Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-23
AND WALLINC DIE
GETHER AT THE END OF A ROPE.
Up to the Last Moment Jackson Could Have Saved Waing
They We're Both Game to the Last.
DETAILS OF THE EXECUTION.

ton of a respite from the Governor
was at last abandoned, however, and
the two wretches were strangled, as
described elsewhere.
JUDGE HELMS WARNING TO JACKSON.
After coming from the consultation
with the Governor by telephone Judge
Helm told Jackson that he must hang.
and if he allowed Walling to hang
with him he would have to answer to
his Maker for double crime. He al
so impressed jackson with the fact
that il he went before his Maker with
a lie on his lips he would also be do
ing a double wrong. He then gave
jackson five minutes in which to
make up his mind, leaving him unat-
tended by the death watch. At the ex~
! piration OF the time jackson said that
ne could not say that Walling was
innocent. This settled the fate of BOTH
prisoners, and the time for the execu-
ton was fixed at 1870 o'clock. At
ll:30 they started to the scaffold.
Just before leaving the cell, Wal
ling said:
II will tell you now, at the last mo-
ment OF my life, that | was not there
and am innocent of the whole crime.
jackson has said as much, but IL
seems 1t will not save me. | can not
say any more, said Walling. 81 will
say no more on the scaffold.
Shortly before the march to the
gallows was commenced Deputy
Maurer entered the Jail with a letter
to Wolling from his sweetheart, Miss
Roberts. In it she sent her love and
told him to die game, 1t was 1872
a. m. when jackson and Walling
mounted the scaffold. The big crowd
was silent and mOtionless for the first
time since early morning, Walling
stood to the right, and jackson to
the left.
Scott Jackson said Sheriff julie
Plummer, after reading the death
warrant, Il am commanded by the law
to execute an unpleasant dutv
What have you to say?"
only this, responded Jackson.
am not guilty of the crime"
Have you, Alonzo Walling. any
thing to say?" next asked the sheriff,
Nothing, but that you are taking
an innocent life"
Rev. Mr.. Lee, will you please con-
duct the services?" then said the
sheriff in a solemn tone.
At this Rev. Lee sang "Oh, Come to
the Saviour" Then he read from
Isaiah, xiv, AS; John, ill.,, Is, and
Revelations, xvii, II.
The rope was then adjusted and
the straps fastened. With downcast
head Rev. Leo made an eloquent
prayer, closing with the words: "Scott
jackson, good bye; Alonzo Walling,
good bye.
The prisoners both stood with bow
ed heads. Walling's eyes were closed
IN prayer, Jackson's open, When
DIR. Lee finished jackson
bid farewell Walling also bid fare
well. Walling whispered Ego, go, go.7
Both were Merry up to the drop.
Then the bolt was shot promptly at
lao and both men dashed downward.
As the bodies swayed to and fro,
the silence and solemnity of the occa-
sion we're terrible.
DIED IN GREAT AGONY.
Both died in great agony. Jack
son raised his feet and dropped dead.
Walling drew up his feet, and his
body contracted several times in aw-
full torture.
Wallins's body was place d in cass
ket and taken away from the jail for
removal to Himilton tonight.
Jackson's remains. were eremated +.
tonight at Cincinnati cremstorY-
he anticipated that he might be re-
fused burial at Greencastle Ind
where his mother and sister reside.
Although it is conceded that DIR,
Wagner, accused by these men as be-
ing their accomplish. had no guilty
knowledge of the murder, yet it is
generally believed that other parties
are implicated, and that Pearl Bryan
may have spent the last two nights
before being murdered at the Wag-
ner residence, although Dr. Wagner
was then in Nicholasylle
1t will never be known what was
done with Pearl Bryan's head or