Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-04-18

( craze could be concealed no longer. linen
was opened correspondence in which in
structions were given the girl which she
followed TO her death. The girl was to
leave ostensibly for q visit to Indianapo-
lis. but was really to go to Cincinnati
where Jackson said he had made the ne
cessary preparations for a criminal oper-
alton. He had taken into his confidence
/ AIonzo Walling. fellow student at the
! Cincinnati dental college They had been
! at the Indianapolis institution together
! and in the Ohio town were room mates.
! The week before the girl came Jackson
had been reading up on poisons and their
! effect He had made special inquiry as
TO cocaine and prussiac acid. Monday Miss
Bryan reached Cincinnati and went to the
Indiana house. She saw Jackson and
WaIling several times, and Wednesday
went to Indianapolis, returning Friday.
Friday night she met them at saloon,
whence they told her they would take
her to a room they had provided, where
she would be cared for. Their stories
conflict TO such an extent that the truth
can only be surmised. Jackson says Wal
ling was responsible for the young wom-
ans condition, and Walling asserts it was
Jackson. As to the fact, there is little
ruin. Each accuses the other of the prin-
cipal share of the murder. 1t is believed
no operation was ever intended.
Taking all the confessions and state
ments and circumstances into account, it
is almost "A certainty that Jackson gave
the girl twenty grains of coca n in glass
Of soda water when they were in the sa
loon. Walling had left them there to-
FIVt-. tN.~1- t;ry, I'D
were afterward joined by Walling. They
drove over TO the kentucky side Of The
river. near the point where the body was
found The girl was dying from the eff
fecty Of the drug. but was still able to
walk. They conducted her n distance
from the roadway, and when the drug
overcame her, they cut her head from her
body with a razor which Jackson had
carried for that purpose. The girls clothes
such Of them as could be recognized
were taken from the body Her sat;neI
had been brought in the carriage. The
Girl did not know VIII she had been asked
10 bring it. The young men regarded 1t as
convenient receptacle for her head after
they had killed her. Leaving the muttat-
cd corpse Of the girl, the monsters of
crime walked back to Cincinrati They
say they threw the clothes into the river.
one Of them says The head was cast into
the Ohio also The other says it was
buried in a sand bar.
The day following the murder the body
was found II the murdercrs had not
dropped one of the dead girls shoes they
might have escaped discovery. Jackson
and WaNing were arrested in -four days,
They were almost enthusiastic in 1heir
attempts to fastcu the crime on each
other. The travelling bag in. which the
head mad been carried was found whore
Jackson had loft it. a pair Of oVershoes
which one of them bad worn were found.
They were spotted with blood. The doinEs
of both men from n week before the
murder up to the time Of their arrest are
thoroughly known TO the police.
a peculiar feature Of the case was Miss
Lulu May HollipgsWorth, Of Indianapolis,
who made several confessions about hay
ing helped the students TO perform an
operation and about a colored man being
hired TO kin the girl. The detectives at
last declared Miss Lulu to be a champion
romancer, and paid nc further attention
to her. The defense Will try to prove
that the killing was an accidental result
of an attempt at an operation, which III
Kentucky law is accounted only man
slaughter, They will state that the CO.
caine given the girl for the purpose Of
deadening the pain Of the operation killed
her. Then they cut off the head to shield
themselves. The trial Of Walling VIII
take place at later date. VIII Wood,
son of the Rev. Delos Wood, Of Green
castle, Ind, had charge of the Greenca2tle
end of the job, his work being to quiet
the supicions of the parents of Pearl. He
is out on bail and probably will never be
tried, as it seems clear he thought the
business would end with an operation
1t seems to be the general impression
/ that the prosecution cannot fail to convict