor. When asked as to how he liked his quarters he +replied:</p> + +<p>"Oh, I suppose I have no kick coming, although they are not as good as +those across the river."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span>"What plea will you enter next Monday?"</p> + +<p>"Not guilty, of course. What other plea could I make. I tell you that I +am not guilty of that murder and I fully expect to be cleared."</p> + +<p>Arraigned in Kentucky Court Monday, March, 23., the murderers, spent the +first hour outside the prison walls since the transfer to Kentucky. That +hour was spent in appearing in the Circuit Court room of Campbell County +for the purpose of entering their plea to the charge of murder placed +against them by the Kentucky authorities.</p> + +<p>In the court-room by 9:30 o'clock the three hundred privileged ones who +had obtained tickets of admission had taken their seats, and every seat +was taken excepting the four on the jury gallery reserved for the +prisoners and their jail attendants. There were not more than twenty +women among the spectators.</p> + +<p>Within the iron-rail-bound quadrangle in front of the Judge's desk +thirty or forty members of the Campbell County bar sat, while ranged +behind them and just within the railing was a row of tables for the +reporters and artists.</p> + +<p>Occupying the front chairs in the quadrangle were the attorneys in the +case: For the Commonwealth, Messrs. M. R. Lockhart, Ramsay Washington +and Colonel William Nelson; for the prisoners, Hon. L. J. Crawford, +representing Jackson, and Colonel George Washington, representing +Walling. In a few minutes Judge Charles J. Helm and the Clerk of the +Court, A. L. Reuscher, entered and took their seats and at once opened +the Court.</p> + +<p>Fifteen minutes were spent by the Court disposing of routine business +and several minor cases before his honor said: "I will now call the +cases of the Commonwealth vs. Jackson et al. Mr. Sheriff, bring in the +defendants."</p> + +<p>Everybody was at once on the alert, and all eyes were turned to the door +leading from the corridor. Instead of going toward that door, however, +the Sheriff threw open the ante-room door and out walked Jackson, +attended by Jail Guard Veith. Jackson walked quickly and without any +evidence of the weakness in his knees of which he complained<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> several +days ago. A few steps behind Jackson came Walling, attended by Jailer +John Bitzer.</p> + +<p>When they came into the room, both men were pale, but that haggard +appearance which distinguished them when they were in the Cincinnati +Courts was gone. They both looked well and gave evidence that they +enjoyed their Kentucky fare. Walling retained his paleness throughout +the proceedings, but Jackson, after taking his seat and looking over the +assembled crowd, flushed up a little.</p> + +<p>"Stand up," said Judge Helm to the prisoners when the rustle occasioned +by their appearance had subsided, "You are arraigned—"</p> + +<p>Colonel Washington interrupted the Judge here to say that he wished to +enter his demurrer to the indictment before the arraignment. He was +overruled.</p> + + +<h4>BOTH PLEAD NOT GUILTY.</h4> + +<p>The men were then arraigned and asked to plead.</p> + +<p>"Not guilty, as to Walling," said Colonel Washington.</p> + +<p>"Not guilty, as to Jackson," said Mr. Crawford.</p> + +<p>Judge Helm then asked the attorneys as to whether they desired the +defendants tried together or separately. Mr. Crawford said he did not +wish to indicate then, but Colonel Washington said he wanted a seperate +trial for Walling. The Judge then said, "All right, let an order be +entered accordingly. This court will begin the case against Scott +Jackson first, and I will set Jackson's case for April 7."</p> + +<p>Mr. Crawford thought the time was too short. "Until the prisoner came +over here," he said, "I was not connected with the case. Our witnesses +are scattered, many of them being in Ohio and Indiana, and I do not wish +to risk the chance of their failure to attend court on account of the +short time allowed. This trial is for justice, and we ought to be given +every opportunity to prepare our case. The prosecution seems to have +surprises in store for us, and by a decision of the Court of Appeals the +defense has the right to know what the prosecution intends to do against +us."</p> + +<p>Colonel Nelson here got up and said: "I am surprised<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> at Mr. Crawford +making such a statement. The Commonwealth expects to prove that Scott +Jackson killed Pearl Bryan," a remark that drew a laugh from the +audience.</p> + +<p>Judge Helm said he knew of no rule requiring the Commonwealth to +indicate to the defense what its case would be. "Two weeks ought to be +ample time," continued he, "for the defense to get ready."</p> + +<p>Mr. Crawford continued to press for longer time, but the Judge cut him +short by repeating "I think you have ample time between this and April +7. If you have an objection to make, make it then, but it must be a good +one to receive my attention. Remand the prisoners."</p> + +<p>No time was fixed for the trial of Alonzo Walling but it was understood +that it follow immediately after Jackson's. The demanding of a seperate +trial by Walling's attorney gave rise to the rumor, which gained +considerable credence that Walling could be induced to turn state's +evidence against Jackson and tell all he knows at the trial of Jackson. +The authorities have accumulated much important evidence in the matter +and the attorneys for the prosecution claimed with perfect confidence +that they would be able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that both +Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling are guilty of the murder, and +decapitation of Pearl Bryan. It was claimed by them that enough evidence +has been secured to reveal how, when, where and by whom Pearl Bryan was +murdered; to reveal the secret of her whereabouts on the night +proceeding her tragic death; in fact to ring down the curtain upon the +most horrible tragedy of the nineteenth century, laid bare in all of its +most horrowing details. Like the well-laid plot in the tragedy which has +its birth in the imagination of the skillful dramatist, this tragedy in +real life, possessed the one element which never fails to fascinate the +public mind-mystery.</p> + +<p>The day of the trial drew near, and still the mystery seemed almost as +deep as ever. It was evident before the calling of the case against +Scott Jackson in Newport, Ky., on April, 7., 1896, that a hard earnest +fight would be made for delay and a postponement asked by Jackson's +attorneys.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> The day of trial April, 7., at last arrived. Every +arrangement had been perfected by Sheriff Plummer, not only for the +protection and safe keeping of the prisoners but also for the +convenience and accommodation of the Court, to prevent any crowding of +the court-room or any unseemly acts of violence or disturbance.</p> + +<p>The announcement of the authorities that only a limited few besides +those interested in the case would be allowed in the court-room was the +reason of the smallness of the crowd. People, knowing that they could +not get in to see the trial, did not—beyond a few of the more +curious—care to merely get a look at the prisoner.</p> + +<p>The twelve jurymen's chairs were placed directly in front of the Judge's +desk, and the witness box so placed that the witnesses in giving their +testimony would be facing the Judge and jury. The witness stand stood +almost in the middle of the court-room. On the right side was the +prosecution's and on the left side the defense's tables, while between +it and the jury was placed the stenographer's table.</p> + +<p>The reporters' tables, six in number, were grouped in close proximity +around the witness stand, and the whole arrangement left nothing to be +desired. The members of the Campbell County bar occupied seats within +and without the railed space, and there was a large gathering of them +present.</p> + + +<h4>SCOTT JACKSON IS BROUGHT TO HIS TRIAL FOR LIFE.</h4> + +<p>About five minutes before the arrival of Judge Helm in the court-room +Sheriff Plummer, having all his arrangements perfected, slipped out and +proceeded to the jail, and in a few moments emerged therefrom with Scott +Jackson handcuffed to his arm.</p> + +<p>With a nervous smile and a forced jauntiness, which accorded illy with +his visible perturbation, Scott Jackson stepped from the old jail door +in Newport and started through the dense lines of curious men, women and +children for the court of justice, wherein his fight for life will be +made. He was handcuffed to Sheriff Plummer, and, as a further +precaution, was flanked on either side by a stalwart deputy.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span>Jackson seemed in good humor as he walked from the jail, and did not +show the same dread for the Newport crowds that he had displayed on the +two former occasions upon which he passed through them. He was taken +upstairs in the Courthouse and placed in the witness room to await the +opening of court.</p> + +<p>Ordinarily, a man facing death excites sympathy, particularly among the +class who waited for two hours to get a glimpse of Jackson. But the most +casual observer could not fail to see that the populace was singularly +unanimous in its intense hostility to the supposed and accused murderers +of Pearl Bryan.</p> + +<p>A man may be a murderer and a hero in the minds of many. But nothing but +deep-seated and virulent hostility was manifested by ninety-nine out of +every hundred of those who gathered about the Courthouse in Newport and +reviewed the famous crime in infinite detail. "He'll hang, and he ought +to, —— him," said one big fellow in the center of a listening group.</p> + +<p>"Yes, and Walling out to follow him in five minutes," said a bare-headed +working woman, as she shifted a baby from arm to arm. The same sullen +antipathy was apparent as Jackson passed through the crowd. It was +indisputably general.</p> + + +<h4>A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.</h4> + +<p>A significant proof of this feeling was evidenced in a rather remarkable +incident which occurred as Jackson was leaving the court-room after the +trial. There were probably a dozen women in the audience, among whom was +a party of three comely, well dressed and to all appearances, thoroughly +respectable women. They sat on the first row of the benches for the +general spectators. As Jackson passed from the inclosure wherein he had +been seated and started for the ante-room with Sheriff Plummer, one of +the women suddenly reached out and kicked Jackson twice. She put all her +strength into the blows. Jackson flushed and then smiled the smile which +in his case is better evidence of inter<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span>nal anguish and agitation than +is a tear on the face of most men. Neither Judge Helm nor Sheriff +Plummer, nor in fact, any one outside from three spectators saw the +incident. The officers walked rapidly, looking neither to the right nor +to the left, and seemed, from their grimness, to realize the great +responsibility which rested upon them.</p> + + +<h4>OPENING OF THE TRIAL.</h4> + +<p>It was just 9:40 o'clock, April, 7., when Judge Helm entered the +court-room. Immediately the hum of conversation which had been going on +at a lively rate stopped, as, with hardly a pause after sitting down, +the Judge ordered the Sheriff to open the court. Every seat in the +spectators gallery by this time was taken. Judge Helm at once went to +the business of the day, calling "Case 2,296, the Commonwealth vs. Scott +Jackson," and directing the Sheriff to bring in the prisoner.</p> + +<p>There was a perceptible movement on the part of the assemblage as +Jackson followed Jailer Bitzer and the Sheriff into the court-room and +took his place on the left of the witness box and slightly in its rear. +His chair was next to that of Attorney Andrews, of Hamilton, Walling's +counsels, and the narrow table seperated the prisoner from Hon. L. J. +Crawford and Colonel George Washington. As on his former visit to the +court-room, Jackson flushed slightly after taking his seat. He paid +close attention throughout to every thing that was said by the Judge and +the lawyers.</p> + +<p>Around the table to the right of the witness box were seated +Commonwealth's Attorney M. R. Lockhart, Colonel R. W. Nelson and +Attorney Silas Hayes, of Greencastle, all representing the prosecution. +The Sheriff called the names of the jurors summoned for duty, and these +having been disposed of the Judge asked:</p> + +<p>"Is the Commonwealth ready?"</p> + +<p>To which Mr. Lockhart replied: "The Commonwealth is ready."</p> + +<p>"May it please Your Honor, Scott Jackson is not ready," stated Mr. +Crawford, rising. "We desire to file a motion for postponement."</p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/remains.jpg" alt="Forest Hill Cemetery" /><br /> +<span class="caption">The highest point in Forest Hill Cemetery where the headless remains of Pearl Bryan are buried.</span></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span>He read the affidavit as follows:</p> + +<p>"Affiant L. J. Crawford says he is still the only attorney herein for +defendant, Scott Jackson: that affiant has been ill with la grippe +during the last ten days; that for more than a week one of his children +has been and still is very ill and under the care of a physician; that, +in consequence of his own and his child's sickness, he has been unable +to give this case the attention necessary to properly prepare it for +trial; that, so far as he has been able, he has constantly and +assiduously worked upon the preparation of it; that the commissions to +take depositions in Cincinnati, O., Greencastle, Ind., and Brooklyn, N. +Y., have not been returned; that the persons named in the former +affidavit of affiant as residing in joint places will testify as +follows, viz: While in Greencastle that Scott Jackson's general +reputation among the neighbors in said town, until charged with the +offense mentioned in the indictment, was good; that he resided there for +about two years just before or shortly before being so charged; that +each and all of said witnesses knew him and his general reputation in +said town during said time.</p> + +<p>"That the reputation of Will Wood, of Greencastle, Ind., whom the +prosecution will introduce, for truth, can be successfully impeached by +witnesses residing in Greencastle, if time is given in which to take +their depositions.</p> + +<p>"Affiant says he was not aware until April, 1., 1896, that said Wood +would be introduced; that affiant will be able by the 10. inst. to file +a list of names of persons who will testify upon Wood's reputation and +to file a list of interrogations to be addressed to them."</p> + + +<h4>OBJECTIONS OF THE STATE.</h4> + +<p>Mr. Lockhart repeated that the State was ready to try the case, and he +did not think the Court ought to allow a month's further time. He said +that Mr. Crawford, upon a former occasion, had agreed that a month was +sufficient in which to prepare the case. It was therefore Mr. Lockhart's +opinion that two weeks further continuance was as much as Mr. Crawford +could look for. That, he said, would make the full time allowed one +month.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span>Mr. Crawford said he did at first think a month would be sufficient, but +his work during the past two weeks had shown him that it would take hard +work to be ready inside of another month. "I most earnestly and +sincerely state," continued he, "that we should have a month, and do not +see what particular difference it would make to the Commonwealth. My +client is not enjoying himself in jail."</p> + +<p>The Judge said that the difficulties attending the prosecution were +infinitely greater than they were for the defense, the defendant knew +everything in reference to himself, whereas the prosecution had to find +out everything. He had also pointed out that other counsel had been +engaged in the case.</p> + + +<h4>CRAWFORD'S EARNEST APPEAL.</h4> + +<p>Mr. Crawford stated that he had only been engaged after Jackson came to +Kentucky, a little less than three weeks. In concluding an earnest +appeal for a month's extension of time, he said:</p> + +<p>"It is a question whether this man shall be hanged, go to the +penitentiary for life, or whether he shall leave the court-room a free +man."</p> + +<p>The Judge replied: "You are not entitled to any continuance at all. +Tuesday, April, 21., will be sufficient time. The case is continued +until that day. Witnesses' names will now be called."</p> + +<p>The following witnesses for the prosecution were in court and were +placed upon their recognizances of $100 each to be in court on April, +21.: J. B. Lock, Dr. A. B. Heyl, Henry Motz and Harry and Will Hedger.</p> + +<p>While the court proceeded to other business of the day the officers +removed Jackson to the witness room, where he was kept for about fifteen +minutes before being returned to the jail.</p> + +<p>The attorneys for the Commonwealth were sure of having sufficient +testimony to convict both Jackson and Walling of murder in the first +degree and objected strenuously to any continuance. Col. R. W. Nelson, +who volunteered his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> services for the prosecution, worked hard and +earnestly and through his efforts much valuable and conclusive evidence +against the prisoners was unearthed. He said regarding the disposition +of the head: "Without a doubt the head of Pearl Bryan is rotting in the +Ohio river. At the proper time we will produce witnesses who saw Jackson +and Walling make two visits to the Suspension Bridge and throw bundles +into the stream. One of these bundles the witnesses will say undoubtedly +contained a human head. The witnesses who will testify to these facts +have positively identified both Jackson and Walling and will do so again +at the trial, and their testimony will be of the most sensational +character."</p> + +<p>On Monday, April, 13., Judge Helm fixed the day for Alonzo Walling's +trial, for Tuesday May, 5., 1896. Walling's Hamilton O., attorneys, +Morey, Andrews & Shepherd, withdrew from any further connection with the +case.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="burial" id="burial"></a>Pearl Bryan's headless remains buried at Greencastle.</h2> +<hr style="width: 30%;" /> + +<p>The headless body of poor Pearl Bryan, taken to Greencastle, Ind., from +the Newport, Ky., Morgue on that cold, bleak wintry day in February, lay +in its beautiful snow-white casket in the vault in Forest Hill Cemetery +in Greencastle, until March, 27. The heart-broken sisters, urged on by +the friends of the family, had pleaded with their aged and +grief-stricken parents to have the remains buried, but their pleading +was in vain. Mrs. Bryan could not bear to even think of consigning the +remains to mother earth without the head, and Mr. Bryan, the aged and +heart-broken father, would only reply when the suggestion of burial +would be made to him, "The head must be found," "It must be found." It +was only after long and hard pleading that he at last agreed to permit +the burial of the headless remains. Hundreds of people had visited the +cemetery and gazed longingly on the stone receptacle in which the body +lay. At last the consent of Mr. Bryan was secured and arrangements were +at once put on foot to consign to mothers earth, all that was left of +the beautiful and loved, but misguided girl. Friday, March, 27., was the +day fixed for the funeral. It was a beautiful day and the sun shone +brightly from an almost cloudless sky. The warm weather of the preceding +days had caused the grass and foliage in the beautiful cemetery to +assume a decidedly bright greenish tint, and the trees were beginning to +bud. It was in every respect a most typical day. The cemetery lies just +south of Greencastle, surrounding a lofty hill within plain view, and +but a short distance from the colonial mansion of the Bryan's, where the +lovely Pearl was born and had grown to womanhood, from which she had +attended the Greencastle school and graduated with the highest honors. +It was here in the city of the dead, where lie her relatives and friends +who have gone before her, in sight of her home, at the highest point in +the cemetery, where the fond loving mother and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> father, whose hearts are +broken over the sad, sad ending of the life of their favorite daughter, +can look from the window of their room and see the tombs of "the loved +and lost", that the grave was dug. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan had insisted on +Pearls' grave being located on the highest point in the cemetery. Early +in the afternoon of the day fixed, an immense concourse of relatives and +friends, and of the curious, assembled at the vault in the cemetery, +where the remains lay.</p> + +<p>Notwithstanding the large crowd, present, a deathlike stillness +prevailed. At last the hour arrived, and a few moments afterward the +carriages containing the grief-stricken family, arrived on the ground. +These carriages, bearing the possessors of so many heavily grief +burdened hearts, had hardly stopped at the vault when the large black +doors of the vault swung outward, and the dead girl's class-mates of the +"Class of '92", with bowed heads and aching hearts, filed slowly into +the sepulcher, and took their places around the plain white coffin, on +the lid of which was a silver plate with the single word "Pearl" +engraved thereon. It was indeed a most solemn and impressive scene, one +never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. With heavy hearts, +tear-bedimmed eyes, and trembling hands, the loved and loving class-mates +of the beautiful victim of the crime of the nineteenth century, grasped +the silver bar handles of the casket which contained all that was mortal +of the poor, erring, misguided, but loved Pearl Bryan, and bore it to +the outside of the vault. Tender hands and loving hearts bore the +headless remains of the once bright, cheerful and petted Pearl, to their +last resting place. The remains were not exposed to view at the funeral +services. Slowly following the carriages, containing Rev. Dr. Gobin, the +officiating pastor, the family and intimate friends, the beautiful +casket was carried by the class-mates along the broad cinder path to the +grave where it must rest. Following the casket was one of the largest +crowds ever seen at a funeral in Greencastle. Arriving at the grave, the +casket was let down into the receptacle prepared for it. Simple services +appropriate and tender, were said. Dr. Gobin, made a few touching +remarks, a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span> hymn was sung by the class-mates with voices filled with +emotion, and the services concluded with a short prayer. A new grave was +made, the horrible tragedy which cost poor Pearl Bryan her life was +recalled vividly to those who had known and loved her all through life, +and the headless body of Pearl Bryan, dressed in her magnificent white +dress in which she graduated from the Greencastle High School, borne by +the loving class-mates in that graduating-class, were consigned to earth +from whence they came, and covered from the view of those who loved and +knew her. Already a verdant carpet furnished by nature covers the new +made mound which is kept covered with beautiful flowers and one would +not think that this grave was a new made one, but the girl who lies +beneath that mound, whose tragic death startled the whole civilized +world, will never be forgotten by those who visit Forest Hill Cemetery.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="trial" id="trial"></a>The Trial of Scott Jackson.</h2> +<hr style="width: 30%;" /> + +<p>The trial of Scott Jackson began on April the 22nd, before Judge Helm. +It is very remarkable that a jury was secured on the first day. Perhaps +this promptness has never been equalled in Kentucky. The completed jury +was as follows:</p> + +<p>John M. Ensweiler, grocer, Bellevue; William White, plumber, Newport; +John Boehmer, teamster, Dayton; Merty Shea, retired merchant, Newport; +Louis Scharstein, grocer, Newport; D. B. Mader, carpenter and builder, +Dayton; William Motz, reporter, Dayton; Millard Carr, carpenter, +Bellevue; G. P. Stegner, grocer, Newport; John S. Backsman, cutler, +Newport; Fred Gieskemeyer, grocer, Bellevue; David Kraut, coal merchant, +Dayton.</p> + +<p>When all the preliminaries had been completed the attorney for the +Commonwealth arose and stated to the jury what the prosecution intended +to prove. He said:</p> + +<p>"In the spring of 1895, the accused, Scott Jackson,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> commenced living in +Greencastle, Ind., where also resided the deceased, Pearl Bryan, who was +the youngest daughter of one of the oldest and best families in that +vicinity. Her father at one time was a Kentuckian, having lived a long +time in Bourbon County, Ky.</p> + +<p>"The accused, Scott Jackson, became acquainted with Pearl Bryan, shortly +after he arrived in Greencastle. By reason of his elegant dress, +polished manners and fluent conversation, shortly after his acquaintance +with her he became a frequent caller upon her and they were often seen +together. Succeeding this the Commonwealth will show, beyond a +reasonable doubt, that this innocent young lady became infatuated and +yielded her chastity to this man, and later on she advised him of the +fact of her condition. It will be clearly demonstrated to you, gentlemen +of the jury, that while she was in that condition she left Greencastle +and came to Cincinnati, so that her people would not be aware of her +unfortunate condition.</p> + +<p>"That, in obedience to a request from Scott Jackson, she came to +Cincinnati on Monday, January 28th. We will introduce a witness to show +that he met her at the depot, and that she inquired for Scott Jackson. +That he met her on the following morning, Tuesday, January 29th. It will +be shown that he was seen not only in Cincinnati, but in Kentucky, and +that he was seen with her up to Friday night, and about that time he was +with her in a vehicle, and that he took her out to Fort Thomas, where +her headless body was found February 1st, 1896.</p> + +<p>"That Scott Jackson was found in possession of Pearl Bryan's satchel. We +will show by two or three persons, to whom he made this confession, that +he left the satchel with two different persons after the finding of the +body of Pearl Bryan. That upon Friday night a light rain fell, and when +the body was found on the Lock property, near Fort Thomas, headless, +there was a large quantity of blood lying in clots near the corpse.</p> + +<p>"The Commonwealth expects to show you the con<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span>dition of the body at the +time; that at that place the decapitation of this unfortunate girl was +done, and this man, Scott Jackson (pointing to the prisoner), is the +fiend who decapitated the unfortunate girl.</p> + +<p>"We will also show to you, gentleman, that this fellow led a double +life—as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Up at Greencastle he was a gentleman, +but in Cincinnati, he was in society of ill repute, and he made no +discrimination of color in his choice of women.</p> + +<p>"That a week or two before the crime was committed he displayed a fine +dissecting knife, and that he was experienced in the use of a knife that +could have done that kind of work.</p> + +<p>"Through Jackson Pearl Bryan was brought to Cincinnati, and the evidence +tracing her will be established beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the +decapitation was done by one who is deft in using the knife, as he is +known to be."</p> + +<p>John Hewling, a lad about sixteen years of age was the first witness. He +testified to the finding of the headless body on the farm of J. D. Lock.</p> + +<p>The second witness was Dr. Tingley, Coroner of Campbell County, Ky. His +testimony was very important. He described the spot where he first +viewed the corpse and testified that the bushes in the vicinity were +spattered with blood that had spurted from the headless trunk. Restated +that the head had been removed by some one who had practised in surgery.</p> + +<p>The following dialogue occurred during his testimony:</p> + +<p>"On viewing the body I found it had been severed rather high. The knife +had struck the vertebra, then its course was changed slightly downward."</p> + +<p>"Did you notice any other cut?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; one across the fingers of her left hand."</p> + +<p>"What fingers?"</p> + +<p>"Her four fingers, near the tops."</p> + +<p>"Did you observe no cut on the thumb?"</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"Did you make any other examination?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>"Can you say whether or not the cuts on her hand were recently inflicted?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, they were."</p> + +<p>"I will ask you if, in your opinion (you have described the condition of +the body), whether or not the head was cut off at that place?"</p> + +<p>"I think so."</p> + +<p>"Can you say whether the head was cut off before or after death? Or, if +death resulted from the severance?"</p> + +<p>"I think the artery was cut while the heart was still beating."</p> + +<p>In view of the fact that the defense was seeking to establish that the +head was removed after death the last remark coming as it did from an +expert was very damaging to Jackson. The same witness was asked, +concerning the cuts on the hand which he had referred to.</p> + +<p>"Will you explain to the jury whether the cuts on the fingers were made before death?"</p> + +<p>"Before death," replied the witness promptly.</p> + +<p>He was then questioned more particularly as to the result of his +investigations as an expert. The fact that Pearl Bryan had been murdered +with a knife (though cocaine was found in her stomach by the chemist), +was established beyond peradventure by the witness. He also identified +the clothing of Pearl Bryan which was produced all soaked with blood.</p> + +<p>On the second day of the trial the prosecution sprung a sensation. A +headless dummy was brought into the court-room dressed in the clothes +that Pearl Bryan wore when her body was discovered. The dummy was placed +in an erect position at the left of the witness box and facing the jury. +A lively tilt followed between counsel as to the legality of this +proceeding. The court finally ordered the figure removed and the clothes +produced separately.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span>When this was done Mrs. Mary Stanley, the sister of Pearl Bryan was +called. She gave a list of the articles that Pearl had when she left +home and identified all the valises and clothing which the prosecution +had brought into court. She also identified some handkerchiefs found in +Jackson's room by detectives after his arrest and named the store where +Pearl had purchased them in Greencastle.</p> + +<p>The first evidence of the trial that directly connected the prisoner +with the murder was given by John A. Caldwell, Mayor of Cincinnati.</p> + +<p>Jackson became flushed and nervous and at times fastened his watery eyes +on the witness with an intensity that became painful.</p> + +<p>He stated that he was present when Jackson was examined immediately +after his arrest in the office of Chief of Police Deitsch, of +Cincinnati. Mr. Caldwell said Colonel Deitsch handed him a telegram; he +took it in his hand and leaning over and looking at it for quite a time, +with his eyes in this way, cast down, he finally uttered: "Oh, my God +what will my poor mother say," then he turned his eyes on Colonel +Deitsch.