Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-19
PEARL BRYAN MURDER.
Confessions duplicating wood. wag'
ner and may smith.

nor and may smith.
CINcINNATI, March lob tn the
Enquirer and the Commercial Trib.
uue print today the confessions by
Scott Jackson sgd Il lou 20 NJ. Walling,
slgned respectively by their authors.
The text OF these con easions Is cJpy-
righied.
Jackson lays the blame for the com
dilion OF Pearl Bryan on William f.
Wood, who, no says, solicited him by
letter to give her relief from the din-
grace, Tor his sake. He engaged Wall.
Ing to ind some one VINO would per.
form the TASK. Wtdeesdny, Jan. 20,
Walling told he sent Miss Bryan 10
the doctr. Thur.day Walliug re.
ceived WORD to go GU. to DIR. Wsguet's
at Bellevue, KY, near Newport. He
and Walling DOth went out. They
arranged 10 bo there agair Oh Friday
night, January 9lst. Tney b tn went.
Wagner sent jackson TO f. Meyers
drug store for ergot, anu he obtHlaod
1t. When no returned all were excited,
the girl uuconacious, and 1t was de-
tormined to take her away. Wagner
obtained o wagon. The body was put
into II and all three got In the wagon,
Wagner driving. Ga AlcxRndria
pike they stopped and carried the body
where 1t was afterwards found. Wsg-
nsr thought the girl dead and told
Jackson TO hold her head. Then
Wagner severed the head from the
cody and wrapped 1t up In tho girl'.
cloak. Waliing carried the cloak to
the wagon. Jsck,on says when he let
go the bOuy, the head was at the top
OF the bank but Tell forward. Wagner
lot them CUT at Newport bridge. He
| and Mailing went 10 Cincinnati and
parted, Walling going TO Hender'a
hotel and Jackson to his room with
the girls satcbel, which contained
clothing which he threw into the
river. The blood INSIDE the valise
came from sack worn by the girl,
which was put In 1t.
Wagner took the head with him.
AlonEo WulllnR's statement Is that
jackson solicited him to help the girl
out OF tue trouble ihso which she had
been brought by William Wood. He
agreed to find one that could perform
abortion. JANUARY 27th he wrote t.
one OF his friends, May Smith, ask in Z
her for such information. January
2Slh he received letter from her All.
vislng him TO see Dr.. Wagner Of Belle.
vue, saying she hal written Wagner
TO call at the college. The same day
Wagner called, Inquired for WAlling
agreed 10 perform the operation anu
give bis address. That Afternoon
Walliug met Pearl Bryan at the cornell
Of Fourth ana Race streets and direct
ed her how tU go to Dr.. Waguer's
Next day, January 80, Wagner asked
him by mail to bring PEARLS oiothei
out to him, saying she was underini
care. He AMI jackson took the cloth q
but did not 20 Inside. Next evening
Friday, January 3lst, he and jackson
went out to Wagnet's.
Wslling tells the same story as Jack
son Rboui Jackson's visit TO the drug
store, Pesri Bryah's uncousciousnes!
and trip to the country, ending with
the deospitation.
DIR. Wagner, who 10 implicated By
the Jackson and Wslling confessions,
formerly lived at Nicholasville, KY.
and Ia soD-in-lsw of William
Hendren, n wealthy farmer. Veg oil
formerly was y minister OF tine II
formed church at Culphurwell. Abou
Tie middle of January, 1896, Me-
Wagner wrote her brother Walter
that her husband was losing his minC
and asked him TO come 10 Bellevue.
Hendren says that on the 23rd o
January ne took Wagner with him Il
the hou OF William Hendren, nea
n icholasville, until February 3rd
This corresponds with the ststemen
Of the family when the Bellevue ole "
was first sprung near the time OF tn,
trial end which osussd its collapse a
the time.