The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
SCOTT JACKSON'S TRIAL.
An Interesting Batch of Testimony
Given In Yesterday.

Newport, Ky, May 1.-The proceed
ings in the trial of Scott Jackson today
were less exciting than those of yester-
day, and yet interest in it did not abate,
nor did the crowd of spectators diminish.
Morning, noon and night, as the prisoner
passes between the court room and jails,
throngs. mostly women and children.
gather to catch a glimpse of him. To-
night there were nearly 200 in the crowd,
including n dozen infants in baby wagons.
lot of little bareheaded girls and of men
not over a score.
The first witness called by the defense
was Undertaken William Abbott who
embalmed the body of Pearl Bryan. He
of blood from the veins of Pearl Bryan.
In the cross examination he was asked
if he was not drunk when he embalmed
the body. and if he had not now been on
protracted spree. He denied this.
DR.. Jeancon, physician of much learn
ing, gave elaborate testimony regarding
the flow of blood under different circum-
stances and the effect of sudden
hemorrhage by beheading. The gen
eral result of his testimony comedies
mainly with that offered by the prosecd-
ton.
The testimony of DR.. f.. f. Davis and
Surgeon Hyle of Fort Thomas was taken
concerning the length of time the body
of Pearl Bryan had lain in its place after
death. Hyle thought the time was ten
hours at least: Davis thought the time
not so great. and that the beheading was
done by skillful hands.
Henry Mott. who lighted the way for
the George II. Jackson party when, he
showed the. police the route he had
taken with Walling and Jackson. said
In M
road; that it could be easily done in one
hour.
Testimony was offered to show that
George II. Jackson did not identify Scott
Jackson in the Jail. The drift of the
testimony for the defense disclosed a
purpose to show that Pearl Bryan.
though beheaded in Kentucky, was first
killed in Cincinnati and then taken over
to Kentucky and beheaded. This, II sue
cessful, would set the prisoner free,
as he could not be tried for the same
offense in Cincinnati.
The theory of the defense, manifestly,
is that Pearl Bryan was chloroformed to
death unintentiOnally in Cincinnati, and
then taken to Kentucky and beheaded to
escape the penalty for such an accident
The testimony of Embalmer Abbott
that he flushed the veins of Pearl Bryan's
body before the autopsy and found a
quart and half of blood in them was to
overthrow the expert testimony of the
prosecution that she must have been
killed in Cincinnati.
This afternoon David r. Lock. who
was the fourth man to visit the scene of
the murder testified to seeing tracks
from the pike to the spot where the girl
Law and back by another route to the pike
again. The tracks were those of shoes
No. s or 9. perfectly new and broad at
the. He was shown Jackson's shoes and
salu the tracks could not have been made
by them. He also testified that he saw
only a clot of blood, but, that four feet
away from the girls neck he saw a pile
of human excrement which had been mis-
taken in the red leaves for blood.
Most of the afternoon was taken up by
reading the dispositions of colored men
to prove that George H. Jackson. the
colored driver. was in Cincinnati Friday
night January 81 and until 1t 2, oelGek on on
the murder, and, therefore, could not
have driven the cab to the scene.