</p> + +<p>When he asked me the question he rose from his position and began to +walk up and down the room. He says to me, "What shall I do?" I says, "Do +you ask me the question?" He says, "Yes." I says, "Tell the truth." He +said, "Many an innocent man has been in as serious trouble as I am +to-night," or something to that effect. I do not know that I get his +exact words.</p> + +<p>After what I have related Colonel Deitsch asked: "Where is Pearl Bryan?" +Jackson said he did not know; that he had not seen her since he was home +during the holidays. He was asked where he was on Friday night. He said +at first he was at his room; he was not certain, but he was there. Then +he said he was not out of his room after 7:30 o'clock; he remained there +all the evening. He was asked who his room-mate was, and he said Alonzo +Walling. He was asked if his room-mate was with him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> He said that he +believed he was. He was asked where he was on Thursday evening, and he +said he was at his room. He was then asked as to where Walling was. He +said he did not know where Walling was Thursday evening, and afterwards +said that Walling did not come home on Thursday evening. That was about +the substance of the conversation that evening. The newspaper men were +then allowed to come in, and a conversation was then held with him by +them as to where he was, much of which I did not hear.</p> + +<p>"The next morning about 10:30 I went to Colonel Deitsch's office, where +the prisoner was sitting. Colonel Deitsch asked him where he was on +Friday and Thursday nights, and his answers were the same as he made the +evening before. I am not positive as to whether it was at that meeting +that Walling was brought into his presence, and the conversation turned +as to where Pearl Bryan was and as to whether either of them had seen +Pearl Bryan the previous week.</p> + +<p>"Mr. Jackson admitted to Colonel Deitsch that he had seen Pearl Bryan; +that she came to the Dental College on Court Street for him; that he was +informed she was in a cab, and that he met her afterward, I think on +Tuesday, at the Indiana House, on Fifth Street; that he met her again on +Wednesday about one o'clock at the corner of Fourth and Vine or Fourth +and Walnut. He said in the presence of Walling that he had sent 'Wally', +as he called him, to notify her that he was going out that afternoon and +he would meet her that evening. Then he said he did not see her again +after that Wednesday.</p> + +<p>"Walling said he went down and saw Pearl Bryan and that he went that +evening to Heider's Restaurant, on Fifth Street, and met Jackson, and +Jackson told him to go up to the Postoffice and he would find Pearl +Bryan, and to wait there until he went to his room and returned; that he +went over to the Postoffice and saw Pearl Bryan standing inside the +corridor, and he went on from there and wrote his letters.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span>"Either on that day or the next day Mr. Jackson was asked about the +satchel, and he said that he had left the satchel at Legner's saloon, +across the street from his room; he said that he brought it there and +loaned it to a student and he intended to take it to the college and +give it to him, but he did not give it to him. He afterwards admitted +that it was Pearl Bryan's satchel.</p> + +<p>"I want to say that in the meantime, in one of these conversations, I +told both of these young men that they did not have to make a confession +to any person, that they were at perfect liberty to refuse to answer any +of the questions that were asked them.</p> + +<p>"Walling in this conversation, when Jackson was present, said that when +Jackson came back from his holiday vacation he took him in the corner of +his room on Ninth Street, where they were rooming, and told him that he +was in trouble with Pearl Bryan and that he intended to kill her. When +asked how, he said, 'I propose to get a room and take her to the room +and give her some cocaine poison and leave her there.' Then again, he +says he changed and said. 'No, I will cut her up in pieces and take the +pieces and deposit them in different places about the city.' He said +that before he saw Pearl Bryan at the Postoffice—I believe that was +Thursday evening instead of Wednesday evening—-he said that Jackson had +made arrangements to take her over to Bellevue, I think it was, or over +to the sandbar, or some place there and kill her, take her head off and +bury her. He said that Jackson asked all the physicians as to the +effects of different kinds of poisons; that he had a standard medical +dictionary in his room and studied the effects of poisons, and that he +asked one physician particularly as to the effect of cocaine.</p> + +<p>"He said that Jackson went to a Sixth Street pharmacy and got cocaine +and brought it back, that he took out a small teaspoonful and dissolved +it in two teaspoonsful of water and put it in a bottle, as he said, to +give her so as to paralyze her vocal organs or throat, and then cut her +head<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> off. Jackson turned to Walling and said: 'Wally, why do you talk +that way; you know you are not telling the truth; you know that you +killed Pearl Bryan.' Whereupon Walling says, 'No, you know that you +killed her; and why don't you tell where her head is?' Then, when +Jackson was talking of where Pearl Bryan's head was, he said, 'I don't +know; Wally says he threw it overboard.' Then he said he took the +clothes and made one or two trips to the river and threw part in the +river and some in the sewer, but he could not tell where."</p> + +<p>"Jackson then said that there was a bundle that he had given Walling. +Walling was then asked what he done with it; he said that it was up in +his locker at the college; the bundle was sent for and brought in their +presence. It was a pair of pantaloons, which Jackson identified as his, +and said that he had not seen them for some time; that Walling must have +worn them.</p> + +<p>"I asked the men as to where the other clothes were. Walling says, +'Jackson, why don't you tell him where those things are, you might just +as well do it now as any time?' Jackson said that upon Saturday night, I +believe it was, they were walking up Plum Street with a bundle and they +saw some young physician or one of the students coming towards them, +that Walling changed and went down Plum Street to Ninth and out Ninth, +and Jackson said he went along little Richmond Street and from there on +around to the room, and then down Ninth to Richmond, and out Richmond +Street, westward, where he threw the bundle in one of the manholes of +the sewer, but he could not state which. The sewers were drained and +searched and a bundle brought to the department which Mr. Jackson +identified as his coat. He first denied that it was his coat, and said +it was Wallings', but afterwards admitted that it was his coat, but that +Walling must have worn it."</p> + +<p>A valise was shown to Mr. Caldwell and he identified it as the one that +Jackson had been confronted with. It was the satchel which had once been +Pearl Bryan's and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> witness stated that Jackson accused Walling of +having brought away the head of the murdered girl in it.</p> + +<p>The witness then spoke of the occasion when Walling and Jackson accused +each other of having murdered the girl. After this he described the +scene and last effort that was made to get a confession from the +prisoners at Epply's Undertaking Establishment (see page 84). This ended +the Mayors testimony.</p> + +<p>The mother of Pearl Bryan was then called to identify her daughter's +clothing. The scene brought tears to every eye and a sob to every bosom +not wholly bereft of human qualities.</p> + +<p>Allan Johnson, employed in a saloon at George and Plum Streets, gave +testimony that proved to be highly important. He knew both Jackson and +Walling as visitors to the establishment referred to—and which the +witness admitted was a house of ill repute. On the night of the murder +the two students called with a woman in their company. The woman must +have been Pearl Bryan for the witness identified the clothing worn by +Pearl on the night she was murdered. The party, consisting of Jackson, +Walling, and Pearl drove away from the house in a carriage.</p> + +<p>George H. Jackson, a colored man, was called. His testimony was of the +most startling character.</p> + +<p>He told that on the night before the murder he was approached by Alonzo +Walling at the corner of George and Elm Streets. Walling inquired if +Jackson wished to earn five dollars by driving a cab across the Newport +bridge. The colored man accepted. On the next night he proceeded to Elm +and George Streets to discharge the contract. A cab soon drove up with +Walling on the box. Walling gave him the reins and instructed him to +drive to the Newport bridge, giving route. This was done. Then Walling +got up on the box with him to further direct the way. Before long he +heard a noise that sounded like a woman suffering and they moved around +and shook the carriage and they broke a glass, and then I was scared and +I put my left hand<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> out and my right hand on the lantern and it kind of +bent down and I started to jump off, and I said there is something wrong +in the back part of that carriage and I don't care anything about this +job, and I went to hand the lines to him and when I went to look at him +I was looking at a gun. He said, "If you don't drive this horse I will +blow you to hell"; of course, I understood and began to drive the horse.</p> + +<p>At length the carriage stopped at the command of a man inside the +carriage whom the witness identified to be Scott Jackson. The witness +said, "I stopped the horse and the man inside of the carriage got out, +and when this man on the front seat jumped down and went behind and got +on the other side of the lady then I got down to shut the door and this +here man who sat in the rear says, 'Drive down and turn around and come +back and wait until I whistle,' and then I shut the door and they moved +off; the woman was in between these two men. I went down the hill and +turned around, and when I came back I saw them in the act of getting +over the fence. It was a kind of a three-board fence."</p> + +<p>The witness then related that a panic seized him and that he ran away +from the scene as fast as he could, leaving the horse tied where he stood.</p> + +<p>If George H. Jackson's story was true there can be no doubt of Scott +Jackson's and Alonzo Walling's guilt.</p> + +<p>The next witnesses of importance were the two detectives Crim and McDermott.</p> + +<p>Crim testified first. He said:</p> + +<p>"I live in Cincinnati. Have been connected with the Police Department +about ten years; on the detective force two years. I was detailed on the +Pearl Bryan case. I went to the point where the body was found, +Saturday, February 1st, in the neighborhood of one o'clock, in company +of McDermott and Mr. Plummer, Sheriff of this county.</p> + +<p>"I went out with Mr. Plummer and he described the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> position that the +body was lying in when found. I noticed a few spots of blood on the +ground, one on the side of the bank and the other down near the bottom, +where the neck was supposed to be lying. I noticed blood on the bushes +and on the edge of the bank. Mr. McDermott pulled the leaves through his +hand and the blood stuck to his fingers; he rubbed it on the back of his +hand and it made a red mark. I took one of the leaves and have it with +me now. This is the leaf. (The leaf was then exhibited to the jury). I +have kept that leaf in another book until I filled that one up and then +I placed it in this. It is a leaf I plucked from the bushes there. There +were a number of the leaves that had blood upon them, drops like +rain-drops would glisten on the same. I found near these blood spots an +impression in the ground as though some one had been sitting there. +During the time I was there some person took a stick and dug down in the +ground six or seven inches. There was blood down as far as he went, or +some red substance I thought was blood. On the top of the bank, I judge +three feet from where this impression was, there was a track which +looked as though it had been made with a rubber shoe of small size. +About the size of the rubber shown me. The witness also testified that +he had made a search of the room occupied by Jackson. He found a pair of +ladies stockings behind a trunk pointed out to him as Scott Jackson's +trunk and which had on it the letters "S. J." He also found, in the +trunk, a ladies pocket-book with a piece of gold chain in it. In a +closet was found a cap. McDermott was present when the search was made +and testified exactly as Mr. Crim did.</p> + +<p>John W. Legner was called and testified.</p> + +<p>"I live in Cincinnati. I kept a saloon at 225 West Ninth Street, nearly +opposite where Walling and Jackson roomed. Scott Jackson had been in my +place quite frequently; he came for a pitcher of beer."</p> + +<p>"State whether at any time he left any article of any kind at your place."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span>"On Saturday night, the 1st of February, between 7 and 8 o'clock. Mr. +Jackson, whose name I did not know at the time, but had seen on two or +three occasions, opened the door and asked if he could have the +permission to leave a satchel there; I told him certainly he could. He +set the satchel down close to the ice chest, left it there and went +away, and the satchel remained there until Sunday evening about 10 +o'clock, when he came in and took it away. He left no directions as to +its disposal. On the following Monday night he came and brought it and +set it down in the same place where it was sitting before, and it +remained there until about 10 o'clock, or a little bit earlier; then he +came and took it away. I had no occasion to handle the valise on either +occasion. The valise shown me looks like the valise that he brought +here. He roomed right across the way from my place."</p> + +<p>Little Dot Legner, a child belonging to the saloon-keeper testified that +the satchel was much heavier on the first night than on the second. It +has been conjectured, very plausibly, that the valise contained Pearl +Bryan's head, on the first night.</p> + +<p>William D. Wood, of Greencastle, Ind., was called. Wood's name has been +very prominently connected with the case on account of his knowledge of +Pearl Bryan's condition and the part he played in sending the girl to +Cincinnati. In answer to questions he stated that he introduced Scott +Jackson to Pearl Bryan in August, 1895, and that some time afterward +Jackson boasted that he had become intimate with the girl. According to +Wood, Jackson left Greencastle in October to take a course of dentistry +in Cincinnati and that soon afterward Jackson wrote and inquired if +Pearl Bryan was sick. Wood investigated and replied that she was sick. +Then Jackson sent a prescription for medicine and said:</p> + +<p>"Tell her to take two or three good doses before she goes to bed at night."</p> + +<p>The medicine had no effect. Additional prescriptions<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> were then sent. +They were unsuccessful. Pearl continued "sick."</p> + +<p>Wood then stated that Jackson went to Greencastle again during the +holidays. The condition of Pearl was becoming more threatening and it +was plain that something had to be done. Then it was that Jackson +suggested an operation. The witness testified on this point.</p> + +<p>"He said that it was very frequently done, done every day and if he had +the instruments he could do it himself. Such operations, he said, were +every day occurrences and if we got it done she would be all right in +three or four days."</p> + +<p>Before Jackson left Greencastle he tried to make Wood agree to send her +to Cincinnati where the matter could be attended to, but Wood claimed +that he refused, not wishing to have anything to do with it.</p> + +<p>On January 4th, Jackson left Greencastle and returned to Cincinnati and +on January 25th, Wood received a letter from him in which he said that +he had secured a room for Pearl. Wood claims that he gave this letter to +Pearl. She read it and expressed her intention of going on the next +Monday. Accordingly on January 27th, she left Greencastle on the 1:35 +train, going east.</p> + +<p>On February 6th, 1896, Wood received another letter. He was then on the +train in charge of the officers, as an accomplice of Scott Jackson who +had been arrested. The letter was destroyed by Wood but he remembered +the contents. The letter read.</p> + +<p>"Hello Bill—I have made a big mistake and we will probably get into +trouble. I want you to stand by me."</p> + +<p>On the day before this Wood received the following strange letter which +was produced in court and which we already published on <a href="#Page_77">page 77</a>.</p> + +<p>The witness stated that the above letter never reached him—that it fell +into the hands of Chief Deitsch. The letter was most damaging to +Jackson's case.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span>The next and last witness for the prosecution was Chief of Police, +Colonel Deitsch, of Cincinnati. He said:</p> + +<p>"On February 5th, about 10 o'clock at night I met Jackson in charge of a +detective officer named Bulmer on the corner of Ninth and Plum Streets, +in Cincinnati. I went up to Scott Jackson and said then, "We want you at +the Mayor's office." We walked into the Mayor's office—Mayor Caldwell, +of Cincinnati—and there was no one present at the time except myself, +His Honor, the Mayor, and Scott Jackson. Detective Bulmer came into the +office but walked out. I told Scott Jackson I had a dispatch for his +arrest. He sat on the settee, and I asked, "Where is Pearl Bryan?" He +said, "I have not seen her since the 2nd day of January, 1896, at +Greencastle, Ind." The Mayor partly read the dispatch and gave it to me, +and I had handed it to Jackson, and said: "Jackson read the contents of +that dispatch." He read it carefully, and then said: "Oh my God, what +will my poor mother say?" I asked the question, "Do you know where Pearl +Bryan is?" He said he did not. He got up off the settee and made the +remark over again. "Oh, my God, what will my poor mother say?" He walked +backward and forward. He made the remark. "Must I tell about this?" His +Honor, the Mayor, said, "Not unless you want too." The Mayor repeated +that twice. He said, "Jackson, you need not tell unless you want too." I +then again asked him if he knew anything about Pearl Bryan. He said that +he did not. Shortly after that conversation the reporters from the daily +press were admitted and my interview with Jackson at that time ended."</p> + +<p>The Colonel stated that on the following day Jackson requested an +interview. Following are the Colonels words:</p> + +<p>I asked Jackson. "Did you have anything to do with the woman down at +Greencastle?" He said: "Yes, I did." "Did you write a letter to Wood +advising him to give her —— of ——?" He said he did, and shortly +afterward got a letter again from Will Wood, saying that it had no +effect. And in the meantime he had a conversation with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> Walling about +the subject. Walling advised him to give —— of ——; then in a conversation +again with Walling about the matter Walling made the remark: "Bring her +up here and we will...." I repeated to Jackson: "Is that statement +correct?" He said that it was. "And did you send for Pearl Bryan then?" +He said that he did. When that conversation was ended a satchel was +brought into the office—a red satchel. Opening the satchel I asked him +to look into it; says I, "Jackson, what is in this satchel; look." He +says, "There is nothing." Says I, "Did you observe anything unusual?" +and I called his attention to some blood that was on the inside of the +satchel. He says, "I did not notice that before." I asked him whether he +had opened it; he says, "Yes; I took part of Pearl Bryan's clothing on +Saturday evening on the Suspension Bridge and threw it overboard into +the Ohio River."</p> + +<p>He furthermore described a meeting between Jackson and Walling in his +presence in the course of which Walling and Jackson accused each other +of having murdered Pearl Bryan. The witness also repeated a conversation +between the two that took place in a peculiarly constructed cell, called +"The Sensitive Cell." A telephone attachment connected this cell with +other apartments in the building, hence its name. This part of the +testimony was ruled out by the court.</p> + +<p>The defense began its testimony by placing Scott Jackson on the stand. +All the man's natural shrewdness came to his aid while on the stand. His +words were clear, frankly spoken and there was no hesitation in his +manner. He acted the innocent man to perfection.</p> + +<p>There is little about his testimony that is very remarkable or startling +as he disclaims all the manner of knowledge of Pearl Bryan's death. +Neither does he accuse anyone of the murder. He merely adheres to his +theory that Walling is guilty—that is all. He maintains that Walling +was confused and panic stricken when he saw the articles in the +newspapers describing the finding of the body at Fort<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span> Thomas. Then it +was, says Jackson, that they hastened to get rid of all the effects +belonging to Pearl Bryan which were in their possession. He also +maintained that Wood sent the girl to Cincinnati and that finding her +here he tried to hit upon means of best taking care of her.</p> + +<p>He concluded to allow her to remain at the Indiana House temporarily +until he could secure her private accommodations. As these could easily +be had he took her valise and started away to hunt for convenient +quarters. That is how he happened to have Pearl Bryan's effects in his +keeping.</p> + +<p>His narrative was very smooth.</p> + +<p>Miss Rose McNevin at whose home Jackson was staying testified that +Jackson had not left the house on the night of the murder, she stated +that she always knew when her fourteen roomers were at home. She is able +to remember for two weeks the exact hour of the night when each of her +guests came into the house. Her memory is quite a good one.</p> + +<p>A certain individual who gave his name as Wm. Trusty was introduced by +the defense. Trusty claimed to have driven the cab containing Pearl +Bryan to Fort Thomas. He stated that she was dead and that Jackson and +Walling were in charge of the corpse. He claimes to have been told that +an abortion had been attempted and that the woman had died from the +effects of it, and that Jackson and Walling had undertaken to get rid of +the body.</p> + +<p>Immediately after testifying Trusty flew for parts unknown. None +believed his story.</p> + +<p>On May 12th, Colonel Nelson began his speech to the jury. It was a most +remarkable effort, being intensely dramatic and spell-binding in its +eloquence.</p> + +<p>Colonel Crawford replied for the defense and made an able argument.</p> + +<p>On May 14th, Colonel Lockhart made the concluding speech for the +Commonwealth and the case went to the jury.</p> + +<p>After a short session the jury returned and informed the court of their +joint agreement that they find Scott Jackson</p> + +<h3>GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="titlepage" id="titlepage"></a><span class="u">Text of Title Page</span></h4> +<p class="center">THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER<br /> +OF<br /> +Pearl Bryan,<br /> +OR:<br /> +THE HEADLESS HORROR.</p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER<br /> +KNOWN AS THE<br /> +Fort Thomas Tragedy,<br /> +FROM BEGINNING TO END.</p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">Full Particulars of all Detective and Police<br /> +Investigations.</p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">Dialogues of the Interviews between Mayor Caldwell,<br /> +Chief Deitsch and the Prisoners.</p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">Copyright by BARCLAY & CO.</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p> +<span class="u">Transcriber's Notes:</span><br /> +The Table of Contents was generated as an aid to the reader.<br /> +<br /> +The original text does not contain pages numbered 1 through 18.<br /> +<br /> +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.<br /> +<br /> +Usage of possessive apostrophe in the original is sporadic and often incorrect (not corrected).<br /> +<br /> +Phonetic misspellings were corrected only if necessary for clarity or if spelled correctly elsewhere in the original.<br /> +<br /> +The following misspellings and misprints were corrected:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"emidiately" corrected to "immediately" (Page 21)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"gratuated" corrected to "graduated" (page 22)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"dotting" corrected to "doting" (page 22)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"cupids" corrected to "cupid's" (page 22)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"later" corrected to "latter" (page 24, 84)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"accurrences" corrected to "occurrences" (page 26)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"sucessful" corrected to "successful" (Page 32)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"brocken" corrected to "broken" (page 32)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Deitsh" corrected to "Deitsch"(Page 35)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"of" corrected to "off" (Page 35)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Mitchel" corrected to "Mitchell" (Page 40)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Carother's" corrected to "Carothers" (Page 43)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Pook" corrected to "Poock" (Page 44)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"telegramm" corrected to "telegram" (Page 44)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"own" corrected to "owe" (page 45)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"rembling" corrected to "resembling" (page 45)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"two" corrected to "too" (page 46)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Deitch" corrected to "Deitsch" (Page 48)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jakson" corrected to "Jackson" (page 49)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"undoudtedly" corrected to "Undoubtedly" (page 50)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Where" corrected to "were" (page 52)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"frow" corrected to "from" (page 54)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"abrations" corrected to "abrasions" (page 58)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"wether" corrected to "whether?" (page 59)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Kentuky" corrected to "Kentucky" (page 60)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"apparant" corrected to "apparent" (page 61)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"of" corrected to "off" (page 63)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"o'oclock" corrected to "o'clock?" (page 67)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"shoes" corrected to "shows" (page 67)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"ihm" corrected to "him" (page 71)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jakson" corrected to "Jackson" (page 71)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"vaise" corrected to "valise" (Page 72)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"barbor" corrected to "barber" (Page 74)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"carefull" corrected to "careful" (Page 75)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"to" corrected to "too" (page 75)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"a" corrected to "at" (page 76)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"writting" corrected to "writing" (page 78)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"lenghty" corrected to "lengthy" (page 79, 93)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Cirm" corrected to "Crim" (page 81)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"sattin" corrected to "satin" (page 84)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Highland's" corrected to "Highlands" (Page 86)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Allonzo" corrected to "Alonzo" (page 87)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"pregancy" corrected to "pregnancy" (page 87)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Cincinnti" corrected to "Cincinnati" (page 87)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"opeartion" corrected to "operation" (page 87)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Farnkfort" corrected to "Frankfort" (page 90)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"requisiton" corrected to "requisition" (page 90)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Hamiton" corrected to "Hamilton" (page 90)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"arrainged" corrected to "arraigned" (page 90)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"detectivs" corrected to "detectives" (page 90)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"connecetd" corrected to "concocted" (page 90)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"pirsoners" corrected to "prisoners" (page 91)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"feard" corrected to "feared" (page 92)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"dicision" corrected to "decision" (page 95)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Aprl" corrected to "April" (page 101)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"occured" corrected to "occurred" (page 103)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"defendent" corrected to "defendant" (Page 107)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jugde" corrected to "Judge" (page 107)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"claass-mates" corrected to "class-mates" (page 110)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jacskon" corrected to "Jackson" (page 112)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"severence" corrected to "severance" (Page 114)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"quesiton" corrected to "question" (page 115)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"were" corrected to "where" (page 116)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jackosn" corrected to "Jackson" (page 117)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jonhson" corrected to "Johnson" (page 119)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"form" corrected to "from" (page 119)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"fonud" corrected to "found" (page 121)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jackosn" corrected to "Jackson" (page 121)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"there occassions" corrected to "three occasions" (page 122)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Jackosn" corrected to "Jackson" (page 124)</span></p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, by Unknown + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERIOUS MURDER--PEARL BRYAN *** + +***** This file should be named 29569-h.htm or 29569-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/5/6/29569/ + +Produced by David Garcia, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net from +images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital +Library. