The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-03-20
JACKSON AND WAXING.

Their sa.CaIlsti Confession lmpIie9tinE
WIN Wood ahd Or. Wagner-PFObably
BIuft.
CINCINNATI, March lS.-BOth the
Enquirer and Commercial Tribune print
tlila n1oralnE confessions by Scott Jack
son and Alonzo 81. waIlInE, signed re-
spectively by their authors, The text
OF these confessions h copyrtshtsd'
Jackson lays the blame Of the condl'
ton OF Pearl Bryan on William n.
Wood, who he says, solicited MIN by
letter 70 give her RELIEF from disgrace
for his cake. He alleges that u was al
VIII Woods motion TO send her here
and that out OF friendship 10 Wood ne
undertook the task OF concealinE her
shame. Up TO Wednesday night, Janu-
airy 90, the story does not differ greatly
from that already related IN tlie case.
He said he engaged WallIng % fnd
some one who would perform the dell
cate task, that on wednesday W9lltns
told him that ne had sent Miss Bryan
70 a doctor. On Thurgday Walllng 70.
ceiyed word to come out to Or. W9g'
ner's at Bellevue, KY, near New Port;
He and Walllng both went out but did
not 20 in, They arranged, however,
to Be there again on Friday night. jan
uary 81. They both went there. Wag-
ncr sent him to Forttneyer's drug store
for some erKot, ard he went ana OBJ
tanned 1t. When he returned all were
excited, the girl WINS unconscious anu
Il determined to take her away. WNg.
ner obtained the wagon and the BODY
WAS carried out the back way and put
INTO Il and all three got in the wagon,
Wagner driving. Arriving at the place
on the Alexandria pike between Mr.,
Lockes and Mr.. Stones farms, they
stoned, carried the body Into where
II was afterwards found. W aEner
Thought her dead, and told Jackson 10
hold her head which he did. Then Wag-
ner severed the head from the body.
and wrapped Il up in girls CloNk. Wal
ling carried the cloak to the wagon.
Jackson says that when he lei 40 OF
the body the head WAS at the top OF
the bank but fell forward. Wagner
let them out at Newport bridge. He
and WaIiinu went 10 Cincinnati and
parted, WaIlIng going 60 Helder's hotel
and jackson to his room with the girls
VnIises which contained the clothing
which he threw into the river. The
blood Inside the vAlIse came from q
sack worn by the Girl which was put
init. Wagner took the head away with
him.
AIonzo walllng's statement Is that
Jackson solicited him to help gfi
out OF trouble into which she had been
brought by VIII Wood, OF Greencastle.
he first heard OF this trouble TO Pearl
Bryan some time In November, 1895, but
was not asked to assist until after
Jackson had returned from Greencas-
Tie early in January He agreed 60
and some one that could perform an
abortion. Accordingly. on January ~
he wrote TO one Of his friends, May
Smith, asking her for such information.
ON January g. he received letter
form her advising him to see DR.. Wag-
her, OF Bellevue, and saying that she
had written Wagner to call at the col
Iege. The same day Wagner called at
the college and inquired for WAlltug.
agreed to perform the operation and
gave his address. On that afternoon
WailIng met Pearl Bryan on the corner
OF Fourth and Rnce streets and direct
ed her how to go to Wagner. On the
next day. January 30, Wagner asked by
mail to bring Pearls clothes out 10 him,
saving she was under his care. He and
Jackson took the clothes but did not go
inside. Next evening. Friday, January
81, he and jackson went out 20 Wag'
nep's. Here WallinE tells the came
story as Jackson. about JackSons
visit to the drug store. Pearl Bryans
uuconsciousnesS and the trip to the
country. ending with the decapitatlon.
He gays he was too much excited TO
remember the particulars, but IT.
knew that jackson and Wagner remoV-
ed the head He 6taid that night al
Hefder'S restaurant In Cincinnati.
The Enquirer. this morning contains
a special from NicholasVllle, KY, stat
ing that DR.. Wagner who Is implicated
by Jackson and Mailing confessional
formerly lived at Nicholasville and IS
the son-In-lAw OF VIM. Henern.
wealthy farmer Of that county. WAE-
ner then was minister OF the Reform
ers church at Sulphur. About the mid
die of January, 1896, Mrs. Wagner
wrote to her brother Waker Henern.
that her husband was losing his mind
and asked him to come TO Bellevue:
He went and says that on the sd OF
January. he took DR.. Wagner with him
20 NicholasvIIle, or about two miles
from that town. to the house OF VIII
liam Hendreh where he remained I'M
til February ..
This corresponds with the statement
OF the family, when the Bellevue
rlew' was first sprung near the time OF
tbe trial and which caused It's collapse
at that time. on the ed OF January
would leave on the I'D for Sicholasvllle
1855. Walter Hendrcn. then at Bellevue,
wrote a postal card TO his father
near NIchoIasviIEe, saying that ne
with Or. Wagner II IS said that Miss
Maud Wagner, daughter Of the doctor
has copy OF this postal card with
bellevue date addressed TO VIM. Hen.
llreu, his father at &IchoiasVille. Fur
thernore I, Is said that u telegram Is
on flle in the Western Union office at
NIcholasville. dates February ;. 1886,
addressed TO Mrs Wagner, ut Bellevue,
and signed by Walter Hendren. saying
that DR.. Wagner would leave there on
the 1890 train that morning.