The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20

ever, to be there again on Friday night,
Jan. 81: They both went there. Wagner
sent him TO Fortmeyer's drug store for
some ergot, and he went and obtained il.
When lie returned all were excited, the girl
was unconscious, and ii was determined to
wagon and the body was carried out the
back way and put into ii and all three got
IN the wagon. Wagner driving. Arriving
at the place on the Alexandria pike, be-
tween Mr.. Locke's and Mr.. Stones farms,
they stopped and carried the body TO where
1t was afterwards 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 it up
In the girls cloak. Walling 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 orward.
bridge. He and Walling went to Cincin-
natl and parted. Walling going to Heider's
girls valise, which contained the clothing.
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 away with him.
AlonZo Walling's statement is that JaC--
son solicited him to help a girl out of trou-
Die into which she had been brought by
VIII Wood. of Greencastle. Ind. He first
heard of this trouble to Pearl Bryan some
time in November, 1895. but was not asked
TO assist until after Jackson returned from
Greencastle early in January. He agreed
to find some one that could perform an
abortion. Accordingly on Jan. q he wrote
to one of his friends, May Smith, asking
her for such Information. On Jan. % 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 add
dress. On that afternoon Walling met Pearl
Bryan on the corner of Fourth and Race
streets and directed her how to go to DIR.
Wagner. on the next day, Jan. 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, but did
not go inside. Next evening. Friday, Jan.
81, he and jackson went out to Wagner's.
Here Walling tells the same story as Jack
son about Jackson's visit to the drug store.
Pearl Bryan'S Inconsistencies and the
trip to the country, ending with the de-
capitation- He says he was too much ex-
knows that Jackson and Wagner removed
the head. He stayed that night at Heider's
restaurant in Cincinnati. The foregoing
contains the main points of the s~o-called
confession.
one of the papers which published the
copyright statements, also printed a dis
patch from Nicholasville, stating that DR..
Wagner, who is implicated by Jackson
and Walling, formerly lived at Nicholas
dren. a wealthy farmer of that county
Wagner then was a minister of the Re-
formers Church at Sulphur Well. About
wrote to her brother. Walter Hendren. that
her husband was losing his mind and asked
and says that on the 2sd of January he
took DR.. Wagner with him to Nicholasville
or about two miles from that town, to the
house of William Hendren. where he re,
NAMED until Feb. 81. This correspondent
with the statement of the family when the
Bellevue clew" was first sprung near the
time of the trial, and which caused its col
lapse at hat time. On the 22d of January
1896. Walter Hendren, then at Bellevue
wrote a postal card to his father. neal
Nicholasville. saying that he would leave
on the 23d for Nicholasville with DR.. Wag'
ner. 1t is said that Miss Maud Wagner
postal card. with a Bellevue date, addressed
to William Hendren. his father. at Nichol
asville. Furthermore. it is said that a tel
at Nicholasville, dated Feb. 3. 1896. al
dressed to Mrs. Wagner at Bellevue anC
signed by Walter Eendren, saying that DR.
Wagner would leave there on the 1890 train
that morning.
Early this morning the correspondent o.
another local newspaper was sent to Mich
olasville. He wired back to Cincinnati a:
follows: when / awoke Walter s. Hendrer
full meaning of Jackson's confession. h,
was much surprised. He is satisfied tina
the whole of the statements duplicating
DIR. Wagner are malicious lies. Waite
Hendren himself iirst told DR.. Wagner o
the Pearl Bryan murder while the doctor
was visiting here a day or two after tn
crime. Hendren is thoroughly reliable
He has the respect of this town."
This morning the following telegram from
Mr.. Hendren, dated Nicholasville, ) a. m.
WAS received here: While il is rather
difficult matter for any one to go back
year and establish the exact dates of a Wis
itor's Journey. | think we will have no trou
bic in establishing that my brother-in-law
DR.. George =. Wagner was at the home o
my father. William Hendren. near town, a
the time the Pearl Bryan murder was com
Wagner was here from Jan. % TO Feb.
1896"