Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-06
JACKsON's STORY.
On the Stand He Tells of His Life
From the Cradle to the Cell.
Admits of His Visit to waiiinx ford'. sa-
loon With Pearl Bryan. but Claims 1t
Was on Thursday and Not Friday
Night That They Were There.

NEWPORT. Ky. April ss-Detective Cal
Grim was on tho witness stand nearly all Of
Monday morning. He described the scene
where the body was found. spoke of the search
OF the room. ard. interrupted by numerous
objections by Attorney Crawford. was allowed
TO tea some of the statements made by
jackson and Mailing TO the police authori-
ties after the arrest But the most important
part OF his testimony was that regarding the
conversation overheard by the police over the
telephone line connected with the fly -
or sensitive cell in which the two prison-
ers were placed when brought back TO Gen.
trail police station from the Hamilton
county jail during the course OF which Jack
son told waiting that he had PLAYED mis- mart
wen ana cautioned him 10 stand pat when
they got over the river Detective McDermott
was also put on the stand and corroborated
the testimony OF Detective Grim Will Wood
was recalled and admitted to writing certain
letters to Scott Jackson The letters were put
In evidence
NEwPOhT. April % The prosecution in the
jackson trial presented some entirely new
evidence Tuesday morning Ia the shape OF
several letters written by Scott jackson TO
fearl Bryan aud one by Jackson to DR. Giles
pie
These letters were handed to the court by
Attorney hayes, OF GreencaStle. who has been
assisting IN the prosecution The ones written
10 Pearl were presumably furnished by the
dead girls relatives They clearly show how
jackson could assume when the occasion re-
quired the air OF young man OF religious
turn OF mind The letter to Dr. Gillespie Is
considered highly important from the fact
that IL was written on January 81 of this year.
the day before the hcadless body was found
In IL Jackson cautions Gillespie TO stick by
him
George Jackson. coaehman for Mai widdi-
neld OF Mt Auburn. was then placed on the
stand ana repeated his story already pub
ltshed 10 the effect that he drove jackson.
e Walling and the girl to the Locke farm the
night before the body was discovered
VIM. TcRlcr then testified TO seeing Alonzo
Walling at the corner of Baker alley and Elm
street on Friday with girl who resembled
the description OF Pearl Bryan. Witness then
described the girls clothing The hat on
being shown him was identified as the one
worn 10y the girl, The woman was weeping
The couple stood there for a few minutes, then
went toward Fourth street
Chas Vickers. Chief Deitsch's clerk, testi-
fed that Saloonist Joseph Kugcl brought u
valtse TO his once left in his saloon by Scott
Jackson. The witness took IL TO Col Dcitsch
The valise is now In the same condition it was
then, except the blood spots have dried and n
few hairs. several inches long, light In color
sticking to II have disappeared
There was surprise in the courtroom at the
carclessness through which the hairs were
lost Vickers said they were still in the vaIise
when he took 1t INTO Col Dcitsch's office
VIM Cassidy, Newport butcher. testified
to crossing the Central railroad bridge on the
night of January 81, or morning OF February /:
between u 90 and l. 30 He was coming over
from Cincinnati "A gray horse and carriage.
rapidly driven. came up behind 1 remarked
that they seemed To be in n hurry"
Sheriff Plummer testified and gave n graphic
description OF the scene OF tho murder A. no
told how the body lay Pearl Bryan's mother
bowed her head The sherins description
corroborated that already given The spot
was visible from only one point on either OF
the roads nearby
NEWPORT. Ky. April 30 -wednesday morn
ing the prosecution in the jackson murder
trial sprung n surprise in the testimony OF
Mrs Sarah Settler. who lives on the Licking
pike. She says that on the Thursday morning
before the murder. while on her way TO New
port, she met jackson and Walling going south
on the same road and they insulted her
"Wednesday morning Photographer Carlo
testified that he has had % years experience
in his business He made numerous photo
graphs Of Pearl Bryan's body and different
portions OF IL as IL lay in Whites undertaking
establishment in Newport Those photographs
OF the body, headless and mutilated by the
post-mortem operations, were handed to the
jury. For several moments the twelve men
studied them intently second collection of
pictures OF the girls hands and feet were in
troduced Judge Helm looked at them nrst
before he overruled Crawford's objection, and
handed them TO the jury.
Dr. Edwin Freeman, professor OF surgery in
the Eclectic Medical college OF Cincinnati
testified In answer to Hypothetical ques-
tion by Attorney Hays. as to the condition OF
the cuts on the body OF the murdered girl
when found the doctor said: The cuts must
have been made during life The veins
would not have emptied by drainage
from dead body. The blood
must have been thrown out by con-
traction OF the heart The heart does not con-
tract after death There is also no rcIraction
OF the skin after death, except Just immcdi-
ateiy II ceases q few minutes after death
There Is an irritability of the skin within a
few minutes after death. but II quickly passes
away. and in vigororous more quickly than in
weak persons. II can be paralyzed a short
time by electricity"
DO you understand that the body was In
clinede' the court asked
Yes: and say the blood could not have
drained from the body II the cut was made
after death 1t would only have drained from
the neck and adjacent parts. The balance OF
the blood had 10 pass through the heart and
tae heart must have been in action when the
arties OF the neck were severed"
Her death was caused by the hemorrbave
OF blood and the severing OF the spinal cord
Death follows almost Immediately. IL not i'm
mediately, on the severance Of the spinal cord
at the neck"
The cut would have been clear one. with
out rctractioD Of the skin and the blood vcs-
sells would have been filed The blood on the
leaves necessarily indicates some change Of
the position in which the front Of the body was
elevated. When the arteries were cut the
blood spurted in a shower"
The doctor was shown photograph Of the
dead body and after a close examination he
said by the appearance at the spinal column
and oy the ring OF the rctractcd skin drawn
back into fold. the head evidently was sever
cd before Death. That condition could not
have been produced by sevcrins the head Of a
dead body
On cross-exami nation tho witness admitted
that the und.rtaKcr's work Of three hours on
that neck tying 10 up to prevent the the flow
u nnids might hayd caused the appearance as
sho"n 90 the picture Il don't think that the
retracton Of the skin could have been done
carclessiy after death. but only purposrlv
IAe arteries stand out in the soft tissues and
not near tre skin 10 IS not necessary TO re-
tract the skin 10 get hold OF them and tic
them. or course. there might he some pnsh-
ing back through awkwardncss In my first
answer ] did not take any such element into
consideration
Col leitsch. superintendent Of the Cincin-
nati police force testified TO the finding Of the
headic's body. the arrest Of Jackson
and Na,iing ard his conversation with
the prisoners 40 different times after their
arrest The bloody satcheI was handed tho
colonel On the stand. and he Identified 10 as
thc orc Jackson said was Pearl Brvau's
There we're spots on tho satchcI when he re-
ccivcd 90 In his once q day or two after Jack
sons arrest Jeitsch suggested to Jackson
tnat Tic spots were blood. jackson said IL
looked HEc 10 but didn't know lie also thought
Pearl H-yan's head had been boz the satchcl
jackson told tho chief that after he brought
the satcncl TO the saloon OF John G.cgucr n stu
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