Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-14
TO BE TRIED IN KENTUCKY
Ohio Authorities Conclude to Surrender
jackson and Walling,
HELD AS fUGlrNES FROM JUSTICE
kentucky Authorities Assert the
Prisoners VIII he Protected
from Lynchers-some Minor
Cievs Discovered.

| CINCINNATI Feb. 13.-When the patrol
wagon drove TO the Jail door ON Sycamore
! street this morning to take Jackson and
! Walling to the police court there was a
| curious crowd on the sidewalk to catch such
| glimpses Of the prisoners as could be had
| as they mounted the stairway from the jail
door to the sidewalk and crossed the walk
| to the wagon. Both were handcuffed. but
they entered into no conversation as they
| met for the first time for several days. They
were driven quickly to the city hall and we're
| placed in cells until they should be
called for their hearings. Meantime a most
unusual scene was witnessed in and about
| the court rooni There was wild struggle
for admission into the little temple Of police
| Justice, and all the Railways adjacent were
| jammed with men aud women who were un-
| able to look into the doorway of the
court room. An extra detail of officers was
1 necessary to keep the crowd from degenerat-
| ing into a mob.
| II was long time before the prisoners
| were brought up for examination and the
process was very brief They both waived
| examination and were ordered to be COM
mitted to Jail without bond on the charge of
| being fugitves from justice. and the case
| was continued until February 49,
When the commitments were being pre-
| pared the men were returned to their cells.
| Sheriff Plummer of Newport will at once
| apply to the governor for a requsition for
| the prisoners
| Both jackson and Walling were repre-
sented by attorneys The charges preferred
against the prisoners were murder and
fugitves from justice. Upon suggestion Of
Attorney Mercy, who represented Walling,
| the charge of murder was withdrawn and
| the other charge left against them. II is
understood this signfed an acquiescence by
the Cincinnati authorities in the theory that
| the murder was committed in Kentucky, and
| no resistance would be made to the demand
for their removal to the state for trial. 1t
| has been thought all along that the prospect
| OF lynching, which has generally been re-
| garded as likely In Newport, will bring one
| or the other man to the point of furnishing
| the missing link in the chain of evidence,
namely, the cabman who drove them with
| their victim to the place Of murder
William f. Wood, whose case was also
| set for today and who was out on bond,
| did not appear when his name was called
| and his bond was promptly forfeited. Sub
| sequently he came in and his case was con-
| tinued until the 25th and he was locked up
until new bond can be given.
| Jackson, In an interview in jail tonight,
| said he was perfectly willing to go to New
port. and in case he was lynched Walling
would be also, and there would be the sat
isfaction that the guilty life went out with
the innocent one Walling said substan-
TALLY the same thing, promising Jacksons
would be the guilty life. -.....
INCREASING THE REWARD.
The mysterious murder of Pearl Bryan
has several more clews. An umbrella handle
has been found near the scene of the mur-
der and handleless razor has been found
in Walling's trunk. There Is reward of
5000 offered by two morning papers and $50
by the owner Of the farm on which the mur
der was committed for the dicovery of
ri haoH wi nj
more from citizens of Greencastle, Ind. max
ing $1.150. This, with the intensifying in
terest in the solving of the mystery, stm-
ulated the. search by everybody. -. Tonight
tho water Is being drained out of the canal
and tomorrow the search will begin in its
Shiny bed. '....
Sheriff. Plummer of Newport, KY, has
gone to Frankfort. KY. for requisition for
Scott Jackson and Alonzo M. Walling, the
men in Jail here Jointly indicted by the
Campbell county grand jury for the murder
of Pearl Bryan. The charge against Wallins
and Jackson was changed here today from
murder to fugitive from Justice" for the
abandonment Of jurisdiction by Ohio and
facilitating their extraditon to Kentucky.
The prisoners will contest extraditon.
The authorities and the people of New
port feel aggrieved that there should be fear
of the prisoners being lynched. The sheriff
says he can take care Of the prisoners and
, that il he finds danger of a siege and the
Newport Jail not strong enough to withstand
it, he can remove them.
Jackson has received touching letter
from Mrs. Minnie J. Post, his sister 1t
implores him to tell his lawyer the whole
truth. Tell it to him at cnce, my brother,
and bravely abide the consequences" she
says.
The incarceration of William Wood for
completely in the abortion and in procuring
poison surprised the young man. DR.. Rust
was adverse TO going on his bond again. His
counsel, David Davis, said it was better for
him to be in Jail. Counsel did not attempt
to get bond for him. Wood is very indig-
nant.
ORGANIZING FOR A LYNCHING.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. IA special to the
Sentinel from Muncie, Ind, says: letter
received in this city discloses plot to lynch
Scott Jackson, Alonzo Walling, William
Wood and the Casker brothers. 1t says that
at least 1000 men will take part in the
killing. There now live in Muncie three
families who formerly resided in the moon
shine district of Kentucky and western West
Virginia. They are members Of the moon
sinners organizations, which it Is said has
over 5000 members. This morning one of
these men received a letter instructing the
three 10 take part in the lynching. The
letter stated that the mob would be furnished
with rifles, also that paper had been
secretly circulated in Newport, KY, and
1900 men had signed 1t, sgnifylng their
willingness to join the moonshiners. 1t was
further said that unless the murderers were
taken to Kentucky a mob of 1000 would
bear down ON the Cincinnati jail, armed
with rifles and lynch the men. The Gasker
brothers are supposed to have rowed Pearl
Bryan down the Ohio river on the night OF
the murder The man who claims to have
received the information was once a moon
sinner. He says he will not go to Kentucky
as requested. ',i
NEW YORK, Feb. 13-Wiiam and James
Fitzgerald brothers. aged respectively 20
and l8 years were today held for the muir
der of Prof. Max Eglam In the Institution
for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes
Monday evening. The charge against the
young men Is based upon the finding of a
pistol belonging TO their brother and of a
blood stained pair of cuffs and handker-
cLiefs /.iich have been identified as the
properr of the Fitzgeralds. These articles
were discovered under a washstand in the
hal adjoining the room IN which the muir
der was committed. 1t Is thought by the