The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1897, Page 5

A . r THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1897. DENTAL STUDENTS ON THE GALLOWS Scott Jackson and Aionzo ‘Walling Pay the Death Penalty. To the Closing Chapter They Maintain an Air of Bravado. Final and Tricky Appeal to the Gov- ernor Fails to Save Pearl ! Bryan’s Murderers. # EWPORT, K., March 20.--Scott Jack- ron and Alonzo Walling were hanged to- day. The once promising lives of the young dental studenis paid the penalty tosday on the gallows for the murder of the pretty country girl, Pearl Brya Greencastle, Ind. The scene was at homas, and the date February 1. 139. | The victim was decapitated to prevent | identification, and the head has never been located. The arrests, trials, “con- | fessions” and general progress to the awful sequel of to-day have been largely tacular, especially the clo: hours of the tiagedy this morning in Newport. | Nearly all the forenoon Walling’s fate seemed swaying in the balance, and the 5000 peopl th plentiful sprinkling of richly uniformed militia acting as guards, waited with gieat interest at highest ten- sion the springing of thefatal trap or the announcement of the clemency granted | Ly-Governor Bradley. Walling went to | sieep at 1 o'clock this morning, and slum- bered unbrokenly until 6 o'clock. Jack- | son slept a little. From that early hour the final announcement that both until must hang at 11:30 the prisoners sat at | the windows of the jail, facing the crowded | courthouse yard with every appearance of unconcern. On the gallows neither was deserted by the bravado that bas marked | their conduct ever since they first posed tefore the public in the celebrated tragedy. At 11:40 the double trap was spruug and tney swung in midair twenty minutes be- | fore the horrible work of strangiing was complete, | The time originally set was 7 o’clock, | but almost as the start was made for the | made another “confes- | ich he said Walling was not | iiful murder.” in the Governor was appealed to at | nkfort by wire, Jackson himself tele- | aphing: “Walling is not guilty ot this | critje, but I am.” | sion’’in w guilty of **v Finally Governor Bradley after patient | investigation of Jackson’s tar attempt | to save his comrade, including a long- | distance telephoue consultation wi Judge Heim, the trial Judge,and the at- | torueys in the case, sealed the doom of v declaring against further delay. | c is ssid to have left still another | written corfession, to be published or not as his friends may see fit. The one of | , diabolically trying to shifta | the ctime on an fnnocent man, on and Walling acknowledged 1g to be false. As there was objection to the receiving of the body ot Jackson for burial in the Qreencastle Cemetery it was shipped this | evening over the Big Four to his former | home in Maine. Walling’s body was | tiken to Hamilton, Ohio, by his family | {or burial. | T o STORY OF THE CRIME., parY of Jackson and 3 Body of Their Fictim. | CINCINNATIL, Omro, March 20.—On Satyrday morning, February 1, 18 ,lhei headless body of a young woman was fotnd on the farm of John B. Lock, near the end of the Fort Thomas electric-car | line, south of Newport, Ky. No marks of Walling Decapitated the \dentification could be discovered, and no cards, letters or anything calculated to | solve the mystery couid be found. The | body was taken to an undertaker's in | Newport and a further -examination | showed thiat the dead woman’s shoes | were stamped “Lewis & Hays, emn.i clew the detectives went to | work, with the result that the corpse was identified as Miss Peari Bryan, aged 22, daughter of Alexander Bryan, a well-to- | do farmer, living half a mile south of | Greencasile. | On January 27 Pearl Bryan left her | home ostensibly to visit friends in Inaian- | apoiis, but instead came direct to this | ity to meet Scott Jackson, a student at| the Ohio College of Dental Sargery. Jackson failed to keep his appointment with the girl, and after wandering about | the city she went to the Indiana House | and registered under an assumed name. The next day Jackson-called at the hotel | 1o see her. On Wednesday. January 29, | she lef¢ the Indiana House with Jacksun and a fellow-student named Alonzo Wall- ing, and from that day uniil her body was found at Fort Thomas nothing is posi- | tively known as to the movements of the trio. A post mortem examination of the corpse revealed the fact that the dead girl was about to become a mother. Jackson and Walling were agrested at their board- | ing-house on WeSt Ninth street and | charged with the murder. At the pre-| liminary examination of the prisoners| each sccused the other of having Kkilled | the zirl. Jackson admitted that he was acquainted wizh Pearl Bryan; but denied any knowledge of the murder. Walling| @ he did not know her. The students were taken to the under- taker's, where the headless body was ex- | hibited. In the presenceof the fatherand sister of the murdered girl the Chief of Police asked Walling if he recognized the | corpse. He replied in a clear voice that it | was Pearl Bryaun. e same question was asked Jackson, who said that it must be Pearl Bryan, be- 1se he saw her relatives in the room. Turning to Walling the Chief said: ‘Walling, did you kill this woman? 