1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly 3 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Frye and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. So this episode is 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: the last of our Halloween group this year. It's not 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: so much a fun Halloween romp as it is a 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: horror story. Yeah. I mean, it's not a horror story 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: in the fun Exorcist style. It's a horror story in 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: the real humans or monster sometimes style. It's very violent 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 1: and scary, and it's a story that I have been 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: thinking about for the show literally for years, I would 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: say the last three years at least. I've had this 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: on my list and then backed off of it and 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: been like, I don't know I want to talk about 14 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: this one yet because it's upsetting. The material is very dark, 15 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: and it's upsetting not only because it involves a murder. 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: It'll also involves people speaking and behaving in a very 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: cavalier manner about that murder. It also involves the fate 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: of a young woman and the aftermath of what happens. 19 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: There is also a pregnancy involved in this murder. So 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: if you are very sensitive, or if you typically listen 21 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: with younger history buffs. This is when I highly recommend 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: pre screening first. I mean, we're not going to linger 23 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: on any of the particularly gory elements, but just its 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: bare facts are pretty troubling. Maybe for the little ones, 25 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: go go dig up the old episode about Halloween candy. Yeah, 26 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: that'd be perfect. We all love a little Halloween candy. Yeah, 27 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: this is not the one, but it's one that, like 28 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: I said, I have been backing off of it for years, 29 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: but it keeps staying at top of mind, and it's 30 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: for reasons. We'll talk about it at the very end. 31 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: I just think it's a story worth telling, and I 32 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: have some other thoughts on why. I kind of enjoy 33 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: examining stories like this. Not trying to sound like a ghoul, 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: but I have a reason. We'll talk about it on Friday, okay, 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: But for now, we're going to tell you a very 36 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: troubling story. On February first, eighteen ninety six and Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 37 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: a young farm hand named James Hewling was walking along 38 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: the fence line of the orchards of James Locke's farm, 39 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: and he made a horrifying discovery. It was a body 40 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: of what appeared to be a young woman wearing a 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: light blue and white dress, and she had been decapitated. 42 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: Hewling ran to Locke's house for help, and James Locke, 43 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: his son, Wilbert Locke, in one of their hired hands 44 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: named Mike Noonan all came from the house and they 45 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: went out to the body with him. James Lock then 46 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: went to Fort Thomas and alerted both the police and 47 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: the commander of the fort. Soon police soldier from the fort, 48 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: as well as members of the general public were also 49 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: on the scene of this grisly discovery. In addition to 50 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: that blue and white dress, the woman had been wearing 51 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: tan gloves, black shoes which will become important, black and 52 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: blue stockings, a blue underskirt and a union suit. Her corset, 53 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: which appeared to have been torn off and had bloody 54 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: handprints on it, and a piece of her dress were 55 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: also found nearby. There was also half of a man's 56 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: torn shirt sleeve at the scene. Blood was pooled at 57 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: the neck, but it was also found all around the 58 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: surrounding area. It appeared that the woman had been killed 59 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: mere hours before the discovery. Some estimates put it in 60 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: five to seven, but that was just the initial guests. 61 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: The body was on a slope, the feet were higher 62 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: up the slope than the torso the dress was open 63 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: above the waist, and footprints suggested that a woman had 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: been walking alongside of a man, but at some point 65 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: had broken into a run by herself until that man 66 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: had caught up. It was believed that she had physically 67 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: struggled against him as he subdued her, and then it 68 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: seemed like her throat had likely been cut. She had 69 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: several knife marks on one hand, suggesting she had tried 70 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: to block the knife, so the assumption was that her 71 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: head had been severed from her body after the murder 72 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: to try to hide this woman's identity, And while the 73 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: body had not been touched by anyone before investigators arrived, 74 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: as word of the murder spread and crowds came, almost 75 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: all of the evidence that would have been found in 76 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: the area immediately surrounding the body was trampled. Additionally, people 77 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: took all kinds of souvenirs from the scene, specifically looking 78 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: for things like leaves that had blood on them or 79 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: stray hairs from the victim, even branches from the bushes, 80 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: which would have potentially offered evidence of how the murder 81 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: had played out were snapped off by people who wanted 82 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: to take them home. It rained the afternoon of the discovery, 83 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: and one report even stated that people gathered buckets of 84 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: bloody mud as keepsakes once the victim's body had been removed. 