Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-02

- Ev. May In the Jack
..,-5ay the first witness called
.....s,ss was Undertaker William
NH, embalmed the body OF
a... p-ran. He testified that he drew
and q half Of blood from the
....,+ Pearl Bryan. On cross-exam-
.,.,. as was asked if he was not
~-E when he embalmed the body and
.,s had no. now been on a prolonged
.,.ss Hs denied both. Col. Nelson
...- asked him if he was not drunk
.rss- he .aiked with him a few days
..o gs answered: No, a man can
s-,. without being drunk"
0- Scarf. a police surgeon, testified
80. ss slv bloody water in a bucket
n.ss be tho undertaken in embalming
;h body ,oor,;,s
.,r- elaborate testimony regarding the
e. NJ blood under different circum-
-..,,ss and the effect OF sudden hemor-
-s.-s 6r behead.ng. The general re
an. NJ his testimony comedies mainly
v.s that offered by the prosecution.
r,s testimony Of DR.. F. F. DAVIS ana
s.-gs,r Havl. of Fort Thomas. was
,,ssr ,---erning the length OF time the
boir Of Pearl Bryan had lain IN us
1l,ce after death. Heyl thought the
lime was ten hours or less. Davis
,f5,gbr rhe time not so great, and that
tho baieading was done by skillIul
hands
Henry Mott. who lighted the way for
the George II. Jackson party when ne
showed The police the route he had
taken with Walling and Jackson, said
thar there vas no difficulty in getting
over ,he road. that il could be easily
done In one hour. Testimony was also
offered 20 show that George II. Jackson
id no, identify Scott Jackson IN the
"a.
The drift, of the testimony for the de-
.a-ss to-day disclosed a purpose 10
show that Pearl Bryon. though behead-
d IN Kentucky, was first killed in Gin
.aaati and then taken over 10 Ken
u.,y and beheaded. This. if success
m would set the prisoner free as he
r-d not be tried for the same offenSe
z Cincinnati. Manifestly the theory OF
.hs defense is that Pearl Bryan was
Cd uniformed to death unintentionally
IN Cincinnati and then taken 10 Ken
,rsy and beheaded to escape the pen
a'v for such an accident. The testi-
ro1y Of Embalmer Abbott that he
flushed the veins Of Pearl Bryan's body
before the autopsy and found a quart
bal a half Of blood in them. was &C
overthrow the expert testimony Of the
rOsscu,ion that she must have been
Killed where found.
Early this week the defense put Scott
I8ckson'S shoes in evidence. This al
.au0on David r. Lock. who was the
fourth man 20 visit thes Gene OF the
murder testifeS TO seeing tracks from
'a. pike 70 the spot where the girl lay
PM back by another route to the pike
aglin The tracks were made by Num-
Per sht or nine shoes, perfectly new
a1i broad at the toe. He was shown
.acason's shoes and said the tracks
Eou.d not have been made by them. He
.'o testified that he saw only one clot
+, blood bu, that four feet away from
'1e girls neck he saw a pile OF human
'Naremen, which had been mistaken in
be rcd leaves for blood.
Nos, Of the afternoon was taken up
reading the depOsitions of colOred
-'a 20 prove that George II. Jackson,
10 eo.ored cab driver. was in Cincin-
1l Friday night. January 81. and till
4 ''.oca on Saturday. February l, the
-.ang Of The murder, and therefore
'l no, have driven the cab to the
ere