Show I MURDERERS OF PEARL BRYAN Both Paid the Death Penalty at Newport Kentucky Yesterday WALLING SEEMED TO HAVE A CHANCE I At the Last Moment However All Hope Fled Double Trap Was Sprung at 1140 and the Bodies Swung in Midair j Twenty Minutes Before the Hor Twent Mutes rible Work of Strangulation Was Completed Jacksons Attempt to Save Walling Both Proven to Be Unmitigated Liars The Story of Their Crime of Feb 1 1896 Newport Ky March 20Scott Jackson Jack-son and Alonzo Walling were hanged today The once promising lives of the young dental students paid the penalty pen-alty today on the gallows for the murder mur-der of the pretty country girl Pearl Bryan of Greencastle Ind The scene was at Fort Thomas and the date Feb 1 1896 The victim was decapitated to prevent identification and the head ha never been located The arrests trials confessions and general progress of the awful sequel of today have been largely of the spectacular order especially the closing clos-ing hours of the tragedy this morning in Newport Ky Nearly all forenoon Wallings fate seeemed swaying in the balance and the 5000 people with a plentiful sprinkling uniformed militia acting ling of richly mita as guards waited with interest at the high tension for the springing of the fatal trap or the announcement of the clemency extended by Governor Bradley Brad-ley Walling went to sleep at 1 oclock this morning and slumbered unbroken until 6 oclock Jackson slept little From that early hour until the final announcement that both must hang at 1130 the prisoners sat at the windows of the jail facing the crowded courthouse court-house yard with every appearance of unconcern On the gallows neither was deserted by the bravado that h i marked their conduct ever since they first posed before the public in the celebrated tragedy At 1140 the double trap was sprung and they swung in midair 20 minute before the horrible work of strangulation strangula-tion was completed The time originally set was 7 oclock but almost as the start was made for the gallows Jackson made another confession in which he said Walling was not guilty of wilful murder Again the governor was appealed to at Frankfort by wire Jackson himself telegraphing Walling is not guilty of this crime but I am Finally Governor Bradley after patient pa-tient investigation of Jacksons tardy attempt to save his comrade including a long distance telephone consultation with Judge Helm the trial judgeand the attorneys in the case sealed the doom of both by declaring against further delay Jackson is said to have left still another written confession to be published or not as his friends may see fit The one of Thursday diabolically trying to shift a part of the crime on an innocent man both Jackson and Walling acknowledged this morning to be a fake As there was objection to the receiving re-ceiving of the body of Jackson for burial in the Greencastle cemetery it was shipped this evening over the Big Four to his former home in Maine Wallings body was taken to Hamilton 0 by his family for burial |