Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-21

! al Elm and George streets, ana employ -
! ed him TO drive a carriage with sick
| lady TO Newport" and who from New
port TO the end of the journey, sat on
| the seat beside him and compelled him
with revolver TO drive on beyond
Newport. He said the horse was a
| grey" A cab with Pearl Bryan and
| Jackson in IL had been seen TO drive
away from WallingfOrd's saloon, Long
worth and Elm streets, at 1870 Friday
evening. January &1st, during a rain
| shower. George Jackson in his de-
| scription said ti.dI the horse had a
! fashion Of going by lunges and starts,
| and that sometimes he would take the
] bit in his mouth and pull the carriage
! by the reins He said he only saw
| Scott Jackson in the dark when he got
out of the carriage with the girl
ON THAT FATAL NIGHT,
and so did not undertake to identify
| him except as TO size. Immediately
! after the Identification of Walling,
which was near midnight, George Jack
| sen was required TO drive out on the
route he had described. Sheriff Plum
mer and TWO detectives were III the
| carriage with him and several carriages
followed. The night was cloudy ana
there was 10 moon. There had been
q full moon on the night Of the muir
der. George H. Jackson on that cloudy
m0onless night followed the unfre-
Quented road with precision. The
route was about SIX miles from the
Newport bridge.
The distance by the Alexandria pike
from Newport bridge to the place Of
The murder was only three miles. Ar
irving at Fort Thomas, within a hun
drcd yards of the
SCENE OF TIE MURDER.
Jackson stopped in mis- test drive but
became beWilderej and failed to dis
cover the sDot OF the murder. Driving
back 10 Newport the carriage passed
the tragic grOuud. George Jackson
recognized it, jumped out and soon
found the big fac rock by the road
side which he had described cry III
the evening as near where the carriage
stopped ON the fatal night
Oh Sunday, February 23d, the detec-
tive learned from Chester Mullen,
livery stable keeper, that asinsle seat
r1ckaway had been out all Friday night
OF january 3lst. until about three or
four O'Clock OBJ Saturday morning, on
February lst when an unknown man
returned il and paid for H. The man
who hired it late Friday afternoon,
january 5lst, was also unknown.
Carriage. horse and harness when re-
turned were covered with mud.
George Y. Jackson was sent Tor when
the cab was found.
He was put TO driving il with gray
horse attached. He said that this was
not the LOrse. He YVES right. AnOth-
or gray horse was attached that had Just
come I'm from q hard drive. This, lac
said. was more like the horse, but IL
did not go by "lungeS and starts
Later chat night after the horse had
rested ne tried it again. Ii went by
"Iun-es and starts and took the bit in
It's mouth. just as Jackson had oe-
s.liued il. To was the horse that went
out on the murder night George II. |
Jackson said that on the way out the
ni-ht of The murder me got scared by
HEARING A WOMAN MOAN
I'm Tie carriage. and started 20 get out
when WaAing drew q revolver and
compelled him 10 drive on. He also
sand that when the two men got out
of the carriage with the woman, they
told him 90 turn the carriage around
and wait till they come. While they
were zone he heard noise that fright
elad hin He lott the horse ana ran
across fields and farms back 10 Clnc.A-
natl. studied by the sheen OF The city
lights ON the clouds.