Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-02-09
PEARL BRYAN'S MURDERERS
PROOF THAT wALLINu AND JACKSON
Boru ARE GUILTY.
Continue to Make discriminating statements
and Evidence Against Them Accumu-
1ates-An Important Lctter-Unmoved
on viewing Their Victim.

Cincinnati, O.. Feb. s.-Auothcr day
closed without positive answer to the
questions that have been perpleNing the
police ana the public concerning the time,
place and manner Of the death OF Pearl
Bryan There Is practically no question
about the criminals. for IN spite OF the
assertions OF jackson ami Walling-each
placing the crime at the others door
there is unimpeaghable evidence that both
are suIlty
wEne the prisoners under the advice and
prot., tiou OF legal counsel have not been
subje ted to such searching examinations
"a on yesterday ana the day before. yet
nervous desire to be saying something
about the case as opportunity offered.
Wih.41hi .i,s1 ior rys,In& rsporter "DIG PeaTl
have any clothes on when she plGl.
quickly uswgred, "Oh. ves she had on
two suits Of clothes. that i two dresses,
th. uuderjress ~ which she was found
ana brown cloth dress. Tho latter be
came - saturated with blood that 1t was
too heavy ana / took it on
Her h. stopped short and. apparently
confused by what he had said, could not
Wauing hal stated since his arrest that
Triffsr "a Ia,,ar to Wood ana addressed IL
10 south Bend. Mayor Caldwell wired The
postmaster at tfat, place TO forward TO
Wood To-day The letter came Calling
the attorney 10 Jackson, the latter gave
Na- satsF February aud was written ou
fue lafteTu.y4 OF The Idlase hotel. while
iaa envelope bore The address of hrrd,s
r. mis- about TWO hours before Jackson was
arrest j IE- !cttr shows cunning; af
10 other hands. The writing plainly shows
Hat after writing ihe word '-hr. iu the
'1 that an1 had uy,, .arel. put m the
WsrI NE uti~F H. Ilis Aar zone 70
thau Pearl Bryan. After that the word
.as S TIE important letter.:
Helo Bnl-wr.te a letter hone ,irned
Hy Harrs name telling the folks that he
r. samsNEsra agI going 20 Chicago. ur
thar tEsg a.ll advise later about Il. say
lg.l - i.y.ns ai hamti or any any ihinE you
send u i3 someone you can trust. How
e. u smith 10, AZ Lafayette. Tell the
at Lafayette an tne. t.mg ana trayeling
gnts .flay anI burn This at once;
l,.p sou 0gt the same way, or some other
way some time. Am glad you are hqyiqg
,.Hs careful what you write 70 me.
r.me. the words "all the time" had been
Jackson was asked n he hal written the
letter. lta r..'!ri mat Ee had, ana that
rnaatg.r II- also -asI Bert" was thr
name ~ ~hiah he ana Wood knew Pearl
A.asI why h. wrote the letter he said
"WaliUg told Ile ~ write it. IT. said that
saH tAiaE Ea. @ D. aorls aH4 di1 IT,
ron ne. wrote It Wednesday evening
fie -ai'I Wool haa written him Two pos
ill cards that were awful, and therefore,
ng warned ban 20 tr careful what he wrote.
Wt.iUa leuie. tEat h. asked Jackson 20
write fI.e letter, and said rhat Jan nkson mad
told him on the street Wednesday after
noon tEat he was going 10 suggest TO Wood
Gsv AMI are fu process Of Investigation.
lsai bw the mur!erers IN bringing home
tar slTls head Another is the ligHt.Icd-
i-rriea across tho river from DAYTON. ~,
early saturday morning. IN" story Is that
..4t pockets all thv tune, attracting atten-
l-ament iH CiHciHHatl, and were brought
port The whole scene was uunauHy. The
prisoners looked Upon What remained Il
r4- -irL " bose hte they had taken less
taSa "era age ani sa" the sEo.aIHs
zieht heaties, body, ne miserable
ramlrss nor even of amy sort OF emotion
"a= visible in their faces,
TO a-l 20 the unparalleled or!eal Mrs
stanley, thr sister " TIE q aal giIi, went
tJ ar inurierers and begged them. with a
GgMaG's ttaT- cuuTSIng dpRu her cheeks
IL tell heT where She might ina her SIS
.tar's head. Bur nothing moved them, and
haartbrQ ken tbr wyepins sister was led
away while the meu were taken 10 the
county j8lL where they viii b. kept until
tur cas- Of their examination, or until II is
Ge.ilel that they shall 90 10 Kentucky Tor
The body Of Pearl Bryan was given up.
~ her relatives and the slrrowing cumpa-
as started with II tonight 70 Greencastlr
- give il peaceful burial IN the home Gem
e-ery.
The grand jury IS in session IN Newport
Ky. II will no doubt ludict both Jackson
aud Wal4ng. Neither VIII 90 70 Kentucky
Is lthOut a requlsitiJu. The present avail
able evidence does not show whether the
murder was in ohio or Kentucky, whether
the girl was murdered in ohio and carried
dead into Kentucky or taken alive from
Ohio and murdered IL Kentucky. TntiI
that question Is solved IL VIII be dIfiicult
u bring them 70 trial Al present tney are
Liable to indictment in both states. Ia
elther case. their strongest defense would
be found in lack Of Jurisdiction Of the
court. The able attorneys Of both Walling
ami Jackson are fully aware OF this.
KANSAS PARr IN THE STORY.
Three sisters of Pearl Bryan Live IN the