Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-02-13
A CRIME REVEALED.
cINCINNATpS MYSTERY BEING
UNRAvELED.
Detectives Have Discovered the Identity
OF the Head!css Body and Have ths
Murdsrers Under Arrest.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. s.-Last Satur-
day morning the headless body Of IN
unknown young woman was found In
field in the Kentucky highlands, about
half a mile south of Fort Thomas. Muir
derer and murdered were nameless.
There was no clue but shoe, n corsc.
and a woman's check dress. Blood
hounds called into requisition gave con-
Trajectory stories. One went to the Gov
Ington reservoir and others went to a
point In the road and stopped. The
reservoir was drained and the head was
not found. The shoe was traced to n
firm In Green Castle, Indiana.
Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, farmer
people near Green Castle. Unidentified the
iress and shoe as those OF their daughter,
Pearl Bryan, who left home last Tuesday
week. January 2S, to go to indianapolis
to visit friend. She did not go there.
Detectives Grim and McDermot and
Sheriff Plummer wired Chief Deitsch q
Cincinnati to arrest Scott Jackson, stu
dent at the Ohio Dental college, and
charge him with murder. They got him
tectives arrested William Wood rs an &c.
complice last night, at South Bend, In.
diana. When arrested Scott Jackson pro.
tested his innocence. He was subjected
to strict examination and Is held charg.
cd with murder. He Is well connected
at Green Castle, Indiana. William Wood,
who Is arrested at South Bend, Is . near
relative OF the Rev. Mr.. Wood, the pre-
siding elder OF that district Of the Meth.
odist Episcopal church.
jackson implicated his friend Alonzo
wall!ng. walling has confessed knowl'
edge of the crime, but only rs a go-bc'
tween for Jackson. There Is no doub,
that Jackson was the principal, and tina,
William Wood. arrested at South Bend
Indiana, and now on his way here, Il
deeply implicated. A bundle Of letters
from Wood to jackson bear this part Of
Jackson's confession out. Nearly all OF
Woods letters are about girls, and some
Of them are too grossly Indecent to be
read aloud. much less printed.
Pearl Byran would have become a
mother In four months. jackson says
Wood Is responsible for her condition
She arrived here mt the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton depot on Tuesday night
january %, at seven o'clock. John Bell
took her to the Indiana house. and by
her orders, notified Jackson. She told
BcllI that II jackson did not come to Sec
her. wallinR would.
jackson says In his confession that she
came here to have an abortion per.
formed. He implies that walllng was
the man that procured 1t. Meantime he
admits that she was killed In the attemp,
to perform the operation.
Great efforts have been directed tc
finding Pearl Bryan's head. In the ser.
les OF confessions Jackson says Wallins
carried 1t In a valise to the Covington
suspension bridge and he thinks wallins
threw It In the river. or he might have
carried It with him to his home at Ham.
ilton and thrown II from the Miami
bridge at that place, but jackson says
he did not go with his roommate oil
those trips and cannot tell just where h,
left the head.
Scott Jackson tonight sent for friend
Of whom he said:
"wnlling once told me that he at ono
time scduccd May Smith. lie said he
had performed an abortion on her and
It was successful and that the Smith girl
subsequently went to Louisville and ths
thing was hushcd up. When Wood told
me that he had Pearl Bryan In family
way suggested Walling. l was In
Grecncastle on my return. and I talked
to walling and he said he would perform
the abortion on Miss Bryan"