The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-19
FOR WALLING
SCOTT JACKsON's FRIEND GETS THE
DEATH PENALTY ALSO.
The Kentucky Law Exacts Two Lives
for the Murder Of Pearl Bryan
at Fort Thomas.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
NEWPORT, KY, June lS.-The second
slayer of Pearl Bryan must pay the penalty
for the butchery at Fort Thomas. This aft
ernoon- after twentysone days OF one ef.lhe
fiercest legal battles ever fought in Ken
lucky, the jury decided that Alonzo Wall
ing must die. The jury took from noon
until o'clock to consider the case, though
some time was consumed in eating dinner
before the case was considered. From one
of the jurors 1t was learned that an agree
ment was reached on the first ballot. 1t
was just o'clock when the jury raped for
admission to the court room.
Sheriff Plummer stepped to the desk and
took up his gavel. Judge Helm took his
seat and said:
II want to admonish all people assembled
here that we will not tolerate any demon
stration over the verdict. And such per-
sons so doing will be arrested and impris-
oned. Bring in the jury.
The jury chairs had been removed and
the space In front of the clerks desk was
cleared. The jury filed in and Mr.. James
1. Ware. who had been selected as the
foreman, handed the verdict to Clerk
Reuscher. 1t was as follows:
I'VE, the jury ip the case Of the State Of
Kentucky VS.. Alonzo NJ Walling. find him
guilty as charged in the indictment, and fix
the penalty at DEATH"
1t was read in clear voice. The silence
OF death pervaded the room. All eyes were
upon Walling to see how he received 1t.
To all appearances he was the coolest man
In all that vast assembly. He paled slight
Iy as the dread words fell on his ears,
Immediately after the jury was called
Judge Helm issued a commitment at once
for for Willing hn to be taken to- to the covington
from the court room until about fifteen min
utes had elapsed. All the crowd had left,
and attaches OF the court. These closely
surrounded Walling in his chair. He sat
there tanning himself. His brothers. Clint
and Charles Walling. were both crying.
Sheriff Plummer went and sat down by
Wa1lings side, and told him that he would
have to take him over to the Covington
jail. Walling sale. "All right" The sheriff
then told everybody to get out and then
surrounded by the deputies. the sheriff and
Walling passed out A phaeton. drawn by
trance. AS Walllng stepped into this We
hicle he was smiling, In fact he seemed
about himself again. When the phaeton
drove away with the prisoner. Plummer
and Jailer Bitter. great crowd of boys
and girls ran after ii quite a distance down
the street. Colonel Washington gave notice
or an appeal directly after the announce
ment of the verdict. He said IL is almost
impossible to get a person TO make an ef-
ioit " grant a cndISe OF venue, bitter
Is the feeling. Colonel Washington said be-
fore the rendering OF the verdict that the
best he could expect for his client was a
verdict or imprisonment; he did not expect
acquittal
The Bryans. father and mother of Pearl.
and attorney Hayes returned to Green
castle later in the day
Clint and Charles Walling. brothers Of
the condemned man. cried and were COM
pletely prostrated. They said they were
confident that the verdict would not be
worse than confinement in the penitentiary
The Walling boys said that the fate of their
brother will kill their old mother
reporter broke the news to Scott Jack
son in the Covington jail. He was vsibly
affected He turned even a shade naler
than his prison pallor that has been so no.
ticeable for long time. He said he was
surprised at the verdict. He had felt cer-
tain that the jury would disagree Further
than this he would not express an opinion
He refused point blank to commit himself
on the subject as 10 whether the verdict I
was or was not just one.
The closing argument OF Prosecutor
Lockhart occupied the time of court this
morning. His strongest point. perhaps,
was that no clews signs of clews ex-
cept those leading TO Jackson and WaIline
had ever been found after the murder OF
Pearl Bryan Lockhart and all the rest OF
the prosecution fought shy OF the expert
testimony. which Indicated that Pearl
Bryan's head was cut off after death. Roth
the mother of Wallng and the mother of
Pearl Bryan were i'm tears when the Jury
retired TO consider its verdict.