San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-20

| white corset, spotless except from
bloody fingerprints. At the top of the
bank where the feet lay was a pool
| of blood. On that morning these
| few garments were the only clew
to the identity Of the dead
girl. Blood hounds were taken to the
spot and they followed trail to the
Covington reservoir, and could be in
| duced to go no further. The reservoir
was drained, but the head was not
| found. All subsequent search for
| that head has been fruitless.
Four days later the shoes, the hair
pins, the gloves and the wrapper were
Unidentified at Greencastle, Ind, by
her parents as belonging to Pearl Bry,
an, the daughter of Mr.. A. S. Bryan,
a well-to-dO farmer living near Green
castle.
The Identification of the girl was
brought about by Sheriff julie Plum
mer, of Campbell Co, Ky, who had
followed the slender clues furnished
by the shoes and garment to sue
cesSful issue. The discovery also
| identified Scott Jackson and Alonzo
NJ. Walling as the perpetrators of the
crime. These young men were room
mates and fellow students in the den
tai college at Cincinnati. Scott Jack
son spent several months of the sum-
mer and early autumn of 1895 at
Greencastle, Ind, as n member of the
family of his brother-in-law, DR.. Ed
win +. Post, professor in the Depauw
University. There he became ac-
quainted with Will Wood, lad 20
years old, a son Of Rev. DeloS NJ,
Wood, presiding elder of the Nj. f.
church, residing at Greencastle.
Through Will Wood, who was a sec
Ond cousin to Pearl Bryan, he obtain
ed an introduction to her and visited
her frequently. She was a graduate
of the Greencastle High school, was
vivaciOuS, pretty, fond of society and
very popular. Jackson, when absent,
kept up a correspondence with her,
which was continued until within
fortnight of the day of the murder
The last two or three months of this
correspondence was carried on clandes-
timely. Will Wood was the medium at
Greencastle by which these letters
were passed to their destination.
Jackson's last visit to Greencastle was
in the holidays of 1866. A few per-
sons at Greencastle, confidants of
Jackson, knew that Pearl Bryan was
in a delicate situation. To one of
these, DR.. Gillespie, a dentist with
whom Jackson had worked, also a
relative to Pearl Bryan, Jackson ad-
mitted that he was the author of
Pearl Bryan's trouble. Gillespie, dur
ing the holiday vacation, advised
Jackson to marry her. He said that
he would not do anything of the kind.
There were others who knew about
this affair, among them viii Wood
and Mr.. Early, a telegraph operator
at Greencastle. Through Will Wood
some time in December 1895, Jackson
had sent Pearl Bryan a letter con-
tanning a prescription of ergot, of rye
and other ingredients intended to pro-
duce abortion. The girl never got 1t
filled. Jackson visited her in the va
cation and destroyed the letter and
prescription.
Meantime Jackson and Walling
were arrested in Cincinnati. In their
possession were found letters chiefly
from Bill Wood to Jackson in regard
to Pearl Bryan. Pearl Bryan's peck
etbOOk and her valise, which was
stained with blood, were found where
Jackson had secreted them. Wal
ling's pantaloons were taken from his
locker at the dental college and they
were muddy and spotted with blood.
Jackson's coat flecked all over with
blood was fished out of 4 sewer in
which it was found by Walling's di-
rection.
| In JacksOns pockets were half a
dozen handkerchiefs which were af-
terward identified as the property Of
Pearl Bryan. In the examination by
Chief Deitch the prisoners admitted
that Pearl Bryan had come here MOn-
day, January 81, aud that both Of
them had been with her until We'd
nesday afternoon, after which each
| charged the other with having her in
| his care, and each declared that he
had seen nothing of her afterwards.
| Both admitted that on the Saturday
| night following the murder they had
| gone to the suspension bridge on the
| river and dropped her bloody clothing
| In the river to hide and conceal the
crime. On Friday night at o'clock
| Jackson was seen to leave Dave Wal
| linford's saloon in the tenderloin dis
trict with Pearl Bryan in a hack and
at the same time Walling was seen
near the saloon. On Thursday after
noon before the murder Walling was
seen with Pearl Bryan at Central
Union station, where he had detained
her until the last train that could take
her to Greencastle had gone.
Two weeks after the murder George
H. Jackson, colored, admitted to the
police that he had driven two men
in a rockaway by a circuitous route
to Fort Thomas, where the murder
was committed. George Jackson was
taken to Jail and there picked out Wal
ling from a score of young men as the
man who sat by him and compelled
him to make that drive beyond New
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