Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-02-12
IT IS A DEEP MYSTERY
Story of the Death and Decapi,
tation of Pearl Bryan.
THREE MEN WHO KNOW OF |
scott Jackson and AlonZo Walling Ac-
cuse Each Other OF Causing
the W oInab's End.

Cincinnati, Feb. 6.-All day the city
has been nervously excited over the
hourly developments OF The story of
the mysterious death of Pearl Bryan,
the Greeneastle, Ind, farmers daugh-
ter What is called confession two of
the young men implicated as her muir
derers is only a strange sort of half
defiant wincing under the semi-torture
of a police examination in which each
culprit appears to be trying to shield
himself as an accidental aceomplice
and make the other the real criminal.
SO far it is known that Pearl Bryan,
about TO become a mother and desirous
of hiding her shame, left Greencastle,
Ind, Tuesday, January 28 ostensibly
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 ut
the dental college that night but
could not; that she registered at the
Indiana house as "Mable Stanley, city"
and was assigned to room la. After
that the stories about her do not agree
Alonzo NJ. Walling, the roommate of
SSg'N
rested last night charged with the muir
der, says that Jackson saw Miss Bryan
on Wednesday and that he went about
the city with her and finally on Friday
completed the crime of murder, cut
ting off the girls head and bringing it
TO Cincinnati in her own valise, which
he kept until Monday, when he cast
the head into a sewer and threw her
clothing into the Ohio river
On the other hand, Jackson placed
the entire burden on Walling Accord
ing to his story, the lamentable condi-
ton of Miss Bryan was attributed to
| William Wood of Greencastle, who ap-
piled to Jackson to help him cover W
| the girls shame and his own partici.
| patton in the affair. Wood did this
| Jackson says, because he (Jaekson) was
a dental student and supposed to have
access to means for producing an abor
| ton. Jackson denied having any sucf
| knowledge, but recommended Walling
his roommate, who had told him how
| he had assisted two girls from Hamil
ton, O., near his home. Thereupon Woo
sent Miss Bryan to Cincinnati, wher'
Jackson turned her over to Walling
and there his information seemed t,
fall. He said that Walling took tn
girl away from the hotel on Wednesda,
and that was the last he saw of her
But, under the spur of persistent ques
tioning, he made more admissions, sucl
as that he left the girls yalise at
barber shop empty.
But the evidence against these me-
does not depend on their own state
ments. This bloody valise is shown b
other witnesses to have been left a
a barber shop by Jackson. He coul
not have been innocent of Its ghastl
use when he admitted that 1t belonge
to the poor girl, and that 1t containe
her clothing and toilet articles, which
he says he carried in installments. da
by day, and threw them into the OH
river.
The main facts Of time. manner an
place of the girls death remain unr,
yealed. 1t is reasonably clear that 81
met her death Friday night. The theoI
e that bungllng mechanical operate
d caused her death is clearly disproyt
Il by the coroner's investigation. So all
o is the theory of death from drugs,
n the analysis Of her stomach showed ]
such condition. 1t is clear she WI
either brutally beheaded or was kill
? by an anaesthetic. As death from {
e latter cause can only be determin
by the condition of the blood, and
: decapitation depleted the veins, IN
question can only be settled by the u
, timony of witnesses. Imagination sta
I, gers at the suggestion of cold-blood
- murder by decapitation and leaves I
v only plausible theory that the girl di
,,v5ar the Influence of an anaesthe
and that the subsequent treatment