Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-20

hang, ami II Wailing was Innocent
anu he allowed Walling 10 hang win
him ho would have to answer 10 hia
Maker for double crime. Ho also
impressed jackson with the fact that II
he went beiore his Maker with lie on
his lips he would be- doing double
wrong. He then gave Jackson five
minutes Ia which to make up his
mind, leaving him unattended by the
death watch. AT the expiration OF five
minutes jackson said he could not say
that WallIng was innocent. THIS set.
led the fate OF both prisoners. Just
before leaving the cell Wslling said:
81 VIII tell you now at the last mo-
ment OF my ne that / was not there
and am innocent OF the whole crime.
jackson has said az much, but 1t seems
II iii not save me. | cannot say any
more. | VIII say no more"
STATEMENT OF THE CRIME.
CINCINNATI, o., March 20.-In the
| early morning Of February /, 1895, q
boy going to work discovered the dead
body oil a girl In an obsCure part OF Mr..
John Locks iarm adjoining Fort
Thomni, Ky. The muraerers had cut
off the gins head to prevent identifica'
ton anu removed 1t to some place that
has never been discovered. The only
garments OIL the body we're r union
undereuit and cheap checked wrap
per. A pair VI shoes lay near, also a
kid gtOve, two nsir pins and few
strands OF blonde hair. The shoes
were u wuman'J No. 3 and on them
were opera toe tuobers well worn. lu-
aide the shoes, which were II the
needle too description, was the stamp
OF Lewis g. Hayes OF Green Castle,
with a Portsmouth, Ohio, firm as the
makers. Near by was white corset
| epotless, except from bloody finger
prints. AT the top oil the bank where
| the foot lny was pool OF boot.
| On that morning those few garmen,e
were the only clew to the identity OF
the dead gin. BlOodnounds were
tbksn to the spDt aud they followed a
trail to the Covingtou reservoir and
could be Induced To go no iurlher. The
GeteEvolt was drained but the head was
not lound. some days later the shoes,
the glove, the nair pins anu the wrap.
per were identified at Green Castle,
| Ind, by her parents as belonging 10
Pearl Bryan, the daughter oil Mi. A,
y. Bryan. woll.tO.do farmer living
NEAR Green Castle.
The iden iticati0u OF the girl also
identified Scott jackson and Aiolzl
Walling De the perpetrstors OF the
crime ami they were arrested In Chr
clnnatl. In their possession were
found letters chiefly from WIN Wood
| to jackson in regard to Pearl Bryan.
Pearl Bryan's pocketbook and hsI
| vaiise, which was stained with blood,
were found whore jackson hau
secreted them.
In the examination by Chief Geltch
| the prisoners admitted that Pearl
| Bryan had come here Monday, Janu
| AIRY n and that both OF them had been
| with her until Wednesday afternoon
alter which each charged the othel
with having her Ia his care, and each
| declared that he had seen nothing o
| Ter afterwards. Both admitted tina
on. the Saturday night following tn,
murder they had gone TO the Suspen
sion bridge on the river and dropped
her blo01y head into the river tn hid,
| IL and conceal the crime. On Friday
night att O'Clock Jackson was eeen tC
leave Dave Wsllingsford's ealoon IL
| the teuderloin district with Pear
| Bryan In hack and at the same time
| WalliBg was seen near the saloon
On Thursday afternoon before the
murder Of Walling was seen with
| Pearl Bryan at Central Union station,
where he detained her until the lasl
train that could take her 10 Greer
Castle had gone.
Two weeks after the murder George
II. Jackson, oolored, admitted 10 the
| police that he had driven two men In
= rockawAy by cIrcnitous route t
| Fort Thomas to where the murIe
was committed. George Jackson was
taken to the jail and there he picked
out Walling rom among sc.re oil
young men as the man who sat beside
MIN and compelled him to make the
drive beyond Newport when he haC
tried to get out Of the carriage because
when employed he was told that II,
was only going to Newport. One day
| later livery stable keeper informed
| The police thai he hired a one.seateC
TockswBy and horse to some one un.
| known 10 him, and that II had bee
kept out all Aight aud returned be.
| tween 8 anu 4 O'Clock on the morning
| OF which the corpse OF Pesri Bryan
was found. Through this evidence
jackson was found guilty and sen
| te ncst to be hanged.
o. May 18th WsIling's trial began
anu on June 18Th he was found guilty
OF murder and sentenced to die,