The record-union., 1897-03-21

the men as being their accomplice, had
no guilty knowledge of the murder
whatever, yet it is generally believed
there are other parties implicated, and
that the facts may now come out.
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
CINCINNATI co., March 20.-In the
early morning of February l, 1896,
boy going to work discovered the dead
body of a girl in an obscure part of
John Locke's farm, adjoining Fort
Thomas, Kentucky. The murderers
had cut off the girls head to prevent
Identification, and removed it to some
place that has never been discovered.
The only garments on the body were
union undersuit and a cheap checked
wrapper. A pair of shoes lay near, also
a kid glove, two hairpins and few
strands of blonde hair. The shoes were
a woman's No. 3, and on them were a
pair of operatoe rubbers, well worn
Inside the shoes, which were of the
reedle-toe description, was the stamp
of Lewis & Hayes of Greencastle, with
a Portsmouth, Ohio, firm as the makers.
Near by was a white corset, spotless,
except for bloody finger prints. At the
top of the bank where the feet lay was
a pool of blood. This spot was in the
gap of a private hedge on which re-
NAMED dead leaves. On both sides of
the leaves, above and below, were drops
Of blood. AT the foot Of the bank near
the neck was another pool of blood.
On that morning these few garments
We're the only clew to the identity OF
the dead girl. Bloodhounds were taken
tc the spot, and they followed trail
to the CovingtOn reservoir, but could be
induced to go no further. The reser-
voir was drained, but the head was not
found. A subsequent search for the
head has been fruitless -Four days
later the hairpins, shoes and glove were
identified at Greencastle, Ind, by her
parents as belonging to Pearl Bryan,
the daughter of A. S. Bryan, well-to-
do farmer, living near Greencastle.
This identification of the girl was
brought about by Sheriff Blumer OF
Campbell County, Kentucky, who had
followed the slender clewS furnished
by the shoes and garments to a success
full issue. This discovery also identi-
fed Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walllng
as the perpetrators Of the crime. THESE
young men were roommates and fellow
students in the dental college at Gin
cinnati
Scott Jackson spent several months of
the summer and early autumn of 1899
at Greencastle as a member of the
family of his brother-in-law, DR.. Edwin
f. Post, a professor in the Depauw
University. There he became acquaint-
ed with Will Wood, lad 20 years old,
- Of nraGi6inr
elder of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, residing at Greencaste.
Through VIII Wood, who was a second
cousin to Pearl Bryan, he obtained an
introduction to her, and visited her fire.
Quently. She was graduate OF the
Greencastle High School, was vivacious,
pretty, fond of society and very pop
ular.
Jackson, when absent, kept up cor
raspondence with her, which was con-
tinued until within a 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 destination.
Jacksons last visit to Greencastle
was in the holidays of 1896. A few
persons at Greencastle, confidants of
Jackson, knew that Pearl Bryan was
lin a delicate condition. To one of these
Dr. Gillespie, dentist with whom
jackson had worked, also relative of
Pearl Bryan, Jackson admitted that he
was the author of Pearls trouble Gill
iespie during the holiday vacation adj
vised Jackson to marry her. He said
that he would not do anything of the
kind There were others who knew
about the affair, among them Will
Wood and Mr. Early, telegraph OPP
orator at Greencastle. Through Will
Wood, some time in December, 1895,
jackson had sent Pearl Bryan letter
containing a prescription of ergot Of
rye and other ingredients intended to
produce an abortion. The girl never
got the prescription filled. Jackson
visited her in the vacation and de-
stroyed the letter and the prescription.
Meantime Jackson and Walling were
arrested in Cincinnati. In their pos
session were found letters. chiefly from
VIII Wood to Jackson, in regard to Pearl
Bryan. Her pocketbook and her valise,
which was stained with blood, were
found where Jackson had secreted them.
Walling's pantaloons were taken from
his locker at the dental college, and
they were muddy and spotted with blood.
Jackson's coat fiecked all over with
blood, was fished out of a sewer in which
it was found by Walling's direction. In
Jackson's pocket We're a half-doZen
handkerchiefs, which were afterwards
identified as the property of Pearl
Bryan.
In the examination by Chief Geitch
the prisoners admitted that Pearl Bryan
had come here Monday January 9th,
and that both of them had been with her
until Wednesday afternoon, after which
each charged the other with having her
in his charge, and each declared that
he had seen nothing of her afterwards.
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
into the river, to hide it and to conceal
the crime.
On Friday night at Z o'clock Jackson
was seen to leave Dave Wallingford's
saloon in the tenderioin district, with
Pearl Bryan in hack and at the same
time Walling was seen near the saloon.
| On Thursday afternoon before the muir
| der Wal;ing was seen with Pearl Bryan
at the 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
II. Jackson admitted to the police that
he had driven the woman in a circuit
Gus route to Fort Thomas, where the
| rnn1lrdar WAS committed George LACK