The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-03-27
PEARL BRYAN AVENGED.
Jackson and Walling Executed
at Newport, Ky.

NEWPORT KY, March 22. Scott
Jackson and Alonzo Walling were
hung together Saturday from the
double trap at Hal a. IN. After
the death warrant was read at II :32
both declared their innocence. The
crowds cheered loudly when the
signal of the black flag went up. The
condemned men spent q quiet but
restless night, and were up at $50,
ate hearty breakfasts, INDUCED in
cigars, and had good time. At s
O'Clock the Jail yard was full and
vast crowds were outside the in
closure, but Jackson and Wallng
were unmoved and indifferent. They
did some writing during the morn
ing, but their missives were sent to
their relatives. Shortly before the
march to the gallows was com
menced Duputy Maurer entered the
Jail with a letter to Walling from
his sweetheart, Miss Roberts. In it
she sent her love and told him to die
game. Walling, after reading the
letter, shook hands with Maurer and
then Jackson stepped forward and
shook Maurer warmly by the hand.
AS he did he burst into tears. When
Maurer left. Jackson was still weep
ing. At that time the court house
bell was tolling.
The procession formed at 11:31
and marched to the scaffold After
mounting the steps, Rev. Mr.. Lee
hnfran fn t.an1 pAlAnt q
Bible, aud followed with prayer.
He then shook bands with the con
demned men and bade them farewell. !
The ropes were placed about their i
necks, their feet and hands strapped, |
the black caps adjusted, and at li:41 !
the traps were sprung. The tightly
bound bodies of Jackson and Wall |
ing went through space like flash.
Jackson was pronounced dead IN 20
Walling was suspended
for % minutes before life was ex-
tinct.
CRIME FOR WHICH THEY WERE HUNG.
In January, of last year, the head
less body of a young woman was dis
covered on the farm of James Locke. ,
north of Newport, Ky. The head
could not be found, though all the
ponds in the vicinity were dragged
and the Covington reservoir was
drained. There was nothing on the
body whereby it could be identified
except the clothing. The shoes,
however, happened to bear the ,
trademark of a Greencastle. Ind, |
firm, and this clew resulted in the |
being revealed. The body
was that of Pearl Bryan, the hand
some daughter of A. S. Bryan, a
farmer at Greencastle. She had
left her home week before, osten-
sibly to visit friend in Indianapolis
Scott Jackson, well known young
man of Greencastle. and a student
in the dental college at Cincinnati,
was arrested and made statement
his knowledge of the mur
der, manipulating AlQnzo Wall
ing, fellow student Further de-
tended to show that the
victim had been betrayed by Jack
sou, and that the latter had deliber-
ately concocted a scheme of putting
her out OF the way by giving her
poison, cutting off her head and
burying it, in the expectation that
the Identity of the body would never
be revealed. 1t was at first ques-
tion whether the murder occurred
on the Ohio or Kentucky side of the
river, but finally a hackman was
found who had driven the trio across
the Ohio on the night OF the tragedy.
Jackson and Walling were put on
trial, were found guilty and SEN
fenced to death. Both the murder
ers were between twenty and
twenty-one years old.