The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-07

MedDtlrne a large crown SufrOuUueu lHt
place. and both men expressed apprehen-
sion for their safety. They not anx-
ious TO be taken to Newport, KY, for trial.
but as soon as the preliminary examina-
tion is cleared up requisition papers will
be issued and the prisoners will be turned
over to Sheriff Plummer. of Newport, KY,
just opposite this city. The feeling, howev-
er, is as strong on this side of the river
as it is on the Kentucky side against the
men, who are believed to be guilty of the
most brutal murder that has ever been
committed in this locality The search for
the head of the woman still goes on. but 1t
is believed that Jackson and Walling are
the only ones who know where 1t could be
found. and some are of the opinion that
Jackson Is the only one who could S0lVe
this part of the mystery.
After this sensational interview young
Wood was released on his own recogni-
zance and went to the hotel with Sheriff
Plummer.
HAIF-DE,FIANT CONFESSIONS
Those so-called confessions of the young
men implicated Pearl Bryan's murder
ers are only a strange sort Of half-de-
fiant revelation. under the semi-torture of a
police examination, in which each culprit
accidental accomplice 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 Greencas-
tie, Ind, Tuesday. Jan. %. ostensibiy to
visit Mrs Louisa Fisher, of Central avenue,
in Indianapolis; that William Wood saw her
to the train: that she came directly to Gin
cinnati, tried to see Scott Jackson at the
al hat nj bIto mo- ..
that she registered at the Indiana House as
MABEL Stanley. city," and was assigned to
Room 14.'s~ After that the stories about
her do not agree Alonzo NJ walling. the
room mate of Scott Jackson, both of whom
were arrested last night and charged with
the murder, says that Jackson Miss
Bryan on Wednesday, and that he went
about tho city with her. and finally, on Fri
day, completed the crime of murder, cutting
off the girls head and bringing it to Gin
cinnati in her own valise, which he kept un>
til Monday, when he cast the head into
sewer and threw her clothing into the Ohio
river
On the other hand, Jackson, in a stolid,
half-stupid ano always obstinately argl-
mentative manner. placed the entire burden
on Walling. According TO his story. the lam
entable condition OF Miss Bryan was at
tributed 70 William Wood, the girls cousin,
in Greencastle. who applied to Jackson to
help him cover UP the girls shame and his
own participation in the affair. Wood did
this, jackson says, because he (Jacksom
was dental student. and supposed to have
access to means for producing an abortion.
Jackson denied having any such knowledge,
but recommended Walling, his room mate,
who had told him he had assisted two girls
from Hamilton, O., near his home. There
upon Wood sent Miss Bryan to Cincinnati
where Jackson turned her over to WaIline,
and there his information seemed to fail
He said that Walling took the girl away
from the hotel on Wednesday, and that was
the last he saw of her.
Under the spur of persistent questionins
Jackson made many more admissions, such
as that he left the girls empty valise at a
barber shop, where the police found 1t. The
chief Of police asked him to open the valise
and had him describe the CHASTITY blood
stains. They were made. Jackson naiveiy
argued. by the discovered head of his vic
tim. But he almost viciously denied that he
had carried the valise with the girls bfuody'
head in it. His confession was In shreds
and patches. accusations against waIIing
and denials of what incriminated himself
but all the time he knew the purpose for
which Pearl Bryan came to Cincinnati and
admitted that he knew on Friday night tha,
she dead.
OTHER STRONG EVIDENCE.
Fortunately. the evidence against these
two cold-blooded men does not depend on
their own statements. This bloody valise Is
shown by other witnesses to have been left
at barber shop by Jackson He couldn't
have been innocent of it's CHASTITY use, when
he admits that it belonged to the poor gir,
and that it contained her clothing and toilet
articles which he says he carried in in
stallments, day by day, and threw into the
| Ohio river.
saloon keeper has identified the men as
having been in his saloon with two women
and says that on Friday night jackson bor-
rowed 81 from him Ito take buggy ride 4"
Saturday night he paid s1.75 back On Jack
sons person when arrested were three
ladies' handkerchiefs, which he said he
found on street car ON Sunday night, bu,
which more probably were taken from the
valise of Miss Bryan
The main facts of the time, manner and
place OF the girls death still remain unre-
vealed 1t is reasonably clear she met her
death Friday night. The theory that a.
bungling mechanical operation caused her
| death is clearly disproved by the coroner's
| investigation. So also Is the theory of death
| from drugs. the analysis Of her stomac
showed no such conditions. 1t is clear she
| was either brutally beheaded or was killed
| by an anaesthetic. AS death from the lat
ter cause can only be determined by the
| condition Of the blood. and as decapitation
| depleted the.veins, that question can only
| be settled by the testimony of witness
Imagination staggers at the suggestion of
cold-blooded murder by decapitation. and
| leaves the only plausible theory that the
girl died under the influence of an anaes-
| thetic, and that the subsequent treatment OF
| her body was to hide the cause OF death.
| Late this afternoon. in the locker of WALL
| ing, at the dental college, was found a pair
of trousers wrapped in paper They be-
| longed to Jackson. Blood and mud were on
| the knees and other portions of the gar
ment. Jackson denied having seen them for
| a month.
| WOOD is RELEASED
| William Wood was brought here tonight
| from South Bend. Ind. 10y Sheriff Plummer.
| Of Newport, KY, and detectives Grim and
| McDermotr. of this city, under arrest as an
accomplice of Scott Jackson and Alonzo
| Walling i'm aiding and abetting their al
| legged abortion Pearl Bryan, of Green
castle Ind Wood is barely of ace hrfobt