Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-24
PEARL BRYAN MURDER TRIAL
Proof That Scott jackson Was With
the Girl the Night Before
the Death.
PEARL WAS An UNSOPHISTICATED GIRL
A Woman on Trial for Husband Muir
der in Kansas Murder er of Meeks
Family Shows Signs of
Weakening.

Newport, KY, April 24.--The first wit
mess to-day in the Pearl Bryan murdel
trial was Allen Bohnson, colored bar
tender. He testified yesterday to the
presence of Pearl Bryan with Jackson al
Willingford's saloon on the evening oi
FRIDAY, January 81, the night before the
| dead body was found, and also about the
visit Of Attorney Shepard to him with the
proposition that he could make more
money by staying away from the trial
than he could get from witness fees.
On cross-examination, the witness re.
peated the statement that Shepard told
him no power on earth could force him
to go to Kentucky as a witness. He said
he told Shepard that it would be made
very unpleasant for him if he refused to
go to Kentucky.
A. E. Bryan testified that Pearl Bryan
was of a very colfding disposition
toward any one In whom she had con.
idence; ha | never been ia CT ncinnsti un.
til she came to her death; WAS an inno'
cent and unsophisticated girl, who seldom
mad gone away from home.
Dr.. W. P. Crane gave his analysis oil
the stomach's contents. He found no
poison except that known to be in the
embalming fluid aud cocoane. He esti-
mated that two grains of cocoane had
been given.
DR.. Dickore, chemist, testified that the
stains ia the vallse and on the trousers
found 10 Jackson's possession were made
by the blood Of mamalia, probably
human blood.
From the analysis of the earth taken
from where Pearl Bryan's body was
found, and the mud found on Jacksou's
trousers, he declared that the two speci.
mems were alike.
MURDER TRIAL IN KANSAS.
Anthony, Kas.--Chas. Clark has been
acquitted Of completely in the murder of
Charles A. Rodman. William Mattux, his
brother in-law, has been discharged for
lack of evidence. The trial of Mrs Rod
man, who at q previous trial admitted her
Intimacy with Mattox and said that he
suggestsd her husbands "removal," began
to-day.
TAYLOR BEGINS TO WEAKEN.
Kansas City.-Attorney virgle Conklin
has left for Washington TO secure writ
of error from the United States supreme
court in the case Of the murderer, William
Taylor, sentenced to hang week from
to day. The murderer, for the first time
siace his long incarceration, is beginning
to show signs of fear.
BURGLARS SURPRISED.
sAtchison, Kas, Policeman Bob Dlcker-
son surprised two burglars while at work
ut 2 o'clock this morning. They resisted
arrest, and one, John Scanlon, Of St. Joe,
was fatally wounded by the officer and
died to-day. The officer was hit twice by
the burglars bullets, but was only slight
ly hurt. The other burglar WAS captured.
MURDERED IN MISSOURI.
La Plata, Mo.--The dead bodies Of Mrs.
Joseph Cooking and Miss Daisy Miller,
her niece, and the unconscious form of
Joseph Cooking were found early to-day
in the village store kept by the Cockiugs
at Hill Top, near here. Robbery was the
incentive for the murders. The women
we're struck dead wish an iron bar. Cock
ing was bound with heavy rope and
brutally beaten over the head.