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Poock, who kept Sheriff Plummer and the detectives, who had gone to Greencastle, Ind., posted as to the result of his investigation regarding the shoes, proved to be the correct one, the one by which the body of the murdered woman was positively identified and by the investigation of which the arrest of the murderers was secured.
"Once or twice." "Ever since January 22?" "I think not." "Have you talked about the murder?" "Yes; at the house. I don't know how the subject was brought up. I was very much interested in the case." "Did you read of the girl probably being from Greencastle?" "Yes."
"He told me that he betrayed her in September." "Did he tell any one else that?" "Yes sir, he did. A young man in Greencastle." "He will substantiate your statement then?" "Yes sir." "Did you receive any letters from Jackson about the condition of Miss Bryan?" "Yes sir." "When?" "About the 10th of January, I think." "What did he say?"
Telegrams of a private nature were sent to points in Indiana and the West. One from Evansville states that Kettner and his second wife left that town for parts unknown about a month before. He was then traced through various cities and towns until on the same day on which the arrest of Jackson and Walling was made. In response to telegrams from Greencastle, Ind., Dr.
"On January 2., at her home while I was at Greencastle spending the holidays." "Were you friends?" "Only friendly." "Does she live at home?" "She does." "What do her parents do?" "Her father is a farmer and keeps a dairy." "What kind of a looking girl is Pearl?" "Rather slender. I am a poor judge of height. She was not as tall as I am almost, though. She was light complexioned."
The Bryan family, taking all the relations into account, is the largest in the state of Indiana, and its standing of the very highest. Pearl the baby of the family, petted and feted, had graduated from the Greencastle High School in 1892, with the highest honors and was the special favorite of her graduating class.
Early's story was that he came to Greencastle Oct. 4., 1895. "Soon after my arrival at Greencastle I made the acquaintance of Will Wood, a student at Depauw University. This acquaintance soon ripened into a friendship which brought us together a great deal and made us confide to each other much more than is ordinary among young men.
He read the affidavit as follows: "Affiant L. J. Crawford says he is still the only attorney herein for defendant, Scott Jackson: that affiant has been ill with la grippe during the last ten days; that for more than a week one of his children has been and still is very ill and under the care of a physician; that, in consequence of his own and his child's sickness, he has been unable to give this case the attention necessary to properly prepare it for trial; that, so far as he has been able, he has constantly and assiduously worked upon the preparation of it; that the commissions to take depositions in Cincinnati, O., Greencastle, Ind., and Brooklyn, N. Y., have not been returned; that the persons named in the former affidavit of affiant as residing in joint places will testify as follows, viz: While in Greencastle that Scott Jackson's general reputation among the neighbors in said town, until charged with the offense mentioned in the indictment, was good; that he resided there for about two years just before or shortly before being so charged; that each and all of said witnesses knew him and his general reputation in said town during said time.
When all the preliminaries had been completed the attorney for the Commonwealth arose and stated to the jury what the prosecution intended to prove. He said: "In the spring of 1895, the accused, Scott Jackson, commenced living in Greencastle, Ind., where also resided the deceased, Pearl Bryan, who was the youngest daughter of one of the oldest and best families in that vicinity.
It will be clearly demonstrated to you, gentlemen of the jury, that while she was in that condition she left Greencastle and came to Cincinnati, so that her people would not be aware of her unfortunate condition. "That, in obedience to a request from Scott Jackson, she came to Cincinnati on Monday, January 28th.
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