Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-17
that tragedy, the colored man repeated
his story of the events of
THAT Fatal NIGHT

There was a dramatic realism in the
simple unaffected recital of this dusky
child of nature that moved all present
as no counterfeit presentation on the
stage can move men. The settings OF
the scene aided in its effect. When
the negro described the strange noise
and the sounds of a scufile in the leaves
and bushes along with his own sudden
fright and flight. the bysJanders shud-
dered and almost imagined they could
hear the rustic of the leaves. in the
struggle of Pearl Bryan for her life.
The route out to Fort Thomas was
about five miles out by the Licking
pike, and thence by sAn country roads
10 the Alexandria pike. 1t was about
twice as far as the drive to the Fort by
ne nearest route.
The examination of the twenty or
thirty men in a semi-circle at the jail
last midnight by the cOlored man Jack
son, was
DRAMATIC IN THE EXTREME.
Wa.Gng stood near one extremity of
the arc. The negro Jackson began his
inspection at Walling's end of the line.
He examined every one man by man
till he got to the end of the line. Then
he turned, walked briskly back and
halted in front of Walling. All this
time he had not spoken a word. View
ing Walling all around like a man eX-
amining a horse he was about TO buy,
he stepped in front of him and said:
That is the man that sat on the seat
with me- There would have been an
Outburst of cheers had not the prOprie-
ties of the place and the occasion for
biden. Jackson was identified as TO
size and partially as to the sound of
his voice. The negros extreme eau
tiOn gives force to his evidence He
sad: Il don't want TO make any mis-
take" and then he took his time in
making the examination.
Jackson when the thing was over,
talked fiippantly to his visitors To
one he said: Call the jailer and ask
him if he found a surrey in my pock-
cts when he searched me-" He tries
to rid.cule the multitude of clues that
are followed.
Walling is more sullen and reticent.
He den0unces the negro's statement as
a lie. The visitors admitted TO see the
men number hundreds daily, and for
one admitted, ten are denied admit
lance.
Is IT THE VEHICLE?
Detectives Grim and McDermitt TO-
night discovered a rockaway and
gray horse in the stable of the Wal
nut Hills Cab Company which was
hired out between 4 and 7 p. m, Janu
airy 31st, and was returned at 4 a. m.
February 1St. President McMullen, o
the cab company, says that the mar
who hired il was about the size anC
general appearance of Walling, but ht
thought had a darker complexion
The carpet in the rockaway had blood
spots on it and the bloody pencil wa.
found in it, The negro Jackson drove
the horse and says il is less spirited
than the one he drove the nigAt Of tt
murder. but that it plunges forward
and takes the bit in its mouth the same
way He fails to identify the rock
away, but says it might be made t
look like a surrey by the use of storm
curtains.
George H Jackson was placed at the
northwest corner of George and Elm
streets a few minutes after II o'clock
tonight and the one seated rockaway
cab with the gray horse was driven
down Elm street to the spot After a
further look at The cab he said 81 am
sure it is the same" He was inform
ed of reports Of his alleged embezzle-
ment from Springfield. He said: III
I were an embezzler in the United
Brethren in Friendship I would have
appeared on the quarterly back list
I am not on that list"
He pronounces the whole story false