Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-02-12
her body was to hide the cause of her


death.
Jackson has told enough of the crime
to amount to a general confession. The
weakest part of Jackson's story Is his
conduct on Saturday last when he took
a valise and left it in a saloon opposite
his boarding house. He carried the
valise all over the city that day and
evening. The theory is that the head
of the murdered girl was in the valise
and he was seeking an opportunity to
destroy it without being discovered.
The valise was obtained at a barber
shop, where he left it. When the valise
was shown to him today he was told to
open 1t, and he admitted to the chief of
police that 1t contained bloodstains.
WAS it the head that made these
stains?" asked the chief.
| "Well, l should think it was" STAN
| mered the prisoner.
was it there that you carried the
head?"
II tell you that / did not carry the
| head"
The prisoner has been obstinate on
this point He said in his private con-
fession in Colonel Deitsch's office, ear
lier. that he thought that the head was
! thrown into the Ohio river. The poor
| girls satchel was stained purple in the
bottom and sides with her own blood.
| Whenever Jackson was asked about
the yalise with the girls head in it, he
said:
! never carried Il with anything in
| 1t. Walling wanted me to carry it, but
i would not do it."
The outcome of this confession, coup
| led by a dense throng of accusing cir
cumstances, is that three men are in
volved-Jackson, most deeply: Wood, a
little less deeply; and Wallng incident
ally, but still incriminatingly.
| Walling, talking to a colored turnkey,
said that Jackson murdered and be-
headed the girl in Kentucky. and kept
the head here three days, when he
dropped it into a sewer. A search of the
sewers has been instituted.
JACKSON is NO SAINT.
Jersey City, N J., Feb. 6.-The Scott
Jackson who is under arrest at Gin
cinnati on suspicion of the murder OF
Miss Pearl Bryan, is the young man
who turned states evidence against his
accomplice, Alexander Let's. Let's is
serving a tern in states prison for the
embezzlement of $23, 900 from the Penn
sylvania Railway Company. Let's was
an assistant auditor. He and jackson
started a saloon with the stolen money
and gambled on horse races.
CONFLICTING STORIES.
Before his confession Jackson said
II am afflicted with fainting spells, ant
, after they pass away l get deliriou'
and do not know what [ am doing
When l was a boy living in 1ndianap
oils l have risen in dellrium after
SPELL dressed myself, wandering arount
without knowing what | had DONE
Scott Jackson made his confession b!
small statements because he saw tn
' clouds of evidence gathering aroun'
= him. He has not divulged the detail
/ of the crime. When he admits the CIR
e was murdered, he does 1t as If thir'
/. person had committed the crime. Jack
0 sons roommate, Alonzo Walling, ha
e confessed to knowledge of the crime
y but only as a go-between for jackson
: There is no doubt that Jackson wa
+ the principal.
h William Wood, arrested at Sout
a Bend, Ind, is deeply implicated. !
bundle of letters from Wood TO Jack
n son bears this part of Jackson's confes
= sion out Nearly all of Woods letter
1
1 decent to be read aloud.
d Pearl Bryan would have become
y mother in four months. Jackson say
d Wood was responsible for her condition
d She arrived here at the Cincinnati
a, Hamilton depot Tuesday night, Januar
y 28, at o'clock. John Belli took her
10 the Indiana house and by her order
notified Jackson. She told Bali II Jacl
d son did not come Walling would. Jacl
e. son says in his confession she can
lie here to have an abortion performe
y He implies that Walling procured
IN He admits she was killed in the a
I'd tempt to perform the operation. Neith
50 Walling nor Jackson is specific in the
as statements as to where and how Il
10 crime was performed. Both agree
as was committed Friday night. Wallir
ed is more frank. Jackson speaks stolidl
he but looks as If he would burst with r
ed morse.
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