The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-09

Officer James Mount made very i'm
portant find in the case. On a clew from
cabman Rigsby, Mount went to work on
the theory that IL was possible for the cab
to have been used. and that the man who
drove in place of Rigsby could have very
easily placed figure one in front OF the
real number, seventy-six. with grease
paint thus deceiving the bridge collector,
who said the cab was No. 176.
Officer Mount decided to take up the mat
ter closely, and this afternoon he went to
the Metropolitan stable. where Rigsby
keeps his cab, and with a lantern examined
the carriage. He found light summer lap
robe OF pink and white material we'll
fringed. He took 1t to the light and there
discovered that there were several big blood
stains. They are in the corner of the robe.
and one spot is as big as mans hand.
The other is straight streak of blood. and
laps over the fringe on the edge, as though
1t had been partly folded when the blood got
on it.
Colonel Deitsch was more than elated
with the find, and will now run down the
clew for the cab on his line. DIR. French
made microscopic examination of the
spots on the blanket, and declares that
they are human blood. but will make. for
certalntyS 8 sake, a chemical test.
MURDERED GIRLS SISTER.
Late IN the afternoon Jackson and Wal
ling We're taken to Epply's undertaking es-
tablishment in Cincinnati. and were brought
before the headless body of their victim.
which had been brought over from New
port. The whole scene was uncanny. The
prisoners looked on what remained of the
girl whose life they had taken less than a
week ago. and saw the shocking sight of
headless body. the miserable work of their
own hands But no sign of remorse nor even
of any sort of emotion was visible in their
faces.
To add to the unparalleled ordeal. Mrs.
Stanley, the sister of the dead girl, went to
her murderers and begged them, with a
woman's tears coursing down her cheeks,
to tell her where she might find her sisters
head. But nothing moved them, and, heart
broken, the weeping sister was led away,
while the men were taken to the county
JAIL where they will be kept until the day
of their examination, or until 1t is decided
that they shall go to Kentucky for trial.
The body of Pearl Bryan was given up to
her relatives, and the sorrowing company
started with it tonight to Greencastfe to
give il peaceful burial in the home cemetery.
While Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling,
the accused murderers of Pearl Bryan, are
in Jail the detectives at the city building are
hearing voluntary reports from citizens A
long written statement made by Walling to
the colored turnkey Of the stationhouse was
presented tonight. 1t is a repetition Of
Wallings former accusations of jackson.
Meantime the grand jury is in session in
Newport, Ky. 1t will no doubt indict both
W a.
Kentucky without a requisiton.
The present available evidence does not
show whether the murder was in Ohio or in
Kentucky, whether the girl was murdered
in Ohio and carried dead into Kentucky or
taken alive from Ohio and murdered in
Kentucky. Until that question is solved
it will be difficult to bring them to trial.
At present they are liable to indictment in
both States. In either case their
strongest defense would be found in
the lack of jurisdiction of the court.
The able attorneys of both Wall
ing and Jackson are fully aware of this,
and will fight to the bitter end any requisi-
ton to take them into Kentucky. The best
legal talent says that if Ohio claims the
criminal the burden of proof that the crime
was committed here will rest Ohio.
Failing to prove that fact the finding of
the body in Kentucky will give that State
jurisdiction.
The officers continued their search
for the head to-day in the0 sewers,
at the Dayton sandbar and elsewhere. and
had large number OF workingmen en-
ployed, but without result.
WALLING HAD THE GIRLS HEAD.
Fred Maxwell a son of Erwin Maxwell,
of the Palace Hotel, who resides in Dayton.
told story to Chief Deitsch that adds an
other link TO the chain of circumstances
already woven. Maxwell says that last
Monday afternoon, about 1:30 o'clock, a
man was on the same car with him bound
for Dayton, Ky. He had a bundle in his
lap, and while sitting in the car it fell and
dropped on the floor very heavily, aid
without a rebound. Like a flash the man
picked it up and partially hid it with Lis
coat. He was very nervous, and seemed
to be watching everybody. When Maxwell
left the car the stranger was still liz it.
Maxwell says it was just such a bundle as
a head would make. Maxwell was taken
to the cell room, and a big crowd followed.
Maxwell looked at Jackson first, and when
he was taken from his cell and seated on
a chair Maxwell asked that a stiff hat be
put on his head. He could not identify
Jackson, and was then taken to see Wall
ing. AS soon as he was seated as he would
appear when in a car Maxwell said
HE is the man who had the bundle"
Walling denied it, but as he has admit
ted getting away with the bloody clothes
it is believed that he may have tended to
disposing of the girls head also.
1t is believed by many the girl was
rendered semi-unconscious by the admins
tration of cocaine before she was beheaded.
Druggist Ulen has fully identified Jackson
as the man who bought cocaine at his store
Jackson himself admits the purchase but
says he gave 1t to Walling. This is in har-
mony with his story to Secretary T.bbetts,
of the Y. NJ. c. A, that Walling was to be
the active party in the criminal operation.
DEATH BY THE KNIFE.
The doctors have about riddled the con-
fession of Alonzo Walling that Pearl Bryan
met death by quick poison. To profess
sional eyes the condition of the girls body
indicates that she died by the knife and
that she was conscious when she was killed.
second autopsy, substantiatilg these
facts, was held on the body to de-
ternine whether the woman had been MUIR
dered by the knife or poison. The doctors
examined all the vital organs. They were
found in a perfectly normal and healthful