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan + or: the Headless Horror. + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: August 2, 2009 [EBook #29569] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERIOUS MURDER--PEARL BRYAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net from +images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital +Library. + + + + + + + + + + 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. + + + +Illustration: PEARL BRYAN. +Engraved after the only Photograph that she ever had taken during her +life-time. + + + + +THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF PEARL BRYAN, +OR: +THE HEADLESS HORROR + + +Fort Thomas, Kentucky, is most beautifully located near the banks of the +Ohio river, on the Highlands, just above and on the opposite side from +Cincinnati, Ohio. Although a comparatively new U. S. Military Post, it +has long been a historical point, and in the early days of the +Corncracker State, and while yet a portion of the County of Kentucky in +the State of Virginia, was the home of the red men. There are persons +yet living whose parents fought bloody battles with the Indians on the +ground now occupied as a U. S. Fort, and that adjacent thereto; a +picturesque portion of which is the scene of this true narrative of one +of the most terrible tragedies of the nineteenth Century. + +The tragedy referred to was committed at the dead of night in a lonely +spot near the Fort, January 31st, 1896. + +By the manner in which it was committed, it re-called the days of old, +when tyrants beheaded their victims, and the murderer at heart, who was +yet too cowardly to commit the deed, hired some one to do it, requiring +in evidence that the deed had been done, that the head should be severed +from the body and returned to the employer. + +To re-call such deeds of horror to the minds of the people of a highly +civilized nation at the close of the nineteenth Century by the actual +commission of a similar deed, struck horror to the hearts of the people, +and they were worked up to a pitch that had never been witnessed in this +country before. Telephones and telegraph were called into service, and +the finding of the headless body of a young and doubtless beautiful +woman in a sequestered spot near Fort Thomas, was flashed around the +world. So shocked was the country over this ghastly find that the +metropolitan papers from one end of this country to the other informed +their representatives in the Queen City to wire full particulars of the +horrible deed, without any limit to the words to be used. + +It was the most diabolical cold-blooded premediated outrage ever +committed in a civilized community. The entire surrounding country, +including the three cities, Cincinnati, O., Covington and Newport, Ky., +were startled from center to circumference and aroused as it never had +been before. The Sixth Regiment U. S. Infantry, commanded by Col. +Cochran, which is stationed at Fort Thomas, was astounded that such an +outrage should be committed almost within the guard lines of the Fort. +Aged and battle-scarred veterans who had gone through the great civil +war, only a generation before, when brother stood in battle array +against brother, father against son, neighbor against neighbor, flocked +to the spot where the headless body lay, and stood with blanched faces, +struck dumb with amazement, at the boldness of the deed and horrible +manner in which it had been committed. + +In an old orchard in the confines proper of the Fort, about midway +between the Highland and Alexandria pikes, on the farm of James Lock, +and near the fence which acts as a boundary line for Mr. Lock's farm, +was found by James Hewling, a young man, on Saturday morning, Feb. 1., +1896, the decapitated body of a young woman of venus-like form, the +headless body lying with the neck in a pool of blood. + +From the position of the body it was evident that the woman had been +thrown down violently and then her head deliberately severed with a dull +knife. The severance was made below the fifth vertebra. Judging by the +pool of blood, life had been extinct from four to eight hours when the +body was found. + +The clothing of the woman was of poor quality. The dress was light blue +and white, small pattern check, of cotton, worn tight across the back +and loose in front. She also wore a dark blue skirt and a union suit of +underwear. On her hands was a pair of tan kid gloves, well worn. The +black, cloth-topped shoes were of fine quality, in contrast to the other +clothing, and were marked within "Louis & Hays, Greencastle, Ind., +22-11. 62,458." Her stockings were black and blue, new. The rubbers were +old and worn at the heels. The corset had evidently been ripped open and +torn from her body during a struggle which took place near where it was +found. Close by was a piece of the dress, also with blood on it. + +In an almost incredible short time after Hewling gave the alarm, the +soldiers from the Fort, the citizens surrounding it, and hundreds from +the city near-by gathered at the spot and were awe stricken by the sight +which met their eyes. + +Who was the murdered woman and who could have committed the horrible +atrocity? These were questions which were on the lips of every one, and +for the answer of which a most thorough and searching investigation was +at once begun. The best detective talent was immediately put to work. The +people were thoroughly aroused and determined upon having the headless +body identified and the cruel, heartless murderer or murderers brought +to swift justice. + +Leaving the investigation of the deed, we will now go with the reader to +a happy home of a happy family, ranking among the oldest and best +connected families in the state of Indiana, and living on the father's +farm near Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana. Alexander S. Bryan, and +his wife who had lived to honorable old age, respected and loved by all +who knew them, owned this happy home and were the parents of twelve +children, of which at the time of this writing, seven were living, Pearl +being the youngest, of a fine, voluptuous form, with a sweet, lovely +disposition and manners, popular with all who were acquainted with her, +cheerful and happy at all times and was first entering her twenty-second +year. The Bryan family, taking all the relations into account, is the +largest in the state of Indiana, and its standing of the very highest. + +Pearl the baby of the family, petted and feted, had graduated from the +Greencastle High School in 1892, with the highest honors and was the +special favorite of her graduating class. Beautiful in form and +features, highly accomplished, well educated, with a doting father and +mother, well provided with this world's goods, and with whom she was a +favorite daughter, Pearl Bryan had much to live for. + +From the time she left school, aye, even before her graduating year +arrived, she had many admirers, and to look on her was to love, to love +was to lose. She counted her admirers by the score, but to none did she +give her heart, or encourage them in any serious intentions. She was +liked by all, but while she was of a lovable, affectionate disposition, +she allowed none to go beyond the line of admiration, and cupid's swift +and seldom erring shafts, fell harmless by her side. + +Three long years had passed since Pearl had bade "good bye" to her +studies in the Greencastle High School, and although a leader in +society, a guest of honor where-ever she visited, none of her ardent +admirers had made a deeper impression upon her, and her heart was still +her own. Men of high moral character, well supplied with this world's +goods and standing well in business and social circles, would have +eagerly jumped at the opportunity to claim her as their wife. Their +protestations of love however seemed to have no affect upon the mind or +heart of Miss Pearl Bryan. + +Money and position did not have any effect upon her favors, the young +man, struggling hard to make his way in life, was as graciously +received and as well treated by her as the young swell, rolling in +luxury and wealth. + +Will Wood, a second cousin of Pearl Bryan, was one of her ardent +admirers, but was treated as one of the family and in no sense as a +lover. He was treated rather as a favorite brother by Miss Pearl, who +made a confidant of him. Wood's father who was a good old Minister lived +only a half mile distant from the Bryan's, and Will spent much of his +time at Pearl's home, and was in her company a great deal. Nothing was +thought of this, at the time, although evil tongues wagged rapidly +afterwards, and many were ready to lay at the door of Will Wood in less +than a year thereafter, direct connection and complicity with a crime +unparallelled in the criminal history of the Nineteenth Century. + +Along in the latter part of 1894, Scott Jackson with his mother moved to +Greencastle, Ind., from Jersey City, N. J. One of Mrs. Jackson's +daughters, the wife of Dr. Edwin Post, of Depauw University, had lived +at Greencastle for many years, and Mrs. Jackson moved there to get near +her daughter. Scott Jackson belonged to a good family, his father being +Commodore Jackson, who commanded many vessels and who stood high in +social circles in New Jersey. Scott cut quite a prominent figure in both +the social and business world. He went to Jersey City with splendid +recommendations. His career there was considerably checkered however, +and he only escaped a long sentence to the penitentiary, which his +partner Alexander Letts is now serving, by turning State's evidence in a +case of embezzlement in which Jackson and Letts had embezzled a large +amount, said to have been $32,000 from the Pennsylvania Railroad +Company. + +Jackson and Letts, it appears, obtained employment of the Pennsylvania +Railroad company, in the Jersey City offices. One of Jackson's duties +was to receive and open the mails. + + +BIG EMBEZZLEMENTS. + +After a few months extensive robberies in the railroad office were +discovered. They were said to amount to nearly $32,000. They were traced +to Jackson and Letts. It was found, according to testimony during the +two trials that followed, that Jackson abstracted checks from the mail, +and that Letts, to whom he handed them, had them cashed. + +Meanwhile the saloon which they kept had become notorious. They were +acknowledged high flyers in sporting circles. Both had become "plungers" +on the race tracks. It was reported that they made much money, owing to +their lavish expenditures. They "entertained" liberally in their own +particular way, and for a time were looked upon as "good fellows" among +the sporting fraternity, who sought the privilege of their acquaintance. +Jackson was a prominent member of the Entre Nous, an exclusive social +club. + +Suddenly, the Pennsylvania Railroad officials discovered that these two +young men were "sporting" at the expense of the company. Their arrest +followed. At the first trial the jury disagreed. + + +HE TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE. + +Before the second trial took place the railroad company discovered such +proof of Jackson's guilt that he found it healthy to turn state's +evidence against Letts. The latter was sentenced to a long term in the +State Prison. Jackson went free and also went away from Jersey. + +News of this escapade and his career in Jersey City never reached +Greencastle and his family there ranking among the best. He was at once +given an entree into society which might well be envied by any young +man. Will Wood, who lived a near neighbor to Mrs. Jackson, and who as +stated was a particular favorite with Pearl Bryan, took a great liking +to Scott Jackson. They were very intimate, in fact became chums. + +Jackson entered the dental college at Indianapolis, and Wood being of a +rather reckless disposition would go to Indianapolis to see Jackson, and +together they would have a big time in the city. Both being fond of +ladies' company, they spent much of their time together in the company +of women of loose moral character and were in several very unsavory +escapades, escaping notoriety however under assumed names, which +prevented their families and friends at Greencastle from hearing of +them. With no knowledge of his former career and ignorant of his +escapades while at college at Indianapolis, it is no wonder that he was +a favorite in society when at home. Belonging to an exellent family, he +was outwardly a man whom any father would be proud to have his daughter +associate with. With dimples on his chin and cheeks, a childish smile on +his lips, frank, beautiful, pale violet-blue eyes, he had a most winsome +countenance. But behind the angelic front was hidden a very demon. +Jackson was a monstrosity if you will, a whited sepulchre, and one of +the unaccountable freaks of nature. To those not knowing his habits, a +handsome, affable, pleasing man of fine form and features; to those who +knew him truly, a villain of the deepest dye, a very demon in human +shape. + +Illustration: The Home of Pearl Bryan at Greencastle, Ind.--Drawn by +our special Artist. + +Notwithstanding Will Wood knew him as he did, and that Pearl Bryan was +Wood's second cousin the same blood coursing through their veins, Wood +introduced Jackson into the Bryan family in the spring of 1895. It was a +case of love at first sight. From the first meeting between Scott +Jackson and Pearl Bryan, at the colonial mansion of the Bryans on the +hill, Pearl showed that she was most favorably impressed with him. She +who had refused to listen to the wooing whispers of men in high rank and +station in life by the scores, fell at once a victim to the darts from +cupid's shafts sent from Jackson's lips, for after occurrences proved +conclusively that the honeyed words and winsome smiles, which won their +way so easily into the heart of Pearl Bryan, came only from the lips and +never from the heart of him who lent his every effort to win the heart +of the belle of Putnam County, as Pearl Bryan was known, but with no +manly or honorable purpose. Scott Jackson was void of moral principle +and honor, and never did anything with a manly purpose, he was incapable +of such action. + + +THE RESULT OF AN EXAMINATION OF JACKSON, BY THE BERTILLION SYSTEM, AFTER +HIS ARREST FOR THE MURDER OF PEARL BRYAN. + +After the arrest of Jackson for the crime, he was turned over to +Sergeant Kiffmeyer, of the Cincinnati police force, who has charge of +the Bertillion system of measuring and identifying criminals for the +local Police Department, and who is recognized as an authority on +criminals. + +After he had completed the measurement of Jackson he said, "Every man's +head tells its own story. Jackson is another H. H. Holmes. + +"Jackson has the cunning to plot and plan, and to conceal. + +"Jackson is a mind far beyond the ordinary. He has a head such as +Napoleon would have. + + +PICKED OUT OF A THOUSAND. + +"Jackson knew fully and realized what lay before him in the murder of +Pearl Bryan. + +"Jackson is absolutely incapable of any expression of remorse. + +"The only appeal that can be made to Jackson is through his fear of +punishment. + +"Jackson's skull is abnormal, and unusually long in proportion to its +breadth. It is abnormally developed on the right side in front and on +the left side in the rear of the head. + +"Jackson is a natural monster, or monstrosity, which ever you will. Look +at his portrait," and the Sergeant held up his photograph. "Is that +the face of a criminal? + +"Jackson has other peculiarities. His fingers are disproportionately +long to his height. + +"Jackson has all the characteristics of a criminal by nature." + + +WAS IT FATE OR WAS IT DESTINE? + +Was it cruel fate which led pure, beautiful, innocent and attractive +Pearl Bryan into the toils of such a fiend in human shape? Or was it the +blind Goddess of Justice that led Jackson to meet Miss Pearl and +sacrifice her life that the demon Jackson might be exposed to the +world, his deeds of evil and misdoings brought to light, and he +expatiate the many crimes which he had committed on the gallows or by +serving a life sentence in the penitentiary? + +Be that as it may they met through the intimate acquaintance and +friendship of each with Will Wood, who little thought when he brought +this pure spotless virgin in contact with the hypocrite and demon, +Jackson, that he was committing a sin, which he would regret to his +dying day, and which would bring disgrace, dishonor and ruin on two +highly respected families and also upon his own head and that of his +aged respected and christian father, who was at the time the Presiding +Elder of a church for the Greencastle District. + +The acquaintance of Jackson and Miss Pearl soon ripened into friendship +and that friendship into trusting confiding love on the Part of Miss +Bryan, and the accomplishment of the deep, villainous designs upon the +part of Jackson. As Will Wood said in a talk afterward, "Pearl was stuck +on Jackson from the first time they met, Jackson would come and get my +horse and buggy and drive over to Pearl's house, when they would often +go out driving together. Pearl was pretty and ambitious, but I never +thought she would do wrong. Now I can see she was perfectly infatuated +with Jackson from the start; so much that I am firmly convinced, she was +completely in his power, and he took advantage of his influence over +her." Through Jackson's cunning to plot and plan as well as to conceal, +the relations of criminal intimacy between him and Pearl, were never +even suspected by anyone. Jackson was not in Greencastle a great deal, +and this fact enabled him to carry on his illicit relations with her +more boldly than he would otherwise have been able to do. The parents of +the erring girl never for a moment suspected anything wrong. Pearl was +their favorite, the daughter of their old age, had been raised with +every care and precaution, had always moved in the very best of society, +and Jackson to them was a gentleman, a member of one of the best +families of the country, well-thought of and respected in the community +in which they moved, and was not looked upon as a lover, although they +were aware of the fact that Pearl was more seriously smitten with his +charms than she ever had been with those of any of the other many +admirers and friends who had visited their home as the company of Pearl. +Without hesitancy they permitted their favorite daughter to accept the +attentions of Jackson, go out with him when he was visiting home, and +remain alone with him in their parlor until late hours in the night. +They had every confidence in Pearl, and no suspicion of the villainous +intentions of Jackson, or the evil influence he possessed over her. + +With Pearl Bryan, it was the oft told tale, "She loved not wisely but +too well." Jackson, "a criminal by nature" with his "angelic front", +behind which was hidden a demon, with his low moral character, so well +concealed from the public, and with a set design to ruin the pure and +innocent girl, which had been thrown in his way, was not slow to take +advantage of his opportunities and the influence and power, which he +could easily see he held over the unsuspecting girl. + +Loving and trusting Jackson as she had never before loved any man, and +being of a sanguine nervous temperament, with her likes and dislikes of +the strongest possible, with a great deal of animal nature, cheerful and +talkative, yet lacking in force, by nature kind and benevolent to a +fault, and her development of individuality and self-reliance small, she +was one who could be easily persuaded but never driven. Jackson was not +slow to learn this, and with honeyed words and protestations of love, he +won Pearl Bryan's heart. This won, the accomplishment of his devilish +designs, her ruin, was easy. She fell a victim to his lustful desire, +and in a short time discovered that she would soon become a mother. +Almost crazed at this discovery she knew not what to do or which way to +turn. It was the first blot that had ever come on the name of a member +of the proud Bryan family. In her desperation she confided her condition +to her cousin, Will Wood. As Wood claimed, no one else in Greencastle +knew or even suspected anything of the true condition of affairs between +Pearl Bryan and Scott Jackson. They had been keeping company with each +other whenever Jackson was in Greencastle, from the early spring of 1895 +until September of the same year, when she discovered her condition, no +one except Will Wood knowing anything wrong about them. + +The discovery of Pearl Bryan that she was in a delicate condition, and +Jackson being the cause of her trouble, and as he said in a letter to +Wood wishing to get clear of the scandal, brings us to the third, and +possibly the most important suspect in the dreadful tragedy near Fort +Thomas, Ky. + +Alonzo Walling, nineteen years of age, was born on a farm near Mt. +Carmel, Ind. His father died when he was but three years old, leaving +his mother in moderate circumstances with two other boys, Clint and +Charles. When Alonzo was thirteen she moved to Greencastle where she +kept boarders and Alonzo commenced at once to work in a glass factory to +help support his mother. He worked there four years, and was thrown out +of work when the factory was closed. Then his mother, by self-sacrifice, +sent him to the Indianapolis Dental college, paying all his expenses, +and it is learned that he worked hard and was one of the formost in his +class. He returned home every evening, and on Saturdays assisted Dr. +Sparks, at Greenfield, in his dental parlors. His term expired in March, +1895, when his mother moved to Oxford and made her home with her sister, +Mrs. James Faucett. Having very poor health, her only thought was to try +and give him a good education. + +It was at the Indianapolis Dental College that he first met Jackson and +became acquainted with him. By some strange and uncontrollable fatallity +Walling was thrown with Jackson again in Cincinnati. Here is his own +statement made Wednesday, Feb. 5., 1896, regarding their acquaintance +and friendship: + +"I met Jackson in Indianapolis, a little more than a year ago. We +attended the Indiana Dental College together. I did not know him +intimately there, although we attended the same class. When the school +season was over, I had no idea of meeting him again here in Cincinnati." + +"How did you come to room together here?" + +"Well, I was standing on the doorstep of our boarding-house, at 222 West +Ninth Street, the second day of our school term here in October, when +Scott came along Ninth Street and recognized me. On the strength of our +being acquainted in Indianapolis we roomed together at 222 Ninth Street +and took our meals out." + +Walling had no unsavory record, although he did not stand well at +Greenfield, while living there. That he was directly connected with the +Fort Thomas tragedy there can be no doubt. Sergeant Kiffmeyer, who has +charge of the Bertillion System, and who is quoted regarding Scott +Jackson, said of Alonzo Walling, after taking his measurement. +"Walling's head is that of a commonplace criminal, he is just the +opposite of Scott Jackson, at the same time Walling is utterly void of +any ability or cunning to plot and plan and to conceal. Jackson knew +fully and realized what lay before him in the murder of Pearl Bryan. +Walling had not realized the enormity of the crime, and is supremely +indifferent to the consequences and to the crime committed. No appeal, +not even the fear of punishment, will have any impression on Walling." + + + + +The History of the Tragedy. + + +Never in the history of the crimes committed in this section of the +country has the same interest or the same deep feeling been aroused as +has been in the Ft. Thomas (Ky.) murder. + +The fact that the head was removed from the body and secreted or +destroyed, and the developments which followed fast upon each other, +adding day by day new evidence to show the cold-bloodedness of the +crime, the preparations which had been made for its successful carrying +out and the covering up of all traces of the identity of the murderer +and the murdered. The mystery that still surrounds the hiding place of +the dismembered head, have led to this result. + +A murder so horrible and revolting as to appear to place it beyond the +civilization of to-day, had been committed within ear shot of one of the +most popular U. S. Military Posts of this country, and within a few +miles of the center of population of this the greatest and most highly +civilized nation on earth. The murderer had hacked the head from the +body of his victim, and carried it away with him. Whether from pure +savagory and demon spirit or to prevent the identification of his victim +was not known. + +The body was found in an orchard at Ft. Thomas on Saturday, February 1., +at 8 o'clock in the morning. The neck, where it had been severed from +the body, lay in a pool of blood, and from evidences on the body and in +the bush under which it lay, a fierce struggle had taken place before +the victim received her death stroke. + + +BUT SLIGHT CLEW TO WORK ON. + +Upon the body or in the clothing there was nothing by which the woman +could be identified, excepting the dealers' names in the shoe, and the +murder or murderers had left no other clew behind by which they could be +identified. Without the head, the mystery seemed unsolvable, and every +effort was made to find it in the vicinity. + +The remaining details of the crime, as far as circumstantial evidence +revealed them, told a story which was truly horrifying. The dumb +evidence given by foot prints, blood-stains, broken tree branches, was +terrible to reflect upon. + +The body was lying upon the bank with the feet higher than the body, and +the clothing so disarranged that the officers were at first led to +believe that the woman had been outraged before she was murdered. The +clothing could easily have been as much disarranged in the struggle +which had evidently taken place and when the murderer threw his victim +to the ground. + +The upper part of the woman's dress was open as was the garment beneath, +and her bosom was bare. The skirt-band was unloosed, and the skirt of +the dress was gathered up about the waist. Beneath the stump of the neck +there was a huge pool of blood, and blood was scattered about on the +grass and the leaves of the overhanging bushes. One glove lay in the +bushes and a piece torn from the woman's dress was hanging to a bit of +brushwood several yards from the body. The officers carefully examined +the footprints leading to the spot where the body lay, and they found +that the man and the woman had walked side by side for a short distance +when, for some reason, the woman had attempted to flee and the man had +followed and overtaken her. The tracks were especially distinct here, +for the woman had run through a very muddy spot, which she would have +avoided had she had time to pick her way. The murderer overtook his +victim before she had screamed more than once or twice. He choked her +into silence and dragged her toward the bushy bank. She struggled +desperately, and he tore a handful of cloth from her dress. He threw her +to the ground and slid over the bank with her. He must have drawn his +knife after the struggle began; otherwise he would have used it sooner. +He slashed at her throat. She clutched the knife with the one hand she +had free--her left--and three times the blade laid her palm or fingers +open to the bone. Her struggle was useless, and in a moment her life +blood was pouring from a gaping wound in her throat. + +When she was dead, or, at least, powerless to resist, the assassin +searched for some article concealed on her person. He tore off her +corset, leaving the marks of his bloody fingers on the garment, which he +threw a yard or two from him, and then unbuttoned the under garment +beneath her corset, where a letter might have been concealed. Whether he +found something which aroused him to jealous rage, or whether he +finished his awful work in the hope of concealing the identity of his +victim, no one knows. + +The murder must have been committed Friday night for the clothing of the +dead woman was not wet and the rain Friday night had kept up until near +ten o'clock. + +The struggle between the murderer and his victim was a most desperate +one. Half of a man's shirt sleeve was found near the dead body, soaked +in blood. The woman had evidently torn it from her murderers arm in her +desperate struggle for her life. + +The lad Hewling upon discovering the body of the murdered woman, was +horror stricken by the sight and ran towards Mr. Lock's house, badly +frightened and calling lustily for help. Mr. Lock, his son Wilbert and +Mike Noonan, an employ, came running from the house. When they had seen +the body, Mr. Lock went direct to Fort Thomas, telephoned the news of +the ghastly find to the Newport police headquarters, and notified Col. +Cochran the Commander at the Fort. + +Jule Plummer, Sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky, Coroner Tingley and +a number of the other County and City officials respondet the telephone +summons at once and hurried to the scene. The body had not been touched +nor had any one been in touching distance of it when these officers +arrived and viewed it. + +The body was ordered to be taken to undertaker W. H. Whites in Newport, +by Coroner Tingley, at once after he had examined it. Upon this +examination he said that there was no evidence whatever that the woman's +person had been outraged. + +The work of identifying the victim and running down her murderers was at +once begun. The entire detective and police force of Cincinnati, +Covington and Newport, was put to work to unravel the mystery, identify +the remains and capture her murderers. + +There was little or no clew to work on. Detectives Crim and McDermott, +of Cincinnati, were assigned to work actively on the case, and sent to +the scene at once by Col. Philip Deitsch, Superintendent of Police of +Cincinnati. Before these sleuth-hounds of the law, Crim and McDermott, +reached the place where the headless body had been found, hundreds of +persons from the three cities, and every soldier stationed at Fort +Thomas, who could possibly get away, had preceded them. The grass and +bushes were trampled down by the crowds of visitors who had come to +satisfy their curiosity, but who, through their eagerness to see and +learn everything possible, had destroyed so nearly every particle of +evidence the murderer had left behind him. The foot prints and other +evidences of the desperate struggle were all destroyed and but little +was left for them to work on. + +Relic hunters were out in great numbers and they almost demolished the +bush under which the body was discovered, breaking off branches upon +which blood spots could be seen. They peered closely into the ground for +blood-spotted leaves, stones and even saturated clay. Anything that had +a blood stain upon it was seized upon eagerly, and hairs of the +unfortunate woman were at a premium, men and boys, and even young women, +examining every branch and twig of the bush in the midst of which the +struggle took place, in the hope of finding one. The inherent, morbid +love of the horrible the mass of humanity possesses was well illustrated +in the scenes witnessed. The heavy rain which fell nearly all afternoon +was not deterrent to these relic hunters' zeal. + + +AT THE UNDERTAKER. + +The scene at Undertaker White's establishment, on Fourth Street, in +Newport, where the body was taken to, was one of activity. All day long +and up to a late hour at night the place was besieged with people +anxious to get a look at the remains of the unfortunate woman. The crowd +was composed mostly of men, but there was quite a number of women to be +seen among them. Several persons came in and gave descriptions of +missing friends, and, if they tallied in any way with the corpse, they +were permitted to view it. + +Owing to the close proximity to Fort Thomas, where the body was found, +and the well-known fact that a number of the "women on the town" in +Cincinnati were in the habit of visiting the soldiers at the Fort, many +suspected that some one of the soldiers had committed the crime, and as +the clothes on the body were of the cheapest kind, they thought the +victim was one of these lowe women. Col. Cochran, the commander of the +Fort, would not allow such a stigma to rest upon his post. He instituted +a most thorough investigation, and invited the civil officials to aid +him in his investigation. It did not take long to convince those working +on the case that the soldiers were in no way involved in the terrible +tragedy. + +On Saturday night, not many hours after the discovery of the headless +body, Arthur Carter, of Seymour Ind., arrived with his trio of famous +bloodhounds, Jack, Wheeler and Stonewall. + +The hounds are the same animals that tracked Bud Stone, the colored +murderer of the Wratten family, at Washington, Ind., to his home. Stone +was later arrested, and when charged with the crime made a full +confession, for which he was afterward hanged. + +Mr. Carter said during his brief stop at the Grand Central Depot that +over 20 criminals are now serving time in the penitentiaries of Indiana +and Illinois as a result of the work of the hounds. + +Before being taken to the scene of the murder the dogs were taken to +White's undertaking establishment and given a scent of the unfortunate +woman's clothing. Carter expressed a doubt as to the dogs ability to do +any work in striking a trail by the scent from the clothing, as it had +been freely handled by a half hundred of persons. The dogs, with noses +close to the ground, ran hither and thither in a confused manner. It was +evident that the dogs were useless, as all tracks left by the murderer +and his victim had been obliterated by the thousands of people who had +crossed over the place where the body was found. + + +DRAINING THE RESERVOIR. + +They followed the scent as far as the Covington reservoir, when they +lost it, and were unable to gain it again. In the hope that the head +might be found in this body of water the reservoir was drained on +Monday, involving an expense of about $2,000, but the head was not +discovered, and the hard-working, earnest detectives and Sheriff Plummer +were apparently baffled. + +Clew after clew was followed up only to be abandoned as fruitless. A +large number of young women were reported missing from various parts of +the country, but when traced up and pursued to its end, each clew proved +to be without any tangible basis. There was nothing to work on, but the +officers of the law, kept up the search for the head and the +identification of the remains with most commandable persistency. Every +Suggestion was received and considered, nothing was left undone that +could be done. + + +THE SHOES. + +The authorities then turned their attention to the only tangible clew, +the shoes. Sheriff Plummer, of Campbell County, accompanied by +Detectives Crim and McDermott, of this city, proceeded on Monday night +to Greencastle, Ind., to interview the dealers from whom the shoes had +evidently been purchased. They also took along the dead girls clothing. +At the store of Louis & Hayes it was found that the entire lot of shoes, +one dozen pairs, had been purchased by them from Portsmouth. Nine of +these pairs had been sold, and all but two purchasers were readily +accounted for. Then an attempt was made to locate these two pairs, one +of which had, without doubt, been worn by the murdered girl. This seemed +impossible for a time. In the meanwhile every girl who had left the +Depauw Seminary, near Greencastle, was traced down, and found each time. + +In the meantime every thing possible was being done at the scene of the +murder. Two tramps were arrested at Ludlow, Ky., as suspects, but were +afterwards released for lack of evidence. Crowds flocked to the morgue +in Newport, where the headless body lay; it being identified a number +of times as the body of some one who after the identification would turn +out to be alive and well. + +Probably the strongest case of identification, which did not identify, +was that of Mrs. Hart, of Cincinnati, who identified the remains as +those of her daughter, Ella Markland. Emil Eshler, a friend of Mrs. +Hart, and William Hess, a saloon-keeper, both thought it was the body of +Mrs. Markland, and were so strongly convinced of it, that they told the +mother of their opinion. She and her husband then went to Newport, where +she made a very careful examination, which resulted in her declaring +that beyond a reasonable doubt the body was that of her daughter. The +woman called at the Cincinnati headquarters and in a long talk with +Chief Deitsch declared that she was fully convinced the body was that of +Ella Markland. Her story of the identification was told at considerable +length and between many sobs. + +She said she had been allowed to thoroughly examine the body at Newport +and that she identified it by the peculiar shape of the legs from the +knee down and by the general contour of the breast, waist and limbs. In +talking to the chief she was asked when she had last seen her daughter +and replied that it was New Year's Eve that she last saw her alive. Mrs. +Markland was afterwards found on Ninth Street in Cincinnati, where she +was working as a domestic. + +Without question the most sensational clew upon which the detectives had +to work, was the unearthing of a true life story, in which passion and +crime were involved, and which for days promised to bear fruit of a most +sensational character. + +This clew was, that the headless body, was that of Francisca Engelhardt, +who had not long ago been married to a Dr. Kettner, who deserted his +first wife in Dakota, and whom she had never seen until he came to +Cincinnati, to marry her, the acquaintance and engagement having been +made through a correspondence advertisement in a Cincinnati newspaper. +The pair were married by Squire Winkler, the girl never knowing that her +husband was a bigamist. + +Three months afterward the first wife, at Mitchell, S. D., heard that +her husband had married a woman in Cincinnati. She wrote but received no +answer, then came on to Cincinnati, and on finding that the report of +her husband being again married was true, she sued for divorce. + + +FLED TO LOUISVILLE. + +Meanwhile Kettner fled to Louisville with his second wife, then to +points in Indiana, where he was located from time to time. When his +first wife sued for divorce he was traced to Batesville, Ind. He never +replied to her petition for divorce, and she would have won her suit had +she not been forced to abandon it on account of lack of money. She was +determined, however, to prosecute him for bigamy. + +Mrs. Anna Burkhardt, of No. 1317 Vine Street, with whom the Engelhardt +girl had boarded, called at the Cincinnati police headquarters and told +her story. She furnished Chief Deitsch and Mayor Caldwell with pictures +of both Kettner and Francisca Engelhardt. + +The whole story at once impressed itself so fully upon both the Mayor +and Chief Deitsch that work was immediately begun. Telegrams of a +private nature were sent to points in Indiana and the West. One from +Evansville states that Kettner and his second wife left that town for +parts unknown about a month before. He was then traced through various +cities and towns until on the same day on which the arrest of Jackson +and Walling was made. In response to telegrams from Greencastle, Ind., +Dr. Kettner and wife, were located at Marquette Mich., he having had a +shady record, at every point he had been traced to. Superintendent of +Police Deitsch and Mayor Caldwell, of Cincinnati, considered this the +best clew on which the detectives could work. + +As soon as the intelligence was imparted to Chief Deitsch, he ordered +renewed activity in the case and in the afternoon went over to Campbell +County to personally supervise the work of his detectives. + + +IDENTIFIED THE BODY. + +Chief Deitsch interviewed both Mrs. Burkhardt and her daughter at their +home. + +Mrs. Anna Burkhardt said: + +"I went to Newport Tuesday morning to view the corpse, and can say +almost positively that it is that of Francisca Engelhardt, who married +Dr. Kettner. I could recognize her hand out of hundreds. She had +remarkably beautiful hands, and always held up the right one in a +peculiar position when speaking. When I saw the body at the Morgue I +took her hand and placed it in that position, and the resemblance +strongly confirmed my first conclusion. The size of the body also +corresponds with the stature of the girl I knew. + +"When she lived with us I slept with her, and, therefore, know her +peculiarities. She had a very pretty foot, of which she was exceedingly +proud. She would often hold it up to view and speak about it. The toes +were peculiarly shaped, and I immediately recognized them on the corpse. + +"Before I entered the room with Detective Keating to look at the body, I +fully described her peculiar foot to him. He had never seen the body, +either, and was also immediately struck with the resemblance of the foot +to my description. + +"She came to my house in September, 1893, but she took a position that +same fall in Dr. Reamy's hospital, on Walnut Hills, as telephone girl. +She visited us frequently, however, and often stayed all night with us. + + +BEFORE SHE MARRIED KETTNER, + +she received letters from Mitchell, S. D., and told us that they were +from a Dr. Kettner. On April 13, 1894, he came to see her at my house, +and the next day--it was Saturday, April 14--she gave up her position at +the hospital and was married to Kettner by Squire Winkler. My daughter +was a witness to the ceremony. They lived here for ten days after the +marriage, and since that time I have seen neither of them. The woman +also stated a very important fact. She says that the girl wore a +corset having two inside pockets, and was in the habit of carrying +everything of value, such as money and articles that she prized, in +these pockets. When she married Kettner Mrs. Burkhardt warned her in a +friendly way that perhaps he was not honest. In answer to this the girl +drew the marriage certificate from her bosom, displaying it and saying +that she would never part with it, but would carry it in her corset. The +couple made frequent trips to Ft. Thomas, which seemed to be a favorite +resort with them." + +Illustration: Her struggle was useless, the life-blood was pouring from +a gaping wound in her throat. + +KETTNER HAD A MOTIVE. + +Dr. Kettner had a motive, which made this clew seem the right one for +such a deed as committed at Fort Thomas. Being a bigamist and fearing +that his first wife, who followed him so many miles, would prosecute +him, his only hope was to secure the marriage certificate and other +evidence against him. The Engelhardt girl always carried the marriage +certificate in her bosom, beneath the corset, and more than once said +she would never part with it. + + +POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION HELD ON THE BODY OF THE UNKNOWN VICTIM. + +At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon Dr. Robert Carothers, of Newport, made a +post-mortem examination of the body at White's undertaking +establishment. It was made in the presence of Dr. J. O. Jenkins, Drs. J. +L. and C. T. Phythian, Dr. J. W. Fishback and Coroner W. S. Tingley. The +examination occupied over an hour, and was very thorough. The result was +the finding of a foetus of between four or five months' gestation. The +doctors also came to the conclusion that the woman was not over 20 years +of age, and that she had never before been pregnant. The foetus was +removed and taken to A. F. Goetze's pharmacy, corner of Fifth and York +Streets, where it was placed in alcohol for preservation. + +The stomach was taken out and turned over to Dr. W. H. Crane, of the +Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, and he made all the known tests +for the various poisons that might have been administered. This was +done to ascertain, if possible, whether the woman was drugged before +being taken to the place where the crime was committed. + +Dr. Carothers, who was at the time a professor at the Ohio Medical +College, had been an interne in the Cincinnati Hospital, and his +experience qualified him to judge accurately of other details than those +pertaining only to professional matters. + +"I am satisfied that the girl was not outraged," said he. "The man had a +reason to kill her, and the result of the post mortem shows it. I judge +that it was a premediated and cold-blooded murder. The girl, in my +opinion, was from the country and was comparatively innocent. She was +brought to Cincinnati to submit to a criminal operation. Once here she +was taken to F. Thomas and murdered. Her head was taken away, horrible +as it may seem, merely to prevent the identification of her body." + + +A NEWPORT SHOE DEALER DOES SOME DETECTIVE WORK. + +L. D. Poock, a leading shoe merchant of Newport, who took a most +decidedly active interest in the case from the start, claiming as was +proven true afterwards that the marks in the shoes would certainly +identify the remains, did some valuable detective work under the +direction of Sheriff Plummer. Mr. Poock was struck by the narrowness of +the shoes worn by the dead girl, and opened them to discover the size +and width. He recognized the fact that 11 and 22 in the shoe would give +him the information desired if he had but the key. + +While at one of the Cincinnati factories, a salesman stepped forward and +recognized the shoe as one manufactured by Drew, Selby & Co., of +Portsmouth, Ohio. + +Upon this information Mr. Poock, determined upon seeing the whole thing +out, took a train for Portsmouth, and, arriving at the factory of Drew, +Selby & Co., established in 10 minutes that Louis & Hays had given an +order for 12 pairs of black cloth top button shoes April 18, 1895, for +fall delivery. The shipment was made September the 3., 1895, and among +the lot there was but one pair of shoes numbered 22-11. + +This clew so thoroughly worked up by Mr. Poock, who kept Sheriff Plummer +and the detectives, who had gone to Greencastle, Ind., posted as to the +result of his investigation regarding the shoes, proved to be the +correct one, the one by which the body of the murdered woman was +positively identified and by the investigation of which the arrest of +the murderers was secured. + + +THE DETECTIVES AND SHERIFF PLUMMER AT GREENCASTLE, IND. + +Sheriff Jule Plummer of Campbell County, Kentucky, and Detectives Crim +and McDermott of Cincinnati, who had gone to Greencastle, were kept +thoroughly posted as to the work being done on the Cincinnati or rather +Fort Thomas tragedy. Not a clew or theory with the least resemblance to +truth was neglected. + +The first persons seen were Messrs. Louis & Hays, the shoe dealers from +whom the shoes worn by the victim were supposed to have been purchased. +Mr. Hays said that the shoes were manufactured by Drew, Selby & Co., of +Portsmouth, Ohio, and showed Sheriff Plummer a telegram from the latter +firm which was received that morning. In this it was stated that in the +entire lot of shoes which had been especially made to order for Louis & +Hays, but one pair was numbered 22-11, which is the Portsmouth firm's +mark for size three. This pair was found upon the unfortunate girl. Upon +this theory Sheriff Plummer and Detectives Crim and McDermott went to +work. Of that whole lot of shoes made for Louis & Hays by the Portsmouth +firm, the officers located seven pairs, leaving but two unaccounted for. +The clerks in the shoe store were shown the muddy shoe taken from the +girl's foot. They all recognized it at a glance. + +The articles of wearing apparel which were also brought along were shown +to nearly all of the leading dry goods merchants. None of them were able +to recognize even one of the articles. An effort was also made to +identify the gloves worn by the murdered woman. In none of the stores +could a similar pair be found. + +The officers were not discouraged however. The proof was positive almost +beyond a doubt that the shoes worn by the murdered girl had been sold to +her by Louis & Hays in their store at Greencastle. This was the only +tangible clew they had to work on and with it properly run down, they +were perfectly satisfied, they would secure the identification of the +beheaded woman, if not fix the guilt of the crime on some one in the +immediate vicinity. + +Another visit was made to Louis & Hays store at night, the books of the +firm were carefully gone over again and again. Only seven of the nine +pairs of the Drew, Selby & Co., shoes sold by Louis & Hays could be +accounted for, and none of those were the ones worn by the murdered +woman. + +The Fort Thomas tragedy, and the coming of Sheriff Plummer, Detectives +Crim and McDermott to Greencastle, in search of the identification of +the shoes had aroused the people at that place, especially so, the +suspicion of a Mr. A. W. Early, Manager of the Western Union, to whose +noble work, the officers owe nearly all their success and information. + +The description of the body of the dead girl, especially that part, +which described her fingers as resembling those of a seamstress, and the +little wart on the finger, aroused the suspicion of Mrs. Alexander S. +Bryan, whose daughter Pearl, was, as the mother thought, visiting +friends in Indianapolis, Ind. Nothing was mentioned of these suspicions +outside the immediate family, but so strong were the suspicions with +them, that Fred Bryan a brother of Pearl telegraphed to Indianapolis to +Pearl's friends, asking if she was there. The answer came that Pearl had +not been in Indianapolis, although she had left for that city, Jan., 28. + +A. W. Early, the manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company at +Greencastle, saw the telegram and answer from Indianapolis. It was then, +he knew, that he possessed positive information, not only as to the +identification of the headless body at the Morgue in Newport, but also +to the fixing of the guilt on one or more persons, one of whom at least +was Early's intimate friend. Realizing this and awe-stricken with the +horribleness of the deed in which his friend was, to say the least, +indirectly implicated, he rushed at once to the hotel and in an excited +manner called the officers out to tell them his story. After a very +hurried conference with Early the officers all left the hotel to go with +Early to his office where he gave the first real clew to the victim and +upon which information, three men Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, +students at the Ohio Dental College, in Cincinnati, and William Wood, a +medical student who was with his uncle in South Bend, Ind., were on that +same night arrested, charged with the murder and complicity in the +murder of Pearl Bryan, whose headless body lay at Undertaker White's +Establishment in Newport, Ky. + +Early's story was that he came to Greencastle Oct. 4., 1895. "Soon after +my arrival at Greencastle I made the acquaintance of Will Wood, a +student at Depauw University. This acquaintance soon ripened into a +friendship which brought us together a great deal and made us confide to +each other much more than is ordinary among young men. + +"So fast did the friendship between Will Wood and myself become that he +would show me his letters. Among those he showed, I remember one from +Scott Jackson, a young man from Greencastle, who is in Cincinnati +attending a dental college. + +"In this letter Jackson confided to his chum, Will Wood, that he, +Jackson and Pearl Bryan had been too intimate, that she had loved not +wisely, but too well, and as a result he had betrayed her, that Pearl +would soon become a mother, and asked Wood's help in this matter. + +"He admitted his intimacy with Pearl, and his responsibility for her +present condition. He quoted recipes calculated to prevent the evil +results of their indiscretion, and asked Wood to get them and give them +to Pearl. + +"Wood did this, as he said he was willing to do anything he could for +Jackson and especially for Pearl, who was Wood's second cousin. + +"These drugs however did not have the desired effect of reversing the +laws of nature. + +"One letter, I remember was in answer to one which Wood had written to +Jackson, informing him that Pearl Bryan was showing the effects of her +indiscretion and intimacy with Jackson, and telling him that the recipes +sent by him had been furnished by Wood. + +"Jackson regretted that his recipes had failed but said something must +be done and suggested that the girl be sent to Cincinnati, stating that +he could arrange to have an abortion performed on her. + +"Wood told me afterward that Pearl had gone to Cincinnati to have a +criminal operation performed, and had told her parents she was going to +Indianapolis to visit friends. She had money with her, sufficient to +cover any expenses she might incur in such an undertaking." + +He then told of Fred Bryan the brother of Pearl, telegraphing to +Indianapolis inquiring about Pearl and receiving an answer that she had +not been there. + +It was midnight when the detectives heard of this and went to the house +of Mr. Spivy, of Louis & Hays, and got him to go to the shoe store with +them. On arriving there the books of the firm were again examined and +the name of Pearl Bryan was found on them, and the fact that she had +bought a pair of No. 3 shoes was found. In all their scrutiny of the +books this fact had escaped the detectives and shoe dealers. + + +IDENTIFIED THE CLOTHING. + +This settled the fact that Pearl Bryan had purchased the shoes, and at +two o'clock Wednesday morning the officers visited the home of the +Bryans, taking with them the clothes found on the murdered woman. Here +an awful climax came. The mother of Pearl was shown the clothes and one +by one she positively identified them between her sobs and cries of "My +Pearl, my Pearl." + +The dress was one which had been made over for Pearl out of one which +had belonged to a dead sister. The bloody undershirt was at once +recognized. The family sought to find something upon which to base a +hope that it might not be their loved one, and argued that she might +have given her clothes to some one else, but this has positively been +disproven. The murdered woman was Pearl Bryan. + +The blow to their hopes came when the officers told them that the +murdered woman had webbed or deformed toes, and described them to her. +Her sister exclaimed: "My God, it is Pearl! We used to tease her about +those when she was little." The scar on the right hand was then told of +and added a link to the identification. + +Even the hairpins were positively identified as belonging to Pearl. +There were two gold-plated and two rubber ones of an auburn hue. There +remained no doubt as to whom the missing woman was, and there was but +one thing to do--pursue her murderer. + +The whole thing became plain to the officers. They at once determined to +secure the arrest of both Jackson and Wood. They knew that Jackson was +in Cincinnati so they decided to wire Chief of Police Deitsch and have +Jackson arrested and to go in person to South Bend, Ind., for which +place Wood had left on the Thursday previous, for the purpose of +studying medicine with his uncle, and place Wood under arrest. + +They at once sent the following telegram: + + "GREENCASTLE, IND., FEBRUARY 5, 1896. + + PHILIP DEITSCH, Superintendent of Police, Cincinnati, Ohio: Arrest + and charge with murder of Pearl Bryan, one Scott Jackson, student + at Dental College, about 24 years old, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, + weighs about 136 pounds, blonde, nearly sandy mustache, light + complexion, may have beard of about six months growth, effeminate + in appearance. Positive identification of clothing by family. + Arrest if in Cincinnati, William Wood, friend of Jackson. Charge as + accomplice. About 20 years, 5 feet 11 inches, light blonde hair, + smooth face, rather slender, weighs 165 pounds. We go from here to + South Bend after Wood as he left here for that place. + + CRIM MCDERMOTT AND PLUMMER." + + +Immediately on receipt of the telegram Colonel Deitsch detailed +Detectives Witte, Bulmer and Jackson to look after Jackson. It was +learned that he roomed at the house of Mrs. McNevin, at 222 West Ninth, +next door to Robinson's Opera House. Detective Jackson was stationed in +the house and Witte and Bulmer in the saloon opposite. + +Just when it seemed as though their intended game had discovered the +fact that the officers were after him and had left for parts unknown he +was captured. + +It was after nine o'clock, when almost the last ray of hope had died out +of the officers breasts, that Chief of Police Deitsch received word that +Jackson had just been seen at the Palace Hotel. The chief started out +and ran into a man answering Jackson's description. He informed the +detectives of the fact, the fellow was watched and was seen to walk +slowly down Ninth Street, and on reaching 222 he looked up at the +windows. He strolled slowly to Plum Street and stopped and again looked +back at the house. + +He then walked rapidly north on Plum Street toward Court. When he had +traversed part of the square Detective Bulmer stepped up to him, saying: +"Your name is Jackson, isn't it?" + +The man turned perfectly livid and trembled like an aspen, and as the +detective continued to say, "I want you," he exclaimed, "My God! what +is this for?" + +At the same time the start was made for the Mayor's Office. + +At Ninth Street Colonel Deitsch met the prisoner and said: "Well, +'Dusty' (Jackson's nickname), we have got you." + +"Yes," responded the prisoner, "it looks like it." + + +AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. + +When the Mayor's office was reached the prisoner was hustled into the +presence of Mayor Caldwell. + +The scene in the private office of Mayor Caldwell in the City Hall was +undoubtedly the most remarkable ever witnessed there. + +The Mayor was sitting in his office with his Chief Clerk, Cliff Lakeman, +when Jackson was ushered into his presence by the officers, at the head +of whom was Chief of Police Deitsch. A few minutes later the room was +thronged with representatives of the newspapers and detectives. Coroner +Haerr was also there waiting for possible developments. + +Jackson, the prisoner, sat in the center of a long sofa on the east side +of the room. On the side of him was Chief Deitsch. The latter conducted +the examination, while the Mayor sat in his chair, smoked a cigar and +listened. + + +THE EXAMINATION. + +"Is this Mayor Caldwell?" asked Jackson. + +"It is," responded His Honor. + +"The officers say you want to see me." + +"Yes, I want to talk with you." + +"What is your name?" + +"Scott Jackson." + +"You are also known as Dusty?" + +"Yes, sometimes." + +"Where is your home?" + +"My home is in Greencastle, Ind." + +"Do you know Pearl Bryan?" + +"I do." + +"Where did you last see her?" + +"It was during the hollidays. I think on January 2." + +"Have you seen her since?" + +"I have not." + +"Do you know William Wood?" + +"I do." + +"What is his business?" + +"I don't know. He used to be connected with the school at Greencastle. +Saw him last about January 6." + +Chief Deitsch here read the dispatch under which the arrest was made. + +"What have you to say to that?" + +"The charge is entirely false. I don't know anything about that." + +"That's what everybody says who is arrested," said Chief Deitsch, "but +the identification of the clothes and other facts point to you as the +man who took Pearl Bryan or her body to Ft. Thomas. Where were you last +Friday evening?" + +"I must have been in my room." + +"What time did you go to your room?" + +"I think I had supper about 7 o'clock and went home about 7:30." + +"What did you do?" + +"I studied in my room." + +"Was your roommate there?" + +"I think he was." + +"Where were you Thursday night?" + +"I was home, I think. My roommate was out that evening. When he came in +I had retired." + +"How about Saturday evening?" + +"I went out with a friend and went to the theater." + +"Who took supper with you Friday evening?" + +"I think I was alone." + +"Where did you eat?" + +"At Heider's." + +"Ever stay there over night?" + +"I did not." + +"Did your roommate?" + +"Yes, I think he did last Wednesday night." + +"You have not been home to-day?" + +"Yes, I left there about 10 o'clock this morning." + +"Where did you go?" + +"I went to see a young lady, and took her to dinner, I was with her all +afternoon." + +"Where were you?" + +"At the Emery Hotel." + +"Where did you go in the evening?" + +"The young lady went to her place of business, and later I put her on +the car. Then I went to Heiders for supper." + +"Where then?" + +"Oh, I was just walking around the streets." + +"Who was with you?" + +"I stopped in a barber shop about 9 o'clock and walked a piece with one +of the barbers." + +"Did you meet any one else you knew?" + +"I did not." + +"Where were you going when you were arrested?" + +"I was going to the college to see if the boys were dissecting." + +"Why did you pass the house and look up at it?" + +"Well, I don't know. I am turned around now." + +"What have you to say to the telegram?" + +"I don't know what to say. I can't imagine why they mention me in it." + +"Did you read of the murder?" + +"Part of it. It made me sick to my stomach." + +"Were you in Newport lately?" + +"No sir; I was not." + +"Didn't you take an interest in the murder when you read of Greencastle +being the probable home of the murdered girl?" + +"I spoke to several people in the house about it." + +"You left the lady this evening and went to supper, and then walked +around town?" + +"I did." + +"Did you meet any one else you knew?" + +"I met Walling, I think, after supper." + +"Where did you see him?" + +"Now, I think of it. It was in the barber shop, where I was waiting." + +"See any one else?" + +"No, sir." + +"How long have you been at the dental college?" + +"Since October 14., last." + +"Did you come from Greencastle?" + +"I did." + +"Where else have you roomed?" + +"On Carlisle avenue." + +"When was Miss Bryan up to Cincinnati?" + +"Don't know. Didn't know she was here." + +"Where did you last see her?" + +"On January 2., at her home while I was at Greencastle spending the +holidays." + +"Were you friends?" + +"Only friendly." + +"Does she live at home?" + +"She does." + +"What do her parents do?" + +"Her father is a farmer and keeps a dairy." + +"What kind of a looking girl is Pearl?" + +"Rather slender. I am a poor judge of height. She was not as tall as I +am--almost, though. She was light complexioned." + +"What will she weigh?" + +"Suppose about 105 or 110 pounds." + +"Did she ever live out?" + +"I don't know, but I don't think so." + +"You were in the habit of paying your respects to her?" + +"I called on her a few times." + +"Did you ever go out with her?" + +"Once, I guess." + +"She was not a farmhand?" + +"No, she worked around the house." + +"Was she of a quiet disposition?" + +"As far as I know she was." + +"Do you know of any other men she kept company with?" + +"Yes, but she never kept company with me." + +"Who then?" + +"Well, she gave a party some time ago. I saw a number of gentlemen +there." + +"Well, Jackson, this is a serious charge. I