The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-07
THE KENTUCKY MURDER MYSTERY
The HeadIess Woman Was Pearl.
Bryan, of Indiana.


Three Dental College Students Arrested
and Charged With the Crime-rwo OF
Thorn Have Made Damaging Confess
sions- The Severed Head Alleged to
Fave Boon Dropped in "a sewer-A Hor-
ribie Story.
CfGCINNATI, o., Feb. 6 The headless
body OF o woman was found in the field
in the Kentucky highlands. about
half mile south OF Fort Thomas. Mug
derer and murdered we're pameless. and
there WAS no clue but . shoe, corset
and o woman's checked drses.
Bloodhounds called into requisition
gave contradictory stories, one went TO- i
tho Covipgton reservoir and others y,.ss
to point in the road and etcp-rS,, ?. .T nv
reservoir was drsinea Nj s6e p head Nas.
farm in Green assle e In ss slsI %mna 40
rasn1t " ga ~ FED to their end wishout
omI. r,n "u - sss@ dress and shoe were the
1niy Slus aeN. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs.
;asr.if,s al faer people near Green Castle,
tar pas them rs those of their dEugh-.
Tnasds fl Bryan. who left home last
Todsn.3y week, January 2s, to 60 to
NOT hapolis to visit q friend. She did
uo 1naet there.
| NJ Detectives wired Chief Dsitsoh, of
Tncinnati, yesterday to arrest Scott
1SJaokson, student at the Ohio Dental.
Ooilege and charge him with murder.
Ihey got him at IL O'Clock last night
Detectives also arrested William Wood
as an accoRaplice lRst night at South
BEND. When arrested Scott jackson
protested hts Innocence, but this morn.
ing he weakened and confessed knowl.
edge of the crime, but tried 10 fasten.
guilt on .Alonzo M. Walling, his rooms.
mate. Walhng was arrested and i'm
turn charged jackson with the com.
mission of the deed.
a satchel which the murdered woman
orought here was found In barber shou,
with blood stains on it. In this Che
murderer or murderers carried the
severeo mead OF the woman until &c wAs.
disposed OF. jackson made his oopfes-
sion by small inssalments. he adraita.
the girl was murdereds but does 1t as is:
| third person had committed tfie
crime. WalltDg has confessed knowledge
OF tho crime, but only as go between
There ia no doubt that Jackson waa
the principal and that William Wood.
arrested at South Bend, Ind, and now
al Hha ms way mere. 10 deeply impliosted.
Abundant letters from Wood to Jaokson
bear out this part OF Jackson's comics.
SION. Nearly all of Woods letters Ara
sooue girls and gome OF them are
grossly indecent. Pearl Bryan wonld
nave become 9 mother in four months.
Jackson says William Wood 10 respon.
siDie Ior her condition. She arrived
mere at the Cincinnati. Hamilton and
uary 80. oon"
jackson says she came here 10 have n
criminal operation performed, he I'M
piss enae Walltng was the man that
procured it, and admits that she wnn
ki LED In the attempt to perform che
operation. Each prisoner, in irving tn
essaoiiah tho gulls Of the other, makes
s. clearly showing the guils of
oo'n. When Wood arrives il is shought
ohe OF ooth OF them will be ready to
whole truth. Walling, talking to q
colored turnkey, said that Jackson mus-
aered and heheaded the girl In Ken
lucky, No Kept the head here thpse
Gays, when he dropped 1t into sewer
search OF the sewers has been inati.
tuted. ISL insu'
y Mrs. Louisa w. Fisher, Of No. rs
Uensral avenue. Indianapolis, Ind, ia
H ene itieno whom Miss Bryan left Green
- SASAy ~ tIdlR. mrs. Fisher
said to-day: "She was O member of
one OF the best farniliea In Puhnan
county and was cousin of the LATE
senator L'ckridge. She was verv
handsome girl, blonde and OF loynbls
disposition. I knew nothing az thss
sad affair until laat night and am
greatly shocked. received q disnateh
"rhs before last from her parents
asking II Pearl wAa here s.a :. dotirag
answered no, but did not know what
10 meant. Miss Bryan and her family
naa standing invitation to visit me-"
hrs. Fisher did not know Jackson.
Kentucky Murderer Surrendors.
MADIsoNvILLE. KY, Feb. --Jamea
hughes. murderer of Marshall Smiley.
% Providence, KY, last Tuesday, sur.
rendered to farmer near Providence
this afternoon and was jailsd at Dixon
before the Providence people knew ~
IL or he would have been lynchei. The
greatest Excitement prevails and tsss
reared that mob will attempt TO
nang MIN Tonight. Jordon Hughes.
Latner o: the murderer. and q brnsher
walker, are in jail at Dixon IA aecea.
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