The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-06
SCOTT JACKSON ARRESTED IN GIN
CINNATI FOR THE DEED.
Detectives After william Wood, Son of
the Rev. ID. NJ. Wood, and Charged
as an Accomplice.
MIDNIGHT HEARING In COURT
JACKSON TELLS HIS STORY AND Is
HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
Supposed to Have Carried the Girls
Head in a Valise All Day Satur-
day I'm Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 5.-The college
town OF Greencastle, Ind, tonight furnished
a sensation that necessitated a midnight
session of the Mayors Court, which re-
suited in Scott Jackson, OF Greencastle, be-
ing sent to Jail without bail, on a charge
of numbering Miss Pearl Bryan, of Green
castle. Miss Bryan was a society young
woman of that city. daushter of one of
the wealthiest families Of Putnam county,
Indiana, and hers is believed to be the head
less body ford a few days ago in Ken
lucky. Last Saturday morning the body of
a woman, evidently murdered and with
the head cut off, was found near Fort
Thomas, KY, a few miles from this city
Since then the officers of this city, Newport
and Covington. KY, have exhausted every
effort to find the murderer. Every clew was
pursued. They have kept the body at the
Newport morgue and have been unable TO
find the head, although the soldiers of the
fort joined with citizens and officers in
securing the country, dredging the Ohio
river and tributaries and in draining reser-
voirs The first clew was struck to-day at
Greencastle, Ind, developing one Of the
most brutal murders on record.
At 10 o'clock tonight the following tele-
gram from Greencastle came to Colonel
Deitsch, chief of police:
ARREST and charge with murder or Pearl
Bryan one Scott Jackson, student at dental
college. About twenty-four years old, five
feet seven or eight inches high, weighs
about lS5; blonde, sandy mustache light
complexion, gray hair, beard of about SIX
weeks growth, effeminate in appearance.
Positive Identification Of clothing by family
ALSO arrest, If in Cincinnati, William
accomplice. About twenty years old, i've
feet eleven inches. light blonde hair, smooth
face, rather slender, weighs about l6O
I'VE go from here TO South Bend after
Wood as he left here for that place.
GRIM, M'DERMoTT AND PLUMMFR y
Accordingly, at 1915, Scott Jackson was in
the Mayors Office under examination by the
Mayor and chief OF police. The culprit was
perfectly described in the above telegram
from the detectives. He stood the ordeal
with apparent calmness, though 1t lasted
till midnight most Of the time before the
Mayor and chief alone. The prisoner, Scott
Jackson was neatly dressed and had a
youthful appearance. His naturally ruddy
face flushed perceptibly under the examina-
ton, and his light blue eyes wandered from
his questioners in spite Of a visible effort
| to bear up and look them square in the eyes.
| His voice was reasonably firm, yet it re-
quired an effort to keep it in that state.
| Now and then he faltered slightly, but i'm
| mediately braced up.
IN THE SWEAT Box
There was at no time any expression of
| Indignation at his arrest nor did he ex-
| hibit any signs that he felt humiliated by
| it, This however, should count for but lit.
tle as mis- arrest and examination came like
| ttrnder claps In quick succession. His ac-
| count of his whereabouts last Friday night
| was not by any means conclusively satis-
| factory, nor was it conclusvcly convictng.
| He denied guilt, but admitted that he knew
| Pearl Bryan. He could tell nothing about
where she was or where she had been dur
| ing the past few weeks.
| AS to mis- whereabouts last Friday hight.
| his roommate, Mr.. Lamping, was exam
| ired first and alone. lie sail jackson was
| n about ~ o'clock or therabouts on Friday
| night That was all he coull say, as Jack
| son could go in and out at all times with
| out his knowledge. Jackson himself said
| that on Friday night he was at supper at
| his clearinghouse at O'Clock, and was
there again at about 10 O'Clock. The rest
| Of his story is very vague. though he said
| he was in his room all night.
| The worst part of Jackson's story-the
| weakest part OF it's that about his con-
| duct on last Saturday. He boarded at No.
| 212 West Ninth street, next to Robinsrn's s
| Opera House. On Saturday he took \ valise
| and left it In Lenglers saloon. opposite
| his clearinghouse. This valise he carried
| with him all over the city that day and
| evening. The theory is that the head OF the
| murdered girl was probably in that valse,
| and he was travelling about with 1. to de-
| stroy IL without being discovered. The ac-
| counting for this valise and why ne car
ried il all day and night puzzled him more
| than anything else In fact, he prevaricatel
| and afterward acknowledged that he had
| lied. The matter win be sifted in court to-
| morrow Meanwhile he is committed with
out bail and will spend the night in jail.
| 1t has transpired tonight that Scott
| Jackson was seen with Miss Bryan at Dave
| WaIlingfords saloon, at the northeast cor
ner of George and Plum streets, this city,
| Friday night, between and o'clock and
Jackson borrowed two dollars from WAL
| lingford. This man will be a most import
| ant, If not the most important witness,
| against Jackson. The location of Plum and
| George streets is in the tenderloln district
| Of this city
| JACKSON'S ACCOaIPLICE.
| A dispatch from Greencastle says: The
| family Of A. s. Bryan, a leading farmer.
| living less than two miles from this city,
| have identified the clothing brought here
| by detectives from Cincinnati and Newport,
Ky, as that of their daughter. Pearl Bryan.
| They furnish other information and cir
| cumstances which leave doubt in the
minds OF the officers who have been here
since yesterday that the body of the wom-
| an murdered and beheaded near Fort
Thomas. opposite Cincinnati, last Friday
night, Is that Of their daughter Pearl, aged
| twenty-three years. who left home Jan. 2s
ostenYbly to visit her friend. Miss Jane
Fisher on Central avenue Indianapolis
They have made every possible inquiry to-
day and find that she did not visit Miss
Fishery in Indianapolis. but that
she fas taken TO CINCINNATI By