will have to hold on to +you." + +"I don't see why they accuse me of this." + +"What is your roommate's name?" + +"Alonzo Walling." + +"Did you ever correspond with Pearl Bryan?" + +"Once or twice." + +"Ever since January 22?" + +"I think not." + +"Have you talked about the murder?" + +"Yes; at the house. I don't know how the subject was brought up. I was +very much interested in the case." + +"Did you read of the girl probably being from Greencastle?" + +"Yes." + +Colonel Deitsch at this point reviewed the evidence against the prisoner +and the Greencastle part of it, and said: "And you didn't inquire about +it?" + +"I read that the Sheriff of Newport was in Greencastle, and that the +shoes found on the dead woman had been purchased from Louis & +Hayes--that they had accounted for nearly all the shoes they sold." + +"Didn't you think the girl would be heard from?" + +"There were so many theories that I didn't know what to think." + +"Do you remember leaving a valise in Legner's saloon last Saturday +night?" + +"I do." + +"Didn't you take it away Monday morning and leave another?" + +"No, sir." + +"Why did you leave the valise at the saloon?" + +"I was just going as far as the corner and I didn't want to carry it." + +"Did you take it away the same day?" + +"Yes, I think I did." + +"What was in it?" + +"Nothing." + +"How far was it from your room?" + +"Just across the street." + +"You say there was nothing in the valise?" + +"I don't think there was." + +"Where did you get it?" + +"I bought it in Indianapolis." + +"How did you happen to take it out Saturday night?" + +"I don't recollect just now." + +"Where is it now?" + +"I loaned it to a student of the name of Hackelman." + +"What did he want with it?" + +"I didn't ask him. I took it to him to the college." + +"What kind of valise was it?" + +"Tan colored." + +"Strap or handbag?" + +"Handbag." + +"Has it been returned?" + +"No, sir." + +"What is Hackelman's first name?" + +"I don't know." + +"Have you seen him since?" + +"I have not." + +"Where does he live?" + +"I don't know." + +"How did you come to take that valise to the saloon?" + +"I just left it there." + +"Did you have it with you in the evening?" + +"Yes, but I don't see why I took it down town." + +"Was it heavy?" + +"No, only bothersome." + +"You had two valises, didn't you?" + +"No, only one." + +"Didn't you leave one over at Legner's saloon Saturday, and a different +one Monday?" + +"No, I did not." + +"Why don't you tell the truth about this?" + +"I did tell the truth, all but about the valise. I got that back." + +The prisoner persisted in his story that he knows nothing about the +murder, and after a little further examination he was taken down stairs +and locked up on the charge of murder. + + +LOCKED UP AT THE STATION. + +Jackson was taken from the Mayor's office through the long corridor on +the Eighth-Street side of the City Hall by Detective Bill Bulmer, who +walked on the right side of him and held his arm. Employes of the +waterworks, janitors and other attaches of the big building followed in +the wake of the couple until Central Police Station was reached. At the +station house the receiving room was thronged with curious ones who had +heard of the arrest of the dental student. Lieutenant Sam Corbin and +Sergeant Billy Borck were behind the desk. Bulmer took his prisoner up +to the desk, and immediately a big crowd swarmed in to see how Jackson +would act while being registered. Lieutenant Corbin registered the +prisoner. The questions and answers were as follows: + +"What is your name?" + +"Scott Jackson." + +"Where do you live?" + +"I live here now." + +"Whereabouts?" + +"No. 222 West Ninth Street." + +"Old or new number?" + +"I don't know; it's next door to Robinson's Opera House." + +"What is your occupation?" + +"Dental student." + +"How old are you?" + +"Twenty-six." + +"Married or single?" + +"Single." + +"Where were you born?" + +"In Maine." + +"What's the charge against this man?" + +"Murder," replied Bulmer. + +"Is that right?" asked Corbin, looking the prisoner in the eye. + +"I believe that's what they say," replied Jackson. + +Illustration: Between sobs and cries of "My Pearl, my Pearl," Mrs. +Bryan identified the clothing. + +Among other things found in Jackson's pockets were two carriage +tickets on the Central Newport Bridge. The tickets may prove to be of a +great importance in the case, as it shows that the prisoner was in the +habit of crossing the bridge. + +After Jackson had been searched he was led back to his cellroom by +Detective Bulmer and Officer Jake Bernhart. + +Jackson had been locked in his cell but a few moments when Detectives +Bulmer and Witte walked into the station and suggested to Lieutenant +Corbin that the prisoner be taken into the room behind the receiving +desk and thoroughly searched. The suggestion was acted upon at once, and +what may prove to be most startling evidence was discovered. + +The clothing of the prisoner was all removed and two scratches were +found on his right arm. One scratch begins just below the elbow and +extends almost to the wrist. It is almost three inches long. The other +scratch is much shorter and is on the wrist. + +Spots of blood were also noticed on the right sleeve of the prisoner's +undershirt. From the appearance of the sleeve attempts had been made to +remove the blood from the shirt. + +"Where did that blood come from?" asked Lieutenant Corbin. + +"I was bothered with bugs the other night and I scratched myself," +answered the prisoner. + +Jackson then said he had been troubled with some sort of a skin eruption +for some time past, and he pointed to some abrasions on his breast to +confirm his story. + +Nothing was discovered in neither garments of the man that would show +that he had attempted to conceal any papers or other evidence after his +arrest. + + +WALLING ARRESTED + +Alonzo Walling, Jackson's roommate, was arrested, at 3:30 Thursday +morning, by Lieutenant Corbin, and locked up at Central Station. It was +thought when Jackson was arrested that night that Walling had no +connection with the matter, but later developments went to show that he +knew far more than either had admitted. + +It was ascertained that the two men had been very intimate, and that +they were together on the night of the murder. It was also discovered +that Walling had been intimate with a girl in Louisville with whom +Jackson was on more than friendly terms, and that both men had +corresponded with her. + +The cause for Wallings arrest was a chance remark made by Jackson about +two o'clock in the morning. Shortly after being locked up Jackson called +Turnkey Curren to him and said: + +"I want you to get a chair and sit in front of my cell all night," said +Jackson, who then exhibited the first sign of appreciating his position. + +"Are you afraid of getting lynched?" asked the turnkey. + +"Well, never mind that, I prefer to be well guarded whether I'm in +danger or not." + +After ordering his cell watched, Jackson lay down on the bunk in his +cell and tried to go to sleep, but he was exceedingly restless and +rolled around on his couch for a long time without getting any rest. + +About two o'clock Jackson entered into a conversation with the turnkey +in which almost his first question was: + +"Hasn't Walling been arrested yet?" + +"Why should he be arrested?" was asked. + +Jackson refused to answer this question, and his actions showed that he +did not care to talk further about his roommate. When Lieutenant Corbin +heard of Jackson's actions he at once went to 222 West Ninth Street and +arrested Walling, when he was subjected to a rigid examination by the +officer. + +"Were you in Wallingford's saloon with Jackson and a girl last Friday +night?" was asked. + +"Yes, I was," replied Walling. + +"Who was the girl whom you were with?" was asked. + +"I don't know who she was," he replied. + +"Well you had better tell all you know about this matter," said the +officer. "Now tell me who all were in the party at Wallingford's last +Friday night." + +"I don't know anything more about it," said Walling. + +"Well, you may consider yourself under arrest, then," said Lieutenant +Corbin. + +Walling was taken to police headquarters and locked up, but Jackson was +not informed of his arrest until the next day. + +At 6.30 the same morning a telegram was received from the Cincinnati +Detectives who had gone to South-Bend, Ind., bringing the startling +information that Will Wood was arrested there, and confessed to the +responsibility for the death of Pearl Bryan, whose headless body was +found in the Kentucky Highlands. He said that he had arranged for Pearl +Bryan to come to Cincinnati for the purpose of having a criminal +operation performed, and that such an operation was performed, resulting +in the death of the girl. Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were both +concerned in it. The body of the woman was taken to the spot where it +was found and the head removed to prevent identification. + +Investigations were still being made at Greencastle Ind., and the wires +between Cincinnati and that staid old Methodist town, were kept hot. + +Excitement was at a fever heat at both points. + +Evidence was accumulating at each end and it seemed the nooses were +rapidly tightening around the necks of Jackson, Walling and Wood. + +The investigation showed that Scott Jackson had met Pearl Bryan at her +home in the early spring of 1895. He left shortly afterward to attend +the dental college at Indianapolis and his visits to Greencastle, while +not frequent, were always to see Miss Bryan. In September he returned to +Greencastle and entered the office of a local dentist. It was then the +criminal intimacy between the two began. + +He became attentive, and with a veneering of the usages of polite +society managed to fascinate the farmer's daughter. His power over her +seemed almost hypnotic. So great was his control over her that she is +said to have kept appointments with him in the dental office where he +was serving his apprenticeship. + +He sought to get rid of her and left the town. Jackson left Greencastle +on October 3, and returned to spend the holidays. He seems to have +allowed his love to grow cold, for he paid no attention to the girl whom +he had robbed of all that a woman holds dear. + +In vain did Pearl send for him to come to see her. He answered none of +her entreaties, and left the town without seeing her except when by +chance he met her on the street. + +When it became apparent that she could not much longer conceal her +shame, she told her parents she was going to Indianapolis to visit a +friend. + + +NEVER PARALLELED WERE THE SCENES ABOUT POLICE HEADQUARTERS. + +The scenes enacted at police headquarters early in the day, following +the arrest of Jackson and Walling, were never paralleled in Cincinnati. + +Hundreds of persons thronged the corridors in the immediate vicinity of +the offices of the department, while a vast crowd was assembled on the +outside of the building. + +Upon the arrival of Supt. Deitsch he at once repaired to Mayor +Caldwell's office, where a star chamber session of some length was held. +In the meantime the crowd continued to increase, and it became necessary +to call for a detail of policemen to drive back the curious people. In +the Mayor's office were Detectives Crim and McDermott with the Mayor and +Chief of Police, who for nearly two hours held a seance with the accused +men in their effort to reach the truth. The examination of Walling by +the mayor was severe to a remarkable degree. + + +WALLING'S DAMAGING STATEMENT. + +He told a long story of his acquaintance with Jackson, but the most +startling points were when he came down to a conversation held in their +room last Christmas day. Then he said: "Jackson took me into a corner of +the room and told me that he and Billy Woods had gotten Pearl Bryan +into trouble and that he must get rid of her. He suggested two ways in +which it might be done. One of the plans he suggested was to take her to +a room and kill her there and leave her. Then he spoke up quickly and +said: 'No, I have a sudden thought as something often tells me when I am +on the wrong idea. It would not do to leave her there, so I will instead +cut her to pieces and drop the pieces in different vaults around town.'" + +A few days afterward Walling says that he and Jackson were in +Wallingford's saloon with a number of medical students, and there +Jackson made inquiries as to the poison that would kill the quickest. He +was told that hydrocyanic or prussic acid was the quickest, but that +cocaine was about the next and most deadly. + + +JACKSON PURCHASED COCAINE. + +Shortly after that Jackson bought cocaine at Koelble's drug store, on +Sixth Street, between Plum and Elm. + +"Do you know where he was going to take her?" + +"Yes; he said he was going to take her to Ft. Thomas. + +"About two weeks ago he asked me if I would help the girl out of trouble, +and I said I would. He said she was coming here in about a week, and he +would take me to where she was shopping. Last Monday night he told me +the girl would be here that night. The next day Jackson told me the girl +was at the Indiana House, and asked me to go down there. I went with +him, and he went to her room while I waited down stairs. The next day he +told me he had an engagement with the girl at Fourth and Plum Streets, +and for me to go there and tell her he would meet her in the evening. +That is the last I ever saw of the girl." + +"When did he kill her?" + +"I guess he did it Friday night." + +"How did he do it?" + +"Well, if you will go to our room you will find a hypodermic syringe, +which I think will tell the whole story." + +"What do you mean?" + +"Well, he had a bottle of white stuff in the room, and I asked him what +it was. He said it was arsenic and cocaine. I asked him what he was +going to do with it, and he said he was going to give it to the girl." + +"Did he give it to her?" + +"Well, I guess he used the cocaine. I don't think it killed her at once, +and that she tried to fight him off when he went to cut off her head." + +"Where do you think he was on the Wednesday night before the murder?" + + +MET THE GIRL AT WALLINGFORD'S. + +"I think he went to see the girl at Wallingford's saloon. I was there, +but I did not go into the back room, where she was." + +"What time did he get home that night?" + +"I think it was after midnight. He came in with a valise, and I saw him +open it and say, 'You are a beaut, you are.' He thought I was asleep." + +"How about Thursday night?" + +"I saw him that night, and I was afraid to stay home and I went to +Heider's Hotel." + +"When did he take the girl to Ft. Thomas?" + +"This was on Friday night. I was in Heider's restaurant eating my supper, +and Jackson called me out and told me to go to Fountain Square and wait +with the girl until he came back. He said he would not be gone over 10 +or 15 minutes. He came back, and I left them. I believe he went to the +room and got the hypodermic syringe and the poison." + +"What do you think he did with the head?" + +"Well, in my opinion he buried it." + +"Where do you think it is buried?" + +"I think it is in this neighborhood." + +"What makes you think so?" + +"Well, last Monday night I was standing on Ninth and Plum and Jackson +came along. He had a valise, and asked me to go with him. I told him I +didn't care to, and he left. He had the same valise which is now in the +possession of the police with the blood stains in it." + +"What do you think became of her jacket?" + +"Why, she didn't wear a jacket. It was a long fur cape. I don't think he +could get it in the valise with the head." + +"What do you think became of it?" + +"Well, I can't say as to that. These things have all come to me, and I +may recollect something else after awhile." + + +A DECOY LETTER SENT BY JACKSON TO THE MURDERED GIRL'S MOTHER. + +In less than a half hour after making the confession Walling again sent +for the Chief of Police and said: + +"I want to see you about another thing that may have a big bearing on +this case," said the prisoner. + +"What is it?" + +"Well, yesterday afternoon Jackson got some paper and envelopes and told +me he was going to the Palace Hotel to write some letters. I asked him +who he was going to write to and he said to Wood. He said he was going +to inclose a letter purporting to be from Pearl Bryan to her mother and +that he was going to have Wood sent it, I think, to Geneva and have it +mailed from that point to Mrs. Bryan. He said he was going to do this to +throw Mrs. Bryan off the track." + +"Do you know that he sent the letter?" + +"He told me on the evening he was arrested that he had sent it." + +This information was given to Mayor Caldwell, and the following dispatch +was sent: + + CINCINNATI, OHIO, February 6, 1896. + + POSTMASTER, South Bend, Ind.: Kindly sent all mail addressed to Wm. + Wood from this city to me. + + JOHN A. CALDWELL, Mayor. + + +Young Wood, who was present, said he had got a letter from Jackson +yesterday, which he had torn up. It went on to ask him to stick to him, +and not to say too much. Young Wood was perfectly satisfied to have the +mail sent back here. + +Chief Deitsch after sending the information to Mayor Caldwell continued +his investigation with: + +"I have just talked with Jackson, and he puts all the blame upon you. He +says you performed the abortion somewhere across the river." + +"I don't know a thing about it, except what he told me." + +"Well, now, did you do it or did Jackson? He says you did it." + +"He's putting it all on me now, is he? Well, he's the one who is guilty. +I know nothing of it." + +"What did he tell you had become of the head?" + +"I understand that he threw it in the Ohio River." + +"Do you know where the operation was performed?" + +"No, I don't. If I did, it would make it much easier for me to clear +myself. As it is, I can prove where I was Friday night. It will all come +out in a little while." + +"Jackson says that you threw the head into the river, and that the next +day you told him to get rid of anything lying around loose at the +boarding house by throwing it into the river." + +"I never saw the head, and he told me that he threw it into a sewer." + +"Didn't you throw the girl's stockings, skirt and other things, which +were covered with blood, into the river Saturday morning from the +Suspension Bridge?" + +"No, he did this himself." + +"Then he says the skull was cut up and thrown over piecemeal by you." + +"I don't know about the cutting up part, but deny the other." + + +JACKSON TELLS CHIEF DEITSCH THAT WALLING COMMITTED THE DEED. + +Scott Jackson spent a sleepless night at the Central Police Station, and +early next morning was taken to Chief Deitsch's private office. He had a +haggard, restless look, and when asked to make a confession, sought to +throw the blame upon Wood, and subsequently upon Walling. + +His story was: Wood was the author of Pearl Bryan's ruin. When Jackson +went home to spend the hollidays, Wood told him that Miss Bryan was in a +delicate condition, and, knowing Jackson to be studying medicine, asked +him what could be done in the matter. Jackson said he could do nothing +in the matter, but Wood insisted that he help in an attempted abortion, +as this was the only thing which would save him (Wood) and the girl from +disgrace. Jackson refused to do this. + +"What have you to say regarding the information now in the possession of +the authorities that you and Walling were seen in the vicinity of Fort +Thomas last Friday night in a hack drawn by a gray horse?" + +"That information is erroneous. I was not there, and can establish the +fact." + +"Who do you think murdered the girl?" + +"Alonzo Walling." + +"Do you think the murdered girl is Pearl Bryan?" + +"Oh, there is no question about that. It is her." + +"How, and where was she killed?" + +"I do not know." + +"For what purpose?" + +"To cover up previous wrong doings." + +"And to shield who?" + +"William Wood." + +"Was Wood supposed to be Miss Bryan's sweetheart?" + +"Yes sir; he was." + +"And how was the affair planned?" + +"Wood wrote to me, telling me of the trouble, and asking me to assist +him out of it. I showed the letter to Walling, and he volunteered to +undertake the job. It was then planned to bring the girl here. She +arrived on Tuesday of last week, and what I saw and know of her after +her arrival here, I have told." + +"How do you account for the condition of your trousers, which have been +found and are now in the possession of the authorities?" + +"Well, the only way I can account for that, is that they were in our +room and Walling put them on the night of the crime. I have not seen +them since, and did not know that there was blood and mud on them." + + +WILL WOOD'S ARRIVAL. + +It was 9 o'clock Thursday night when Sheriff Plummer and Detectives Crim +and McDermott arrived in Cincinnati with William Wood, the third man in +the terrible tragedy. Nothing else had been talked of during the day. +Both in Newport and Cincinnati the excitement was intense. When early in +the morning it was learned that the two men who were undoubtedly +implicated in the horrible murder had been arrested in Cincinnati and an +accessory to the crime arrested in Indiana and on his way to Cincinnati +under guard, expressions of satisfaction at the arrests were heard on +all sides. The subject of lynching the fiends,--Walling and Jackson--was +freely discussed. That ominious appearance of suppressed excitement, +which shows the keen determination of a mob and which they seek to hide +as much as possible, was seen everywhere in the crowds gathered in knots +all over the two cities. All that was needed in Cincinnati was a few +good, trusty, fearless leaders. In Newport it was different. +Determination and decision were seen on the blanched faces of men +everywhere. Even Chief of Police Stricker and Lieutenant Smith, said it +would be a very risky matter to bring the prisoners to Newport. There is +no telling what would be done. Excitement has reached a very high pitch. +"We will be well prepared for any outbreak of mob violence," said they, +"and upon the slightest indication of any will arrest everybody +concerned in the least with it." + + +WOOD EXAMINED. SAYS JACKSON BETRAYED THE GIRL. HE IS RELEASED WITHOUT +BOND. + +It was just 11:30 o'clock when Wood was subjected to an examination in +the Mayor's private office. The father and uncle of the young man were +present. The examination was as follows: + +"What is your name?" + +"William Wood." + +"How old are you?" + +"Twenty years old." + +"Where do you live?" + +"Greencastle Ind." + +"You knew Pearl Bryan?" + +"Yes sir." + +"Very well?" + +"Yes. She was a second cousin of mine." + +"Does your family visit the Bryans?" + +"Yes sir." + +"Where you intimate with the girl?" + +"No, sir." + +"Did you know that she had been betrayed?" + +"Yes sir." + +"How did you find that out?" + +"Jackson told me." + +"What did he say?" + +"He told me that he betrayed her in September." + +"Did he tell any one else that?" + +"Yes sir, he did. A young man in Greencastle." + +"He will substantiate your statement then?" + +"Yes sir." + +"Did you receive any letters from Jackson about the condition of Miss +Bryan?" + +"Yes sir." + +"When?" + +"About the 10th of January, I think." + +"What did he say?" + +"He said that he was going to have an operation performed on her if he +could get hold of enough money." + +"Did the girl know of that at that time?" + +"Yes sir." + +"How did she find that out?" + +"I told her myself." + +"Why did you do that?" + +"Because I wanted to shield her." + +"Was the letter you received from Jackson the only way that you knew +that the girl had been betrayed?" + +"No, she told me herself when I was out at the house several weeks ago." + +"What did you say to that?" + +"I told her to wait until I heard from Jackson." + +"You took a great deal of interest in the case, did you not?" + +"Yes, I would have done the same if she had been my own sister." + +"What arrangement did Jackson say he had made when he wrote to you?" + +"He said he had procured a room in Cincinnati, and that she would be +taken care of by an old woman." + +"What else did he say?" + +"He said that the operation would be performed by a doctor and chemist +who was an old hand at that kind of business." + +"Did he mention the name of the doctor?" + +"No, he said the party was a friend of Walling." + +"Did the plan suit you?" + +"Yes, I thought it was just the thing." + +"What did you tell her?" + +"I told her that I thought it would be best for her to go." + +"At that time you thought you would accompany her?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Why did you change your mind?" + +"Because my father requested my staying at home." + +"But you met the girl at the depot when she came to Cincinnati?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"What day was that?" + +"Monday, January 27." + +"Did you have a long talk with the girl?" + +"Well, I talked with her." + +"About the operation?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Did she seem pleased?" + +"I never saw her so happy in my life." + +"Did you have any other business at the train?" + +"Yes, sir, I came to meet my father." + +"Where had your father been?" + +"To a quarterly meeting at Terra Haute." + +"Then Miss Bryan left on the same train that your father came home on?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Were you over in Cincinnati before?" + +"No, sir." + +"When did you see Jackson last?" + +"When he was at home. It was on a Sunday. I think about the 5th or 6th +of January." + +"Where you with him very long?" + +"Yes, nearly all day." + +"Where did Jackson go when he left Greencastle?" + +"He came to Cincinnati on an evening train." + +"Do you know Walling?" + +"No, sir." + +"Never saw him?" + +"Never in my life." + +"Ever see a picture of him?" + +"Yes, I saw a tin-type of him when Jackson was at home." + +"Would you recognize that picture if you were to see it?" + +"I think I would." + +At this juncture of the examination Chief Deitsch went to get a picture +of Walling but failed to find it. + +Wood was taken down to Central Station and registered. + +He gave his name as William Wood, aged 20, residence South Bend, Ind. +After registering he went to the Grand Hotel with his father. + +Excitement was running high by this time. The crowds in and around the +City Hall, where the prisoners were, steadily increased, and the gravest +fears were entertained by the officers. Cordon's of police lined the +passage-ways from the Mayor's and Superintendent's offices to the +cell-rooms below where the prisoners were confined, and every movement +was guarded with the most jealous care. + + +A BLOODY VALISE. IT HAD CONTAINED THE GIRL'S HEAD, AND WAS LEFT IN A +SALOON. + +There were all kinds of rumors floating about the City Hall when John +Kugel, the saloon-keeper at Ninth Street and Central avenue, walked into +Clerk Vickers office and told him that he thought he had a valise +belonging to Jackson. + +"Then get it quick," said Vickers. + +Kugel hurried over and in a few minutes returned with a brown leather +hand-satchel about 15 inches long. It was taken to Chief Deitsch, who +made an examination. There was nothing in it, but the sides were heavily +stained with blood. Chief Deitsch closed the valise and asked Kugel who +gave it to him. Kugel said that last Monday night about 8 o'clock a +young man with a blonde mustache walked in his place and asked him to +take care of the valise, saying he would call for it the next day. + +After Kugel's arrival at headquarters Jackson was ordered brought +up-stairs and a dramatic scene followed. Jackson was seated facing Chief +Deitsch with the valise at the Chief's feet. Standing around were many +persons at work on the case. + +"Pick up that valise," said the Chief. + +Jackson picked it up and held it in his lap. + +"Open it." + +He did so. + +"What is in there?" + +"Nothing that I can see, except that it is stained." + +"What is it stained with?" + +"It looks like blood?" + +"Don't you know it is blood?" + +Jackson's face flushed and his eyes twitched. He pulled his mustache and +ran his fingers through his hair. He was only a moment answering, but it +appeared to be an hour to those who were waiting for a reply. He finally +moistened his lips with his tongue and said: + +"I think it is blood, but I have not examined it carefully." + +"Well, then, examine it carefully." + +Jackson picked up the valise and held it close to his face. He peered +down the blood-stained bag and his eyes rolled around his head. He put +his hand to his forehead and slowly said: + +"Yes, that is blood." + +"Isn't that the valise in which you carried the head?" + +"I guess it is, but I did not carry it." + +"Well, who did?" + +"Walling." + +"Well, then, where is the head?" + +"I guess it is in the river." + +Kugel then identified Jackson as the man who had left the valise in the +saloon. + +"What did you leave it in Kugel's saloon for?" asked the Chief. + +"I wasn't going to leave it there. I was going to get it and do away +with it." + +"Why did you want to get rid of it?" + +"Well, it was better out of the way." + +"Why?" + +"Well, I wanted to shield myself of all those things." + +"What were you so anxious to get rid of them for?" persisted the Chief. + +"I just didn't want them about," was the prisoner's non-committal +answer. + +"What was in it first?" + +"A lot of clothing and such things." + +"Whose clothing was it?" + +"Miss Bryan's, I think." + +"What did it consist of?" + +"Well, there was a skirt, a petticoat, some stockings and other things." + +"Where are they?" + +"I guess they are in the river, too." + +Illustration: Jackson put his hand to his forehead and slowly said: +"Yes, that is blood." + +Night Chief Renkert then produced a small alligator valise that he had +found in Lawrence's barber shop, 133 West Sixth Street, where Walling +and Jackson often went. Jackson identified it as Pearl Bryan's. He said +that the blood-stained one was also the property of the murdered girl. + + +AT WALLINGFORD'S. FRIDAY NIGHT, WITH PEARL BRYAN, JACKSON LEFT THERE IN +A HACK. + +David Wallingford, the proprietor of the saloon at Longworth and Plum, +which Jackson and Waling frequented, and his colored porter Allen +Johnson were brought in by the officers and questioned in the presence +of Jackson and Walling by Chief Deitsch as follows: + +"You knew Jackson pretty well, eh?" + +"Oh, yes; he came into my saloon every night. He frequently brought his +lady friends along, too." + +"Was he in your saloon on Friday night last?" + +"Yes, he brought a lady in with him and went back into the sitting-room." + +"Do you know who the lady was?" + +"Well, I didn't then. Of course I do now." + +"Who was she?" + +"Why, she was Miss Pearl Bryan. I saw Pearl Bryan's picture since, and +haven't the slightest doubt it was her. They were back in the +sitting-room." + +"Did Jackson act queer that night?" + +"No; I can't say that he did. But one thing that looked rather queer was +that he came in a carriage and brought a new satchel in the saloon with +him." + +"Did Jackson order any drinks?" + +"Not after he had ordered whiskey for himself and sarsaparilla for the +girl, they then went away in the carriage." + +"What time was that?" + +"Oh, about 7 o'clock, I think." + +"Did you see him any more that night?" + +"No; he came in the next night (Saturday night), though." + +"Did he bring a satchel with him on Saturday night?" + +"Yes, he brought in the same satchel and put it on the table. I noticed +that he sat it down rather heavily and I asked him what was in it. He +said: 'Oh, some underclothes,' and we both laughed." + +"Was Jackson as merry as usual?" + +"No, he was rather depressed. He said his head hurt him devilish bad and +he looked worried." + +Johnson played an important part in the affair. + +He persisted in the statement that