St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-08
NO CLUE YET DISCOVERED AS TO
THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE
MISSING HEAD.
EXCITEMENT MORE INTENSE,
AND LYNCHING IS PREDICTED IF
PRISONERS ARE TAKEN TO
KENTUCKY.
CULPRITs KEEP on COMPOSING,
Physicians Testify That the Girls
Head Was Cut OF While She
Was A1iEe.si

CINCINNATI, o., Feb 7.-AIthough
1t Is just one week since the decapitat-
ed body Of Pearl Bryan was found
near Fort Thomas, KY, there has been
more excitement today over the trag-
edy here and in the Kentucky suburbs
than on any previous day Scott jack
son and Alonzo Walling, the suspects
who were room mates while attending
the Ohio dental college, have been
confessing against each other all day.
They were examined separately and to-
gether. When they are confronted
face to face with each others confess
sions, they call each other liars and ex-
hibt murderous feeling toward each
other. All efforts have been directed
today in finding Pearl Bryan's head.
In the series Of confessions. Jackson
says Walling carried 1t in q valise
to the Covington suspension bridge
and he thinks Walling threw IT in the
river, or he might have carried il with
him to his home at Hamilton and
thrown it from the Miami bridge at that
place; but Jackson says he did not go
with his room mate on these trips and
cannot tell just where he left the head
Walling says he had nothing to do
with the decapitation or disposal of the
head, but he recited long stories which
led the officers to believe Jackson had
buried the head in sand bar in the
Ohio river opposite Dayton, KY, a sub
urb of this city or dropped it in the
sewer. Large forces worked all day
at both places, and they secured the
blood-stained coat of Jackson out of
a sewer at the corner of Richmond and
John streets. near Jackson's room.
William Wood of Green Castle. Ind.
as well as Jackson and Walling. was
arraigned in police court today and
their preliminary hearings were. fixed
for next Thursday. Wood was ad-
mitted to $4,000 bail The other two
suspects on the charge of murder were
refused bail II
Sheriff Plummer, Immediately after
! the arraignment of the three suspects.
! demanded them as his prisoners. AS
the feeling across the river is intense
and the Campbell county Jail is an old
frame structure, with which Jackson
and Walling seem familiar, this de-
mand caused them to turn pale as
| death.
THEY FEAR LYNCHING.
One object of the present inquisition
is to determine whether the murder was
committed in Ohio or Kentucky, and
who has jurisdiction over, the prisoners
The friends of both Jackson and Wall
ing today employed counsel
Fred Bryan, brother Of the murdered
girl, arrived today from Green Castle
Ind, accompanied by friends. There
was post mortem examination held
today, at which the physicians hello
that the head of Pearl Bryan had
been cut. off while she was alive, an6
that they could find no trace of drugs
JACKSON'S CONFESSION.
Scott Jackson tonight sent for Broth
er Tibbits, secretary of the Y. NJ c. A
to whom he confessed as follows:
Here with the Bible in my hand, on M,
| knees before God. l swear l was not guilty
of numbering that poor girl. 1 did get hel
to come to Cincinnati to undergo treatment
| Walling was to get $50 for it. l was guilt,
of getting him to do it, but not of murderins
that poor girl. SIS;
| Il don't know where he killed her or how
he killed her. or what he did with her ate
He is the guilty man. VIII Woods was t.
send $50 to him through me. This is tn
truth. so help me God
The confession was made by Jackson
in the presence of no one but Secretar,
Tibbits. 1t was then delivered to tn
mayor and chief of police.