St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-07
AND A MINISTER'S SON UNDER
ARREST
FOR PEARL BRYAN'S MURDER.
WALLING, MAKE A PARTIAL
CONFESSION.
And Carried 1t Around in a VaHse
After Throwing Her Clothes
Into the River.

CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. s.-All day
the city has been excited over the hour
ly developments Of the, now famous
story OF the mysterious death of Pearl
Bryan, the Greencastle, Ind. farmers
daughter. What Is called a confess
sion Of two of the young men iupli-
Gated as her murderers Is only q
strange sort of half-defiant. wincing
under the semi-torture Of a police ex-
| animation, in which each culprit ap-
pears to be trying to shield himself
as an accidental accomplice and make
the other the real criminal. So far. it
is known that Pearl Bryan left Green
| castle, Ind, Tuesday, Jan. 20, ostensi-
bly, to visit Mrs. Fisher, in Indianapolis
That William Wood saw her to the
train; that she came directly to Gin
cinnati, tried to see Scott Jackson at
the dental college that night, but could
not; that she registered at the Indiana
house as Mabel Stanley, City" and
was assigned to Room ia After that.
the stories about her do not agree.
Alonzo M Walling, the room mate of
Scott Jackson, both of whom were ar
rested last night charged with the mur-
der, says that Jackson saw Miss BRYAN
| on Wednesday, and that he went about
the city with her, and finally, on Fri
day completed the crime of murder.
cutting off the girls head and bringing
1t to Cincinnati in her own valica.
which he kept until Monday, when he
threw the head into a sewer and threw
her clothing into the Ohio river. On
the other hand, Jackson, in a half
al
mentative manner, placed the entire
burden on Walling. According to his
story, the lamentable condition of Miss
Bryan was attributed to William Wood,
Of Greencastle, who applied to Jack
son to help him and aid the girl Jack
son recommended Walling, his room
mate. Wood sent Miss Bryan to Gin
cinnati, where Jackson turned her over
to Walling, and there his information
seemed to fail He said that Walling
took the girl away, from the hotel on
Wednesday, and that was the last he
saw of her. y;r
But under the spur of persistent ques-
tioning, he made many more adnis-
sions, such as that he left the girls
val1ce at barber shop empty, where
the police found it. The chief of po-
lice asked him to open the valice, and
had him describe the
CHASTITY BLOOD STAINS
made, as Jackson argued, by the sew
cred head of the victim. But he al
most viciously denied that he had car
ried the valise with the girls bloody
head in 1T. His confession was in
shreds and patches, accusations against
Walling and denials Of what incrim-
mated himself, but all the time admit
ting that he knew the purpose for
which Pearl Bryan came to Cincin-
natl, and that he knew ON Friday night
that she was dead.
But the evidence against these men
does not depend upon their own state
ments. This bloody valise is shown by
other witnesses to have been left at
barber shop by Jackson. He could
not have been innocent of it's CHASTITY
use when he admits that it belonged
to the poor girl, and that it contained
her clothing and toilet articles, which,
he says, he threw into the Ohio river
saloonkeeper has identified the men
as having been in his saloon with two
women, and says that on Friday night
Jackson borrowed 81 from him to take
buggy ride. Saturday night he paid
$1.75 back. On Jackson's person when
arrested were three ladies' handker-
chiefs, which he said he found on a
street car on Sunday night, but which
were more probably taken from the
valise of Miss Bryan.
The main facts of the time. manner
and place or the girls death remain
unrevealed. The theory that bum
Cling operation caused her death is
clearly disproved by the coroners in
Vesdgation. So also is the theory of
death from drugs, as the analysis of
her stomach showed no such condi-
tion. 1t is clear she was either brutally
beheaded, or was killed by an anaes-
thet1c. AS death from the latter cause
can only be determined by the condi-
ton of the blood, and as decapitation
depleted the veins, that question can
only be settled by the testimony of a
witness. Imagination staggers at the
suggestion of cold -blooded murder by
decapitation, and leaves the only plaus-
ible theory that the girl died under the
influence of an anaesthetic, and that
the subsequent treatment of her body
was to hide the cause of death
Late this afternoon, in the locker of
Waling at the dental college, was found
a pair OF trousers wrapped in paper
They belonged to- Jackson: Blood and
mud were on the knees and other por-
tions of the garment Jackson denied
having seen them for month And so
this mystery is in the process Of solu-
ton, little by little, with hundreds of
searching eyes turned to every avail
able source of evidence, while the pub
lie stands aghast at the fiendish afro
city of the men implicated
William Wood, who was arrested at
South Bend, is a near relative of Rev.
Mr.. Wood, the presiding elder of that
district of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
A startling statement was made by
Jackson in his cell this morning which
may be claSSed as an indication of the
sort of plea the man will make in case
the circumstances point to him as the
murderer of Pearl Bryan. 'T am af-
h1cted with fainting spells,'' he said,
and after they pass away 1 get delir-
1ous and don't know what am doing.
When was a boy, living in Indianap-
oils, 1 have risen in delirium after
spell and dressed myself and have wan
dered around for hours without know
Ing what have done.'
YOUNG WOOD ARRESTED.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 6.-Will-
lam Wood, arrested at South Bend Ind.
by Cincinnati detectives as an accom-.
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