The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-08
Her Murderers Still Accusing
Each Other of the Deed.
Jackson's Bloody Coat Found in
q Sewer.
LYNCHING is FEARED.
The Murdered Girls Head Not
Found.
Two Suspects Arrested and Re-
fused Bail.

CINCINNATI, O., Feb s.-Although it
Is just one week since the decapitated
body of Pearl Bryan was found near
Fort Thomas, KY, there was more ex-
element yesterday over the tragedy
and in the Kentucky suburbs than on
any previous day. Scott Jackson and
Alonzo Walling, the suspects, who
were room mates while attending the
Ohio Dental College, confessed against
each other all day. They were ex-
amined separately and together.
When they are confronted face to
face with each others confessions
they call each other liars and
exhibit murderous feeling. ALI efforts
have been directed to finding
Pearl Bryan's head. In the series of
confessions Jackson says Walling car
ried it in a valise to the CovingtOn suS-
pension bridge, and he thinks Walling
threw 1T in the riverF or he might have
carried it with him to his home at
Hamilton and thrown it from the
Miami bridge at that place, but jack
son says he did not go with his room
mate on these trips and can not tell
just where he left the head
Walling says he had nothing to do
with the decapitation or disposal of
the head, but he recited long stories
which lead the officers to believe that
Jackson had buried the head in q
sand bar in the Ohio river, opposite
Dayton KY, a suburb of this city, or
dropped it in the sewer on Richmond
street. Large forces worked all day
at both places and they secured the
blood-stained coat of Jackson out of a
sewer at the corner of Richmond an d
Ninth streets, near Jackson's room.
William Wood of Greencastle, Ind,
as well as jackson and Walling, were
arraigned in Police court and their
preliminary hearings were fixed for
next Thursday, February H. Wood,
on the charge of aiding aud abetting
criminal operation, was admitted to
s., 900 bail. The other two suspects,
on the charge of murder, were refused
bail.
Sheriff Plimmer of Newport, Ky,
Immediately after the arraignment of
the three suspects, demanded them as
his prisoners. As the feeling across
the river is intense and the Campbell
county Jail is an old frame structure,
with which Jackson and Walling seem
familiar, this demand caused the two
suspects to turn pale as death. They
fear 1ynching.
Scott jackson sent for friend to
whom he said: ''Walling once told
me that he at one time betrayed May
Sm@h. He said he had performed a
criminal operation on her and it had
been successful and that the Smith
girl had su bsequently went to Louis
Vile and the thing was hushed up.
When Wood told me Pearl Bryan's
lamentable plight I suggested Wal
ling. 1 was in Greencast1e then. On
my return 1 talked to Walling and he
said he would perform the operation
on Miss Bryan. Now, 1 can't tell you
the rest Send for Brother Tibbitts,
secretary of the Y. M. c. A. I will
tell all tO him -
Tibbitts came and prayed with the
prisoner. Later Tibbitts wrote the
confession as it was dictated by
Jackson, but the latter signed it, as
follows:
Here, with the Bible in my hand,
on my knees before God, 1 swear l was
not guilty of numbering that poor
girl. 1 did get her to come to Cincin-
natl to undergo an operation. Walling
was to get $50 for performing it. but
not for numbering that poor girl. 1
don't know where he killed her, or
how he killed her, or what he did with
her after he killed her. did not kill
the poor girl He is the guilty man.
viii Woods was to send $50 to him
through me for performing the opera
ton. This is the truth. so help me
God"