Jackson, Walling and the girl, Miss +Bryan, were at Wallingford's place on Friday night, and moreover that +Albin the barber who shaved the two chums, was on the box and drove the +cab in which they departed. + +"I tell you I am not mistaken," persisted Johnson. "Let Albin put a cap +on and I can recognize him; he wore a cap that night." + +"Why are you so sure of the night?" was asked. + +"Cause I had an engagement with my girl on that same night, and I +remember distinctly." + +Johnson said that he saw Walling on the outside and saw the woman get +into the cab and drive away. + +All of this Walling denied. Once Walling admitted that he was at the +place, but he changed it again and declared that he was not there until +Saturday night, when he saw Jackson borrow a dollar of the bartender. + +Johnson stood in front of Walling and said: + +"I don't want to get you into trouble, but you know you were there +Friday night, and there is no use of you denying it." + +Walling however, still refused any admission. + +Once during the talk Jackson shook his finger in the face of Walling and +said: + +"Be careful; do not go too far." + +Again he said: "You lie, and you know you are lying." + +To which Walling answered: "You show in your eyes that you are lying." + +The colored porter persisted in all the statements made to the +authorities that Albin, the barber, was driving the cab. + + +ALBIN, THE BARBER. SAYS HE DID NOT DRIVE THE MYSTERIOUS CAB FRIDAY +NIGHT. + +Detectives Witte and Jackson were at once sent for Fred Albin the +barber, and were not long in bringing him in. He and Johnson, the +porter, were seated on the same lounge in the Mayor's office and Albin +was examined by Chief Deitsch when he told the following story: + +"I have known Alonzo Walling for about two years. He lived across the +street from my home in Hamilton, O. Last fall he concluded to come to +this city and study dentistry. He told me this and I offered to come to +this city with him. I saw him nearly every evening, and in fact, we +chummed together. + +"About four months ago he introduced me to Jackson. Jackson came to the +shop where I was employed and got shaved about twice a week. + +"He was always considered a peculiar fellow--rather eccentric. I know +little concerning him. + +"I do not know whether it was Friday or Saturday morning that Jackson +came into my shop and had me shave his whiskers off. On that day he had +a grip when he entered, and I asked him what he had in it. He replied +that he would tell me some other day." + +Johnson then repeated his statement regarding Albin's connection with +the crime, after which Chief Deitsch said: + +"What have you got to say about the statement made by Johnson which +implicates you with the murder?" + +"There is no truth in that. I think I wore a cap on Friday night, but I +was not in Wallingford's saloon, as Johnson says. I went home with +Walling about fifteen minutes after 9. Jackson came into the barber shop +several times with the grip. I naturally had some curiosity to know what +it contained but he never would tell me anything definite. + +"One day this week I picked up a paper while Jackson was in the shop and +read an item about the shoes bought at Greencastle. I knew that +Greencastle was the home of Jackson, and I asked him if he had heard +about the shoes coming from his town. He said that he had, but that he +did not believe it. I suggested that he and I go over and look at the +body, but Jackson said that he did not want to see it, as he felt sure +that he could not identify it. During this conversation I noticed that +Jackson acted somewhat peculiar, but I never dreamed what caused it at +the time." + +Col. Deitsch and Mayor Caldwell had a long talk with Albin. He persisted +in the statement that he knew nothing of the murder. + +Clew after clew was run down. Everything reported to the police +regarding the murder, no matter of how little importance was thoroughly +investigated and the officers were kept continually on the run. + +Satisfied that Jackson and Walling were the murderers, and that the +identification of the victim was complete the whole energy of the entire +detective and police force was turned to the finding of the head, and +the identity of the man who drove the cab and the securing of positive +evidence on which the murderers could be convicted. + + +JACKSON'S LETTER TO WOOD. + +In response to Mayor Caldwell's notice to the postmaster at South Bend, +Ind., the Mayor on Saturday, Feb. 8., received from that city a letter +written by Scott Jackson to William Wood, South Bend, Ind. + +As soon as he received it the Mayor sent for D. D. Woodmansee the +attorney for Jackson, and with his consent opened the communication. It +was dated Feb. 5., the day on which Jackson was arrested. It was marked +8:30 p. m., less than two hours before his arrest. It was written on +letter-heads of the Palace Hotel, while the envelope bore the style of +Al Heider's Hotel, on Fifth Street. The letter says: + + "2-5-96. + + "Hello, Bill-- + + "Write a letter home signed by Berts name telling the folks that he + is somewhere & going to Chicago or some other place--has a position + etc--and that they will advise later about it--Say tired of living + at home or anything you want. You know about the way he writes. Send + it to some one you can trust--How will Smith at La Fayette--tell the + folks that he has not been at I but at La Fayette and travelling + about the country get the letter off without one seconds delay--and + burn this at once. Stick by your old chum Bill--And I will help you + out the same way--some times. Am glad you are having a good time-- + D. + + "Be careful what you write to me." + + +"Bert" in the letter means Pearl. In that portion of the communication +which explains that "he has not been at "I." "I" evidently stands for +Indianapolis. + +After the letter from Jackson to Wood was opened and read, a reporter +went to Jackson and asked him if he wrote the letter. + +"Yes, sir, I did." + +"What does that signature, the letter D., mean?" + +"Why, he called me 'Dusty,' and I signed it for that." + +"Who is meant by Bert?" + +"That is a nickname we had for Pearl. We always called her Bert." + +"Then Bert means Miss Bryan?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Now, why did you write that letter?" + +"Walling told me to write it. He said that something had to be done, and +I did it." + +"Did he dictate it?" + +"Oh, no, I wrote it Wednesday evening after supper." + +"Why did you tell Wood to be careful what he wrote?" + +"Because he was writing vulgar letters. He wrote me two postals to the +college that were awful." + +"What did you do with them?" + +"I tore them right away. Besides all this, I din't know at what time I +might be arrested." + +Walling was then visited and told of the story of Jackson. + +"No, I didn't tell him to write it. + +"I met him on the street Wednesday afternoon, and he told me that he was +going to write." + + +JACKSON'S COAT FOUND IN A SEWER. + +As a result of one of the lengthy cross-examinations to which Walling +was subjected in which he said that the coat worn by Jackson when he +committed the deed had been deposited by himself at Jackson's request in +the sewer hole at the corner of Richmond and John Streets. + +Detective Witte was at once sent to the scene, and, found a bundle +wrapped in a newspaper in the mud. It was drawn out and found to be a +black coat. On the lining of the sleeves were found blood stains, and in +one of the pockets a lot of tansy flower, which, made into tea, is used +to produce miscarriages. After a thorough cleaning, it was placed in a +box and removed to headquarters, where an examination was made. Blood +spots were found on the sleeves and front. The coat was of a blue black +material, similar to the clothing worn by Jackson at the time of his +arrest. + +Walling was told of the finding of the coat. He displayed no surprise, +but remarked: + +"Well, I knew they would find it. I told them not long ago where it was; +that I had put it there myself." + +"Whose coat is it?" + +"Jackson's." + +"Why did you put it there?" + +"Because he asked me to." + +"Did you know for what purpose?" + +"Yes; to get rid of it. It was bloody." + +"And you knew this?" + +"Yes, he told me so." + +"Then you know more about the crime than you have admitted?" + +"No, I don't. I have told everything I know." + +In a locker at the Ohio Dental College--Jackson's individual +locker--were found by the police a pair of trousers. Upon the knees were +dried mud and blood, and upon the legs were other blood stains. Jackson +and Walling each claim the trousers belong to the other. + + +JACKSON'S AND WALLING'S PICTURES TAKEN FOR THE ROGUES GALLERY. + +Mayor Caldwell and Col. Deitsch Friday morning had a private +consultation at which it was decided to hold all examinations of the +prisoners in the Bertillion room, behind the iron bars of the Place of +Detention. No one but Col. Deitsch and the Mayor were allowed to be +present. + +It was about 9 o'clock when both Jackson and Walling were brought into +the Bertillon room and turned over to Superintendent Kiffmeyer. Both +were photographed and had their measure taken according to the rules +governing the Bertillon system. + +The questioning of the prisoners while in the Bertillon room, related to +the disposition made of Pearl Bryan's clothes. + +It was found that Pearl Bryan's clothes had been conveniently wrapped +into five bundles and brought to Jackson and Walling's room at 222 West +Ninth Street. Jackson took two of the bundles and threw them into the +sewer on Sycamore street. Walling put the other three under his arm and +went down Plum Street with the purpose of throwing into the river the +evidences of the bloody and brutal crime in the muddy depths of the +Ohio. Jackson says Walling afterwards told him he had disposed of them. + + +ANOTHER CONFESSION. + +When Turnkey Henry Underwood was passing Jackson's cell yesterday +morning Jackson said: + +"Well, I'm going to see the Mayor and tell him about the clothing." + +"What did you do with the clothing?" + +"Well, there were three bundles. I threw them in a sewer on Richmond +Street." + +"Where on Richmond Street?" + +"I don't know exactly, but west of Central avenue." + +"Was the head in the lot?" + +"I don't know where the head is now." + +"Why don't you tell where the head is and it will save you a good deal +of trouble." + +"Well, Walling told me that he threw it overboard." + +"What do you mean by throwing it overboard?" + +"Why, in the river, and that is the truth." + +As soon as the Chief could be seen Turnkey Underwood reported to him the +talks he had with the prisoners. Walling was taken before Mayor Caldwell +and Chief Deitsch, Detectives Crim and McDermott. Walling was asked what +he had to say. + +"Well, I'll tell you how Jackson killed Pearl Bryan. + +"For several days before the murder Jackson would sit about our room and +read a medical dictionary to try and learn all about the effect of +poisons. He finally selected cocaine as the most suitable for his +purpose. At last he took four grains of cocaine and put in sixteen drops +of water. He told me that he was going to give the cocaine solution to +Pearl and make her drink it, and that it would kill the vocal powers. +She would be unable to scream or talk and then he was going to cut her +head off." + +"Do you think he did that?" + +"Yes, I am almost sure that was the way he killed her." + +"I don't know how he gave her the poison, but think she took it before +getting into the cab, so that it would have its full effect by the time +she was driven over to Ft. Thomas." + +"Well, what became of the head? You know where it is." + +"I do not. If I did I would tell." + +Jackson was then sent for. He appeared to be worried, and when Mayor +Caldwell asked him if he had bought any cocaine he said: + +"Yes, I bought some cocaine." + +"When?" + +"Last Wednesday night." + +"What did you do with it?" + +"I gave it to Walling." + +"Now Jackson I want you to tell me where the head is. You know where it +is, and for the sake of the poor old mother I think you ought to tell." + +"Well, I can't tell you where the head is. I don't know." + +Walling and Jackson were then brought together again. They eyed each +other and then the questions were put to them, but like in every other +interview they denied the charges made by each other. Walling finally +said: + +"Why don't you tell where the head is, Jackson? You know they will find +it sooner or later." + +"I don't know where it is." + +"Why don't you tell? You know where it is." + +"I do not." + + +TWO POST-MORTEMS. + +There were two post-mortems held by Coroner Tingley, of Newport over the +remains of the headless body of Pearl Bryan. The first held on the +Monday following the finding of the body and the second, which was +ordered for the purpose of deciding whether the murder was committed +where the body was found or the head cut off after death had been caused +by the administering of anaesthetics. Dr. Charles S. Phythian of +Newport, conducted both post-mortems assisted by Drs. Robert Carothers, +J. L. Phythian, J. O. Jenkins, W. S. Tingley, C. B. Schoolfield and J. +H. Fishbach. The unanimity of opinion was that life was not extinct when +the wounds from which the blood found egress were inflicted. + +Dr. Charles Phythian said: + +"The post-mortem shows beyond a doubt that Pearl Bryan died by the knife +and was conscious when she was killed." + +"Had she been dead when she was taken to the Highlands the blood in her +body would have been somewhat coagulated no matter how soon after +dissolution she was taken there, and while there would have been a great +flow of it if she had been placed there within a short time after death +there must have been a slight coagulation which would have caused at +least a small quantity of blood to remain in the body." + +"The cut on the left hand shows that she fought with her murderer. The +cut goes clear to the bone and proves that she did not receive it by +making the weak attempt at defense that a person in a semi-comatose +condition would have made." + +As was brought out at the first post-mortem there was absolutely not a +drop of blood in the body of the woman; all of it had flowed from her. + +Not a drop of blood was found in the veins nor was any found in the +arteries or heart. Every organ of the body was found in perfect and +healthy condition. The blood vessels were entirely devoid of any blood, +and all the surgeons gave as their opinion that the girl had bled to +death, for had life been extinct before bleeding began the blood vessels +would not have been emptied. + +A microscopic observation was made of the body in hope of discovering a +puncture that might be construed as the place where the needle of the +hypodermic-syringe had been inserted, but no such puncture had been +discovered, though subjected to the most careful examination with the +strongest glasses. + +Fred Bryan a brother of the murdered woman and Mrs. Stanley, a sister, +together with a number of friends from Greencastle, Ind., arrived in +Cincinnati Friday, for the purpose of fully identifying the remains, and +having them removed from the Newport morgue to Greencastle for +interment. The identification was complete, and permission having been +obtained from the authorities, the headless body was prepared for +interment and removed to the undertaking establishment of John P. Epply, +in Cincinnati. + +The body was clothed in a cream white silk dress, the same that the girl +had worn when she graduated from the high school in 1892 at Greencastle. +The feet were incased in dainty satin slippers. + +The casket was one of the most beautiful of its kind made. It was white +cloth-covered, and trimmed with cord and tassel. The handles were of +burnished silver. In the center of the casket lid, on a silver plate, +was the name "Pearl." + +Inside the casket was full-satin-lined, and handsomely trimmed. The +absence of the head was made scarcely noticeable the placing of a square +satin pillow in the head on the casket down to the shoulders of the +corpse. + + +THE HEADLESS BODY DISPLAYED TO THE MURDERERS. + +The authorities resolved on a plan which they hoped might make the +prisoners weaken. It was to have them look upon their murdered victim +and have the crime recalled in all its hideousness. + +Mayor Caldwell Chief Deitsch and Sheriff Plummer went to Epply's morgue, +where the remains lay. + +In a short time Detectives Crim and McDermott arrived with the +prisoners. Crim had Walling in charge and McDermott Jackson. The latter +was placed at the head of the coffin and Walling near the foot. Both +faced the brother and sister of the murdered girl, who were on the other +side of the casket. + +Jackson was terribly excited and nervously clasped and unclasped his +hands. His eyes roved from one end of the body to the other and he shook +his head and sighed deeply. His face was terribly flushed, and he looked +as though he might break down every second. On the other hand Walling +was to all appearance the coolest man in the room. He gazed at the +corpse without a shiver and looked around on the faces of those present. +His only noticeable display of agitation was to tap his foot nervously +on the floor. + +Not a word was said until Chief Deitsch, at the other end asked: + +"Walling do you recognize the corpse?" + +"I do not." + +"Do you know who it is?" + +"I believe it is Pearl Bryan." + +"What reason have you for this belief?" + +"What Jackson has told me." + +"Jackson, do you recognize the corpse?" + +"I do not." + +"Do you know that it is the body of Pearl Bryan?" + +"I have not taken a close and careful look at the body." + +"Would you recognize it if you did?" + +"I think I would." + +"Walling did you kill this woman?" + +"I did not." + +"Jackson did you kill this woman?" + +"I did not." + +"And do you deny, in the presence of the corpse, that you killed her?" + +"I do." + +"Who did kill her?" + +"I have every reason to believe that Walling did." + +Determined to make one more effort to secure a confession as to where +the head was, Chief Deitsch arranged for Mrs. Stanley to ask the +prisoners. Almost begging on bended knees, and sobbing heavily she +cried: "Mr. Jackson, I come to you and ask where is my sister's head. +For the sake of my poor mother and for my sister and for my brother I +beg of you to tell me where my sister's head is. It is my last chance +and I want to send it home with the body. Won't you please tell me, I +beg of you?" + +Jackson looked at her, and, without turning a hair, said: + +"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." + +"Have you discovered by what means she came to her death?" + +"The evidence we have leads us to believe that she died of having her +throat cut." + +Dr. Heyl, Assistant Surgeon of the Sixth Regiment, U. S., stationed at +Ft. Thomas testified the manner in which the head was severed plainly +showed that an accustomed hand had performed the work, and it was +obvious to a professional eye that the work had commenced from the back +of the neck. + +Detective Cal Crim of Cincinnati gave his testimony as follows: + +"I was notified by the Chief of Detectives Hazen, to report to Newport +and assist in clearing the mystery of the crime. With Detectives +McDermott and Sheriff Plummer I went to where the body was found, and +came to the conclusion that she was murdered there. There was so much +blood on the ground that it led me to this belief, and I also found +blood high up on the surrounding bushes, which I believed to have been +caused by the blood spurting from the neck. I found blood on all the +under side of the leaves, showing that the course of the blood was +upward, as though the body was on the ground when the throat was cut. +The ground was literally saturated with blood. The earth was upturned +and blood was found to a depth of eight or nine inches." + +"State from your examination to your best knowledge and belief who +committed the crime?" + +There was a deathlike stillness in the room as the detective answered: +"Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling." + +"What have you found to lead you to that belief?" + +"The dead girl, Miss Pearl Bryan, left her home at Greencastle to visit +a family named Bishop at 95 Center Street, Indianapolis. Her relatives +identified her clothing. We discovered that Scott Jackson had been +intimate with the girl. He left Greencastle October 14., and pregnancy +having become apparent she, at the solicitation of a cousin, named Will +Wood, went to Cincinnati to submit to a criminal operation. Jackson was +to have the operation performed and Walling was to assist in the +performance. The last we know of Pearl Bryan in life was in the company +of Jackson and Walling Friday night preceding the finding of her corpse +between 6 and 7 o'clock, when the three were seen to enter a hack at +Wallingford's saloon, at George and Plum Streets. We have discovered +that Jackson had hired Walling to perform the operation on Miss Bryan. +Jackson's coat was found on evidence furnished by Walling in a sewer +where it had been hidden. A pair of Jackson's trousers, covered with +blood and with mud on the knees, were found in Walling's locker." + +"Has Jackson or Walling made any statements in your presence concerning +the crime?" + +"Yes, sir. Each accuses the other." + +"Can you account for Jackson and Walling the night preceding the finding +of the body?" + +"Only up to the time they entered the cab at Wallingford's saloon. Then +all traces are lost. Neither Jackson nor Walling was seen or can give +any satisfactory account of their whereabouts from 7 p. m. of Friday to +3 a. m. Saturday." + +"Have you any other evidence?" + +"We found two valises, one having blood stains on the inside, in which +we believe the missing head was carried from the scene of the murder." + +Detective Crim was excused and Detective McDermott was called. He +corroborated Crim's statements. Sheriff Plummer was recalled and gave +testimony corroborative of the two detective's statements. Dr. Robert +Carothers submitted a report of the result of the post-mortem which was +held by order of Coroner Tingley. + +Dr. W. H. Crane, the chemist who made an analysis of the stomach of the +murdered woman, regretted having no written report of the analysis, as +it had not then been completed, but testified to having found cocaine in +the stomach. + +A number of other witnesses testified as to the finding of the body, the +discovering of the foot-prints, blood, etc. + +The examinations were completed, and after the court-room had been +cleared the jury entered into a discussion of the examination. + +The evidence as taken by the court-stenographer was carefully gone over +and debated. Every little technicality was examined and passed on +unanimously, and after an hour's session the jury returned the following +verdict: + + +THE VERDICT. + +"We, the jury, of Campbell County, Kentucky, find that the headless body +of the woman found on the premises of John B. Lock, near Ft. Thomas, on +the morning of February the 1st., was that of Pearl Bryan, a resident of +Greencastle, Ind. + +"We further find that cocaine had been administered to Pearl Bryan for +some reasons unknown. + +"We further find that the decapitation took place while Pearl Bryan was +still alive. + +"We further find that Pearl Bryan was last seen in company with Scott +Jackson and Alonzo Walling. The three got into a cab on the Plum-street +side of a saloon, corner of George and Plum Streets, and were last seen +in the cab turning toward Plum Street. + +Illustration: CHIEF DEITSCH. SCOTT JACKSON. ALONZO WALLING. +Mrs. Stanley sobbing heavily cried: "Mr. Jackson, I come to you and ask +where is my sister's head?" + +"We further find in the end of justice that this verdict, and the report +of the post-mortem, the chemical analysis of the stomach and the report +of the Court-stenographer be filed with the verdict." + +On the Wednesday following, the grand jury of Campbell County Kentucky, +in session in Newport, returned an indictment against both Jackson and +Walling, charging them with the murder of Pearl Bryan and alleging that +the crime was committed near Ft. Thomas, Ky. Sheriff Plummer, at once +went to Frankfort, Ky., and secured a requisition for the men from +Governor Bradley. He then took the papers to Columbus, O., where +Governor Bushnell, after a close scrutiny honored them and the Sheriff +returned to Cincinnati to serve them on the Sheriff of Hamilton County, +Ohio, in whose custody the prisoners were. + +The prisoners were arraigned in the Police Court of Cincinnati a number +of times charged with murder, and their cases continued, to give the +Kentucky authorities an opportunity to take action. + +After the indictment of Jackson and Walling in Kentucky, the charge was +changed to "Fugitives from Justice" and on this were they held until the +requisition papers were procured and served. + +In the meantime the detectives, police and Kentucky officers were at +work running down rumors and clews which sprang up on every side. + +The hat worn by Pearl Bryan, was found on the side of the road just back +of Newport and was fully identified by her sister. The hat was weighted +down with a stone wrapped in a bloody handkerchief which was identified +as the property of Jackson. + +George H. Jackson a negro, came forward and told a very plain +straight-forward story of having driven, Jackson, Walling and Pearl +Bryan in a surey drawn by a gray horse from Cincinnati to the scene of +the murder. The police put great faith in this story until it was proven +absolutely false, and that the negro had concocted the story with the +expectation of securing the reward, or for gaining notoriety. An +investigation of his previous record showed it to be a very unsavory +one. No one doubted the guilt of the prisoners under arrest, but great +difficulty was found in securing evidence on which they could be +convicted. + +The officers claimed to have sufficient evidence but refused to divulge +it, and the granting of the requisition papers by Governor Bradley of +Kentucky, and the honoring of those papers of Governor Bushnell of Ohio, +showed that there was certainly stronger evidence than had been given +the public. + +As soon as the requisition papers were served on the Sheriff of Hamilton +County, Ohio, and an effort made by Sheriff Plummer, to take charge of +the prisoners, and take them to Kentucky, it was evident that a terrible +fight would be made by the counsel for the prisoners to keep Jackson and +Walling from being taken to Kentucky. + +Learned and able counsel had been secured by the relatives of each of +the prisoners and from the start it was evident a big legal battle was +on and that every effort, would be put forth to them, not only to save +the murderers from paying the penalty of their horrible crime but also +to keep them from being sent to Kentucky, where in the eyes of the law, +the crime had been committed and the only place where they could be put +on trial for their lives. + +Notwithstanding Gov. Bradley of Kentucky, had promised that he would put +the entire Militia force of Kentucky at the command of Sheriff Plummer +to protect the prisoners from violent deaths at the hands of a lawless +mob, the attorneys for the accused made the claim, and attempted to +prove it, that the lives of their clients would not be safe in Kentucky. + +Habeas corpus proceedings were resorted to and every scheme and plan for +delay was brought into play. A fierce and bitter legal battle was fought +between the attorneys for the prisoners and those for the state, before +Judge M. L. Buchwalter of the Hamilton County, O., Court of Common +Pleas. + +Every technicality and motive for delay known to the law was resorted to +by the attorneys for the defense. The cases were called again and again +in the Police Court simply as a formality, their continuances having +been agreed on before the cases were called, notwithstanding the law +providing that there shall be a hearing before a Judge of the Common +Pleas Court, in extradition cases as soon as the requisition papers +shall have been honored by the Governor of the State. The requisition +papers issued by Governor Bradley of Kentucky on Governor Bushnell, of +Ohio, had been honored by the last named official for weeks previous to +the arraignment of Walling and Jackson, before Judge M. L. Buchwalter, +of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. Interest in the case did not +abate in the least. The Jail where the prisoners were confined, was +daily literally besieged with visitors, and loud murmurings were heard +on all sides. Mob violence was feared, and this fact more than any other +caused the delay in the hearing of the arguments on the requisition +papers. Everyone felt that the papers would be honored by the Judge, and +the prisoners remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of Campbell County, +Kentucky, but it was feared the lives of the prisoners would be placed +in serious jeopardy, if they were sent to Kentucky, before the +excitement had in some measure died out. On April, the 30., the +prisoners were brought before Judge Buchwalter, and Saturday March, 7., +fixed as the date for hearing on the requisition papers. Rumors of all +kinds prevailed, and squadrons of police were placed in line guarding +closely every inch of the way from the jail to the court room. It was +intended at first to convey the prisoners from the jail to the court +room through the underground passage way, or tunnel, which has been +prepared for just such cases of emergency. For this purpose the tunnel +was cleared of every obstacle, but when all was in readiness, it was +discovered that the key to the massive gate at the entrance to the +tunnel from the jail yard had been misplaced and could not be found, and +it was necessary to take them through the streets. Before the prisoners +arrived however, another consultation between the attorneys in the case +resulted in an agreement for another continuance, and Jackson and +Walling were before the court but a few minutes, when they were again +remanded to jail and Saturday March, 7., set for a final hearing on +their requisition. Col. Robert W. Nelson, one of the brightest and +leading legal lights of Kentucky, an able prosecutor, fearless and +aggressive and universally feared by criminals, volunteered his services +to aid in the prosecution of, as he termed it, "villains of the deepest +dye, who are without doubt guilty of the most heinous crime and greatest +outrage ever put upon the fair name and fame of Kentucky." + +The attorneys for the defense had selected Judge Buchwalter as the judge +to hear their case for the reason that this same judge had but shortly +before refused to deliver a prisoner, a negro fugitive, charged with +murder, to the Kentucky authorities although Kentucky's Governor had +made a requisition which had been honored and granted by Governor +McKinley of Ohio. Buchwalter held that the negroe's life would not be +safe in Kentucky and refused to hand him over to the Kentucky +authorities. This was a ruling without precedent and the attorneys for +Walling and Jackson hoped to work on the Judges prejudices against +Kentucky and obtain a similar ruling in their cases. Public sentiment +however, was too strong, and no matter how much Judge Buchwalter may +have disliked to honor a requisition from Kentucky, he saw that public +feeling was in no humor to be trifled with in the case of the murderers +of Pearl Bryan. At the hearing of the case on March, 7., the State of +Kentucky, Jule Plummer, Sheriff of Campbell County, agent, through his +attorneys, M. R. Lockhart, Commonwealth's attorney and Col. R. W. +Nelson, appeared in court and demanded the custody of the prisoners, +presenting the requisition papers, properly approved by Governor +Bradley, of Kentucky, and