Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-03-26

-, - Nv The murderers had cut oli -
iIT,s baad TO prevent Identification AM hasn
,ooved it to some place that n n tha woman
discovered The shoes worn ny IN zoo rub
uloeo NJ a and on them were opera VTe -,
w. ,,eiI worn Inside the shoes "i.o'r " If
of needle-toed description, was III a Ports
Lewis a. Hays Of Greencasue' w" 49, nv was
,nonth ohio firm as the makers. Ntetl p'roo1v
iiioutn, onrsat spotless except from pluois
s,rar nrints At the top or the p't IN, snot
the foot lay was pool OF oioou. On both
was in the gap of prlFate nI wore drops
sides of the leaves about ana peioM naar the
81 blood AT the foot of the bahk li nc IN
neck was another pool of BLOOD. ", Xiv cIew TO
ing these few garments were the T niS honpds
the ia tai,an ~ the spot and they followed
rail to the Covington reservoir anu eouio uos
induced to go further. me inSe'
drained but the head was nor iou""
vi Identification. .,,
r,, ,o,,a the hairpins and the wrapper W eie
iantitied at Greencastle, Ind py nel Ptta If
az belonging to Pearl Bryan the G 1i,ion near
A. S. Bryan, we-to-uO iS' also Identified
SIT Jackson and Alonzo Walllhe as pr -
tratnrs of the crime. These youhs me" 5ontaI
rnornmates and fellow students III ti snsnt
College at Cincinnati. scout nr1y an
tieroI months of the summer ana carry az
| tnmn of 1895 at Greencastle' IND, as 10, Dr
her of the family of his brother.ill- To,Ity
| Edwin F. Post proIess s, a NJ with
| Wen Wood a lad 20 years of age, the SUI ~, 20
| Rev. Delos NJ. Wood, presiding eluei Srae,I
| Methodist Episcopal church, resloins az ~
| astIe and a second cousin to Pear pls".i
| tS.ongb whom he obtained an intro1uctlot 70
| her and visited her frequently JacNsoit ~ NJ,
| - corresnondence with her, whleH was c0t
tinued until within fortnlsh ts, o. 70 Greencas-
| .ia was in 1896 few persons at Cree'leastie
| knew that Pearl Bryan was IN ueiloai 1 tGt
dition one of these, Dr. GllilsLle, d ,S on,
| ~ whom Jackson admitted that he was the au,
| - ~ pearl Bryans trouble jackson anu
Walling were arrested in Cincinnati IN t WSin
| oSsassion were found letters, cme1y from WIN
| wed IN Jackson, in regard TO Fearl Dig al,
Wood Prvan;s pocketbook and her valse stained
,, Gt1l blood were found where jackson had Sc
GREETED them 49,, Cattle
,.4b admitted that on the Saturday night
siIorr,rg the murder they had gone TO lhe
sUspension bridge and dropped her bloody heau
intn the river to hide 1t ana conceaI t't
r;roe Friday night at Z o clock Jackson was
I'm e. Leave a saloon with Pearl Bryan in q
80, ond at the same time Walling was seer
near the saloon. On THURSDAY aiter Itt, - nI
fore the murder Walling was seen WIN feai
| ISryen at the Central Union station, Where ilt
| Iataired her until the last train that c"ulI
| talre her to Greencastle had gone. Two WeeN'
| after the murder George Jackson coloreu' au
mitted to the police that ne hau W., w. =" "
men in a rockaway by clrcultous route u
| u,hare the murder was committed GeorB'
Jackson was taken to jail ana there ne picAe,
out Walling from among score OIL youlls Hei
os the man who sat beside him and compelled
him to make the drive beyond Newport "hel
he had tried to get out of the carriage beeaus
when employed he was told that he was onl!
goinp TO Newport One day later liver.
Stable keeper informed the police that he hlfs'
, a one-seated rockaway and horse 10 som
ono unknown to him and that it had been KEEP
out all night and returned between and
o'clock on the morning Of which the corpse o
Pearl Bryan was found. Through TINS eVi
dence Jackson was found guilty and sentenc
: ed to be hanged On May 2Sth Wallings trla
began and on June 18th he was found guilt
, | of murder and sentenced TO die.