The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-02-14
MURDER WILL OUT
PEARL BRYON'S SLAYERS ADMIT
THEIR GUILT.
Scott Jackson says He Had . Hand
n II. hat Claims That his Room-
mate Alonso Walling, Did the
killing, while Walling says That
jackson DID lt-A Ministers Son
Also Involved. :

Cincinnati. Feb. SAN day the city
has been nervOuslN excited over the
hourly developments of the now fn-
nous story Of the mysterious death Of
Pearl Bryan, the Greencaetle. Ind.,t
farmers daughter, whit is called a,
confession of two Of the young men
implicated as the murderers is only q
strange sort of half-defiant, wincing
under the scmi-tOrture Of police ex-
animation in which each culprit APP
pears to be trying to shield himself as
an accidental accomplice and make
the other the real criminal. So far, it
is known that Pearl Bryan, about to
become mother and DESTROYS Of hid
ing her shame, left Greencastle, Ind.
Tuesday. Jan. %. ostensibly to visit
Mrs. Fisher in Indianapolis; that Will
lam Wood saw her to the train; that
she came directly to Cincinnati, tried
to see Scott Jackson at the dental
college that night. but could not; that
she registered ut the Indiana house us
mabel Stanley, city," and was as
signed to room ia. After that the
stories about her do not agree. Alonzo
jackson, both of whom were arrested
last night charged with the murder,
says that Jackson saw Miss Bryan
on Wednesday and that he went about
the city with her. and finally on Fri
day completed the crime Of murder,
cutting Off the girls head and bringing
it to Cincinnati in her own valfse,
which he kept until Monday, when he
threw the head into sewer and
threw her clothing into the Ohio river;
On the other hand. jackson, in a half
stupid and always argumentative
manner. placed the entire burden on
Walling. According to his story. tho
lamentable condition of Miss Bryan
was attributed to William WotNl Of
Greencastle, who applied to Jackson to
help him
Cover Up the Girls Shame
and his own participation in the at
fair. Wood did this, Jackson says.
because he Gackson) was denial
student and supposed to have access
to means for producing IN abortion.
Jackson denied having any such
knowledge, but recommended Wall
ing, his roommate, who had told him
he had assisted two girls from Hamil-
ton. Ohio. near his home. Thercupon
Wood sent Miss Bryan to Cincinnati
where Jackson turned her over to
Walling and there his information
seemed to fail. He said that Walling
took the girl away from the hotel on
Wednesday and that vas the last he
saw of her. !,
But. under the spur of persistent
questioning lie made many more adj
missions, such as that he left the girls
valise at barber shop empty. where
the police found it. The chief of police
asked him to open the valise and had
him describe the ghastly blood stains
made, as Jackson argued, by the sew
cred head of his victim. But he al
most viciously denied that he had car
ried the valise with the girls bloody
head in 1t. His confession was in
shreds and patches. accusations
against Walling and .denials of what
iDcriminated himself, but all the time
admitting that he knew the purpose
for which Pearl Bryan came to Gin
cinnati and that he knew on Friday
night that she was dead.
The main facts of the time, manner
and place of the girls death remain
tlnrevealed. In the locker of Walling
at the dental college was found Il pair
of trousers wrapped in paper. They
belonged to jackson. Blood and mud
were on the knees and other portions
| of the garment. jackson denied hay-
ing seen them for month.
William Woods was brought from
Indiana to-day. He denies completely
In the affair except as regards abor-
ton. jackson and Walling were ex-
ami4ed in court. They charged each
other with being the actual murderer,
and called each other liars.