The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-20

session were found letters chiefly
from Will Wood to Jackson in regard
to Pearl Bryan. Pearl Bryans pock-
etbook and her valise, which was stain
ed with blood, were found where Jack
son had secreted them. Walling'S pant
aloons were taken from his locker at
the dental college and they were muddy
and spotted with blood. Jackson's
coat, hecked all over with blood, was
hShed out of a sewer in which it was
found by Walling's direction. In Jack
sons pockets were a half dozen hand
kerchiefs which were afterward identi-
ned as the property of Pearl Bryan.
In the examination by Chief Geitch the
prisoners admitted that Pearl Bryan
had come here Monday, January 81, and
that both of them had been with her
until Wednesday afternoon, after
which each charged the other with hav-
ing her in his care, and each declared
that he mad seen nothing of her after
wards 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 into the river to hide it and to
conceal the crime. On Friday night
at O'Clock Jackson was seen to leave
Dave Wallingford's saloon in the ten
derloin district with Pearl Bryan in a
hack and at the same time Walling
was seen near the saloon. On Thurs
day afternoon before the murder Wall
ing was seen with Pearl Bryan at CEN
traI union station, where he detained
her until the last train that could take
her to Greencastle had gone.
Two weeks after the murder George
Fl. jackson. cOlored. admitted to the
police that he had driven two men in
a rockaway by a circuitous route to
Fort Thomas, where the murder was
committed. George Jackson was taken
to the Jail, and there he picked out
Wall1nS from score of young men
as the man who sat beside him and
compelled him to make the drive be-
yond Newport when he tried to get out
of the carriage, because when he was
employed he was told that he was only
going to Newport. One day later a
livery stable keeper informed the police
that he hired a one-seated rOckaway
and a horse to someone unknown to
him, and that it had been kept out
all night and returned before and
o'clock on the morning of which the
corpse of Pearl Bryan was found.
Through this evidence Jackson was
tried at Newport and found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged. His trial con-
tinued from April 1 to May IA. He was
ably defended by Colonel L. J. Craw-
ed by r. w. Nelson of Newport and
SiIas Bates of Greencastle. On May %
Walling's trial began, and on June IS
he was found guilty of murder and
sentenced to die. Since that time Wal
ling and jackson have remained in the
Coyington jail, which is more secure
than the Newport Jail Every means
in the power of the friends of these
from their fate without success.
Scott jackson is % years old, feet
inches high. of blonde complexion
and wiry figure. His eyes are a cold,
steel gray. They glitter but lack
depth. His head is said to resemble
that of Holmes, the murderer. He
crossed the ocean IA times when 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 rob-
bing a railway company, and thus saved
himself from the same fate.
Walling is feet 9 inches high, has
dark hair and hazel eyes, with heavy
eyebrows that almost meet. His age
is p years. In temperature he is stOHd
and morose. He is evidently deficient
in sensibility and force of character.
which made him all the more plant 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 abortion performed on her by Wal
ling and then afterwards said he would
kill her by quick poison, and finally
changed his mind and said he would
poison her and cut her to pieces and
put the pieces into catch basins of the
sewers. From the 1st of January, 1896,
to the day of the tragedy all the evi-
dence showed that he was Scott jack
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