Governor Bushnell of Ohio. The prisoners were +represented by Judge James D. Ermston, of Cincinnati, and Messrs. +Andrews and Sheppard, of Hamilton, O. A bitter fight was made, but right +and justice won and after a fierce legal battle between the opposing +counsel, Judge Buchwalter rendered a lengthy decision remanding the +prisoners to the custody of Sheriff Jule Plummer, as the agent of the +Commonwealth of Kentucky. He also dismissed the habeas-corpus +proceedings which had been instituted but granted a stay of the +executive of his orders for eight days to give the attorneys for the +prisoners ample time to appeal the cases and take them to the Circuit +Court. Judge Andrews for the prisoners, announced that the bill of +exceptions to Judge Buchwalter's rulings, would be prepared at once for +presentation to the Circuit Court. The case was at once taken up on +appeal and on March, 14., Judges Swing, Cox and Smith of the Circuit +Court of Hamilton County began its hearing. When the higher Court +convened an immense throng crowded the rooms, the most noteable among +the spectators being the aged father of the murdered girl, Alex. S. +Bryan, his three sons, Fred, Frank and James, and ten other gentlemen, +who had come from Greencastle, Ind., to Cincinnati, to lend their aid to +the prosecution of the prisoners. S. A. Hayes, one of the brightest +legal lights of Indiana, was one of the party and he will doubtless aid +the State of Kentucky in the prosecution of both Walling and Jackson +when they are put on trial for their lives. + + +ALLEGED ERRORS SET FORTH. + +The grounds of error set forth were as follows: + +"That there is manifest error in said judgement and proceedings at, by +and before said Court of Common Pleas in this to wit: + +"1. Said court erred in remanding this plaintiff in error to the custody +of said defendant in error. + +"2. Said court erred in not discharging this plaintiff in error from the +custody of said defendants in error and restoring him to liberty. + +"3. The judgement and order of said Court of Common Pleas is against the +weight of the evidence and contrary to law. + +"4. That there was no evidence whatever submitted to said Court of +Common Pleas or to said Governor of Kentucky, who issued the said writ +of requisition, and there was no evidence whatever submitted to the +Governor of Ohio, who issued said warrant on said requisition, that this +plaintiff in error was a fugitive from justice. + +"5. That the charge of indictment against this plaintiff in error does +not accuse him according to law of any crime. + +"6. That there was no evidence submitted to said court or to either of +said Governors that the offense set forth in said alleged indictment is +a crime under the laws of said State of Kentucky. + +"7. That there are other errors prejudicial to plaintiff in error +manifest in said record and proceedings." + +The prayer of the petition is: "Wherefore this plaintiff in error prays +that said judgement and order may be reserved to all things he has lost +thereby, and that he may be discharged from the custody of said +defendants in error and restored to his liberty." + +After hearing the arguments on this bill of errors, the Court took the +matter under advisement until the Monday morning following when the +three Judges of the higher court met and rendered a decision sustaining +Judge Buchwalter and remanding the prisoners to the custody of the +Kentucky authorities. Walling and Jackson were at once informed of the +decision of the Court. The effect of the information on the two +prisoners was of marked difference. Walling smiled sarcastically, and +said: + +"I had hoped we would not be taken over the river, and we have fought +desperately to prevent going there. We have made the best fight +possible," and winking his eye, added: "We have received no orders to go +there yet." + +Jackson grew as pale as death and was visibly agitated and trembling, +when told that the Court had decided against him. Said he: "Of course I +do not want to go to Kentucky." + +"Do you fear being mobbed over there?" + +"I not only fear that we may be mobbed, but I don't believe we would be +given a fair trial. How can I think otherwise when an authority like +Sheriff Plummer told me that if we were taken over to Newport the +people there would lynch us sure?" + +"Did the Sheriff tell you that?" + +"Yes, and then modified it by saying: 'I will, of course, do all I can, +as an officer of the law, to prevent it, but we are all Kentuckians over +there, and they are hard to restrain.' Since he told me that, I have not +had any great longing to visit his State." + + +WILD DRIVE TO KENTUCKY. + +St. Patrick's day, March, 17., 1896, will ever live green in the memory +of Alonzo Walling and Scott Jackson. It was on this day they were taken +to Kentucky, quietly and without much ado. Sheriff Plummer appeared at +the Hamilton County, O., Jail in Cincinnati, and the prisoners were +given in his charge. Walling was at once handcuffed to Detective Crim +and Jackson to Detective McDermott. The crowds about the Jail and the +reporters had no idea what was going on until patrol wagon No. 3, backed +up to the door and Sheriff Plummer, followed by his prisoners and the +detectives went to get in. Immediately the crowd went wild and a mighty +yell went up. "They're going to Kentucky," was yelled by a thousand +voices. Cabs were telephoned for by reporters, spring wagons were +pressed into service and before the officers and prisoners could get in +the patrol wagon fully twelve or fifteen vehicles were ready to follow. +The horses were forced to a run and those following increased their +speed accordingly. The crowd increased. Fear was unmistakeably seen on +the countenances of both prisoners. Down Sycamore Street to Eighth the +horses went on a wild run. Before reaching Eighth Street, Sheriff +Plummer said that it would be impossible to thwart the fast increasing +throng and in order to throw them of their guard, ordered the driver to +turn west off Sycamore on Eighth and drive to Central Police Station. A +large crowd awaited them there and the prisoners were quickly hustled +into the cells. The crowds increased until the large iron doors had to +be closed to keep the crowds from the driveways and corridors of the big +City Building. The prisoners were kept there for two hours or more. +Every movement of the officers was watched closely, especially by the +reporters. Detectives Crim and McDermott, went quickly to the cells +where the prisoners were confined, and without any notice, the prisoners +were again handcuffed to them. Suddenly the large iron doors flew open, +and patrol No. 1, dashed into the court-yard, when the party was again +loaded in quickly. Once in the wagon, a wild drive to Newport was made. +East on Eighth Street to Broadway dashed the team of splendid +police-horses, down Broadway to Second and over the Central Bridge on a +full run thence up York Street in Newport, up to Third to the jail. + +Everywhere the people stopped and stared at the strange chase, as patrol +and vehicles containing press-representatives galloped by, throwing mud +and snow in all directions, and unconsciously the correct conclusion was +arrived at in nearly every case--that Jackson and Walling were being +taken across the river. + +The Newport jailer had been notified that the men were on the way over, +but he did not expect them as quickly as they made the journey. It was +but about four minutes after 4 o'clock when Patrol No. 1, dashed up to +the entrance to the Newport jail, the run from Ninth and Central Avenue +having been made in less than fifteen minutes. On the Central bridge the +horses broke into a gallop, and everybody in sight began to run. Before +the Newport end was reached a surging crowd pushed up York and down +Third Streets upon both sides, but they were not fast enough for the +horses. + +When the trip to Central Station became known in Newport the news spread +like wildfire, and soon a crowd of at least one thousand people had +assembled and impatiently awaited the coming of the prisoners, the +unusual activity at the jail indicating that they were to be brought +there. + +Policeman patrolled Gate Street and kept the people constantly moving, +while the door of the jail office was locked and admission refused to +everyone, even reporters being excluded. + +About 4 o'clock there was a cry of "Here they come!" from the people on +York Street, and in a few seconds patrol No. 1, turned the corner and +dashed down to the jail entrance. As the patrol wagon turned the corner +the crowd closed in and hurried after it, to check it, and when the jail +was reached the entire street was blockaded. + +Sheriff Plummer stepped from the wagon, and was closely followed by +Walling, handcuffed to Detective McDermott, and Jackson, handcuffed to +Detective Crim. Both prisoners were pale and trembling, evidently +believing that the crowd was there for motives other than curiosity. +There was no demonstration from the people, and the prisoners were +quickly hurried into the jail-office and the door slammed and locked in +the faces of the crowd of reporters who attempted to enter. + +The Newport Jail is by no means a desireable place of confinement from a +sanitary point of view and is poorly ventilated. Both prisoners keenly +realized the great change in their accommodations. Regarding this +Jackson said: + +"This is quite different from the Hamilton County Jail, where everything +was at least nice and clean. If I could only exercise a little it would +not be so bad. I am really losing the use of my legs, and I cannot see +what harm there would be in allowing me to walk in the corridor with one +of the guards. I am glad that we are to be taken into court on Monday. +That will be at least a little relief." + +"What plea will you enter?" + + +WILL NOT PLEAD GUILTY. + +"Oh, that, of course, will be for my attorney to decide, but it will +certainly be not guilty." + +When Walling was seen, he appeared to be in much better spirits than +Jackson. He was lying on his cot, deeply interested in the novel which +he has been reading for the past few days. He arose and pleasantly +greeted his visitor. When asked as to how he liked his quarters he +replied: + +"Oh, I suppose I have no kick coming, although they are not as good as +those across the river." + +"What plea will you enter next Monday?" + +"Not guilty, of course. What other plea could I make. I tell you that I +am not guilty of that murder and I fully expect to be cleared." + +Arraigned in Kentucky Court Monday, March, 23., the murderers, spent the +first hour outside the prison walls since the transfer to Kentucky. That +hour was spent in appearing in the Circuit Court room of Campbell County +for the purpose of entering their plea to the charge of murder placed +against them by the Kentucky authorities. + +In the court-room by 9:30 o'clock the three hundred privileged ones who +had obtained tickets of admission had taken their seats, and every seat +was taken excepting the four on the jury gallery reserved for the +prisoners and their jail attendants. There were not more than twenty +women among the spectators. + +Within the iron-rail-bound quadrangle in front of the Judge's desk +thirty or forty members of the Campbell County bar sat, while ranged +behind them and just within the railing was a row of tables for the +reporters and artists. + +Occupying the front chairs in the quadrangle were the attorneys in the +case: For the Commonwealth, Messrs. M. R. Lockhart, Ramsay Washington +and Colonel William Nelson; for the prisoners, Hon. L. J. Crawford, +representing Jackson, and Colonel George Washington, representing +Walling. In a few minutes Judge Charles J. Helm and the Clerk of the +Court, A. L. Reuscher, entered and took their seats and at once opened +the Court. + +Fifteen minutes were spent by the Court disposing of routine business +and several minor cases before his honor said: "I will now call the +cases of the Commonwealth vs. Jackson et al. Mr. Sheriff, bring in the +defendants." + +Everybody was at once on the alert, and all eyes were turned to the door +leading from the corridor. Instead of going toward that door, however, +the Sheriff threw open the ante-room door and out walked Jackson, +attended by Jail Guard Veith. Jackson walked quickly and without any +evidence of the weakness in his knees of which he complained several +days ago. A few steps behind Jackson came Walling, attended by Jailer +John Bitzer. + +When they came into the room, both men were pale, but that haggard +appearance which distinguished them when they were in the Cincinnati +Courts was gone. They both looked well and gave evidence that they +enjoyed their Kentucky fare. Walling retained his paleness throughout +the proceedings, but Jackson, after taking his seat and looking over the +assembled crowd, flushed up a little. + +"Stand up," said Judge Helm to the prisoners when the rustle occasioned +by their appearance had subsided, "You are arraigned--" + +Colonel Washington interrupted the Judge here to say that he wished to +enter his demurrer to the indictment before the arraignment. He was +overruled. + + +BOTH PLEAD NOT GUILTY. + +The men were then arraigned and asked to plead. + +"Not guilty, as to Walling," said Colonel Washington. + +"Not guilty, as to Jackson," said Mr. Crawford. + +Judge Helm then asked the attorneys as to whether they desired the +defendants tried together or separately. Mr. Crawford said he did not +wish to indicate then, but Colonel Washington said he wanted a seperate +trial for Walling. The Judge then said, "All right, let an order be +entered accordingly. This court will begin the case against Scott +Jackson first, and I will set Jackson's case for April 7." + +Mr. Crawford thought the time was too short. "Until the prisoner came +over here," he said, "I was not connected with the case. Our witnesses +are scattered, many of them being in Ohio and Indiana, and I do not wish +to risk the chance of their failure to attend court on account of the +short time allowed. This trial is for justice, and we ought to be given +every opportunity to prepare our case. The prosecution seems to have +surprises in store for us, and by a decision of the Court of Appeals the +defense has the right to know what the prosecution intends to do against +us." + +Colonel Nelson here got up and said: "I am surprised at Mr. Crawford +making such a statement. The Commonwealth expects to prove that Scott +Jackson killed Pearl Bryan," a remark that drew a laugh from the +audience. + +Judge Helm said he knew of no rule requiring the Commonwealth to +indicate to the defense what its case would be. "Two weeks ought to be +ample time," continued he, "for the defense to get ready." + +Mr. Crawford continued to press for longer time, but the Judge cut him +short by repeating "I think you have ample time between this and April +7. If you have an objection to make, make it then, but it must be a good +one to receive my attention. Remand the prisoners." + +No time was fixed for the trial of Alonzo Walling but it was understood +that it follow immediately after Jackson's. The demanding of a seperate +trial by Walling's attorney gave rise to the rumor, which gained +considerable credence that Walling could be induced to turn state's +evidence against Jackson and tell all he knows at the trial of Jackson. +The authorities have accumulated much important evidence in the matter +and the attorneys for the prosecution claimed with perfect confidence +that they would be able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that both +Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling are guilty of the murder, and +decapitation of Pearl Bryan. It was claimed by them that enough evidence +has been secured to reveal how, when, where and by whom Pearl Bryan was +murdered; to reveal the secret of her whereabouts on the night +proceeding her tragic death; in fact to ring down the curtain upon the +most horrible tragedy of the nineteenth century, laid bare in all of its +most horrowing details. Like the well-laid plot in the tragedy which has +its birth in the imagination of the skillful dramatist, this tragedy in +real life, possessed the one element which never fails to fascinate the +public mind-mystery. + +The day of the trial drew near, and still the mystery seemed almost as +deep as ever. It was evident before the calling of the case against +Scott Jackson in Newport, Ky., on April, 7., 1896, that a hard earnest +fight would be made for delay and a postponement asked by Jackson's +attorneys. The day of trial April, 7., at last arrived. Every +arrangement had been perfected by Sheriff Plummer, not only for the +protection and safe keeping of the prisoners but also for the +convenience and accommodation of the Court, to prevent any crowding of +the court-room or any unseemly acts of violence or disturbance. + +The announcement of the authorities that only a limited few besides +those interested in the case would be allowed in the court-room was the +reason of the smallness of the crowd. People, knowing that they could +not get in to see the trial, did not--beyond a few of the more +curious--care to merely get a look at the prisoner. + +The twelve jurymen's chairs were placed directly in front of the Judge's +desk, and the witness box so placed that the witnesses in giving their +testimony would be facing the Judge and jury. The witness stand stood +almost in the middle of the court-room. On the right side was the +prosecution's and on the left side the defense's tables, while between +it and the jury was placed the stenographer's table. + +The reporters' tables, six in number, were grouped in close proximity +around the witness stand, and the whole arrangement left nothing to be +desired. The members of the Campbell County bar occupied seats within +and without the railed space, and there was a large gathering of them +present. + + +SCOTT JACKSON IS BROUGHT TO HIS TRIAL FOR LIFE. + +About five minutes before the arrival of Judge Helm in the court-room +Sheriff Plummer, having all his arrangements perfected, slipped out and +proceeded to the jail, and in a few moments emerged therefrom with Scott +Jackson handcuffed to his arm. + +With a nervous smile and a forced jauntiness, which accorded illy with +his visible perturbation, Scott Jackson stepped from the old jail door +in Newport and started through the dense lines of curious men, women and +children for the court of justice, wherein his fight for life will be +made. He was handcuffed to Sheriff Plummer, and, as a further +precaution, was flanked on either side by a stalwart deputy. + +Jackson seemed in good humor as he walked from the jail, and did not +show the same dread for the Newport crowds that he had displayed on the +two former occasions upon which he passed through them. He was taken +upstairs in the Courthouse and placed in the witness room to await the +opening of court. + +Ordinarily, a man facing death excites sympathy, particularly among the +class who waited for two hours to get a glimpse of Jackson. But the most +casual observer could not fail to see that the populace was singularly +unanimous in its intense hostility to the supposed and accused murderers +of Pearl Bryan. + +A man may be a murderer and a hero in the minds of many. But nothing but +deep-seated and virulent hostility was manifested by ninety-nine out of +every hundred of those who gathered about the Courthouse in Newport and +reviewed the famous crime in infinite detail. "He'll hang, and he ought +to, ---- him," said one big fellow in the center of a listening group. + +"Yes, and Walling out to follow him in five minutes," said a bare-headed +working woman, as she shifted a baby from arm to arm. The same sullen +antipathy was apparent as Jackson passed through the crowd. It was +indisputably general. + + +A REMARKABLE INCIDENT. + +A significant proof of this feeling was evidenced in a rather remarkable +incident which occurred as Jackson was leaving the court-room after the +trial. There were probably a dozen women in the audience, among whom was +a party of three comely, well dressed and to all appearances, thoroughly +respectable women. They sat on the first row of the benches for the +general spectators. As Jackson passed from the inclosure wherein he had +been seated and started for the ante-room with Sheriff Plummer, one of +the women suddenly reached out and kicked Jackson twice. She put all her +strength into the blows. Jackson flushed and then smiled the smile which +in his case is better evidence of internal anguish and agitation than +is a tear on the face of most men. Neither Judge Helm nor Sheriff +Plummer, nor in fact, any one outside from three spectators saw the +incident. The officers walked rapidly, looking neither to the right nor +to the left, and seemed, from their grimness, to realize the great +responsibility which rested upon them. + + +OPENING OF THE TRIAL. + +It was just 9:40 o'clock, April, 7., when Judge Helm entered the +court-room. Immediately the hum of conversation which had been going on +at a lively rate stopped, as, with hardly a pause after sitting down, +the Judge ordered the Sheriff to open the court. Every seat in the +spectators gallery by this time was taken. Judge Helm at once went to +the business of the day, calling "Case 2,296, the Commonwealth vs. Scott +Jackson," and directing the Sheriff to bring in the prisoner. + +There was a perceptible movement on the part of the assemblage as +Jackson followed Jailer Bitzer and the Sheriff into the court-room and +took his place on the left of the witness box and slightly in its rear. +His chair was next to that of Attorney Andrews, of Hamilton, Walling's +counsels, and the narrow table seperated the prisoner from Hon. L. J. +Crawford and Colonel George Washington. As on his former visit to the +court-room, Jackson flushed slightly after taking his seat. He paid +close attention throughout to every thing that was said by the Judge and +the lawyers. + +Around the table to the right of the witness box were seated +Commonwealth's Attorney M. R. Lockhart, Colonel R. W. Nelson and +Attorney Silas Hayes, of Greencastle, all representing the prosecution. +The Sheriff called the names of the jurors summoned for duty, and these +having been disposed of the Judge asked: + +"Is the Commonwealth ready?" + +To which Mr. Lockhart replied: "The Commonwealth is ready." + +"May it please Your Honor, Scott Jackson is not ready," stated Mr. +Crawford, rising. "We desire to file a motion for postponement." + +Illustration: The highest point in Forest Hill Cemetery where the +headless remains of Pearl Bryan are buried. + +He read the affidavit as follows: + +"Affiant L. J. Crawford says he is still the only attorney herein for +defendant, Scott Jackson: that affiant has been ill with la grippe +during the last ten days; that for more than a week one of his children +has been and still is very ill and under the care of a physician; that, +in consequence of his own and his child's sickness, he has been unable +to give this case the attention necessary to properly prepare it for +trial; that, so far as he has been able, he has constantly and +assiduously worked upon the preparation of it; that the commissions to +take depositions in Cincinnati, O., Greencastle, Ind., and Brooklyn, N. +Y., have not been returned; that the persons named in the former +affidavit of affiant as residing in joint places will testify as +follows, viz: While in Greencastle that Scott Jackson's general +reputation among the neighbors in said town, until charged with the +offense mentioned in the indictment, was good; that he resided there for +about two years just before or shortly before being so charged; that +each and all of said witnesses knew him and his general reputation in +said town during said time. + +"That the reputation of Will Wood, of Greencastle, Ind., whom the +prosecution will introduce, for truth, can be successfully impeached by +witnesses residing in Greencastle, if time is given in which to take +their depositions. + +"Affiant says he was not aware until April, 1., 1896, that said Wood +would be introduced; that affiant will be able by the 10. inst. to file +a list of names of persons who will testify upon Wood's reputation and +to file a list of interrogations to be addressed to them." + + +OBJECTIONS OF THE STATE. + +Mr. Lockhart repeated that the State was ready to try the case, and he +did not think the Court ought to allow a month's further time. He said +that Mr. Crawford, upon a former occasion, had agreed that a month was +sufficient in which to prepare the case. It was therefore Mr. Lockhart's +opinion that two weeks further continuance was as much as Mr. Crawford +could look for. That, he said, would make the full time allowed one +month. + +Mr. Crawford said he did at first think a month would be sufficient, but +his work during the past two weeks had shown him that it would take hard +work to be ready inside of another month. "I most earnestly and +sincerely state," continued he, "that we should have a month, and do not +see what particular difference it would make to the Commonwealth. My +client is not enjoying himself in jail." + +The Judge said that the difficulties attending the prosecution were +infinitely greater than they were for the defense, the defendant knew +everything in reference to himself, whereas the prosecution had to find +out everything. He had also pointed out that other counsel had been +engaged in the case. + + +CRAWFORD'S EARNEST APPEAL. + +Mr. Crawford stated that he had only been engaged after Jackson came to +Kentucky, a little less than three weeks. In concluding an earnest +appeal for a month's extension of time, he said: + +"It is a question whether this man shall be hanged, go to the +penitentiary for life, or whether he shall leave the court-room a free +man." + +The Judge replied: "You are not entitled to any continuance at all. +Tuesday, April, 21., will be sufficient time. The case is continued +until that day. Witnesses' names will now be called." + +The following witnesses for the prosecution were in court and were +placed upon their recognizances of $100 each to be in court on April, +21.: J. B. Lock, Dr. A. B. Heyl, Henry Motz and Harry and Will Hedger. + +While the court proceeded to other business of the day the officers +removed Jackson to the witness room, where he was kept for about fifteen +minutes before being returned to the jail. + +The attorneys for the Commonwealth were sure of having sufficient +testimony to convict both Jackson and Walling of murder in the first +degree and objected strenuously to any continuance. Col. R. W. Nelson, +who volunteered his services for the prosecution, worked hard and +earnestly and through his efforts much valuable and conclusive evidence +against the prisoners was unearthed. He said regarding the disposition +of the head: "Without a doubt the head of Pearl Bryan is rotting in the +Ohio river. At the proper time we will produce witnesses who saw Jackson +and Walling make two visits to the Suspension Bridge and throw bundles +into the stream. One of these bundles the witnesses will say undoubtedly +contained a human head. The witnesses who will testify to these facts +have positively identified both Jackson and Walling and will do so again +at the trial, and their testimony will be of the most sensational +character." + +On Monday, April, 13., Judge Helm fixed the day for Alonzo Walling's +trial, for Tuesday May, 5., 1896. Walling's Hamilton O., attorneys, +Morey, Andrews & Shepherd, withdrew from any further connection with the +case. + + + + +Pearl Bryan's headless remains buried at Greencastle. + + +The headless body of poor Pearl Bryan, taken to Greencastle, Ind., from +the Newport, Ky., Morgue on that cold, bleak wintry day in February, lay +in its beautiful snow-white casket in the vault in Forest Hill Cemetery +in Greencastle, until March, 27. The heart-broken sisters, urged on by +the friends of the family, had pleaded with their aged and +grief-stricken parents to have the remains buried, but their pleading +was in vain. Mrs. Bryan could not bear to even think of consigning the +remains to mother earth without the head, and Mr. Bryan, the aged and +heart-broken father, would only reply when the suggestion of burial +would be made to him, "The head must be found," "It must be found." It +was only after long and hard pleading that he at last agreed to permit +the burial of the headless remains. Hundreds of people had visited the +cemetery and gazed longingly on the stone receptacle in which the body +lay. At last the consent of Mr. Bryan was secured and arrangements were +at once put on foot to consign to mothers earth, all that was left of +the beautiful and loved, but misguided girl. Friday, March, 27., was the +day fixed for the funeral. It was a beautiful day and the sun shone +brightly from an almost cloudless sky. The warm weather of the preceding +days had caused the grass and foliage in the beautiful cemetery to +assume a decidedly bright greenish tint, and the trees were beginning to +bud. It was in every respect a most typical day. The cemetery lies just +south of Greencastle, surrounding a lofty hill within plain view, and +but a short distance from the colonial mansion of the Bryan's, where the +lovely Pearl was born and had grown to womanhood, from which she had +attended the Greencastle school and graduated with the highest honors. +It was here in the city of the dead, where lie her relatives and friends +who have gone before her, in sight of her home, at the highest point in +the cemetery, where the fond loving mother and father, whose hearts are +broken over the sad, sad ending of the life of their favorite daughter, +can look from the window of their room and see the tombs of "the loved +and lost", that the grave was dug. