The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-03-25
SCOTT JACKSON CONFESSED
But 1t Came too Late and Was
Not Believed by Bradley.
SENTIMENT FAvORS wALLING.
Avenged by the Lew-waiIing and
Jackson Hanged BY the Neck
Until They Are Dead-Brief
History of the Crime.

lie sentiment and has hanged both Jack.
son and Walling. Even the confession
of Jackson, which came at the last
moment, did not avail Walling.
At II; 80 o'clack jackson and walling
were taken from their cells and the
march to the scaffold began. Both men
exhibited nerve and assembled the soaffold
with firm tread. Their arms were
pipioned and the nooses adjusted, when
Jackson wilted and made confession.
He did not go into great detail, but said
that he alone was guilty OF the murder
The respite for walling was at hand
and the nooso was taken from about his
neck. The rsspite was for only a brief
time, and the governor declined to inter
fere. While on the scaffold both bade
goodbye, and soon after, the trap
was sprung. The death struggle was
brief aud the bodies we're turned over {.
relatives.
1t was learned late yesterday, that both
prisoners repudiated their confessions
made Wednesday, in which they blamed
the crime on DR.. Wagner. Jackson's sis
ter Mrs. Edwin Post, of Green Castle,
called at the Alexandria jail, shortly sf-
ter the confession had been sent to the
governor.
Suddenly Jackson cried out: "Sister,
have made mistake, an awful, terri
BILE mistake" "
"what have you done, scottp" she
asked.
"I have sent Governor Bradley false
story. have written him that I knew
how Pearl Bryan died, and I gave him
the details, but they are false"
"was not your story the TRUTH" ex-
claimed the unahppy woman, eppelled
at the words
1.-THE truth, exclaimed jackson. "No,
not line, not word; did not realize
until now what have done They
spoke to me about DIR. Wagner Of Belle
vue, and said he was iu lunatic asylum
did not krow what to DO. Walling
ana talked it over and finally we deoid,
! ed as a last chance, on desperate attempt
to put it on Wagner. We thought we
might 10 it, or at least say enough to
make the governor grant a respite"
Pearl Bryan's headless body was found
by boy gong to work on John Lock
farm near FIT. Thomas, KY, opposite
Cincinnati, on Saturday morning, Feb
ruary |, 1896. A pool of blood was
found nearby and blood splotches on
the bushes.
Nearby was a No. 3 woman's shoe
with needle toe and q worn rubber
overshoe with an opera toe, two or
three strands of blonde hair, two tor.
toise shell and one metallic hairpin
On the body was nothing but wo
mans knit union undersuit and over il
a thin sickroom wrapper. A corset lay
near on the ground.
Bloolhounds ran to waterworks
reservoir nearby, but the head could
not be found, although it was drained
A postmortem examination at New.
port disclosed cocaine in the stomach
and five months old f9tus in the
womb
The body lay in the morgue for days
without being identified.
A shoe dealer recognizing the pecu,
liar last of the shoe, knew it was
manufactured in Portsmouth, o. He
went to the manufacturer and found
that of only few orders made on that
last one went to Lewis d. Hayes, Green
castle, Ind. Sheriff Plummer took the
shoe to Greencastle, where the firm
identified their mark. They had sold
only the one pair to Pearl Bryan, the
daughter of highly respectable farmer
near the town.
The girls family identified the girls
clothing and marks about her body
The girl was social favorite in Green.
castle, where the DePauw university
is located. She was graduate of the
high school and worker in the church
and Sunday school.
A telegraph operator at Greencastle
an acquaintance OF Scott Jackson and
of Pearl Bryan. had learned from Will
Wood that Pearl Bryan had left home
osUensibly to visit relatives in Indian.
apolis, but had gone TO Cincinnati at
Jackson's request. He told Sheriff
Plumer about it, who telegraphed tC
Cincinnati and ordered Jackson's ar.
rest, where he was student in a den,
tai college.
Alonzo Walling. his roommate, was
also arrested on suspicion that he knew
something of the crime. jackson is "a
and Walling 81.
Will Wood was second cousin oil
Pearl Bryan and was the son of Rev
ID. Nj. Wood, presiding elder of the M
e. church of the Greencastle district
He introduced Jackson to the girl, in,
duced her to go to Cincinnati at Jack
sons request and saw her off for Gin
cinnati at the depot. He was placed
under arrest, but later released, as
there was no evidence connecting him
with the murder. He is 20 years old
jackson denied that he had seen Pear
Bryan since his visit to GreencastlC
Jan. Q. but later said he had been with
her in Cincinnati Jan. 28 and 20. HI
then said Walling took her to relieve
her of her trouble.
Walling said he had seen her Jan. 81
and then Jackson had taken charge Of
her
Each said the other murdered her.
They both admitted that Feb. the,
had disposed Of her bloody clothinl
and their own bloody apparel. Eacl
said the other had thrown her heat
into tho river. Jackson's bloody Goa
was found in sewer. He said Wall