The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-20

Jackson spent several months OF the sum
| mer and early autumn of 1895 at Green
| castle, Ind. as "a member of the family
| of his brother-in-law DIR. Edwin L. Post,
| "a professor in the Depauw University
| There he became acquainted with VIII
| Wood, lad 90 years old the son OF Rev.
Delos NJ. Wood, presiding elder OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church residing at
| Greencastle. Through Will Wood, who
| was second cousin TO Pearl Bryan, ne
| obtained an introduction To her ana
| visited her frequently. She was a grad
| uate of the Greencastle High school, was
vivacious, pretty, fond of society, and
| very popular. jackson, when absent,
kept up a correspondence with her, which
was continued until within fortnight
| of the day of her murder. The last two
or three months of this correspondence
was carried on clandestinely. VIII Wood
was the medium at Greencastle, by which
| these letters Were passed to their destlna-
tion. Jackson's last visit to Greencastle
was in the holidays of 1886. A few per-
sons at Greencastle, confdants of Jack
son, knew that Pearl Bryan was in n
delicate situation. To one of these, DIR.
Gillespie, "a dentist, with whom jackson
had worked, also a relative of Pearl
Bryan, Jackson admitted that he was the
author of Pearl Bryan's trouble Gillespie
during the holiday vacation advised Jack
son To marry her. He said that he would
not do anything of the kind There were
others who knew about this affair,
among them Will Wood and Mr.. Early,
telegraph operator at Greencastle.
Through Will Wood, some time in De
cember, 1895, jackson had sent Pearl
Bryan letter containing prescription
of ergot of rye and other ingredients in
tended to produce an abortion. The girl
never got IL filled. Jackson visited her In
1.a ta1 Ha-f ha LOT fAf
and the prescription.
Meantime jackson and Walling were
arrested in Cincinnati In their possession
were found letters chiefly from Will Wood
to jackson in regard TO Pearl Bryan.
Pearl Bryan's pocketbook and her valise,
which was stained with blood, were found
where jackson had secreted them. Wal
3ing's pantaloons were taken from his
locker mt the dental college, and they were
muddy and spotted with blood .Jackson'S 5
coat, fiecked all over with blood, was fished
out of sewer in which it was found by
| Malling's direction.
In Jackson's pocket were half dozen
handkerchiefs which were afterward
identified as the property of Pearl Bryan.
In the examination by Chief Deitch the
prisoners admitted that Pearl Bryan had
come here Monday, Jan. 21, and that both
of them had been with her until Wednes-
day afternoon, after which each charged the
other of having her in his care, and each
declared that he had seen nothing of her
afterward. Both admitted that on the
Saturday night following the murder they
had gone to the Suspension Bridge on the
river and dropped her bloody clothing in
| the river to hide il and 10 conceal the
crime. On Friday night at o'clock Jack
son was seen TO leave Dave Wallingford's 5
| saloon in the tenderloin district with Pearl
| Bryan in hack and at the same time
Walling was seen near the saloon. On
| Thursday afternoon before tie murder
| Walling was seen with Pearl Bryan at
| Central Union station, where he detained
| her until the last train that could take her
! to Greencastle had gone.
Two weeks after the murder, George III.
| Jackson, colored, admitted TO the police
| that he had driven two men in "A rockaway
| by n circutious route to Fort Thomas to
| where the murder was committed.
| George Jackson was taken to the jail and
F, there he picked out Walling from among
| n score of young men as the man who sat
| by him and compelled him TO drive be-
yond Newport, when he had tried to get
| out of the carriage because when employed
| he was told that he was only going TO
| Newport One day later n livery stable
| keeper informed the police that he hired
| a one seated rOckaway and horse To
| some one unknown TO him, and that IL
| had been kept out all night and returned
| between 3 and O'Clock on the morning
/
| discovered. With this evidence jackson
| was tried at Newport and found guilty
| and sentenced 70 be hanged His trial
| continued from April 2l To May a. He
was ably defended by Colonel l.. j. Craw-
| ford, while the prosecution was assisted
| by II. w. Nelson Of Newport and Silas
| HAYES of GTeencastle. On May 26 Wal
! lings trial began and ON June Is he was
| found guilty of murder and sentenced to
| die. Since that time Walling and jackson
| have remained in the Novington Jail,
| which is moro secure than the Newport
| iail Every means in the power of the
| friends of these two men was exhausted
| to save them from their fate without
| success.
/ Scott jackson is 2S years old, : feet g
| inches high, OF blonde complexion and
wiry figure. His eyes are cold steel gray.
| They glitter, but lack depth. His head is
| said to resemble that Of Holmes, the
murderer. He crossed the ocean II times
| when "A lad with his father, n sea captain.
| While living with his mother in Jersey
| City, he turned states evidence and sent
"a Mr. Lett to the penitentiary for robblng
| a railway company and thus saved HIM
! self from the same fate.
walling is feet o inches high, has dark
hair and hazel eyes with heavy eyebrows
| that almost meet His age is 2l years. In
temperament he Is stolid and morosc. He
| Is evidently deficient In scnsihility and
| force of character, which made him all the
more r,iistftt ~ jackson teel-aad- assist
| ant. In his own confession and evidence
| he states that Jackson told him that be
would bring Pearl Bryan here to have an
| abortion performed on her by Walllng and
| then after-warl said he would kill her by
| quick poison, and finally charged his mind
| and said lac would poison her, cut her into
| pieces and put the pieces into catch basins
| of the sewers From the first Of January,
1896 to the day of the tragedy. all the
evidence showed that be was Scbtt Jack
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