1 did not.” : “Who did then?” . have every'reason fo believe that from what Jackson told me he did. Then turning to the other prisoner. “:Jackson, ¢id you murder this giri? { «I aid not, sir.” «Can you look upon this corpse and deny that you committed the crime?” “qcan and 1 ao most emphatically, replied Jackson, looking at the corpse as he spoke. “Who did kill her?” ] have every reason to belisve that Walling did.” | of the regulation blue and whi Mrs. Stanley, 8 sister of Pearl Bryan, wleaded with Jackson to. tell her where the head was put, but Jackson looked at her and said caimly and gravely, “*Mrs. Stanley, I do not know. ‘ At the Coroner’s inquest a verdict was rendered that cocaine had been adminis- tercd and that Pearl Bryan had been de- capitated while she was still alive; that she was seen 1n company with Scott Jack- son and Alonzo Walling getting into a cab at the rner of Plum and George streets, in Cincinnati, and that she came to her death on the premises of John . Lock, near Fort Thomas, Campbell Coun- ty, K Jackson’s trial opened April 2L It lasted until May 14. The testimony of George H. Jackson, the colored cabman, who said he drove the party to Fort Thomas, was collateral, The main evi- dence was in referencs to the relations ot Jackson and Pearl Bryao, and the medi- cal testimony as to whether the girl had been decapitated before or after death i and whetner it was in Kentucky or Ohio. The State had 113 witnesses and the de- fense 83. It is generally regarded that two items that told most heavily against Jackson were his admission that he had been inti- mate with Pearl Bryan and the proof tha: two of bis witnesses were perjurers. Scott Jackson took the stand in his own behal He was not cross-examined. His storv was not shaken nor was it believed. | He took the death verdict calmly. The Walling trial began May 26, and it ended June 18. The evidencein his case was practically the same as against Jack- son. . The most damaging feature in the case against Walling probably was his ad- mission that he knew Scott Jackson was zoing to kill the girl and would not warn her of impending dancer. In this trial the State examined sixty-two witnesses, the defense forty. Not oncein all the h aminations to which Jackson and Wail have been subjected have they blundered or revealed anything. They have been self-poscessed, keen blooded through it all. The petition for a rebearing of the case ndred severe ex- | of Jackson and Walling was overruled by the Kentucky Courtof Appeals, and the | day of execution was fixed for March 20, 1897. On March 6 Wailing made a formal appeal to Governor Bradley for clemency. The condemned man reviewed his case in brief, but the letter contained nothing more than developed at the trial. On March 10 Hon. J. Crawford, at- torney for Scott Jackson, and Colonel George Washington, counsel for Walling, made formal application for executive clemency on behalf of the prison These appeals to the Govecrnor of Ken- tucky were the last legal steps taken by he defendants’ atiorneys to avert the 20. /alling also made another appeal to the Governor, claiming that he wasinno- cent of any crime, Scott Jackson was son of Mrs. John Jac spected widow of Greencastle, Ind. His ister is married to Dr. Edwin Post, pro- fessor of Latin in De Pauw University, Indiana. Alonzo Walling was 20 years on, a highly re- old, son of Mrs. Sarah Walling of Oxfora, | Ouio. GRANT TOMB DEDICATION. Elcborate Arrangements for the Cere- monies on April 27 by the Authori- ties of New York City. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 20.—There remains no room for doubt that the cere- monies marking the dedication of the new tomb for Grant on APril° 27 will be ore of the most impressive spectacles seen in this city for years. nounced yesterday that he had been offi- cially notified that President McKinley, Vice-Presidgent Hobart and the members of the Cabinet had accepted the invitation to participate in the exercises. The Mayor has received acceptances from Major-General Miles, the German Embassador, the Ministers from Japan, Mexico, Hawaii, Hayti and Kores, the Minister Resident of Costa Rica, Justice Rafus W. Connecticut, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsyivania and Maryland, all of whom will att with their staffs. General Bushnell has notitied General Grenville M. Dodge, the grand marshal, that he will, if possible, bring with him such a détachment of the O.1io State troop: as will fittingly represent the State. Owners of many vesseis in the merchaut marine have made application for places in the naval parade, and the ships of the Nortk Atlantic