The herald., 1897-03-21
HANGED BY THE NECK
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prescription of ergot of rye and other
ingredients intended to produce ar
abortion. The girl never got the pre-
scription filled. Jackson visited her In
the vacation and destroyed the letter
and the prescription.
Meantime Jackson and Walling were
arrested in Cincinnati. In their posses
sion were found letters, chiefly from Will
Woed 10 jackson in regard to Pearl
Bryan. Her pocketbook and her valise,
which were stained with blood, were
found where Jackson had secreted them.
Wallings pantaloons were taken from
his locker at the dental college, and
they were muddy and spotted with
blood Jacksons coat, fiecked all over
with blood, was fished out of a sewer. in
which it was found by Walling's direc-
ton.
In Jackson's pockets were half-dozen
handxerchiefs, which were afterward
identified as the property of Pearl Bry-
an. In the examination by Chief Deitsch
the prisoners admitted that Pearl Bryan
had come here Monday, January q, and
that both of them had been with her
until Wednesday afternoon, at which
time each charged the other with having
her in charge, and declaring that he had
seen nothing of her afterward Both ad-
mitted that on the Saturday following
the murder they had gone to the sus-
pension bridge on the river and dropped
her bloody clothing into the river to hide
it and to conceal the crime On Friday
night. at Z o'clock, Jackson was seen to
leave Dave Wallingford's saloon, in the
tenderloin district, with Pearl Bryan in
a hack, and at the same time Walling
was seen near the saloon. On Thursday
afternoon before the murder Walling
was seen with Pearl Bryan at the Gen.
trail Union station. where he detained
her until the last train that could take
her to Green Castle had gone.
Two weeks after the murder George
Jackson, colored, admitted to the police
that he had driven two men in rock
away, by a circuitous route, to Fort
Thomas, where the murder was COM
mitted. George Jackson was taken to
the Jail, where he picked out Walling
from among a score of young men as the
man who sat beside him and compelled
him to make the drive beyond Newport,
where he had tried to get out of the
carriage. because when employed he
was told he was only going to Newport
One day Luck, a livery stable keeper,
informed the police that he hired one
seated rockaway and a horse to some
one unknown to him. and that 1t had
been kept out all night and returned
on the morning on which the corpse of
Pearl Bryan was found. Through this
evidence Jackson was tried at Newport
and found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged. Every means in the power of
friends of the two men were exhausted
to save them from their fate without
success.
Scott jackson is 26 years Of age feet
6 inches high, of blonde complexion and
wiry figure. His eyes are of cold steel
gray. They glitter, but lack depth. His
head is said to resemble that Of Holmes,
the murderer. He crossed the ocean
fourteen times when lad with his
father, a sea captain.
Walling is feet inches in height,
has dark hair and hazel eyes, with heavy
eyebrows that almost meet. His age is
q years. In temperament he is stolid
and morose. He IS evidently deficient
in sensibility and force of character,
which made him all the more pliable as
Jackson's tool and assistant. In his own
confession and evidence he states that
Jackson had told him that he would
bring Pearl Bryan here to have an abor-
ton committed on her by Walling, and
then afterward said he would kill her
by quick poison, and finally changed
his mind and said he would poison her,
cut her into pieces and put the pieces
into catch basins of the sewers. From
the 1st of January, 1885, to the day of the.
tragedy, all the evidence showed that he
was Scott Jackson's willing confederate.