The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-02
Coachman jackson shown to Have
Says He Drove the Murderers.
AN EXPERT ON DECAPITATION
DECLARES PEARLS HEAD MAY HAVE
BEEN CUT OFF AFTER DEATH.
Not Enough Blood on the Spot to IN
dicate Murder-SInrshal Hawkins
mt the Trial.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEWPORT, KY, May 1.-The testimony
to-day in behalf of Scott Jackson was
stronger than had been expected by the de-
Tense. Its object is to show that Jackson
was not at Fort Thomas when the body was
left. and, secondly, that Pearl Bryan was
not murdered in Kentucky. The defense
evidence tends to show that she had been
given cocaine and chloroform in Cincinnati.
being dead before she was taken across the
river. where her body decapitated. An
expert who had seen 10000 patients in hos
pitals and had frequently removed heads.
he'd that blood flowed after death. The
embalmer testified that he had found a
quart of blood in the body.
Early this week the defense put Scott
Jacksons shoes in evidence. This afternoon
David Lock, who was the fourth man to
visit the scene Of the murder testified to
seeing tracks from the pike to the spot
where the girl lay and back by another
route to the pike again. The tracks were
by No. or 3 shoes perfectly new and broad
at the toe. He was shown Jackson's shoes
and said the tracks could not have been
made by them. He also testified that he
saw only one clot OF blood
reading the depositions of coiored men to
prove that George H. Jackson, the coored
cab driver, was in Cincinnati Friday night,
Jan. 81, and till o'clock on Saturday, Feb.
!. the morning of the murder, and, therefore,
could not have driven the cab to the scene.
United States Marshal Hawkins and his
chief deputy, John Foley, of indianapolis,
were interested spectators at the murder
trial Friday morning.
Hawkins did not say what his business
was, other than ordinary curiosity. -
In this connection it should be stated that
If Will Wood should be arrested on a charge
Of sending obscene letters through the mails,
he could be tried at indianapolis ia the fed
eral court of which Hawkins is marshal.
This fact and the marshaps presence,
therefore, caused comment.
Woods lawyers say that If the United
States authorities propose to arrest him on
such charge they are ready for trial at any
moment.
THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE.
The first witness in behalf of Jackson
was undertaken William E. Abbott, who had
embalmed Pearl Bryan's body at Whites
establishment on Feb l. Abbott said he
pulled the ends If the arteries out of the
neck, made an ihcision and drew a quart
it. He said he noticed the cuts on the fin
| gers and thought they looked old. There
| was no blood in them.
Did you see any marks upon the body
| other than the cuts in the hand?" asked
| Jacksons attorney
II saw the mark of a hypodermic injec-
| ton under the left breast
Were you sent for by the prosecution?,
"Yes, SIR"
| Colonel Nelson was then given the wit
ness, and he asked:
Haven't you been drunk for several
days?'
Colonel Crawford objected. but the OBJ
| lection was overruled.
The witness said he had been drinking,
but had not been drunk. Colonel Nelson
| said that he had wanted the witness, but
had found him drunk. Abbott was excused
| and DR.. Clark was called. Colonel Nelson
then recalled Abbott to ask him another
| question.
Colonel Nelson-weren't you discharged
from your position three weeks ago for
| drunkenness?
| mo, SIR
Colonel Crawford-Are you drunk now?
| mo, sir
Colonel Nelson-Is Mr.. Crawford drunk?
4
| amid much laughter.
DR.. Clark is city physician here. He had
seen the body at the undertaker's, and no
| ticed blood in bucket. He saw the hand
| cuts, and thought they were made after
| death, ne said, because there was no coagu-
| lated blood in them.
| did you notice the hypodermic injection
in the breast?" asked Crawford.
| Yes, sir"
WAS that puncture in the body made in
life?''
II think it was"
Because there was red line about the
puncture which could not have been had
the puncture been made after death"
Prosecution then took the witness and Col.
could you tell by the puncture that II
was s1 made de by hypodermic needle?"
Then it may have been made with anoth-
| er kind Of needle?'
Judge Helm-Could you tell by the appear
ance Of the ppuncture whether cocaine had
He said he had never made hypodermic
injection of morphia. He thought that the
scar could have been made by an injection
DR.. j. A. Jeancon was the next witness
| He is sixty-five years old and he has been
praeticing for ,a ferty5To .5 T,,y years He was
| i'm London, England. He served as a sur
geon in the civil war from 1851 to 1856 in the
! Thirty-second Indiana Regiment. He was In
| charge of hospitals.
MAJ OF EXPERIENCE.
He had as many as ten thousand surgical
patients in the war. He came to Newport In
1869 and has been practicing there since. He
is now professor OF pathology and anatomy
at the Eclectic Medical Institute, in Cincin.
natl. He has been serving in that capacity
for twenty-seven years. He said the length
of time that a body remains warm afte,
death differs. Usually after a sudden deatf
1t is longer. sometimes five or six days. He
cited a case in Newport eleven years ago. A
girl had died OF heart disease Her bod3
was warm and her relatives would not per
nit her burial. An Irish woman. neigh
| bor tested this by putting q drop OF water
on the girls forehead. Naturally, the bod