The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-02
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Other Greencastlc families besides
the Bryans are broken in despair as the
result of the girls murder VIII Wood
the a0-year-old boy who is now under
$1,000 bond in connection with the af-
fair, is Il son of Rev. DelOs NJ. Wood,
presiding elder of the Greencastle dis
trct of the Methodist Episcopal church.
The mother Of young Wood is the niece
of Mrs. Bryan. Mrs. Jackson. the wild
owed mother of Scott jackson, also
lives at Greencastle. She is now a men
tai wreck, made so by the horror of the
crime and her sons implication. Mrs.
Post wife of Professor Post, of DE
Pauw University. is JackSon'S sister.
The family had its origin in Maine. AMI
lived for some time in New Jersey prior
to coming to Greencastle. Jackson.
when i'm the east, became involved in
the embezzlement of $4,000 belonging to
the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
He and his partner in guilt. Alexander
Let's. .squandered the money at the race
tracks and i'm high living. Jackson fur
nished the evidence which convicted
Let's. and the latter is now serving Il
sentence in the New Jersey peniten-
tiary. AS his reward for testifying
against Let's jackson was permitted
to go free. He came west to his friends
In Indiana. He entered school of dem
tai surgery at indianapolis. and mad,
frequent visits IT, his friends in Green
castle. There he met Pearl Dryden,
and they became intimate. The coun-
try maiden was not able to resist the
wiles of the race track plunger and
toughened man of the world. Their IL
lcit connections began last September
Later i'm the fall Jackson went to Gin
cinnati to prosecute his professional
studies. He was informed by Miss Bry-
an that her disgrace could be concealed
little longer. Then was opened corre-
spondence in which Instructions were
given the girl which she followed to her
death. Young Woods was taken into
confidence and had charge of The
Greencastle arrangements which were
to deceive the home friends. The girl
was to leave oStensibly for Il visit 10
indianapolis. but was really to go to
Cincinnati where Jackson said he had
made the necessary preparations for II
criminal operation. He had taken INTO
his confidence AlonZo Waliing. fellow
student at the Cincinnati Dental col
legt. They had been NJ the lndianapo-
lis institution together and in the ONO
town were roommates as we'll rs class-
mates.
The Death brausht.
on Monday of the last week OF her
life the unfortunate girl unknowinsiy
her death. 1t is probable that Jackson
and Walling never had any intention of
having an orcrutiun performed If
they had il was abandoned early. They
did not take Woods into their conf
denCr as IT, the change of plan. The
week before the girl came jackson had
been reudinp ~ ON puSOnS and their
effect. He made snccial inquiry aS to
cocaine and prussic acid. Monday
Miss Bryan reached Cincinnati and
went To tn" Indiana house. she regis
tered as Mabel STANLEY, taking the fam
lily name of her brnther-in law. She
saw jackson and Walling several times.
and Wednesday went to indianapolis,
returning Friday. Friday night she
met them ut II saloon, whence they told
her they would take to II room they
had provided. where she would he cared
for. Their stories conflict to such an
extent that the truth can only be sur
missed. Jackson says Walling was
responsible for the young WOmanS con-
dition. and Walling asserts it was Jack
son. As to the fact. there is little doubt
Jackson was the author of her ruin.
Each accuses the other of the principal
share of the murder.
Taking all the confessions and state
ments and circumstances into account,
it is almost il certainty that Jackson
gave the girl twenty grains of cocaine
in glass of soda water when they We're
in the saloon Wailing had left them
there together. Then the two took a
carriage and Were afterward Joined by
Walling. They drove over to the Ken
tucky side of the river near the point
where the body was found. The girl
was dying from the effects of the drug,
but was still able to walk. They con-
Quoted her to distance from the road
way. and. when the drug overcame her,
they cut her head from her body with
a razor which Jackson had carried for
that purpose. They did this for two
reasons--to drain the body of it's blood.
so that a chemical analysis would not
detect the poison. and also to prevent
Identification. The girls clOthes-such
of them as could be recOgnized--were
taken from the body. The garments
she had brought from home had prey
iously been disposed of with her con-
sent to prevent her friends tracing her
in case they learned she was not i'm In
diauapOlis and should institute a
search. Her satchel had been brought
in the carriage. The girl did not know
why she had been asked to bring it.
The young men regarded 1t as Il con-
venient receptacle for her head after
they had killed her.
After the Murdercrs.
Leaving the mutiated corpse of the
girl, the monsters of crime walked back
to Cincinnati. They say they threw the
clothes into the river. one of them
says the head was east into the Ohio
also. The other says ii was buried in
Il sand bar. 1t has not yet been found.
The day following the murder the body
was found. If the murderers had not
dropped one of the dead girls hoes they
might have escaped discovery. But the
shoe remained and the makers name
gave the detectives the first lead. They
followed the clew like hounds on a hot
scent. In four days young Wood had
been located at South Bend. through
letters and kilograms. Jackson and
Walling were taken on advices sent by
the detail of men hunters who had gone
to Greencastle, and the rest has been
comparatively easy. Wood was not
arrested at once. lie was watched for
further evidence. When at last he was
taken and brought to Cincinnati and
told all he knew of the affair the other
prisoners began to talk. They We're al
most enthusiastic in their attempts to
fasten the crime ON each other Th"
travelling bag in which the head had
been carried was found where Jackson
had left it. A pair of Overshoes which
one of them had worn We're found.
They We're spotted with blood. The do
ingS of both men from week before
the murder up to the time of their ar
rest We're carefully inquired into. Their
every action for ten days is as plain as
print. Almost every minute is account
ed for. The amateur scientists with
whom they discussed poiSonS. the dru"
clerks of whom the cocaine was bought
We're found and Interviewed: hotel
clerks ami bell-buys. barkeepers ana
porterS, cab drivers, women of the
town. all kinds and conditions Of hu-
Inanity. in short. have been talked with
by these tireless. restless detective Off
of CINCINNATI They rpn.i rIpI Ui!;-