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan had insisted on +Pearls' grave being located on the highest point in the cemetery. Early +in the afternoon of the day fixed, an immense concourse of relatives and +friends, and of the curious, assembled at the vault in the cemetery, +where the remains lay. + +Notwithstanding the large crowd, present, a deathlike stillness +prevailed. At last the hour arrived, and a few moments afterward the +carriages containing the grief-stricken family, arrived on the ground. +These carriages, bearing the possessors of so many heavily grief +burdened hearts, had hardly stopped at the vault when the large black +doors of the vault swung outward, and the dead girl's class-mates of the +"Class of '92", with bowed heads and aching hearts, filed slowly into +the sepulcher, and took their places around the plain white coffin, on +the lid of which was a silver plate with the single word "Pearl" +engraved thereon. It was indeed a most solemn and impressive scene, one +never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. With heavy hearts, +tear-bedimmed eyes, and trembling hands, the loved and loving class-mates +of the beautiful victim of the crime of the nineteenth century, grasped +the silver bar handles of the casket which contained all that was mortal +of the poor, erring, misguided, but loved Pearl Bryan, and bore it to +the outside of the vault. Tender hands and loving hearts bore the +headless remains of the once bright, cheerful and petted Pearl, to their +last resting place. The remains were not exposed to view at the funeral +services. Slowly following the carriages, containing Rev. Dr. Gobin, the +officiating pastor, the family and intimate friends, the beautiful +casket was carried by the class-mates along the broad cinder path to the +grave where it must rest. Following the casket was one of the largest +crowds ever seen at a funeral in Greencastle. Arriving at the grave, the +casket was let down into the receptacle prepared for it. Simple services +appropriate and tender, were said. Dr. Gobin, made a few touching +remarks, a hymn was sung by the class-mates with voices filled with +emotion, and the services concluded with a short prayer. A new grave was +made, the horrible tragedy which cost poor Pearl Bryan her life was +recalled vividly to those who had known and loved her all through life, +and the headless body of Pearl Bryan, dressed in her magnificent white +dress in which she graduated from the Greencastle High School, borne by +the loving class-mates in that graduating-class, were consigned to earth +from whence they came, and covered from the view of those who loved and +knew her. Already a verdant carpet furnished by nature covers the new +made mound which is kept covered with beautiful flowers and one would +not think that this grave was a new made one, but the girl who lies +beneath that mound, whose tragic death startled the whole civilized +world, will never be forgotten by those who visit Forest Hill Cemetery. + + + + +The Trial of Scott Jackson. + + +The trial of Scott Jackson began on April the 22nd, before Judge Helm. +It is very remarkable that a jury was secured on the first day. Perhaps +this promptness has never been equalled in Kentucky. The completed jury +was as follows: + +John M. Ensweiler, grocer, Bellevue; William White, plumber, Newport; +John Boehmer, teamster, Dayton; Merty Shea, retired merchant, Newport; +Louis Scharstein, grocer, Newport; D. B. Mader, carpenter and builder, +Dayton; William Motz, reporter, Dayton; Millard Carr, carpenter, +Bellevue; G. P. Stegner, grocer, Newport; John S. Backsman, cutler, +Newport; Fred Gieskemeyer, grocer, Bellevue; David Kraut, coal merchant, +Dayton. + +When all the preliminaries had been completed the attorney for the +Commonwealth arose and stated to the jury what the prosecution intended +to prove. He said: + +"In the spring of 1895, the accused, Scott Jackson, commenced living in +Greencastle, Ind., where also resided the deceased, Pearl Bryan, who was +the youngest daughter of one of the oldest and best families in that +vicinity. Her father at one time was a Kentuckian, having lived a long +time in Bourbon County, Ky. + +"The accused, Scott Jackson, became acquainted with Pearl Bryan, shortly +after he arrived in Greencastle. By reason of his elegant dress, +polished manners and fluent conversation, shortly after his acquaintance +with her he became a frequent caller upon her and they were often seen +together. Succeeding this the Commonwealth will show, beyond a +reasonable doubt, that this innocent young lady became infatuated and +yielded her chastity to this man, and later on she advised him of the +fact of her condition. It will be clearly demonstrated to you, gentlemen +of the jury, that while she was in that condition she left Greencastle +and came to Cincinnati, so that her people would not be aware of her +unfortunate condition. + +"That, in obedience to a request from Scott Jackson, she came to +Cincinnati on Monday, January 28th. We will introduce a witness to show +that he met her at the depot, and that she inquired for Scott Jackson. +That he met her on the following morning, Tuesday, January 29th. It will +be shown that he was seen not only in Cincinnati, but in Kentucky, and +that he was seen with her up to Friday night, and about that time he was +with her in a vehicle, and that he took her out to Fort Thomas, where +her headless body was found February 1st, 1896. + +"That Scott Jackson was found in possession of Pearl Bryan's satchel. We +will show by two or three persons, to whom he made this confession, that +he left the satchel with two different persons after the finding of the +body of Pearl Bryan. That upon Friday night a light rain fell, and when +the body was found on the Lock property, near Fort Thomas, headless, +there was a large quantity of blood lying in clots near the corpse. + +"The Commonwealth expects to show you the condition of the body at the +time; that at that place the decapitation of this unfortunate girl was +done, and this man, Scott Jackson (pointing to the prisoner), is the +fiend who decapitated the unfortunate girl. + +"We will also show to you, gentleman, that this fellow led a double +life--as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Up at Greencastle he was a gentleman, +but in Cincinnati, he was in society of ill repute, and he made no +discrimination of color in his choice of women. + +"That a week or two before the crime was committed he displayed a fine +dissecting knife, and that he was experienced in the use of a knife that +could have done that kind of work. + +"Through Jackson Pearl Bryan was brought to Cincinnati, and the evidence +tracing her will be established beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the +decapitation was done by one who is deft in using the knife, as he is +known to be." + +John Hewling, a lad about sixteen years of age was the first witness. He +testified to the finding of the headless body on the farm of J. D. Lock. + +The second witness was Dr. Tingley, Coroner of Campbell County, Ky. His +testimony was very important. He described the spot where he first +viewed the corpse and testified that the bushes in the vicinity were +spattered with blood that had spurted from the headless trunk. Restated +that the head had been removed by some one who had practised in surgery. + +The following dialogue occurred during his testimony: + +"On viewing the body I found it had been severed rather high. The knife +had struck the vertebra, then its course was changed slightly downward." + +"Did you notice any other cut?" + +"Yes; one across the fingers of her left hand." + +"What fingers?" + +"Her four fingers, near the tops." + +"Did you observe no cut on the thumb?" + +"No, sir." + +"Did you make any other examination?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Can you say whether or not the cuts on her hand were recently +inflicted?" + +"Yes, they were." + +"I will ask you if, in your opinion (you have described the condition of +the body), whether or not the head was cut off at that place?" + +"I think so." + +"Can you say whether the head was cut off before or after death? Or, if +death resulted from the severance?" + +"I think the artery was cut while the heart was still beating." + +In view of the fact that the defense was seeking to establish that the +head was removed after death the last remark coming as it did from an +expert was very damaging to Jackson. The same witness was asked, +concerning the cuts on the hand which he had referred to. + +"Will you explain to the jury whether the cuts on the fingers were made +before death?" + +"Before death," replied the witness promptly. + +He was then questioned more particularly as to the result of his +investigations as an expert. The fact that Pearl Bryan had been murdered +with a knife (though cocaine was found in her stomach by the chemist), +was established beyond peradventure by the witness. He also identified +the clothing of Pearl Bryan which was produced all soaked with blood. + +On the second day of the trial the prosecution sprung a sensation. A +headless dummy was brought into the court-room dressed in the clothes +that Pearl Bryan wore when her body was discovered. The dummy was placed +in an erect position at the left of the witness box and facing the jury. +A lively tilt followed between counsel as to the legality of this +proceeding. The court finally ordered the figure removed and the clothes +produced separately. + +When this was done Mrs. Mary Stanley, the sister of Pearl Bryan was +called. She gave a list of the articles that Pearl had when she left +home and identified all the valises and clothing which the prosecution +had brought into court. She also identified some handkerchiefs found in +Jackson's room by detectives after his arrest and named the store where +Pearl had purchased them in Greencastle. + +The first evidence of the trial that directly connected the prisoner +with the murder was given by John A. Caldwell, Mayor of Cincinnati. + +Jackson became flushed and nervous and at times fastened his watery eyes +on the witness with an intensity that became painful. + +He stated that he was present when Jackson was examined immediately +after his arrest in the office of Chief of Police Deitsch, of +Cincinnati. Mr. Caldwell said Colonel Deitsch handed him a telegram; he +took it in his hand and leaning over and looking at it for quite a time, +with his eyes in this way, cast down, he finally uttered: "Oh, my God +what will my poor mother say," then he turned his eyes on Colonel +Deitsch. + +When he asked me the question he rose from his position and began to +walk up and down the room. He says to me, "What shall I do?" I says, "Do +you ask me the question?" He says, "Yes." I says, "Tell the truth." He +said, "Many an innocent man has been in as serious trouble as I am +to-night," or something to that effect. I do not know that I get his +exact words. + +After what I have related Colonel Deitsch asked: "Where is Pearl Bryan?" +Jackson said he did not know; that he had not seen her since he was home +during the holidays. He was asked where he was on Friday night. He said +at first he was at his room; he was not certain, but he was there. Then +he said he was not out of his room after 7:30 o'clock; he remained there +all the evening. He was asked who his room-mate was, and he said Alonzo +Walling. He was asked if his room-mate was with him. He said that he +believed he was. He was asked where he was on Thursday evening, and he +said he was at his room. He was then asked as to where Walling was. He +said he did not know where Walling was Thursday evening, and afterwards +said that Walling did not come home on Thursday evening. That was about +the substance of the conversation that evening. The newspaper men were +then allowed to come in, and a conversation was then held with him by +them as to where he was, much of which I did not hear. + +"The next morning about 10:30 I went to Colonel Deitsch's office, where +the prisoner was sitting. Colonel Deitsch asked him where he was on +Friday and Thursday nights, and his answers were the same as he made the +evening before. I am not positive as to whether it was at that meeting +that Walling was brought into his presence, and the conversation turned +as to where Pearl Bryan was and as to whether either of them had seen +Pearl Bryan the previous week. + +"Mr. Jackson admitted to Colonel Deitsch that he had seen Pearl Bryan; +that she came to the Dental College on Court Street for him; that he was +informed she was in a cab, and that he met her afterward, I think on +Tuesday, at the Indiana House, on Fifth Street; that he met her again on +Wednesday about one o'clock at the corner of Fourth and Vine or Fourth +and Walnut. He said in the presence of Walling that he had sent 'Wally', +as he called him, to notify her that he was going out that afternoon and +he would meet her that evening. Then he said he did not see her again +after that Wednesday. + +"Walling said he went down and saw Pearl Bryan and that he went that +evening to Heider's Restaurant, on Fifth Street, and met Jackson, and +Jackson told him to go up to the Postoffice and he would find Pearl +Bryan, and to wait there until he went to his room and returned; that he +went over to the Postoffice and saw Pearl Bryan standing inside the +corridor, and he went on from there and wrote his letters. + +"Either on that day or the next day Mr. Jackson was asked about the +satchel, and he said that he had left the satchel at Legner's saloon, +across the street from his room; he said that he brought it there and +loaned it to a student and he intended to take it to the college and +give it to him, but he did not give it to him. He afterwards admitted +that it was Pearl Bryan's satchel. + +"I want to say that in the meantime, in one of these conversations, I +told both of these young men that they did not have to make a confession +to any person, that they were at perfect liberty to refuse to answer any +of the questions that were asked them. + +"Walling in this conversation, when Jackson was present, said that when +Jackson came back from his holiday vacation he took him in the corner of +his room on Ninth Street, where they were rooming, and told him that he +was in trouble with Pearl Bryan and that he intended to kill her. When +asked how, he said, 'I propose to get a room and take her to the room +and give her some cocaine poison and leave her there.' Then again, he +says he changed and said. 'No, I will cut her up in pieces and take the +pieces and deposit them in different places about the city.' He said +that before he saw Pearl Bryan at the Postoffice--I believe that was +Thursday evening instead of Wednesday evening---he said that Jackson had +made arrangements to take her over to Bellevue, I think it was, or over +to the sandbar, or some place there and kill her, take her head off and +bury her. He said that Jackson asked all the physicians as to the +effects of different kinds of poisons; that he had a standard medical +dictionary in his room and studied the effects of poisons, and that he +asked one physician particularly as to the effect of cocaine. + +"He said that Jackson went to a Sixth Street pharmacy and got cocaine +and brought it back, that he took out a small teaspoonful and dissolved +it in two teaspoonsful of water and put it in a bottle, as he said, to +give her so as to paralyze her vocal organs or throat, and then cut her +head off. Jackson turned to Walling and said: 'Wally, why do you talk +that way; you know you are not telling the truth; you know that you +killed Pearl Bryan.' Whereupon Walling says, 'No, you know that you +killed her; and why don't you tell where her head is?' Then, when +Jackson was talking of where Pearl Bryan's head was, he said, 'I don't +know; Wally says he threw it overboard.' Then he said he took the +clothes and made one or two trips to the river and threw part in the +river and some in the sewer, but he could not tell where." + +"Jackson then said that there was a bundle that he had given Walling. +Walling was then asked what he done with it; he said that it was up in +his locker at the college; the bundle was sent for and brought in their +presence. It was a pair of pantaloons, which Jackson identified as his, +and said that he had not seen them for some time; that Walling must have +worn them. + +"I asked the men as to where the other clothes were. Walling says, +'Jackson, why don't you tell him where those things are, you might just +as well do it now as any time?' Jackson said that upon Saturday night, I +believe it was, they were walking up Plum Street with a bundle and they +saw some young physician or one of the students coming towards them, +that Walling changed and went down Plum Street to Ninth and out Ninth, +and Jackson said he went along little Richmond Street and from there on +around to the room, and then down Ninth to Richmond, and out Richmond +Street, westward, where he threw the bundle in one of the manholes of +the sewer, but he could not state which. The sewers were drained and +searched and a bundle brought to the department which Mr. Jackson +identified as his coat. He first denied that it was his coat, and said +it was Wallings', but afterwards admitted that it was his coat, but that +Walling must have worn it." + +A valise was shown to Mr. Caldwell and he identified it as the one that +Jackson had been confronted with. It was the satchel which had once been +Pearl Bryan's and the witness stated that Jackson accused Walling of +having brought away the head of the murdered girl in it. + +The witness then spoke of the occasion when Walling and Jackson accused +each other of having murdered the girl. After this he described the +scene and last effort that was made to get a confession from the +prisoners at Epply's Undertaking Establishment (see page 84). This ended +the Mayors testimony. + +The mother of Pearl Bryan was then called to identify her daughter's +clothing. The scene brought tears to every eye and a sob to every bosom +not wholly bereft of human qualities. + +Allan Johnson, employed in a saloon at George and Plum Streets, gave +testimony that proved to be highly important. He knew both Jackson and +Walling as visitors to the establishment referred to--and which the +witness admitted was a house of ill repute. On the night of the murder +the two students called with a woman in their company. The woman must +have been Pearl Bryan for the witness identified the clothing worn by +Pearl on the night she was murdered. The party, consisting of Jackson, +Walling, and Pearl drove away from the house in a carriage. + +George H. Jackson, a colored man, was called. His testimony was of the +most startling character. + +He told that on the night before the murder he was approached by Alonzo +Walling at the corner of George and Elm Streets. Walling inquired if +Jackson wished to earn five dollars by driving a cab across the Newport +bridge. The colored man accepted. On the next night he proceeded to Elm +and George Streets to discharge the contract. A cab soon drove up with +Walling on the box. Walling gave him the reins and instructed him to +drive to the Newport bridge, giving route. This was done. Then Walling +got up on the box with him to further direct the way. Before long he +heard a noise that sounded like a woman suffering and they moved around +and shook the carriage and they broke a glass, and then I was scared and +I put my left hand out and my right hand on the lantern and it kind of +bent down and I started to jump off, and I said there is something wrong +in the back part of that carriage and I don't care anything about this +job, and I went to hand the lines to him and when I went to look at him +I was looking at a gun. He said, "If you don't drive this horse I will +blow you to hell"; of course, I understood and began to drive the horse. + +At length the carriage stopped at the command of a man inside the +carriage whom the witness identified to be Scott Jackson. The witness +said, "I stopped the horse and the man inside of the carriage got out, +and when this man on the front seat jumped down and went behind and got +on the other side of the lady then I got down to shut the door and this +here man who sat in the rear says, 'Drive down and turn around and come +back and wait until I whistle,' and then I shut the door and they moved +off; the woman was in between these two men. I went down the hill and +turned around, and when I came back I saw them in the act of getting +over the fence. It was a kind of a three-board fence." + +The witness then related that a panic seized him and that he ran away +from the scene as fast as he could, leaving the horse tied where he +stood. + +If George H. Jackson's story was true there can be no doubt of Scott +Jackson's and Alonzo Walling's guilt. + +The next witnesses of importance were the two detectives Crim and +McDermott. + +Crim testified first. He said: + +"I live in Cincinnati. Have been connected with the Police Department +about ten years; on the detective force two years. I was detailed on the +Pearl Bryan case. I went to the point where the body was found, +Saturday, February 1st, in the neighborhood of one o'clock, in company +of McDermott and Mr. Plummer, Sheriff of this county. + +"I went out with Mr. Plummer and he described the position that the +body was lying in when found. I noticed a few spots of blood on the +ground, one on the side of the bank and the other down near the bottom, +where the neck was supposed to be lying. I noticed blood on the bushes +and on the edge of the bank. Mr. McDermott pulled the leaves through his +hand and the blood stuck to his fingers; he rubbed it on the back of his +hand and it made a red mark. I took one of the leaves and have it with +me now. This is the leaf. (The leaf was then exhibited to the jury). I +have kept that leaf in another book until I filled that one up and then +I placed it in this. It is a leaf I plucked from the bushes there. There +were a number of the leaves that had blood upon them, drops like +rain-drops would glisten on the same. I found near these blood spots an +impression in the ground as though some one had been sitting there. +During the time I was there some person took a stick and dug down in the +ground six or seven inches. There was blood down as far as he went, or +some red substance I thought was blood. On the top of the bank, I judge +three feet from where this impression was, there was a track which +looked as though it had been made with a rubber shoe of small size. +About the size of the rubber shown me. The witness also testified that +he had made a search of the room occupied by Jackson. He found a pair of +ladies stockings behind a trunk pointed out to him as Scott Jackson's +trunk and which had on it the letters "S. J." He also found, in the +trunk, a ladies pocket-book with a piece of gold chain in it. In a +closet was found a cap. McDermott was present when the search was made +and testified exactly as Mr. Crim did. + +John W. Legner was called and testified. + +"I live in Cincinnati. I kept a saloon at 225 West Ninth Street, nearly +opposite where Walling and Jackson roomed. Scott Jackson had been in my +place quite frequently; he came for a pitcher of beer." + +"State whether at any time he left any article of any kind at your +place." + +"On Saturday night, the 1st of February, between 7 and 8 o'clock. Mr. +Jackson, whose name I did not know at the time, but had seen on two or +three occasions, opened the door and asked if he could have the +permission to leave a satchel there; I told him certainly he could. He +set the satchel down close to the ice chest, left it there and went +away, and the satchel remained there until Sunday evening about 10 +o'clock, when he came in and took it away. He left no directions as to +its disposal. On the following Monday night he came and brought it and +set it down in the same place where it was sitting before, and it +remained there until about 10 o'clock, or a little bit earlier; then he +came and took it away. I had no occasion to handle the valise on either +occasion. The valise shown me looks like the valise that he brought +here. He roomed right across the way from my place." + +Little Dot Legner, a child belonging to the saloon-keeper testified that +the satchel was much heavier on the first night than on the second. It +has been conjectured, very plausibly, that the valise contained Pearl +Bryan's head, on the first night. + +William D. Wood, of Greencastle, Ind., was called. Wood's name has been +very prominently connected with the case on account of his knowledge of +Pearl Bryan's condition and the part he played in sending the girl to +Cincinnati. In answer to questions he stated that he introduced Scott +Jackson to Pearl Bryan in August, 1895, and that some time afterward +Jackson boasted that he had become intimate with the girl. According to +Wood, Jackson left Greencastle in October to take a course of dentistry +in Cincinnati and that soon afterward Jackson wrote and inquired if +Pearl Bryan was sick. Wood investigated and replied that she was sick. +Then Jackson sent a prescription for medicine and said: + +"Tell her to take two or three good doses before she goes to bed at +night." + +The medicine had no effect. Additional prescriptions were then sent. +They were unsuccessful. Pearl continued "sick." + +Wood then stated that Jackson went to Greencastle again during the +holidays. The condition of Pearl was becoming more threatening and it +was plain that something had to be done. Then it was that Jackson +suggested an operation. The witness testified on this point. + +"He said that it was very frequently done, done every day and if he had +the instruments he could do it himself. Such operations, he said, were +every day occurrences and if we got it done she would be all right in +three or four days." + +Before Jackson left Greencastle he tried to make Wood agree to send her +to Cincinnati where the matter could be attended to, but Wood claimed +that he refused, not wishing to have anything to do with it. + +On January 4th, Jackson left Greencastle and returned to Cincinnati and +on January 25th, Wood received a letter from him in which he said that +he had secured a room for Pearl. Wood claims that he gave this letter to +Pearl. She read it and expressed her intention of going on the next +Monday. Accordingly on January 27th, she left Greencastle on the 1:35 +train, going east. + +On February 6th, 1896, Wood received another letter. He was then on the +train in charge of the officers, as an accomplice of Scott Jackson who +had been arrested. The letter was destroyed by Wood but he remembered +the contents. The letter read. + +"Hello Bill--I have made a big mistake and we will probably get into +trouble. I want you to stand by me." + +On the day before this Wood received the following strange letter which +was produced in court and which we already published on page 77. + +The witness stated that the above letter never reached him--that it fell +into the hands of Chief Deitsch. The letter was most damaging to +Jackson's case. + +The next and last witness for the prosecution was Chief of Police, +Colonel Deitsch, of Cincinnati. He said: + +"On February 5th, about 10 o'clock at night I met Jackson in charge of a +detective officer named Bulmer on the corner of Ninth and Plum Streets, +in Cincinnati. I went up to Scott Jackson and said then, "We want you at +the Mayor's office." We walked into the Mayor's office--Mayor Caldwell, +of Cincinnati--and there was no one present at the time except myself, +His Honor, the Mayor, and Scott Jackson. Detective Bulmer came into the +office but walked out. I told Scott Jackson I had a dispatch for his +arrest. He sat on the settee, and I asked, "Where is Pearl Bryan?" He +said, "I have not seen her since the 2nd day of January, 1896, at +Greencastle, Ind." The Mayor partly read the dispatch and gave it to me, +and I had handed it to Jackson, and said: "Jackson read the contents of +that dispatch." He read it carefully, and then said: "Oh my God, what +will my poor mother say?" I asked the question, "Do you know where Pearl +Bryan is?" He said he did not. He got up off the settee and made the +remark over again. "Oh, my God, what will my poor mother say?" He walked +backward and forward. He made the remark. "Must I tell about this?" His +Honor, the Mayor, said, "Not unless you want too." The Mayor repeated +that twice. He said, "Jackson, you need not tell unless you want too." I +then again asked him if he knew anything about Pearl Bryan. He said that +he did not. Shortly after that conversation the reporters from the daily +press were admitted and my interview with Jackson at that time ended." + +The Colonel stated that on the following day Jackson requested an +interview. Following are the Colonels words: + +I asked Jackson. "Did you have anything to do with the woman down at +Greencastle?" He said: "Yes, I did." "Did you write a letter to Wood +advising him to give her ---- of ----?" He said he did, and shortly +afterward got a letter again from Will Wood, saying that it had no +effect. And in the meantime he had a conversation with Walling about +the subject. Walling advised him to give ---- of ----; then in a +conversation again with Walling about the matter Walling made the +remark: "Bring her up here and we will...." I repeated to Jackson: "Is +that statement correct?" He said that it was. "And did you send for +Pearl Bryan then?" He said that he did. When that conversation was +ended a satchel was brought into the office--a red satchel. Opening the +satchel I asked himto look into it; says I, "Jackson, what is in this +satchel; look." He says, "There is nothing." Says I, "Did you observe +anything unusual?" and I called his attention to some blood that was +on the inside of the satchel. He says, "I did not notice that before." +I asked him whether he had opened it; he says, "Yes; I took part of +Pearl Bryan's clothing on Saturday evening on the Suspension Bridge and +threw it overboard into the Ohio River." + +He furthermore described a meeting between Jackson and Walling in his +presence in the course of which Walling and Jackson accused each other +of having murdered Pearl Bryan. The witness also repeated a conversation +between the two that took place in a peculiarly constructed cell, called +"The Sensitive Cell." A telephone attachment connected this cell with +other apartments in the building, hence its name. This part of the +testimony was ruled out by the court. + +The defense began its testimony by placing Scott Jackson on the stand. +All the man's natural shrewdness came to his aid while on the stand. His +words were clear, frankly spoken and there was no hesitation in his +manner. He acted the innocent man to perfection. + +There is little about his testimony that is very remarkable or startling +as he disclaims all the manner of knowledge of Pearl Bryan's death. +Neither does he accuse anyone of the murder. He merely adheres to his +theory that Walling is guilty--that is all. He maintains that Walling +was confused and panic stricken when he saw the articles in the +newspapers describing the finding of the body at Fort Thomas. Then it +was, says Jackson, that they hastened to get rid of all the effects +belonging to Pearl Bryan which were in their possession. He also +maintained that Wood sent the girl to Cincinnati and that finding her +here he tried to hit upon means of best taking care of her. + +He concluded to allow her to remain at the Indiana House temporarily +until he could secure her private accommodations. As these could easily +be had he took her valise and started away to hunt for convenient +quarters. That is how he happened to have Pearl Bryan's effects in his +keeping. + +His narrative was very smooth. + +Miss Rose McNevin at whose home Jackson was staying testified that +Jackson had not left the house on the night of the murder, she stated +that she always knew when her fourteen roomers were at home. She is able +to remember for two weeks the exact hour of the night when each of her +guests came into the house. Her memory is quite a good one. + +A certain individual who gave his name as Wm. Trusty was introduced by +the defense. Trusty claimed to have driven the cab containing Pearl +Bryan to Fort Thomas. He stated that she was dead and that Jackson and +Walling were in charge of the corpse. He claimes to have been told that +an abortion had been attempted and that the woman had died from the +effects of it, and that Jackson and Walling had undertaken to get rid of +the body. + +Immediately after testifying Trusty flew for parts unknown. None +believed his story. + +On May 12th, Colonel Nelson began his speech to the jury. It was a most +remarkable effort, being intensely dramatic and spell-binding in its +eloquence. + +Colonel Crawford replied for the defense and made an able argument. + +On May 14th, Colonel Lockhart made the concluding speech for the +Commonwealth and the case went to the jury. + +After a short session the jury returned and informed the court of their +joint agreement that they find Scott Jackson + +GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +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?" 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(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) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, by Unknown + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERIOUS MURDER--PEARL BRYAN *** + +***** This file should be named 29569.txt or 29569.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/5/6/29569/ + +Produced by David Garcia, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net from +images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital +Library. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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