The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-20
JACKSON FOUND GUILTY.
tbs BETRAYER AND MURDERER OF
PEARL BRYAN CONVICTED.

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PEARL BRYAN CONVICTED.
He Must Die for His Crime-Finding of th'
Headless Body at d Beautiful Spot over
locking the City of Cincinnati.
NEWPORT, KY, May 14.-In ths
case of Scott Jackson. charged with
killing and cutting off the head @
Pearl Bryan, the jury returned the
following verdict:
We, the jury, find the defendant,
Scott Jackson, guilty of murder in the
first degree ard fix his penalty a
death" The Judge had previously
annornced that no demonstration o
approval or disapproval by spectator:
would be permitted. Deputies were
placed throughout the room with in
structions to bring before the court
any persons disobeying this instruc
ton, to be punished for contempt
Consequently the verdict was heare
with silence, but Immediately after
the adjournment Of court the specta
tors rushed to the jurors and shoos
their hands heartily. They also shook
each other by the hand, showing
hearty approval Of the verdict of the
jury. Jackson himself received hi
doom with no manifestation Of emo
ton except ashen paleness of the face
None of his relatives were present
The aged father of Pearl Bryan aud
her brother Frederick Bryan were
present when the verdict was rendered
The usual motion for new trial was
made and then Jackson was taken
away TO jail. He had been surrounded
bv half dozen or more officers when
The jury came in, and went cut under
protection, although there was no de
luonstration toindicate 4 necessity for
so much care. in lcng interview,
Jackson admits his surprise over the
verdict and claims that he had proved
an alibi. He still maintains his limo
cence and says that Walling killed
Fearl Bryan. The prisoner is greatly
depressed over the verdict and in bis
interview could not suppress his des
pondent feeling. Walling has also
been interviewed since the verdict and
expresses his satisfaction. He still
maintains that Scott Jackson killed
the girl and in his interview repeated
ly stated that Jackson deserved hang
ing.
WHO JACKSON IS.
Jackson is the son of Maine sea
captain who died years ago. He took
his son, Scott. with him on many voy'
ages. After his fathers death, Jack.
son went west with his mother and
settled at Greencastle, Ind. After re-
naming in Greencastle for some time
he went to Indianapolis to attend lee
lures in dental college, and his mo-
ther went with him. Nothing derog-
atory to his character there, save the
pranks usual among students, is
known. 1t is related, but merely as a
curious coincidence, that while he was
in Indianapolis as a student the head
of a woman was found one night on
the steps Of an undertaken, whose
house happened to be across the street
from where Jackson lived. On the
return of Jackson and his mother to
Greencastle Jackson was hangeron
about the Office of DR.. Gillespie, who
had given Jackson some professional
work. 1t was while he was IN DR..
Gillespie's office that Jackson became
intimate with Will Wood, the preach
er's son, and it is said that Will Wood
first introduced Scott Jackson to Pearl
Bryan. 1t is charged that Jackson
ruined Pearl Bryan and murdered her
to conceal the other crime. There is
a strange fascination about the story
of this murder. The body of Pearl
Bryan, with the exception Of the head,
which is still missing, was found by q
boy, John Hewling, Saturday morn
ing, February 1, near Fort Thomas,
Ky.
SCENE OF THE MURDER.
The spot where the body was dis
covered is picturesque. 1t is on tie
northern slope of one of the most
slightly spots il Kentucky. Less than
900 yards from the exact spot, on the
south. is the government post of st.
Thomas, esta bllshed several years ago,
when Newport barracks were remov-
ell there. The buildings are modern.
Northward is the basin, Or the cald-
ron, of Cincinnati and is shaded by
thu delightful cool walnut hills" in
the background, while east and west
the yellow waters Of the Ohio river
are seen moving slowly, as if they
were loath to pass by the landscape on
either side. Near this spot is turn
pike road, known as the Alexander
pike. 1t is fashionable driveway in
summer, and threads its way about
the slope and surrounds it, as rail
road does in crossing mountain.
Exactly 900 yards from this turnpike,
at point in sight of the sentrles Of
Fort Thomas, within sound of reveille
and sunset gun, on slight embank-
ment about which had been planted
what is known as prevet bushes, the
headless form Of Pearl Bryan was
found, early in the morning, by the
DOE flcWlluS. Lie Lruuh Ol Lue ueao
lay downward and to the west; the
body lay in an angular position to-
ward the northeast. One arm lay un-
der the body; the other was ouls5rech-
ed upon the ground. There We're
blood splashes about the breast and
the waist; about the place where the
trunk hung down the EN- bankment,
and upon the bushes near by, and the
earth IN the same vicinity showed that
it WAS stained with blood. All of these
facts were elected during the trial and
brought in at the coroners inquest,
and 1t was these facts which caused
the coroner's jury to 6nd that the
murder was committed in Kentucky,
point which the counsel of the ac-
cused undertook to upset, and came
very near doing it, for it is agreed on
both sides that the legal contest of this
case has been skillfuliy conducted and
that it will forever be cited by crimi-
nal lawyers. a fence of barbed wire
stands between the Alexander pike