The herald., 1896-02-07
that Green Castle business will bring us

trouble yet"
Whenever jackson was asked about the
valise with the girls head in it, he said: II
never carried it with anything in it.
WallinR wanted me to carry it, but
would not do it,"
It was empty when he left It in the bar
ber shop, where the police found It, :.
The outcome of this confession, coupled
with n dense throng OF accusing circum.
stances, is that three men are involved
jackson most deeply, Wood a little less
deeply and Walling incidentally, but still
unfortunately.
Woods letters indicate he was the
Mepfistopheles of the trio. More and
more the attitude of jackson and Walling
is that each one tries to cast upon the
other the onus of the actual murder. While
doing SO they make statements clearly
showing the guilt of both. They avoid
giving the main story. When Wood ar.
rives it is thought one or both of them will
be ready to make clean breast of it and
tell the whole horrible truth.
Walling, talking to a coiored turnkey,
said that jackson murdered and beheaded
the girl in Kentucky and kept the head
here three days. when he dropped it into
sewer. A search of the sewers has been
instituted.
But the evidence against these men does
not depend on their statements. This
bloody valise is shown by other witnesses
to have been left at a barbar shop by Jack
son. He could not have been innocent of
it's ghastly Use when he admits that it
belonged to the girl, that it contained her
clothing and toilet articles, which he says,
he carried in instal!ments, day by day, and
threw into the river.
A saloon keeper has identified the men
as having been in his saloon with two wo-
men and says that on Friday night Jack
son borrowed ~ from him to take buggy
ride. On Saturday night he paid Sl.75
back. On Jackson's person when arrested,
were three ladies' handkerchiefs. which he
said he found on a street car on Sunday
night, but which were probably taken from
the valise of Miss Bryan.
The main facts Of the time, manner and
place of the girls death remain unre-
vealed. 1t is reasonably clear that she
met her death Friday night. The theory
that buneling operation caused her death
is clearly disproved by the coroner's in
vestigation. So also is the theory of death
from drugs, as the analysis of the stomach
showed no such condition. 1t is clear she
was either brutally beheaded or was killed
by an anaesthetic. II death resulted from
the latter cause, it can only be determined
by the condition of the blood, and as de-
capitation depleted the veins, that question
can only be settled by the testimony of a
witness. Imagination staggers at the sug.
ges,ion of cold-blooded murder by decap-
itation, and leaves as the only plausible
theory that the girl died under the influence
of an anaestheric, and that the subsequent
treatment of her body was to hide the cause
of her death.
Late this afternoon in the locker of Wal.
ling at the dental college was found 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 month.
And so this mystery is in the process of
hu vyit ro,1s &c
searching eyes turned to every available
source of evidence, while the public stands
aghast at the fendish atrocity of the men
implicated.
JACKsoN's BAD RECORD
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb. .6.-The Scott
Jackson who 10 under arrest at Cincinnati
on suspicion of numbering Miss Pearl
Bryan is the young man who turned states
evidence against his accomplice, Alexan.
der Let's, Let's is serving term in e:ate's
prison for the embezzlement of $4,000
from the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
Let's was an assistant auditor. He and
Jackson started a saloon with the stolen
money and gambled OH horse races. 1T
has been understood in Jersey City that
jackson went to Green Castle, Ind, to live
with his brother.
lNpIANAPcMs, Feb. 6.-Scott jackson,
the confessed murderer of Pearl Bryan of
Green Castle, was once resident here and
q student at the Indiana dental college.
Up 10 last March he received mail at 1873
East New York street. The faculty of the
college remember little about him. DR..
Hunt says that jackson left the college at
the end of the March term. H. has little
recollection of his personal appearance or
character.
WOOD Is DEEPLY IMPLICATED
90 INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 7.-Wlliam Wood,
arrested atSouth Bend, Ind, by Cincinnati
detectives as an accompiice in the murder
OF Pearl Bryan, the victim of the Fort
Thomas tragedy, was brought here this
evening and taken directly to Cincinnati.
He left South Bend, waving reuus,ion
papers, and he will be used as witness.
Jackson's confession duplicates him mere
deeply than this, but he Va, not allowed to
answer any questions as o 'acksoa's state-
ment that he was the cause of Miss
Bryan's condition. He was joined here by
his father and an attorney. who refused to
permit Wood to be interviewed. 1t is GER
tain that Wood was not in Cincinnati at
the time the murder was committed. How.
ever, he is implicated in the case more
deeply than his knowledge that Miss Bryan
was in an interesting condition.
Wood was met here HE father, the scene
being most affecting one. He accom-
panied his son to Cincinnati. t.'
William Wood was brought here tonight
from South Bend, Ind, by Sheriff Plum
mer OF Newport, KY, and Detectives Grim
and McDermotu of this city, under arrest
as an accomplice OF Scott jackson and
Alonzo Walling in aiding and. abett:ng
their alleged abortion on Pearl Bryan.
Wood is not yet of age. He has forid
complexion, cleauly shaven and light hair,
and was finely dressed. His converse ton
showed him to be more advanced in
the ways of the world than usual
at the age of 20. He was accompanied by
his father. Rev. d. NJ. Wood, presiding FL
der of the Methodist church in the district
where he resides; Rev. A. A. Gee. pastor of
the Methodist church of South Bend, ind;
A. n. Grant, an attorney of Indanapoiis,
who is the counsel of Wood, and a. r.
Colburn. a lumber merchant of Michigan
City, Ind, who came to go on the bond of
young Wood.
Wood was examined at length by Mayor
Caldwell and Chief Deitsch. The prisoner
said this was the first time he had ever
visited Cincinnati. and insis ed that he had
never been here to confer with jackson,
Walling or any one else. He said he had
never been outside of Indiana except for a
trip to Chicago. Hewas questioned very
closely about the letters from him that
had been captured with the effects OF Scott
jackson in the latter's room. Those let
ters are obscene and refer specifically to
the proposed abortion of Pearl Bryan.
Wood said he was distant relative of the
girl and was doing everything in his power
to help hide her condition and get her out
OF trouble. In these letters Wood referred
to matters which the officers considered as