The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-07
MISS BRYAN'S DEATH
The Whole Community Is in a State
Of Nervous Excitement.
TWAS A MOST CRUEL MURDER
Scott Jackson. Of Criminal Notorl-
ETY.. Is Under Arrest Charged
With the Awful Deed-Se
Had Accomplloes.


Cincinnati. Ohio. Feb. 6-All day the
city has been nervously excited over
the hourly developments Of the story of
the mysterious death of Pearl Bryan
the Green Castle. Ind. farmers daugh-
ter What Is called "A confession OF two
Of the young men implicated as her
: murderers is only a strange sort of halt
defiant wincing under the semi torture
OF police examination, in which each
culprit appears to be trying to shield
himself as an accidental accomplico
and make the other the real criminal
. SO far 1t is known that Pearl Bryan.
about to become n mother. and desirous
of hiding her shame. left Green Castle.
Ind, Tuesday, Jan. 2S, ostensibly to
visit Mrs. Fisher in Indianapolis; that
William Woods 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 registered at the Indiana house as
/ Mabel Stanley, city" and was as
signed to room ia.
After five stories about her, which do
not agree. Alonzo NJ. Waning. the
room mate OF Scott Jackson. both OF
whom were arrested last night charged
with the murder, says that Jackson
saw Miss Bryan on Wednesday and
that he went about the city with her
and finally, on Friday. completed the
crime of murder, cutting of the girls
head and bringing it to Cincinnati i'm
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 placed the
entire burden on Walling. According
TO his story the lamentable condition OF
Miss Bryan was attributed to William
Wood Of Green Castle, who applied 10
Jackson to help him cover up the girls
shame and his own participation in the
aualr. Wood did this. jackson says.
because he (Jackson) was dental stu
dent and supposed to have access to
means for producing an abortion. Jack
son denied having any such knowledge
but recommended Walling, his room
rTsdte. who had told him how he had as
sisted two girls from Hamilton. ohio
near his home. Thereupon Wood sent
Miss Bryan TO Cincinnati. where Jack
son turned her over to Walling. and
there his information seemed to fail.
lie said that Walling took the girl
away from the hotel on Wednesday.
and that was the last he saw Of her.
But. under the spur Of persistent ques-
tioning, he made more admissions. such
as that he left the girls valise at
barber shop empty But the evidence
against these men does not depend on
their own statements. This bloody
Nalise is shown by other witnesses TO
have been left at a barber shop bv
jackson. lie could not have been inno-
cent of its CHASTITY use, when he admits
that it belonged to the poor girl. and
that ii contained her clothing and toilet
articles which, he says ne carried I'm
installments, day by day, and threw
into the Ohio river
The main facts of the time manner
and place of the girls death remain
unrevealed. II Is reasonably clear she
met her death Friday night The the
ory that a bunglinE mechanical opera /
tion caused her death is clearly dis
proved by the coroners Investigation.
SO also is the theory OF death from
drugs. as the analysis Of her stomach
showed no such condition. II is clear
she was either hrutally beheaded or
was killed by an anaesthctic. As death
from the latter cause can only be deter
mined by tho condition OF the blood.
and as decapitation depleted the veins.
that question can only be settled by
the testimony Of a witness. Imagina-
ton staggers at the suggestion OF cold
blooded murder by decapitation and /
leaves the only plausible theory that
the girl died under the influence OF an /
and that the subsequent
cause Of her death
jackson, who is under arrest charged |
with the murder of Pearl Bryan. has
told enough Of the crime % amount 70
4 general confession. The weakest rart
II Jackson's story is his conduct on
Saturday last when he took a vaI!sa
ana left II In a saloon opposite his
,oardiug house. He carried the vaWsa
an over tho oity that day and evculu.
The theory Is that the head OF tho
murdered girl was ln tha vallse and
le was seeking an opportunity u de-
'troy IL without being discovered The
alise was obtained a.. a barber shop.
where te lefj IT, when m. vallse was
slown MIN to-day ha was told 70 open
o and he admitted o tfa CHIEF OF po-
ica that il contained blood stains.
Was 1t the head that made these
taius;' asked the CHIEF
Well, l should think IL was" STAN
ner-d the prisoner.
Was II there that you carried the
.eada"
Il tell you thar I did not carry the
cad"
The prisoner has been obstinate pn
his point. lie said in als private r.a-
sslon in Colonel Iat-eh.- office EARLIER
Eat he thought thlt rH- bead Was
brown into tine Ohio river. Tha u.H~
iris satchel Yves stained n In, a#t-
ON and sides purple U..a her own
.nod. WEeuey,- Jackson was asked
bout The yI'-- with tlr girls head
Do H. DE said. "I never .H~r.af 70 wl-a
nythins IN it. WaurE wln--t w- q
AIRY IL. but I would nor do it,"