St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09

day before, yet they have not been
able to reDress their nervous desire
to be saying something about the case
as opportunity offered. WaIling, for in
stance, when suddenly asked by a
visiting reporter Did Pearl have any
clothes on when she died?" quickly
answered, ooh, yes; she had on two
suits of clothes;i that is, two dresses
the under dress in which she was found
and a brown cloth dress. The latter
became so saturated with blood that
1t was too heavy to carry and took
it Off" He suddenly stopped, and ap-
parently confused by what he said,
could not be induced to say a word
more on the subject.
Walling had stated since his arrest
that Jackson ON Wednesday night last
had written letter to Wood, and ad-
dressed 1t to South Bend. Mayor Cald-
well wired the postmaster at that place
to. forward to him any letter mailed
here addressed to Wood. To-day the
letter came. Calling the attorney of
jackson, the latter gave his consent, to
have the letter opened. 1t was dated
Feb. 8, and was written on the let
terhead of the Palace hotel, while the
envelope bore the address of Heider's
restaurant. The mailing stamp showed
$3.50 p m., about two hours before Jack
son was arrested. The letter showed
cunning, as If written with a fear that
1T might fall into other hands. The
writer plainly shows that after writing
the word "she" in the first sentence
he had changed the word to that
and had put in the word "he" after it,
This was done to hide the fact that
Hert was none other than Pearl
Bryan. After that the word was writ
ten he" in every case. Following is
THE IMPORTANT LETTER:
= Hello Bill: Write a letter home signed by
| Berts name telling the felix's tha. he is some
| wheIe and going to Chicago or some otner
FoSitlon-has position, etc.-and that he
| will advise later about it, Saw tired of Iiv
ing at nome or anything you want You know
ABOUT the way she writes. Seld it to some
one you can trust. How will Smith do at
lafayette? Tell the folks that he has Eot
peen at =; but atlLafayette all the time and
travelling about the country. Get letter eff
without a seconds delay and burn this at
ono once; stick by your old chum, Bill, and 1
VIII neip you out the same way or some other
good time. r
P. S.-Be careful what you write me.
In the phraseg"ati Lafayette all the
time the words "all the time" had
been erased
jackson was asked if he had writ
ten the letter. He replied that he had,
ana that the signature Cd" was for
ms ms nickname Dusty" He also seaid
Bert was the name by which he and
wood knew Pearl Bryan. Asked why
ne wrote the letter. he said: wall
ing told me to write it. He said that
something had to be done, and I did
IL. Did he dictate it?'' "Oh, I wrote
II Wednesday evening after supper
he said Wood had written him two
postal cards that were awful and
therefore he wanted him to be caref,n
what he wrote Walling denied that he
asked jackson to write this letter. and
| salo that jackson had told him on the
street Wednesday afternoon that he
was going to suggest to Wood to write
such letter.
SEVERAL NEW CLUES
have been found today and are un-
| ger investigation. One is a blood-cIot-
ted laprobe in a cab which has al
ready been suspected to be the cab
USED by the murderers in bringing
home the girls head. Another is the
Identification Of the prisoners as the
men who were ferried across the river
Irom Dayton, KY, early Saturday
morning. The story is that one of the
men kept his hands in his overcoat
pockets all the time, attracting atten-
ton thereby.
since jackson confessed yesterday to
the clergy he has become very Jealous
IN his devotions. He is reading the BIZ
Die today and wrote his mother at
Greencastle, Ind, letter which was
intended to cheer her up. The officers
ascertained thatsthis letter agreed with
the confession madeilast night in which
he said he advised Wood to send Pearl
har 49, tho,
| Tor the operation. Late in the after
neon Jackson and Walling were taken
| to Epply's undertaking establishment
and were brought before the headless
| body Of their victim, which had been
brought over from Newport. The whole
scene was uncanny. nThe prisoners look
| ed upon what remained of the girl
whose life they had taken less than a
| week ago, and saw the shocking sight
| OF headless body, the miserable work