The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-27
WILL BE HEARD TODAY.
Jackson and Walling Extrndition
Case to Come Before the Court.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

jackson and Walling Extradition
Case to Come Before the Court.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CINCINNATI. Feb 26.-The demand of
Sheriff Plummer, of Campbell county, Ken
tucky. for the persons of Scott Jackson
and Alonzo Walling, indicted at Newport
for the murder of Pearl Bryan, will re-
ceive attention in court to-day. Judge ].
d. Ermston, one of Jacksons lawyers, says
a stubborn fight will be made against the
extradition OF the prisoners. I'VE propose
to show" he says. that the prisoners were
not in Kentucky on the night Of Jan. 81
Additional clews in the tragedy are ac-
cupying the attention of the police. Tony
Gastright, of Newport. passed the Tenth
street c. & o. railway bridge the Friday
night before the body of Pearl Bryan was
found in ihe Kentucky highlands. 1t was
raining. Gastright noticed man and
woman standing talking on the bridge
Pearl Bryan's hat was found near this
bridge by Mrs Mary Morgan. Gastright
now believes that the couple were Scott
Jackson and Pearl Bryan. The theory is
that the man and woman had struggle on
the bridge. Jackson knocked the girl
senseless with a stone, found tied in
handkerchief near the hat. Then her body
was taken to the place at which it was
found.
to finish their analysis of the stains of
mud and blood and the sample taken from
Fort Thomas in about three days. DIR.
William Dickore said to-day: while ii
cannot be stated with absolute certainty
that the blood found on Jackson's pants
is human blood, yet 1t Is practically. GER
which carry their unborn young are of the
same shape. The corpuscles differ in size.
Those of an opossum and guinea pig are
pretty nearly the same size as the cor
puscles of human blood. The sample which
we were forced TO tahe was not fresh
enough to enable us 10 determine abso-
chemical analysis is concerned the blood
may be that of an opossum or Of a guinea
pig. But il is out of the question to talk
about opossum blood in this connection.
how did il happen to be mixed up with
mud? 1t seems likely that when Pearl
did it knelt with his right knee on the
ground Hence, there is mud mixed with
the blood on the right knee of the pants
For this reason we ,ha shall I,, analyze the the
latter is chemically the same as that on
the pants, the conclusion will be that the
mud on the pants came from that spot. and
that the blood is not only human blood,
but Pearl Bryan's blood.
The Inclusion so reached will be dia-
metriealy removed frIm aHan guess sS work doy Two
places which may seem alike TO the naked
eye. will be clearly different under the
chemists analysis and miscroscope. Not
only that, but within downward space
of few feet there may be several layers
OF different kinds of ground. They might
not be. and most likely would not be. dis
cernible TO the Impractical eye. but to the
chemist the distinction would stand out
clear as day, and If it is true TO the chem
ist, the chemist can make IL equally clear
and indisputable 10 the most ordinary COM
prehenson. Now you Will observe that
the sample of mud secured by me is off the
surface. IL is from the surface of the
ground that the mud stains on Scott Jack
sons pants must have come IL IL was his
pants that were worn by the murderer who
knelt on the ground when he decapitated
poor Pearl Bryan"