The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-05-16
THE STORY OF JACKSON
HE ADMITTED HIS GUILTY RELA-
TIoNs WITH PEARL BRYAN.
He Asserted, With Many Particulars,
That Wailing l. the Man who
Disposed of the Girl.

convince II men that he did not kill
Pearl Bryan, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
How well he succeeded the verdict of the
jury will determine, but the impression OF
the average listener was that Jackson's
story had a number of fatal defects in It.
He was, however, an admirable witness
in his own defense, and stood the long or
deal without a sign Of nervousness.
The surprise of the day came when
Colonel Nelson announced that the com-
monwealth did not desire to cross-examine
Jackson. The prevailing opinion was that
Jackson's story would have been torn to
pieces on INSTRUMENTATION. The COM
monwealth will, of course, present evil
dence in rebuttaL That will be as effect
i've as cross-examination
Jackson stepped up into the stand, raised
his hand and stood like a soldier at atten-
ton, with his eyes fixed on Judge Helms
face. He answered firmly Il do" to the
obligation in the customary oath, and Mr..
Crawford went directly into an examine
ton as to Jackson's antecedents and early
life. His answers were clear GIiet-spoken
and concise, and his accent was that of an
educated and cultivated man, speaking
good colloquial English with the ease of
habit. During the whole of the time he
was on the stand Jackson leaned back
easily in his chair, with one leg crossed
over the other, and his long, slender hand
resting upon the rail of the witness box.
His description of the alleged unjust man
ner in which he had been charged with
completely in the embezzlement of rail-
road funds in New Jersey evidently made
a distinct impression on the jury. How
ever, it is positively asserted that he was
indicted in the case. He smiled and flushed
when he stumbled over the alliterative
title of the Sure Corn Cure" for the sale
of which he had been agent in New York
city.
Then he paused a moment pronounced
the name quietly and distinctly He then
went on with the description of the vari-
GUS occupations in which he had been en-
gagged before his arrival in Greencastle.
According to the story told by the witness
the scrape in which he was involved IN
Indianapolis was an apparently innocent
one, much exaggerated by the reports con-
corning it. Instead of being imprisoned
as the associate of an abandoned woman,
he was merely one of a party of students
who happened to be in a house of ill-fame
when it was raided. All the members Of
the party were convicted of visiting a
| questionable resort, and ell were fined the
same amount, $40.
In his description of the conversation
with VIII Wood. in which Wood is alleged
to have made light of Pearl Bryans repu-
tation, the witness was as calm and APP
parently unmoved as when he was telling
the circumstances of his early life
His admission of his criminal intimacy
with Pearl Bryan created a sensation in
court He firmly asserted that his inI
macy with the unfortunate girl dated
only from the holidays of 1896
4 Blow at wood.
The subsequent examination was ter
rife blow at VIII Wood. the common
wealth's witness. Charging him with Sc
auction of the SRI was equal to throwing
! upon him nearly the whole responsibility
| for Pearl Bryan's death.
Jackson admitted sending Wood two
| prescriptions for medicine intended t,
procure a criminal operation. The pre-
scriptions were sent at Woods request
! Witness never saw them after they haC
! been sent. Wood wrote that both ha,
| failed. When the witness met Wood il
! Greencastle on the Sunday before Christ
mas Wood said: Something has got t.
! be done or I'll have to leave the town.
ON the ID of January the witness saw anC
talked to Pearl Bryan. He said she die
not give him back the prescription he haC
sent to VIII Wood. This was a direc
contradiction of VIII Woods testimony
| Subsequently, according to the statement
Of the witness VIII Wood asked him fire
az emily about the method of performing
a criminal operation, and finally aske'
him to get a man in Cincinnati to per
form one on Miss Bryan.
Two or three days after his return from
Greencastle, he said, VIII Wood wrot
him, and he destroyed the letter. TIL
commonwealth objected to this testimony
and was sustained. Then the common
wealth withdrew it's objections to all thi
testimony covering the letters. Mr.. Craw
/ ford promptly went back to the proceed
| ing November and questioned jackson
| concerning all the letters he had receives
from Wood. According to Jackson's state
ments. all of these were appeals to tn
witness to help the writer out of his trou
bic with Pearl Bryan. Jackson then de
sCribed his conversation with Wallin
concerning the matter. He had shown al
tie letters 20 Walling. The witness start
el 10 tell about the letter he wrote Wood
whicA said that Walllng had a frien
who would perform the operation. TIL
commonwealth objected, and was sus
tanned. Mr.. Crawford took an exception
Colonel Nelson withdrew the objection
Jackson then told of the contents of tn
letter as closely as he could remember.
He said that the first notice ne had o
the arrival Of the girl in Cincinnati wa
the arrival Of note from her, brough
by a messenger boy to the witness. Judg
Helm excluded the contents OF the note
Jackson said that in reply to the note h
| told the how Lhat he mnmla see nAIls