The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-03
that the Prisoner Was
I'm a Cold-BloOded Plot Causes u
Sensation In Court.
WILL WOOD CAN'T TESTIFY
JUDGE HELM RULES AGAINST LET
TIERS WRITTEN TO JACKSON.
Witnesses Identify Walling as the
Man Seen with Pearl Bryan the
Day Before the Murder.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

NEWPORT, KY. June "A wild story
was circulated to-day that Scott Jackson
told fellow prisoners in the Newport jail,
before his removal TO Covington, that he
could tell a story on the witness stand
which would acquit Alonzo Walling. When
seen about the report Jackson denied that ne
had ever given anyone such an intimatiM
and denounced the report as a fake. In con-
nection with this ii came out in Walling's
trial to-day that the evidence which jack
son gave during his trial, in which the blame
was laid largely on Walling, is not proper
evidence in Walling's trial. The prosecu-
tion is running against stumbling blocks
every day, ana 1t is generally admitted that
it will have hard work to convict Wailing.
There was a sensational charge made
against -Walling this afternoon when Col.
Nelson was arguing with Judge Helm to
overcome an objection to the introduction
of letters from Will Wood to Jackson and
other evidence concerning Jackson.
Attorney Hays sought to introduce Scott
Jackson's damaging admissions to DR.. Gil
lespie, of Greencastle. the Hoosier dentist
having come here to testify, but the court
ruled against him. Then he asked to in
troduce Scott Jackson's letters TO Pearl
Bryan, but the court again ruled adversely.
portance. for they made it harder for the
State to prove the motive for the girls
death. Attorney Nelson argued against the
decision. and for the first time in the trial
Colonel Washington asked that the jury be
taken from the room.
Colonel Nelson, in sustaining his point.
said that Alonzo wailing. on his own con-
fession, knew that Pearl Bryan was coming
to Cincinnati, and not to have an abortion
performed on her, but that Jackson was
bringing her here for the purpose of muir
dering her. And that Wallng knowing
these facts aided in the execution of the
crime
.He knew that jackson intended to take
her TO a room and give her quick poison"
said Colonel Nelson, land let her be found
dead there. At the same time Walling went
to the railroad station to meet their victim.
and when he saw her, he did not warn her.
but aided Jackson TO carry out his plan,
| thus proving a conspiracy
Judge Helm however. stood by his decision
sustaining Colonel Washington's objection,
saying; . 49,. ,o,,on o ;. g.,
| troduced in this case. except to prove him
/ the principal in a crime in which Walling
| aided. or TO prove conspiracy. These let
| ters and conversations are prior to the time
| any conspiracy could have been formed"
FISHBACK IN COURT.
| Hon. w. p. Fishback, dean Of the Indiana
| Law School, of Indianapolis. occupied the
| bench with Judge Helm a part of the morn
| ing. Fred Bryan, a brother of Pearl, and
| DIR. Gillespie, of Greencastle, were both on
| the stand to-day.
| Alonzo Walling is still more or less an un-
! known quantity ia the prosecuting lawyers.
| There is something in his actions which can
| hardly be explained. His owr attorneys are
| PROBABLY we'll aware what the young man S
| evidence will be. but his own brothers are
in ignorance. With them he has exchanged
no confidence concerning the crime with
was rne first OF the prisoners relatives 10
| arrive in Newport, has had the best oppor-
tunty 70 gain his brothers version OF the
tragic story, but ne says his brother has not
| talked With him upon the subject.
'All that Lou has tod me-. he said lis
| that he is innocent and believes he will come
! out all right. He has never told me any
thing about the crime and what he expects
to make known upon the witness stand"
in the Courtroom Tuesdav marninu and arrived "e
| cupied seat just behind the prisoner Faw-
cett Is well-to-do, and 1t Is reported that 1t
Walllng's defense. With him was Thomas
Lloyd. a contractor of Oxford, o.
rst soas his of the
| same as at the former trial. telling of the
call Of Jackson, Walling and Pearl Bryan
| L
tae clairvoyant: was also on the stand with
/ her former evidence about Jacksons and
| Pearl Bryan's visit to her. Dave Walling-
whose place the fatal drive is SAID to have
| been made to Fort Thomas on the night OF
Jan. IL. again testified, as did his colored
| quently impertinent, and had TO he called
| down by Judge Helm. Johnson made the
charge that Fred Albion. the barber friend
| the cab on the night they left the saloon
| with Pearl Bryan Attorney Shepherd, for
Walng. attempted to draw out the aims-
/ s,on that Johnson had told him (Shepherd)
| that Jackson Walling and Pearl Bryan
/ were in Walllngford's saloon on Thursday
night dns;ea instead of OF Friday night but the wit
| mitted he had been In the workhouse.
POINT FOR wALLING.
The above mentioned witnesses, together
| with a half dozen others, all testified to see
| ing Pearl Bryan with Walling or Scott
jackson or both on the Thursday and Fri
day previous to the Saturday. Feb. 1, when
| the body was found at Fort Thomas. The
prosecution lost point when Chester Null
| len, the liveryman. whose cab was taken
| cut on the fatal night. refused to say posi-
| lively that Walling was either the man who
| hired the cab or brought it back. Mullen
said he had another horse of the same color
Of the one driven in the rockaway that
| night.
ON cross-examination by Colonel Wash
ington. MULLEN said That the man ne saw a
| the stable had darker complexion thar
| Walling Mullen left the stand without con
| Meeting Walling with the hiring OF the cab
He stood firm in his determination not 10 sal
| thar he recognized Walling, for, as he said
81 am not sure
| John Foster was then called. He said he
| knows both Walling and Jackson. He said
he saw them in Bellevue about IL 80 O'Clock
on the morning of Thursday. Jan. 80. Wit
ness said he was standing at his gate when
| Waliing, Jackson and a girl came down
| Washington avenue in Bellevue They
| walked on down 10 the river, according TO
| the witness. when walling came back and
! talked to the witness. Foster was shown q
photograph Of Pearl Bryan and identified
IL as a likeness of the girl he saw with
Jackson and Walling.
Dr. j. ". Gillespie. the Greencastle dentist
was called. and said he first met Wailing a,
the Indiana Dertal College in the winter o1
lS94-95. DIR. Gillespie said, in substance
Il also knew Scott Jackson at the same
time. jackson and Walling were at the col.
lege at the same time Jackson was aisc
about my Office for several months In
Greencastle. He knew Pearl Bryan. and
used TO call on her. saw Jackson in oc
tober. and again during the Christmas hoI
told me that he had Illicit relations with
Pearl Bryan; that he had such relation.
with her for some tine After my last con.
yersation Jackson returned to Cincinnati
Ii was about week later"
Fred Bryan. the brother, next identified
q valise as the one Pearl took from home
He said there no hOOd stains