Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-20
T0-DAY'S TELEGRAPIIIC NEWS
ronri I.rynn'a Murder Avenged.


ronri I.rynn'a Murder Avenged.
Nnwrowr, KY, March 2O.--ht ~
O'Clock lnnL night, scott Jackson nno
Alonzo WnliDg who wore condemned
TO tho gnllowe for tho murder OF rohri
Bryan, pnL la ihoir windows calm y
smoking md chatting. Wnlling shortly
retired TO hin cot and within five min
utoe VIVA nlooping m Boundly ~
bnbe. JnGkHon remained awake hugh
Ing and joking with tho donth- witch.
Az throo O'Clock Jncison wnH allll Sit
ting nj tho window. 10 wns evidently
his intention not 10 sloop ut I'LL but to
brace his norvoH with whisky. AT
7:3b o'clock tho condemned mon were
ordered to prepare themselves for tho
Inst. Row. Mr.. Loo prayed with them
md thoy sang three hymns. After tho
minister Ind offered another prayer, II
mossngo wna handed to Walling from
Miss Emma Roberts. 1t was: "Die
rnmo." Ho told tho bearer that he would
do 40. Walling then made touching
appeal that ho DO permitted to SEQ
Mayor Rhinock. When the mayor
camo in no wes asked to sign dispatch
TO tho governor to give him IL respite of
thirty days. Walling said: jackson
cnn save my life If he will, but he won't.
| have tried in every way to get him to
do IL but he will not. He ought to
save me- Before God, whom ! shall
soon meet, am innocent
NEWPORT, Ky, March 20.-Scott
Ju,la or ,uudo n atntem0nt this morn
ing clearing Walling of completely in
the crime. a dispatch to that effect
was sent to tho governor, who instruct
od Sheriff PIummer to 60 ahead with
Jnckson's execution and not hang Wall
ing until he go;s n statement from him.
NEWPORT, Ky, March 20.-Gov.
Bradley telephonod the sheriff to give
Jackson five minutes to make Il state
ment. Jackson refused TO do so. The
Governor tkon ordered the officer to
carry out his original Instructions. The
procession formed NJ 1881 and march
cd TO the scatlold. After mounting the
stems Rev. Mr.. Lee began to read selec
tions from the Bible and followed with
prayer. He shook hands with the
condemned men and babe them fare
we'll The ropes were placed about
their necks, their feet and hands strap
ped, the black caps adjusted ard Al
| 40 tho traps were sprung. The
tightly bound bodies OF Jackson and
Walling went through space like
! " flash. Jackson WAS pronounced dead
in twenty minutes. Wslliug WAS sus-
pended for twenty-three minutes be-
fore life WAS extinct Wslliug wsS
stranglsd and died very hard. jack
sons neck was apparently broken. IS
he never moved muscle. JacsSonS
body will be removed 10 Jersey City.
J y. j., Tor interment. Walling viii be
buried AT Hamilton. Ohio.
Walliug's last words. ~ he LEI. the
Jail. were, As he pointed 70 Jackson
That man can save HE II he Will. |
die An Innocent man wsS NOT there
when She WAS killed
On Saturday morning. February Isl,
lS96, the headleSs body y young wo-
man WAS found OF farm uear the END
oi the electric car line south or New
port. Ky. No marks o. naturalization
could bs discovered. nor anything csl-
culass.i 70 solve the mystery. The de-
tectives went 10 work with the result
that the corpse WAS identified As Miss
Pearl Bryan, aeeI - years, daughter
OF farmer living near Greencastle,
Ind. \ post nortsm examination OF
the corpse revealed the fact that the
dead girl WAS about 70 become
mother. Jackson and Walling were
arrested at their boarding house in
Cincinnati charged with the murder.
AZ the preliminary examination each
accused the other Of having killed the
girl. Il WAS ascertsined that an opera
ton had been performed on Pearl
Bryan aud that She had been decapi
tatN while she was still alive; that she
WAS last seen III company with Jackson
snd Wallipg. Two items that told
most heavily against Jackson were his
admission that he hsd been intimste
with rssrl Brysu, and the proof that
TWO Of his witnesses were perjurerS.
Scott Jackson WAS y years old. the
only son OF Mrs. John Jackson, 5 high
" respected widow OF Greeucastle, lud.
Nonso Mailing wsS - yeasS old, son
II Mrs. Sarah Wslling, OF Oxford, Ohio