The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-17
COILS TIGHTEN.
Strong Evidence Against Wall
ing and JAG kson.
Coachman Jackson Readilylden-
titles Walling.
HE RODE ON THE BOX
Viewed in Jail Walling Was
Selected Easily.
A Piece of Iron Used as a Weight
Found in His Coat.

CINCINNATI! Feb. 1.-THE excite
ment in this city and vicinity over the
atrocious murder of Pearl Bryan has
been intensified by the astounding de-
velopments made Saturday night.
The feel ing is of the silent, but ready
sort that portends latent danger. No
outbreak is anticipated, and success
full one here would be out of the ques-
ton with the present efficiency of the
police and the military.
It is now probable that they will be
taken to the Covington Jail, which is
very strong and also we'll situated to
resist siege. The jail in Newport is
weak. The detectives have a clue to
the surry that was employed to carry
the human tigers and their victim to
the scene of the slaughter. They
think they have found the surry on
Walnut Hill, and they are trying to
identify it.
Special circumstances that give
weight to the testimony of George II.
Jackson, the negro who drove the sur
rey to Fort Thomas, are the high
name he bears among all his en-
ployers.
In his statement jackson said he
found in the surrey, instead of a round
hitching weight, piece of railroad
rail about foot long, while waiting
had gone away with the girl at the
place of the murder. 1t had two holes
through it. A leather strap was
fastened to one of these holes; that he
used it for a hitching weight and then
ran away as fast as he could run until
he came here.
Rsght here is the great point in tie
chain of circumstances It was just
precisely such piece of railroad iron
that was wrapped up in Jackson's
bloody coat when it was fished out of
a sewer catch basin at the corner of
John and Richmond streets several
days ago. What emphasizes this evil
dence is the fact that his coat being
wrapped around a piece of railroad
iron has never been mentioned IN the
newspapers.
Another circumstance that supports
George 81. Jackson's story that the
conveyance used was a surrey, and
that George H jackson abandoned it
in fright on the tragic night, is the
fact that a gentleman of Newport,
driving toward Fort Thomas in a
buggy on that Saturday morning about
3 O'Clock, met a surrey drawn by
gray horse with two men on the front
seat. and collided with it He got out
and the men in the surrey drove on
toward Newport at a furious rate.
This mans name is not given, but he
will be on hand when required as a
witness.
To clinch the matter, a procession
of carriages, containing policemen and
reporters, started at quarter to ! to
Fort Thomas last night. George 81.
Jackson drove the leading carriage.
The procession struck the murderers'
route at Vine and Third streets, and
with George H. Jackson for a guide,
followed it to the bloody ground,
sol he
the lady and told me to turn the car
riage around and wait"
George II. jackson had not been to
the scene of the murder since it was
committed. Where he stopped was
about 200 yards from the spot where
Pearl Bryan was found dead on the
morning of February 1. When the
negro described the strange noise and
the sounds of a scuff1e in the leaves
and bushes along with his own sudden
fright and fight, the bystanders shud-
dered and almost imagined they could
hear the rustic of the leaves in the
struggle of Pearl Bryan for her life.
The examination of the twenty or
thirty men in a semi-circle at the Jail
by the colored man. Jackson, was
dramatic in the extreme. Walling
stood near one extremity of the are
The negro, jackson, began his
inspection at Walling's end of
line. He examined everyone, 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
word. Viewing Walling all around,
like man examining n 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-"
jackson was identified as to size and
partially as to the sound of his voice,
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