The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-16
JACKSON HIS NAME
IMPORTANT WITNESS IN THE PEARL
bryan BEHEADING CASE FOUND.
Confession of n Negro Conchman Who
Drove a Surrey to the Scene of the
Murder Near Fort Thomas.
THREE IN THE CARRIAGE
ONE OF THE PARTY WAS A WOMAN,
WHO SEEMED TO DE ILL.
Pistol Put to the Drivers Head and
the Latter Warned to Say Nothirg
About Hearing Screams.
ALONZO WALLING IDENTIFIED
AS THE MAN WHO THREATENED
THE COACHMAN WITH DEATH.
The Negro Not So Sure About jack
son, Because the Latter Was In
side the Closed Vehicle.
Pistol Put to the Drivers Head and
About Hearing Screams.
ALONZO WALLING IDENTIFIED
AS THE MAN WHO THREATENED
THE COACHMAN WITH DEATH.
The Negro Not So Sure About jack
son, Because the Latter Was In
side the Closed Vehicle.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 10. - The strongest
link in the chain of evidence against the
two murderers of Pearl Bryan made its ap-
pearance this afternoon. George II. Jack
son, private coachman for Major With
field, on McGregor avenue, Mount Auburn,
reveals the story. He called out to police
officer Ed Swain, who was passing by
where he was working, and asked him if
the head of that dead girl had yet been
found, and when he learned that it had
not, he asked the officer IL they had found
the cabman, and was told Again he
asked If they should find the cabman
whether ne would be held as participant
in the crime along with the murderers. He
was told very likely not; that it depended
on circumstances. Jackson then said he
would like to see the chief of police; per-
haps he could tell him something. Officer
Swain told him to report at the headquar-
ters of the police in Mount Auburn to-
night at o'clock, which he did. Mean
time he told his story to officer Swain and
also to Lieutenant Thornton, of the Au-
burn police. Tonight he was brought be-
fore the Mayor and there told the same
story A remarkable feature in the ex-
animation was the exact correspondence of
the stories he told to the two police off,
GERS and the Mayor.
George II. Jackson is drill master and
commander of the Caldwell Guards, a col
ored company, in this city. On Friday
night, Jan. 81, he was drilling them until
midnight He went out afterward and was
standing a moment at the corner of George
and Elm streets, in the Tenderloin district
of this city. when tall. dark-haired man.
wearing a corduroy cap came up and said
to the company of bystanders:
''Do any of yo1SfeIlsws want to make So
for driving a carriage tonight"
Jackson accepted the offer. He has been
a carriage driver all his life. Presently a
square-boxed surrey was driven down to
where he was, and he was told that was
the carriage. He was invited TO the seat,
and a man with a corduroy cap and dark
mustache took a seat beside him and said he
would direct him. He told him that there
was a doctor and a sick lady in the car
rioge; that they were going to take her to
Newport, and he would show him how to
drive. They drove down Elm street to
Third, on Third to Broadway. down Broad
way to the Newport bridge and crossed
over into Newport
BECAME FRIGHTENED.
There was a curtain in the surrey at the
back of the driver, SO that Jackson could
not see who was in the inside, but he heard
the voice of man and funny noise made
by a woman" After driving through New
port he became alarmed and wanted to
lump off. This was after midnight, and no
one was on the street, so that ne could
make an alarm, but ne was very much
frightened. The man on the seat beside
him put a revolver to his head and said:
"You drive that horse or I'll make an end
of you very quickly
The horse was a large gray horse, held a
high head and moved very rapidly, and he
was kept moving. The man on the seat
with him took his name and his residence
and learned all about him. and said IL you
ever say anything about this we will kill
YOU. And If we get into trouble we have
friends on the outside that would follow
YOU up and kill you. Jackson says:
OF believe they have been following me.
It may be imagination, but think 1 have
been followed ever since those men have
been i'm iail. / had never driven out on that
road before that know of. The man on the
seat directed me how to go. 1t was very
crooked road We came out at last where
they told me to stop. There was some
thickets near by. They said the house where
the woman was to go was not very far
away. They would take her across there
and whistle when they were ready to go
back. They told me to turn the horse
around and wait for them. The man in the
surrey got out first and helped the woman.
She leaned on him heavily, and as she
walked along dragged her feet. 1t was too
dark for me to see anything. The man who
got out of the surrey was not as tall as the
man who sat by me. That man got off his
seat and assisted in taking the woman away
in the darkness. | looked for a hitching
block and expected to find round one; in
stead of that found piece OF railway rail
about a foot long, with two holes in it. 1
hitched the horse to that and waited a lit
tie while. / heard a very queer noise some
thing like scuffiing in the leaves, along with
a noise that / can't describe. that i think
was made by the woman. Ii sounded like a
woman's cry in distress. / remembered the
strange noises that the woman had been
making all the way out. That noise that i
heard in the thicket frightened me- and I
ran away as hard as L could run. / got
home on foot about 4:30 O'Clock in the morn
ing. 1 did not see anything more of them.
AFRAID TO TALK.
when / heard of this murder 1 thought
il must be the same case. L was afraid 10
talk on account of the threats made. At last
I thought ought to talk about it and tell
all know. / did not see any OF these
parties, either the men or the woman. so
that / could recognize their faces. The
man on the seat behind me had a big over
coat on him. and / could not tell whether
he was slender or not. All three wore dark
clothing. and the woman was yelled all
over her face. Before / started from Gin
cinnati the carriage was driven to me,
closed all around, at the corner Of George
and Elm streets"
jackson described the surrey as having
a sort of coupe in the front part OF a
square box. so as TO permit the vehicle 70
make short turns. He said the horse was
very large and was very spirited; he went