The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-06
BRYAN MYSTERY
Now Bids Fair to Be Solved In thu
Near Future.
EVIDENCE AGAINST SCOTT JACKSON
Points to Him as Having Com
mltted the Deed.

CINCINNATI, Feb. o.-Last night Colonel
Dietsche, chief OF police of Cincinnati, no.
ceivcd the following telegram from Green
Castle. Ind:
Arrest and charge with murder OF
Pearl Bryan one Scott Jackson. student
at dental college, about "a years old, SIT.
Tin. or Sin. high. weighs about 1885 pounds,
blonde, sandy mustache. light complexion,
effominate In appearance. Arrest, * In
Cincinnati. William Wood. friend Of
jackson, and charged as acoomplice, about
FL years old, SIT. lin. light blonde hair,
SMOOTH face, rather slender, weight about
165. We go from here To South Bend after
Wood, as he left here for that place."
Accordingly ut i0:i5 Scott Jackson was
mt the mayors Office und examination
by the mayo and chief Of police. Tho
culprit was perfectly described In the tele-
gram from the detectives.
The prisoner, Scott jackson, was clean
In appearance and newly dressed. His
naturally ruddy face flushed perceptibly
under the examination, n his light blue
eyes wandered from his questioners In
spite of a visible effort TO bear up and
look them square In the eyes. His voice
was reasonably firm, yet IL required an
effort to keep IL in form. He did not ex-
hibit any signs that he felt Inundated by
his arrest.
His accounts Of his whereabouts last
Friday were not satisfactory. He denied
guilt, but admitted that he knew Pearl
Bryan. He could tell nothing about where
she was or where she had been during the
pastfew weeks. AS 20 his whereabouts last
Friday night, his roommate, Mr.. fancy,
was examined first. He said that Jackson
was mt home Friday night. That was all
he could say, as jackson could go In and
out whenever he desired. jackson said
Friday night he was at supper at z o'clock
and retired at about 10 o'clock. The rest
of his story Is very vague, though he said
he was In his room all night.
The worst point Of JacSson's story, the
weakest part of it., Is that about his con-
duct on last Saturday. He boarded at 30
West Ninth street, next to Robinson's
Opera House. On Saturday he took q
yalise and left IL In Engler's saloon, oppo-
site his clearinghouse. This valise no
carried with hin all over the city that
day. The accounting for this valise and
why he carried 1t ali day and night puz-
zled him more than anything else. In
fact he preyar.cated, and afterward ac-
knowledged that hs had lied. The mat
ter will be sifted In court. Meanwhile he
Is cOnlfnltleu without Dali.
IL has transpired that Scott Jackson
was seen with Miss Bryan at Davo
Wallingford's saloon at the northeast cor
ner of George and Plum streets, this city,
Friday night, between Z and 8 o'clock,
and Jackson borrowed 81 from walling-
ford. This man will be "A most import
ant. IL not the most important, witness
against Jackson. The location of Plum
and l,aarua aff..afo Ia An fha TapIargnfa
district OF the city.
Clothing Identified.
A special from Green Castle, Ind, says
the family Of A. 5. Bryan. a leading
farmer, living less han two miles from
this city, have identified the clothing
brought here by detectives from Cincin-
natl and Newport, KY, as that of their
daughter, Pearl Bryan,
They furnished other information and
circumstances which leave no doubt In
the minds OF the officers who have been
here since Tuesday that the body of the
woman murdered and behcnded near Fort
Thomas, opposite Cincinnati, last Friday
night, is their daughter Pearl, aged %
years, who left home Jan. %, ostensibly
to visit n friend, Miss Jane Fisher, on
Central avenue, Indianapolis.
They have made every possible inquiry
and find that she did not visit Miss Fisher
In indianapolis, but that she was taken
20 Cincinnati by Scott Jackson. She took
with her n switch of hair which was
brought here by the officers and identified.
The shoes that were brough: by the off,
GERS here were bought OF Louis s. Hays by
Pearl Bryan. Nov. 2s, 1898, and marks
were identified by tho dealers. AS soon as
the officers interviewed Air. and Mrs.
Bryan and other meipbcrs of their family
they sent word TO Cincinnati 10 have Scott
Jackson arrested. The mother Of Scott
Jackson lives here, and the families were
ultimate and highly respected. The
Bryan family also gave information that
led the officers TO order the arrest OF Will
iam Wood, the son Of Rev. ID. NJ. Wood,
at South Bend, Ind.