Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-04

wns made and the gathering and
binding ~ the threads Of the strand
that Was To- slowly strangle them
was an easy, II tedious task.
The bDdy vas found on the morn
Ing ~ February !, the guilty
~rrtches were arrested on the night
IL Ihr 9TH. Evidence against Jack
son aud WaliiBg accumulated fast,
aud despite the hard legal battle
fought Jncks1n was found guilty
Wy jury On May IL, sentenced on
May - by Judge Helm to hang.
Walllng was convicted on June Is,
and on July 6 sentenced to be hang
ed. Both cases were taken I'D on
error, but the Court of Appeals in
each instance sustained the find
ings OF the lower court. As last
resort, Attorneys L. j. Crawford,
for jackson, and Colonel Washing
ton, for Walling, asked the Court
of Appeals to reverse itself for GER
tain reasons set forth by the said
attorneys. And on this first ami
versary the case rests there, await
ing the final decision of the upper
court. In the meantime, jackson
and Walling are enjoying good
health and apparently spirits, to
say nothing of a good many priv
ileges, in the Covington Jail.
Despite the ease and haste with
which the case was worked out,
and the smOothness with which
the mills of the gods ground out
the fate of jackson and Walling,
the one solace which would have
been greater than any other to the
mother of the poor girl has been
persistently denied her, and at the
same time the curiosity of a great
public remains unsatisfied. Through
all the days and weeks and months
that have passed since Feb. l, 1896,
the missing head of Pearl Bryan
has never been found, and all
efforts to induce the prisoners to
tell what they did with it on that
awful night have proved unavail-
ing. Thousands of dollars have
been spent by the authorities in
draining the canal and the Coving-
ton Reservoir, and everything has
been done in the search for the
head, except the walling up Of the
waters of the Ohio River. But the
picture still remains to the bereav-
ed mother of headless body lying
in its narrow confines, incomplete
and barbarously MANNED.
The hope was once held, and the
wish expressed, that this anniver-
sary of the murder of poor Pearl
Bryan might be appropriately eel
ebrated by the execution of the
death penalty fixed upon the ac-
cused, jackson and Walling. But
that is, of course, now out of the
question. Whether another ami
versary shall roll around with the
murder Of the poor girl unavenged
can be answered only by the courts
and by Governor Bradley. 1t is a
gruesome subject at best.
IL Scott jackson and Alonzo
Walling were aware of the fact
that one year ago yesterday Pearl
Bryan was killed, nothing in their
actions showed it. Whether the
two men discussed il together no
one knows. Certainly they did not
speak of it to any of the Jail off,
eials, nor did the officials refer to
it when talking to the men. The
prisoners appeared unconcerned "a
usual, and were apparently oblivi-
Gus of the fact that it was the first
anniversary of crime which has
made their names familiar wherever
a newspaper is read in this land,
and for which it seems certain they
will soon pay the penalty on the
scaffold. In fact, not a word con-
corning Pearl Bryan has been spo-
ken by either jackson or Walling
to any person for the last two
months, except it be their attorney,
or possibly Rev. j. A. Lee, who
visits them regularly. The few
visitors who see the prisoners are
received coldly at best, as they fear
that each person with whom they
converse will furnish the basis for
another sensation" to be added to
the long list that has been pub
lished since they have been confined
in the Covington Jail. jackson
continues to spend most of his time
in reading, but Walling, who seems
to care less about books, is occu-
pied in the making of a basket in
tended as a gift to Rev. Lee. The
basket is made of thin wire covered
with threads of wool and orna-
mented with red, white and blue
ribbons. A basket which Walling
recently completed and presented
to Mrs. Welghaus, wife of City
Jailer Weighaus, is a handsome
affair and admired by all who have
seen it.