squadron, under the com- mand of Admiral Bunce, it is expected, | will be here to take part inthe demonstra- tion. The veteran association of the one hun- | dredth and sixty-fifth volunteers, better known as the Duryea Zouaves, and the | Charles Sumner Pioneer Gorps, an organi- zation of colored men, are among tnose to | ask for places in the parade, an interesting fenture of which_will be the cadet di sion, in which will be a _brigade of Ohi- | nesestudents under command of Thomas | W. Wighton, who will wear bive uniforms and be armed with Springfield ritles. The Hamilton Institute cadets have also asked for a place in line, as have the naval cadets of the poxt of New York, with tifty | officers and men, their umform consisting Other organized bodies that have signified their intention of attend are the Fifth Re, ment of Maryland, which will be accom- panied by the Fifth Veteran Corps, num- bering 130 officers and men, and the Na- tional Lancers, Troop A of Boston, first battalion of cavalry. The bad weather put a check on the work at the tomb yesterday, and the sar- cophagus uas not been set yet. e i STUCK T0 THE CONTKACT. An Amusing Episode of the Fight at Carson City. DENVER, Cor., March 20.—E. Curtis of New Orleans rode into the Union depot last night in the Pullman EI Reyo, en route home from Carson City. He had ridden there in as much stateas if he were the owner of a private car. him was the price of a single round- trip ticket. On his way there the rail- roads tried to biuff him out by asking him | to change to another car that was going in the same geueral direction, but Curus said that he bad been solicited to buy a ticket in a through car und he had con- sented. If the railroads could not get any more passengers from New Orleans i was not his fault, and he would hold them to the strict letter of his contract. At Denver they told him that the wheels were out of order, but Curtis said he was somethineg of a’ judge of wheels himse!f and wanied to have the fact demonstrated. Managers of evary line ordered the car containing the passenger cut out, but when it came 1o doing so they revoked the order. In Nevada Curtis was awakened at mid- night by a rough-looking delegation that came in to have a look at the man who would not be biuffed by a railroad, and his notoriery became burdensome; but he stuck to his car and to-day will go soutn, altter sleepihg in the yards here. Curtis was master of ceremonies at the Olympic when Corbett bested Sullivan. Dt Uktah Murderver Convicted. UKIAH, CAr., March 20.—On the first ballot to-day the jury trying Gregorio Berevara for the killing of rancher Ben- jamin Henderson returned a verdict of iruilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the pumishment at life umprison- ment. Berevara will be sentenced on March 29, intelligent and cold- | NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. T T S T T N RS NEST YT Yowll Throw Half Your Money Away if Yon Buy Clothing Outside “The Hub's” Great Rebuilding Sale. N A HURRICANE OF BARGAINS: CAN BE FOUND IN TR RGA ARk Ak e A T A T R g CE e GREAT EBUILDING MEN'S »BOYS FIN = RELIABLE CLOTHING THE HUB'S given the public. NEVER BEFORE! NEVER AGAIN! SALE! Will such STUPENDOUS VALUES be 15 cases of New Spring Clothing arrived yesterday-—-all of years old, the oaly | Mayor Strong an- | Peckham of the United States | Supreme Court and of the Governors of | All it cost | which has been thrown into our great whirlpool of values and loss. ---===We Must Vacate Our Stores by April 1st---- And there is no time to be lost in counting up losses. THE GOODS MUST NOW GO AT .NEXT TO NOTHING PRIGES! Men’s $12.50 Nobby Cheviot Sack S Child’s2-Piece and Reefer Suits, ages 4 to 14,which wer uits, in Late Sty Child’s 2-Piece Suits, ages 4 to 14, the Very Latest Styles, Suits which sell at $6 and $7, " ~ Boys' $7 3-Piece Long-Pants Suits, ages Men'’s $17.50 and $15 Imported Clay Worsted Suits, Colors Black, Blue e made to sell at$5 and $4, MUST NOW GO AT were made to MUST GO AT 13 to 19, in Fine Diagonal Blue Cheviots, MUST GO AT and Gray, MUST GO AT Men’s $13.50 Single and Double Breasted Sack Suits, in Latest Style Fabrics, MUST NOW GO AT le Patterns and Shapes, 50 MUST GO AT THE GIFT PRICE OF ' $1.35 $2.95 $3.75 $9.50 $7.50 AT ANY PRICE. LOW PRICES WITHOUT QUALITY ARE A SNARE AND DELUSION. liug Only the Best Class of Goods manufactured, and we are now compelled to sacrifice them at Lower Prices than Fakers name in their Brazen Poll-Parrot advertisements the year round, for disease-breeding, prison and Chinese-made trash, which is DEAR ‘fO BUYERS We have always enjoyed the reputation of hand. TR R R Rkt LA A LA AL LA L LA LR LR AR R ALA L AL AN A LR A AL R AL AL AL AL AL AL R R R R AN AL R R KA A AV A AR AN AN AN AUAUATATAVATAVAN A | i | A 200 TO 208 KEARNY STREET, : Store Open Every Evening. 0 MM TS i TN AT T v .fi‘»fi?‘ CORNER F SUTTER. Fixtures for Sale Cheap. | \ A DONNYBROOK CONVENTION. . Louis Democrats Nominate Two City Tickets After Free Fights All Over the Hall. