Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-28
'E0RTIFYINGFtCfS
And Strengthening Links in thu
Pearl Bryan Case.
JUDGE RULES FOB TEE DEFENSE,

Shutting Out the Charges Made Against
Each Other by jackson and Talling
when First Arrested-.Aiso All Their
Admissions Unless It Is Proved That
They Were Not !" Induced Woods
Letters Seem Mostly Indecent.
NEWPORT, Ky. April 2s.-Not only
was every available scat in the court room
filled yesterday, but the occupancy of
standing room in narrow passages was
permitted to persons desiring to hear the
Scott Jackson trial. Ten witnesses were
Observation-Disclosures up to the present
time. Much time was devoted to debating
by counsel. Many questions during tho
day offered by the commonwealth were
ruled out. The number Of objections by
the defense ovcrrulcd YVES too great too
cnumerate. Twice during tho day the
jury was required to retro during the de.
bate. For the first time during the trial
the court CAV, notice to women to retire,
because tho letters of Will Wood to Scott
jackson were not proper for them to hear.
1t has been tho policy of ths prosecution
to bring ont the bloody garments of tho
dead girl every day since the beginning of
the trial. and yesterday was no exception.
Judge Rules for the Defense.
Detective Grim was the first witness
and when he started to tell what each
man said of the other when the two nc
cuscd were first arrested he was stopped
by the defense who proceeded to argue
that nothing be given. or considered by
the jury that was not q confession OF
one or the other of the prisoners. The
Judge ruled for the defense and cut off all
that Walling had said against Jackson or
jackson against Walling as not being
competent. Then he ruled that any adj
missions made by the prisoners when in
the hands of the detectives were not
competent unless it were shown that no
threats or inducements had been en-
ploycd. Grim then told all he heard when
jackson and WallinG were put in the
sensitive cell in the Jail here. 1t was
OF no very great significance.
Links I'm the Chain Strengthened.
Tho testimony of several witnesses was
to strengthen links in tho chain that has
been already forged. Such was the case
with tho evidence of Mr.. Legncr, in whose
saloon the vaiiso was hidden; of Ed Grill
Ia, The Commercial Gazette reporter who
saw a river bridge ticket found on Jack
son when first arrested, calling for tho
passage Of horse and vehicle. One impOr-
tant point in Crim's testimony of what he
learl jackson say in the sensitive cell
was that, speaking to Walling, he said:
swell, old boy. you have played your
part We'll"
WaliinG's Stop ut Holders Hotel.
OF the new testimony there was that of
Charles Rogers, night clerk Of He!ders
hotel, that Walling came there after
o'clock in she morning of February ],
with his clothes wrin2ing wet and rushed
to bed without registering. He mad never
before, or since, stayed ut tho hotel over
night. Harry Hays, of lireencastie, Ind,
testified that he sold the shoes to Pearl
Bryan November Is, 1898. He described
them as No. 3, needle toe. diamond tip;
the only pair Of that kind that had been
in the house. lie also described the old
rubbers which she wore on that occasion,
which We're not suited to that style Of
shoe, but had an opera toe. This he did
before the shoes were shown him. His
statement correspondent perfectly to the
facts As shown when he identified the shoes.
VIII Woods Letters in Evidence.
Lieutenant Sefferans, of Fort Thomas
gave the most minute and intelligent dc.
scription OF the immediate surroundings
Of the corpse, early after it was found,
that has yot been given. He and Detective
McDermott agree in testifying to an i'm
! print in the slope like that made by some
one forced to SIT down heavily. He tcsti-
fled to seeing tracks above the Slope and
| to discovering a glove troddcn in the
ground which has already been identified
| as that of Pearl Bryan. The defense
| brought Will Wood on the stand to in
terrogate about two vile letters written
| by him to Scott jackson Feb. and 3
| Here it was that the women were required
to retire. Tines. letters are too coarse and
indecent to be printed
Letters Need Some Explanation.
The points of greatest Importance a.
| bearing on the cas-: in Woods letters to
| Jackson were-in that dated Plymouth.
Ind, Feb. the following sentences:
| DOC, If you have let "a chance go by I'll
give you HE'LL" also "If you have grown
ch,cken-haarted you ought to be shot"
| The rest OF the letters was made up of in.
ucndoes and personal allusions intelligi.
bic to the writer and jackson, but riddles
| to all others Wood was detained to give
the defense opportunity TO offer this ties.
timony.
| San I-nrS Iuvnnrry