The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-26
SOME IMPORTANT CLUES
Story Told by Policeman Kinney,
of the Central Depot.
His Description of the Girl When
Last Seen With WalIing Fits Pearl
Bryan Perfectly The Theory
Now Advanced-PresentT Trial VIII
Be Greatly Prolonged.


in the trial of Scott jackson does not
abate in the least. Twenty-one wit
nesses We're examined today. Most of
these were simply used to fill gaps in
testimony already given, or to corrob-
crate the same. There was some strong
evidence to show that the ground
where the body was found near Fort
Thomas was soaked with blood nearly
a foot deep. The paucity of blood on
the surface has been one of the OBJ
structing points on which the defense
set much value. The most important
testimony was that of two or three
witnesses in the afternoon.
PROCEEDED RAPIDLY.
The examination Of witnesses in the
Scott Jackson trial proceeded rapidly
today. Private Weaver of For. Thomas
testified concerning the human hair he
found in a clot of blood on the ground
where the body was found. Mrs
Bryan was called. She compared a
lock of Pearl Bryan's hair, cut from
the head year ago, with hair men
toned by Weaver, and found the two
alike. William Newell, newspaper
man, produced a. bloody leaf found on
the scene of the murder.
W. o. Pickard testified that on the
31st Of January last little after noon,
he saw Walling and a woman come
out Of Atlantic garden into College
street. Jackson joined them. The
woman seemed hesitating. Jackson
was talking, gesticulaIting earnestly
Mrs. Plymouth Weeks of Cincin-
natl, a spiritualist medium, testified
that in the last week of January, Pearl
Bryan and Jackson came to her place.
Pearl told her ~who she was, also her
condition. Witness advised her to go
home.
The first witness in the afternoon, ].
Kugel, Cincinnati saloon keeper, with
whom Jackson left Pearl Bryans va
lise, testified to the fact and identified
the valise. Detective White identified
the coat taken from a catch basin in
his presence. Probably
THE MOST IMPORTANT TEST
MONY
of the day was that of Pat J. Kinney,
policeman ait the Central Union depot,
from which trains leave for Indianap-
oils. Kinney's business is to announce
trains. He said that on January 81
Alonzo Walling came to the sitting
Central depot, about o'clock in the
afternoon and remained there until
4:10 This witness knows Alonzo Wall
ing perfectly. There was a lady whom
Walling brought there who seemed in
deep distress. Witness noticed them
particularly because he expected them
to take train and was surprised that
they did not do so, though many trains
left the depot during those two hours.
h. iaf
in her right hand all the time, and
was shedding tears. Walling seemed to
be talking to her in an earnest, per-
suasive manner. Witness description
of the girl
FITS PEARL BRYAN PERFECTLY
He was shown a photograph of Pearl
Bryan and identified it positively as
that of the girl he saw with Walling
in the depot waiting room. He said a
train left at 8 o'clock that afternoon
for Indianapolis
The theory is that Pearl Bryan went
to the depot to take the train to In
dianapolis and that Walling per-
suaded her not to go. They left the
depot together The recital of this
evidence brought tears to the eyes of
Pearl Bryan's mother, who was sit
ting inside the bar, far removed from
the sight of the jury. This evidence
was intended to supplement and fit
into that given by Mr.. Pinkard in the
forenoon in which he related about
seeing Walling coming out of the At
lantic Garden with a blonde girl, a.
little after noon January 81, stopping
a while in College street, where Jack
son stood in front of the pair talking
and gesticulating with great earnest
ness The time for the Walling trial
was changed from May to May II.
This indicates that the present trial
will he protracted