Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-20
CONDEMNED MEN ARE COOL.

law and the evidence authorize. Respite
refused WILLIAM y. BRADLEY,
Governor.
CONDEMNED MEN ARE COOL.
CINCINNATI, March 19.-Sherl1 Plum
mer with one deputy and the four guards
OF Jackson and Wallng, left Alexandria
today shortly before noon to make the jour
ney to the Newport jail. The conveyance
used was the open omnibus in which they
were conveyed to Alexandria Jackson and
Walling were each handcuffed to guard.
Shortly before reaching the road leading to
Fort Thomas, Jackson pointed to that road,
saying: THAT Is where we turned on III
that was true, they must have reached the
Locke farm by a circuitous route. AS they
passed the Locke farm they saw Farmer
Locke and some members standing at the
spot where Pearl Bryans body was found.
Sheriff Plummer asked Jackson If he rec
ognized the place. Jackson looked around
coolly and answered: II do not recognize
the spot" When the party reached New
port a crowd estimated at several thousand
had gathered near tho Jail to get sight of
the prisoners. Jackson and Walling were
evidently frightened, and the sheriff had
real difficulty in getting through the mass
to the Jail entrance, bat there were no dem
onstrations on the part of the spectators.
Inside the cell Walling was told that the
last hope had gone. He made no comment
on the news, but asked a reporter to come
and see him soon. Jackson also heard the
fateful news in silence.
COPYRIGHTED CONFESSION.
CINCINNATI. March 19.-Both the En-
quirer and Commercial-Tr Tribune print this
morning confessions by Scott jackson and
Alonzo NJ. Walling, signed respectively by
their authors. The text of these confessions
is copyrighted. jackson lays the blame for
the condition of Pearl Bryan on William
F. Wood, who, he says, solicited him by
letter to give her relief from disgrace for his
sake. He alleges that 1t was all VIII Woods s
I,., hArn oNI hnt N
friendship to Wood he undertook the task
of concealing her shame. Up to Wednesday
night. January 49, the story does not differ
greatly from that already related in this
case. He said he engaged Walling to find
some one who would perform the operation;
that on Wednesday Walling told him that
he had sent Miss Bryan to doctor
On Thursday Walling received word to
come out to Dr. Wagner's at Bellevue, KY,
near Newport. He and Walling both went
ever to be there again on Friday night,
January 81. They both went there Wagner
sent him to a Fort Meyers drug store for
somo ergot and he went and obtained 1t.
When he returned all were excited, the girl
was unconscious and it was determined to
take her away. Wagner obtained the wagon
and the body was carried out the back way
and put into It, and all three got in the
wagon, Wagner driving. Arriving at the
place on the Alexandria pike between Mr..
Locks and Mr.. Stones farms. they stopped
and carried the body in to where 1t was
afterward found. Wagner thought her dead
and told Jackson to hold her head, which
he did. Then Wagner severed the head
from the body and wrapped 1T up in the girls
cloak. Walllng carried the cloak to the
wagon, Jackson says that when he let go
of the body the head was at the top of the
bank. but fell forward. Wagner let them out
at Newport bridge. He and Walling went
to Cincinnati and parted. Walling going to
Hender's hotel and Jackson to his room with
the girls valise, which contained the cloth
ing which he threw into the river. The
blood inside the valise came from a sack
worn by the girl, which was put in it.
Wagner took the head with him.
WALLING'S STATEMENT.
Alonzo Walling's statement is that Jackson
asked him to help girl out of trouble into
which she had been brought by Will Wood
of Greencastlel Ind. He first heard of this
trouble to Pearl Bryan some time in Noven-
Der, 1895, but was not asked to assist until
after Jackson returned from Greencastle
early in January. He agreed to find some
one who would perform the operation. AC--
cordingly ON January 27 he wrote to one of
his friends, May Smith, asking her for such
information On January 2S he received a
letter from her advising him to see Dr.
Wagner of Bellevue and saying that she had
written Wagner to call at the college. The
same day Wagner called at the college and
inquired for Walling, agreed to perform the
operation and gave his address. On that
afternoon Walling met Pearl Bryan on the
corner of Fourth and Race streets and
directed her how to go to Dr. Wagner. On
the next day, January 80, Wagner asked him
by mail to bring Pearls clothes out to him.
saying she was under his care. He and
Jackson took the clothes, put did not go
inside. Next evening. Friday, January 81,
ne and jackson went out to WagneT's. Here
Walling tells the same story as Jackson
about Jackson's visit to the drug store,
Pearls Inconsistencies and the trip to the
country, ending with the decapitaton. He
says he was too much excited to remember
particularly, but he knows that Jackson ami
Wagner removed the head. He stayed that
night at Hender's restaurant in Cincinnati
DIsCREDITS THE STORY.
The Enquirer this morning contains a
special from Nicholasville, Ky. stating that
DR. Wagner, who is implicated by the Jack
son and Walling confessions, formerly lived
at Ncholasville and is the son-in-law Of
William Hendren, wealthy farmer of tha
county. Wagner then was a minister of the
Reformed church at Sulphur Well. About
the middle OF January, 1896, Mrs. Wagner
wrote to her brother. Walter Hendren, that
her husband was losing his mind and asked
him to come to Bellevue. Hendren went
and says that on January 20 he took Dr. |
Wagner with him to Nicholasville, or about |
two miles from that town, to the house of
William Hendren, where he remained until |
February 3. This corresponds with the state !
ment of the family when the Bellevue
clew' was first sprung near the time of
the trial and which caused its collapse, |
On January 22, 1896. Walter Hendren. then
at Bellevue, wrote a postal card to his |
father. near Nicholasyille saying that he !
would leave on the 23d for Nicholasyille |
with DR.. Wagner. 1t is said that Miss Maud |
Wagner, daughter of the doctor. has copy |
OF this postal card, with a Bellevue date. ad- |
dressed to William Hendren, his father. az |
Nicholasvlle. Furthermore 1t is said that |
telegram Is OIL file in the Western Union |
office at Nichoasville, dated February 3 |
1896 addressed to Mrs Wagner at Bellevue
and signed by Walter Hendren, saying that |
DR., Wagner would leave there on the 10 40 |
train that morning. No doubt the Wagner |
family and friends will clear up the matter
by this means today If the allegations are not |
true.
CARD FROM HENDREN.
special from Nlcholasville, KY. says
When Walter Hendren was walked this morn |
ing and told the full meaning of Jackson's |
confession he was much surprised He is |
satisfied that the whole statement impll-
eating DR.. Wagner is malicious. Walter
ltendren himself first told Dr. Wagner of the
Pearl Bryan murder while the doctor was
visiting here day or two after the crime
iendren Is thoroughly reliable and he has the
respect Of this town. The following tele-
gram from Mr.. Hendren has been received:
"NlCHOLASVILLE, KY, March l9-While |
II is a rather difficult matter for any one to
go back year and establish the exact dates
a u,iI1 ba,