Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-03-24

at GreencaStle, Ind. as member OF the
family of his brother-in-law. DR.. Edwin
&. Post professor in the Depauw uni
versity.
There he became acquainted with VIII
Wood. a lad 20 years old. the son OF
Rev. Delos NJ. Wood, presiding elder OF
the Methodist Episcopal church. residing
at Greencastle. Through Will Wood.
who was a second cousin to Pearl Bryan.
he obtained an introduction to her and
visited her frequently. She was grad
uate of Greencastle high school, was vi
vacious, pretty, fond of society and very
popular. Jackson when absent kept ur
correspondence with her, which was
continued until within fortnight Of the
day of her murder. The last two OF
three months of this correspondence was
carried on clandestinely. Will Wood was
the medium at Greencastle by which
these letters were passed to their des-
tination.
Jacksons last visit to Greencastle was
in the holidays of 1856. A few persons
at Greencastle. confdants of Jackson,
knew that Pear. Bryan was in a delicate
situation. To one of these, DR.. GILES.
pie, a dentist with whom Jackson had
worked, also a relative of Pearl Bryan,
Jackson admitted that he was the au-
thor of Pearl Bryan's trouble. Gillespie
during the holiday vacation advised Jack
sor to marry her. He said that he would
not do anything Of the kind.
There were others who knew about this
affair, among them Will Wood and Mr..
castle. Through Will Wood some time
in December, 1895, Jackson had sent
Pearl Bryan q letter containing pre-
scription. The girl never got it filled.
jackson visited her in the vacation and
destroyed the letter and prescription.
jackson and Walling Arrested.
Jackson and Mailing were arrested in
Cincinnati. In their possession were
found letters, chiefly from Will Wood to
Jackson in regard to Pearl Bryan.
Pearl Bryan's pocketbook and her va
lise, which was stained with blood, were
found where Jackson had secreted them.
Walling's pantaloons were taken from
his locker at the dental college, and they
were found to be muddy and spotted
with blood. .Jackson's coat, hecked all
over with blood, was hshed out OF
sewer in which it was found by Wall
ings direction.
In .Tackson's pocket were a half dozen
handkerchiefs which were afterwards
identified as the property of Pearl Bry-
an. In the examination by Chief Deltsch
the prisoners admitted that Pearl Bryan
had come here Monday, January u, and
that both of them had been with her
until Wednesday afternoon, after which
each charged the other of having her
in his care, and each declared that he
naQ seen uOLnlHS OIL HeT
Both admitted that on the Saturday
night following the murder they had
gone to the suspension bridge on the
river and dropped her bloody clothing
in the river to hide it and to conceal the
crime.
had been seen to leave Dave Walling-
ford's saloon in the Tenderloin district
with Pearl Bryan in a hack, and at the
same time Walling was seen near the
saloon. On the Thursday afternoon be-
fore the murder Walling was seen with
where he detained her until the last
train that could take her to Greencastle
had gone.
Two weeks after the murder, George
II. Jackson, colored, admitted to the
police that he had driven two men in
rockaway by circuitous route to Fort
Thomas, where the body was found.
George Jackson was taken to the Jail and
there he picked out Walling from among
a score of young men as the man who sat
by him and compelled him to make that
drive beyond Newport when he had tried
to get out of the carriage, because when
employed he was told that he was only
going to Newport. One day later liv-
ery-stable keeper informed the police that
he had hired a one-seated rockaway and
horse to someone unknown to him. and
that it had been kept out all night and
returned between 3 and 4 o'clock on the
morning on which the corpse of Pearl
Bryan was discovered.
Trial of the Two Men.
With this evidence Jackson was tried
at Newport and found guilty and SEN
fenced to be hanged. His trial contin-
ued from April q to May IA. He was
ably defended by Col. l.. J. Crawford,
while the prosecution was assisted by
r. w. Nelson of Newport and Silas
Hayes of Greencastle. On May %,
Walling's trial began and on June Is
he was found guilty of murder and SEN
fenced to die. Since that time, until re-
Gently. Walling and Jackson have, re-
NAMED in the Covington Jail, which is
more secure than the Newport Jail. Ev-
cry means in the power of the friends
of these two men was exhausted to save
them from their fate without success.
Scott Jackson was % years old, 5 feet
6 inches high, Of blonde complexion and
wiry figure. His eyes were cold steel
grey. They glittered but lacked depth
His head was said to resemble that of
Holmes, the murderer. He crossed the
ocean fourteen times when a lad with
his father, a sea captain. While living
with his mother in Jersey City, he turned
states evidence and sent a Mr. Lett to
the penitentiary for robbing railway
company and thus saved himself from
the same fate.
Walling was feet 8 inches high, had
dark hair, and hazel eyes with heavy eye
brows that almost meet. His age was p
years. In temperament he was stolid
and morose. He was evidently deficient
in sensibility and force of character,
which made him all the more plant as
Jackson's tool an assistant. In his own
confession and evidece he stated that
Jackson told him that he would bring
Pearl Bryan here to have an operation
performed On her by Walling and then
afterwards 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
the catch-basin of the sewers. From the
LIST of January, 1896, to the day of the
tragedy, all evidence showed that he was
Scott Jackson's willing confederate.
DEATH Of IOHN KING