Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-08
FORT THOMASsCHXAE.l
Murder Of a Young Woman and xulila-
tion Of Remains.
DECApITATION REsORTED TT
ThI. to Prevent Identification OF
Bosy-.several Arrests In Connec-
,tor with the issions
of Participation I'm Murder.

chain Of evidence is being more tightly
bound about the Fort Thomas murderers
The admission Of participation In the va
rlo,s phases of the crime by Scott Jack
son and Aionzo NJ. Walllng continues, ano
piece by piece the police are learning al
the facts which led to Pearl Bryan's death
and decapitation. Toward midnight last
night walling made a statement to re-
porter that Pearl Bryan was murdered IN
cold blood by Scott Jackson. who he says
administered a hypodermic. injection OF
either prussic acid or arsenic and cocaine.
and then cut OF her head TO battle identi-
| fication.
Thursday night Bin Wood. the girls al
legged betrayer. arrived from South Bend.
! He charges that Jackson betrayed her,
and that he sent the girl 10 Cincinnati
simply to save the family from disgrace.
Wood Is under surveillance.
THE CRIME.
| A Cincinnati telegram OF Wednesday
said At 10 p. NJ. tonight the following
| telegram came flashing over the wires
from Greencastle, Ind, and was delivered
| five minutes later: ITO Colonel Deitsch,
| Chief OF Police. Cincinnati: Arrest and
| charge with murder OF Pearl Bryan one
| Scott Jackson. student at Dental College;
about "A years old, feet Z or inches
high; weighs about 1876 pounds; blonde,
sandy mustache; light complexion. effemi-
nate in appearance; positive identiiica-
ton Of clothing by family"
Arrest. II i'm Cincinnati. William Wood,
| friend of Jackson, and charge as accom-
plice; about % years old: feet ii Inches
| high; light blonde hair. smooth face,
| rather slender. weight about l65 pounds
Wood. as he left here for that place.
The message was signed Crum McDer-
mott, and Plummer, three officers OF the
| city named.
Accordingly at a quarter before IL
o'clock, Scott Jackson was in the Mayors
Office under examination by the Mayor
and Chief Of Police. The culprit was per-
fecuy described in the above telegram
from the detectives. He stood the ordeal
with apparent calmness. though 1t lasted
TIL midnight. most of the time before the
Mayor and Chief alone.
neatly dressed. and youthful In appear
ance His naturally rudy face flushed
perceptlbly under the examination. and
questioners, in spite OF a visible effort
to bear up and look them square In the
eyes.
His voice was reasonably firm, yet It
in that state. Now and then it faltered
slightly. but was Immediately braced up.
There was at no time any expression or
Indignation at his arrest. Nor did he
exhibit any signs that he felt Inundated
by IL. This, however, should count Tor
but little, as his arrest and examination
came like thunder claps In quick success
SION
His account Of his whereabouts last
Friday night was not by any means CON
clusiyely satisfactory, nor was II Sonciu.
admitted that he knew Pearl Bryan. He
could tell nothing about where she was.
or where she had been during the past
few weeks.
his roommate. Mr.. Lamping, was exam
ined first and alone. He said Jackson
was out about 10 o'clock Friday night.
This, was all he could say, as Jackson
Jackson himself says ne was az MS
clearinghouse on that night and was
there again about 10 o'clock. The rest of
his story Is very vague, though ne sald
he was In his room all night.
WEAK POINTS IN STORY.
The worst point OF Jackson's story-the
weakest part OF it's that about his con-
duct on last Saturday. He boarded at ~
west Ninth street. next TO Robnson's
Opera-House. On Saturday he took va
lise and left II In Lengler's saloon oppo-
site his clearinghouse.
This vaise he carried with him all
over the city that day and evening. The
theory is that the head Of the murdered
girl was probably IN the Vaise, ana NJ
was travelling about with II to destroy
fl without being discovered.
The accounting for this vallse and why
he carried ii all day ana night puzzled
him more than anything else. In Tact. ne
prevaricated. and afterwards acknowl-
edged that he had done so. He was COM
mitted without bail.
A dispatch from Greencas;le, Ind. says:
I.H.f linz
farmer. living less than 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 furnish other information and cir
cumstances. which leave no doubt in the
minds OF the officers, who have been here
since yesterday. that the body OF the
woman murdered and beheaded near Fort
Thomas. opposite Cincinnati. last Friday
night Is that of their daughter. Pearl,
aged % years. who left home January
2Sth. ostensibly 10 visit her friend Miss
Jane Fisher, on Central avenue, Indian
apolis.
ALL HIGHLY RESPECTABLE.
They have made every possible inquiry.
and find that she did not visit Miss
Fisher in Indianapolis, but that she was
taken to Cincinnati by Scott Jackson. She
took with her a switch of hair which
was brought here by the officers and
identified, as well as the locks OF her own
hair
Her shoes, brought here by the officers,
were bought from Louis d Hayes by
Pearl Bryan, and marks were identified
by the dealers. AS soon as the officers
interviewed Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan and
other members OF their family they sent
word to Cincinnati TO have Scott Jackson
student at the Ohio Dental College In
Cincinnati arrested.
His mother lives here. and the families
were intimate and highly respected. The
Bryan family, also. gave Information that
led the officers TO order the arrest of VIII
liam Wood, the son of Rev. ID. NJ Wood
at South Bend. Ind. Detectives Grim and q
McDermott OF Cincinnati, and Sheriff
Plummer, of Newport KY, left for South
Bend to arrest Wood.
The families of Jackson. Wood. and
Bryan are all well known here. and the
tragedy has created the greatest excite
ment that was ever known in this part
of Indiana.
A later Cincinnati dispatch says: Ii has
trenspired that Scott Jackson was seen
with Miss Bryan at Dave Wallingfords
saloon, at the corner of George and Plum
streets this city, Friday night between
and o'clock. and that Jackson bor-
rowed 50 from Walingford.
This man will be a most important. IL
not the most important, witness against
jackson. The location or Plum and George
streets Is in the Tenderloin District Of