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 20.—Republican and .Democratic city conventions were held to-day. The Republicans nominated Henry Ziegenbein unanimously for Mayor. He s the choice of Chauncey L Filley, the recognized leader of Repub- lican municipal politics, and the re- ma:nder of the ticket is of the same char- acter. When the Democratic Convention as- sembled at Masonic Hall Dr. Frank Lutz, for the Harrison men, and Hon. Sterling Bond, a Merriweather man, ascended the platform, and both called the convention to order. A tumult ensued. The 300 dele- gates were about eyvenly divided, and free fights were indulged in all over the hall. A riot call was sent to rllco headquar- ters and the police tried in vain to quiet the delegates. Assistant , Chiel of Police Keley personally arrested Mr. Bond, but this only increased the furor. - Neither faction gained the ascendency. ‘When Mr. Bond was released on boud he returned to the hall and amid all the din appointed the committees. Agdain he was forced from the platform and then conducted business from the press table. Meantime the Harrison pecple adjourned until 4 7. M. When they left the hall Mr. Merriwesther was nominated, receiving 155 votes, with 72 for Noonan and 7 for Brown. At this juncture the Harrison men re- turned, guarded by 150 policemen. The Merriweather delegates wers unceremoni- ously hustled o, but not’ without stron; resistance. They secured the Druids’ Hal a block away and completed their ticket. The Harrison faction aiso named a full ticket. imilngipurs Ohicago Journalist Found Desad in Bed. SPRINGFIELD, Iy, March 20.—State officials and members of the Legislaturo were shocked this morning to learn that Willism A. Glenn, a Chicago newspaper man of prominence, had been found dead in bed; at his hotel. ' He retired in appa- rent good ‘health last night, and death re- sulted from heart disease. He had been associated with Chicago and St. Louis daily newspapers for years. % it A CAR FALLS I'TO 4 RIVER. One Porson Killed and Ten Injured on the Boltimore and Ohio CUMERLAND, Mp, March 20.—Ten persons were. injured and one killed in a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road near Oakland, Md., this morning. Train 2 from Citeinnati and St. Louis was derailed. Three sleepers, two day coaches and the postal-car left the track.’ One slesper rolled down the embankment and into the river. The balance of the train remained on the bridge or doubtless the casualties would have been much greater. ‘There were thirty-eight persons in the car which rolled into the river,.all of whom escaped with tritling.injuries ex- cept iwo. General J. 8. Fullerton of St. Louis, a Union veteran of Chickamauga fame, was killed. The end of thesleeper in which his section was located was submerged. Fifty workmen searched the river all day, but were unable to find the body. The current is so swiit at the point where the accident occurred that it is believed the corpse has been carried down the stream. A reward for its recovery has been offered by the railroad company. The list of injured is as follows: J. Knight Thomas, Baltimore; J. D, Cupple- heimer, New York; Mrs. Jemima Boston, Davis, Va.; M. D. Phelps, Barre, Vt.; Mrs. M. D. Phelps, Barre, Vt.; R. Teller, Pullman conductor; C. W. Davis, mail clerk; C. L. Martin, Salina, Kan.; Mrs. James Hanlin, Salina, Kan.; J. H. Richards, Fort Scott, Kan. It is thought that none of the injured, with the possible exception of Mrs. Phelps, who was badly cat and bruised and re- ceived internal injuries, are tatally hurt. TSENTS s SO Transoontinentat Passenger Rates. CHICAGO, Irt., March 20.—The Times Heraid this morning publishes the fol- lowing: _Notwithstanding the strong eftorts made by Chairman Caldwell of the Transcontinental Passengor Association’ rates from New Encland peints to Caii® fornia are to be reduced all the way from $2 to $7a ticket. These reductions, how- ever, will affect only second class business. They are allowed in order to meet the recent cut of the Southern Puacitic. The new basis on second class tickets is $67 7o, _——— EXPENSIVE €O MUNICATION, Use of @ Long-Distance Telephone for an Hour Costs $115. CHICAGO, IrL., March 20.—James A. Logan Jr., a son of the general solicitor of the Pennsylvania Ralroad Company, who lives in Philadelphia. is serioasly il with pneumonia at the Jackson House, Ha Istead and ' Jackson stieets. His com- panion, Mr. Jamieson, used the long dis- tance telephone last night for over an hour,consulting with President Thompson of the Philadeiphia company regaraing, it is said, bringing the Logan family here. The telephone fee was $115. Logan and Jamieson are mechanical engineers and bave been at work lLere at Drewery en- gineering. 2, DUUMAAJUOAUAUENMJEATUOTUMLURTOJUATUCTUMLEABUOTUMEATUOTEIUNODAShUOUVJhAUALhhALEIh0Jih bbb uhbJho k0T 4TI AL EEOTT LA BT UATUO RO LT T tbbh bbb andip bbbt bt i | | | !