The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-07

CINCINNATI. O., Feb. 6.-All day the
city has been nervously excited over the
hourly developments of the now famous
story Of the mysterious death OF Pearl
BRYAN, the Greencastle, Ind, farmers
daughter. What is called confession OF
the young men implicated as her muir
derers, Is only a strange sort OF halr-oe-
FAINT wincing under the semi-torture OF
a police examination, in which each cuL-
prit appears TO be trying to shield MINI
self as an accidental accomplice ana make
the other the real criminal so lar II Is
known that Pearl Bryan, about to be-
come a mother and DESTROYS OF hldlng
her shame. left Greencastle, Ind, ines
day, January Is, ostensibly TO visit Mrs.
Fisher in Indianapolis that William
Wood saw her to the train; that she
came directly to Cincinnati, tried to see
Scott Jackson at the dental college that
night but could not; that she reglslesreo
at the Indiana house as Mabel SuehAey'
CITY," and was assigned to room ia. Al
ter that the stories about her Go not
agree.
AIonzo NJ Wauing, the room mate of
Scott jackson, both Of whom were ar
rested last night charged with the muir
der. says that Jackson saw MISS Brydn
on Wednesday and that he went about
the city with her and finally, on FRIDAY,
completed the crime Of murder, cutting
off
THE GIRLS HEAD
and bringing it TO Cincinnati in her own
valise which he kept until Monday, when
he cast the head into a sewer and threw
her clothing into the Ohio river.
On the other hand Jackson, in Stold,
half stupid and always obstlnately argu-
-nentatiVe manner, placed the enllre DUR
den on Walling. According 20 ms story,
the lamentable condition of Miss Bryan
was attributed TO William Wood OF
Greencasle, who applied to jackson 70
help him cover up the girls shame ana
his own participation in the affair. WOOD
did this, Jackson says, because he Jack
SOM was dental student ana supposed
70 have access TO means for producing
abortion. Jackson denied having any
such knowledge. but recommended wall
ing, his room mate, who had told him now
he had assisted two girls from Hamil-
ton. Ohio. near his home Thereupon
Wood sent Miss Bryan to CINCINNATI,
where jackson turned her over TO Wall
ing. and there his information seemed 70
fail. He said that Walling took the glri
away from the hotel on Wednesday, and
that was the last he saw of her. But,
UNDER THE SPUR
of persistent questioning, he made more
admissions. such as that ne LEFT the
girls Vallse at a barber shop empty, where
the police found it. The chief of police
asked him to open the valise and then
describe the CHASTITY bloodstains made as
Walling argued. by the d1sseYered mead
of his victim BUT ne Almost NlClOuSlN Oe-
MED be had carried the Yalise with the
girls bloody head in it.
His confession" was in shreds and
patches, accusations against Waning and
denials of what incriminated himself, but
all the time admitting that he knew the
PURPOSE for which Pearl Bryan came TO
Cincinnati and that he knew on Friday
night that she was dead.
But the evidence against these men
does not depend on their own statements
This bloody valise is shown by other wit
nesses to nave been left at q barber shoE
by Jackson. He could not have been in
nocent of
ITS CHASTITY USE,
when ne admits that it belonged to the
Door girl. and that ii contained her cloth.
ing and toilet articles, which, he says
he carried in installments. day by day
and threw into the Ohio river.
A saloon keeper has identified the Tner
as having been in his saloon with two
women. and says that on Friday night
Jackson borrowed 3 from him to take {
buggy ride. Saturday night he paid s1.7;
back. Jackson's person, when arrested
were three ladies' handkerchiefs which
he said he found on q street car on Sun
day night, but which more probably were
taken from the Valise Of Miss Bryan.
The main facts Of the time, manner am
place Of the girls death remain unre-
Vealed. It is reasonably clear she met he
death on Friday night The theory tina.
a bungling mechanical operation caused
her death is clearly disproved by the cor
oner's investigation. So also is The