85 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: There were also people who went to the undertaker's office 86 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: where it had been brought to try to see it. 87 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: Some of these are people who had friends or family 88 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: who had gone missing. They were hoping to see if 89 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: this deceased woman was their missing person, but a lot 90 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: of people just wanted to see the body at once. 91 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: Theories started to circulate about who this woman might have 92 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: been and what could have led to her horrific killing. 93 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: A popular theory that emerged right out of the gate 94 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: was that she may have been a sex worker who 95 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: had been involved with a soldier from the fort, and 96 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: this actually led to the fort's commander, Colonel Cochrane, to 97 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: quickly launch his own investigation within the troops because he 98 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: didn't want any kind of rumor like that circulating about 99 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: the men under his command. And this invests pretty quickly 100 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: shut those rumors down because Cochrane was rapid, but he 101 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: was thorough. He had accounted for all of the troops 102 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: whereabouts on the night of the murder in pretty short order. 103 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: The head was not found. A nearby reservoir was drained 104 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: in the hopes that it might be there, but it 105 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: was not, and as police went through lists of missing women, 106 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: they found over and over that they were not a 107 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: match for their victim. There were several incorrect claims about 108 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: who this was before the victim's true name was known. 109 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: One was the claim that the body was that of 110 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,799 Speaker 1: Ella Markland. That claim was made by Ella Markland's mother 111 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: after she'd been allowed to examine the body herself, and 112 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: she was one hundred percent convinced that it was Ella. 113 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: The mother, who's identified in accounts only as missus Hart, 114 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: explained to police the specific characteristics of the body that 115 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: matched Ella's. She said she hadn't seen her daughter since 116 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,040 Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, but this turned out to be a 117 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: case of a family with poor communication. Ella Markland was 118 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: really alive. She was working as a maid in a 119 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: house in Cincinnati. Another claim was that the murder victim 120 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: was Francisca Engelhart. She had recently married a man named 121 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: doctor Kentner in Cincinnati after the two had become pen 122 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: pals and Kentner had moved from South Dakota to be 123 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: with her. Francisca had vanished and so had Kentner. But 124 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: it turned out that that's because Kentner's other wife had 125 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: traveled to Cincinnati and discovered her husband's bigamy, and then 126 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: Ketner and his new wife had abruptly left for Kentucky. 127 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: But it took a while to untangle that whole story, 128 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: and there was a period of time where police were 129 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: operating on the idea that this body was Englehart, and 130 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: it was during that line of investigation that the initial 131 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: post martem was performed on the body, and this revealed 132 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: some troubling pieces of information. This woman was estimated to 133 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: be about twenty years old. They didn't think she had 134 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: been sexual assaulted, but she had been four to five 135 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,119 Speaker 1: months pregnant when the murder was committed. A second post 136 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: mortem determined that she had not been decapitated after death 137 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: as had been thought. She had been decapitated while still alive. 138 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: But once the Englehart story was unraveled and that identification 139 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: was deemed invalid, investigators were once again at a loss 140 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: for who this person was. So all of that post 141 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: mortem information was attached to an unknown victim. The case 142 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: was finally cracked thanks in large part to a shoe 143 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: store owner. Louis Puk owned a shoe store in Newport, Kentucky, 144 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: and he was friends with James Locke's nephew. Locke, you 145 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: will recall, owned the orchard where the body was found, 146 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: and through that nephew, Poock heard about the discovery of 147 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: the body and the lack of evidence. Pook's shoe store 148 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: was close to the mortuary that the police had taken 149 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: the body to, so he, being curious, like many people, 150 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: locked up his store and strolled down there, And because 151 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: he was very well known in town and very respected, 152 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: police allowed him in to see the body. But even 153 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: though he was as fascinated by this crime as a 154 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: lot of other people, what really caught his eye was 155 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: the victim's shoes. Her shoes were the one article of 156 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: clothing that were of high quality, and they were uniquely small. 157 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: They were a size three, and Puck, being in the 158 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: shoe business, was curious. He looked at the manufacturer's code 159 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: on the shoes, which was twenty two eleven sixty two 160 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,839 Speaker 1: four fifty eight. To most people, those numbers did not 161 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: mean anything, but Puck understood them immediately. The twenty two 162 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: referred to the size eleven was the number of the 163 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: last that was used to form the shoe, and then 164 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: the longer number, sixty two four fifty eight was a 165 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: factory stock number. So suddenly there was a lot more 166 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: to tail about these shoes, and Puke followed up on 167 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: that himself. He was able to trace the shoes to 168 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: a Greencastle, Indiana shoe store, so when detectives went there, 169 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: it was short work to learn that they had been 170 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: sold there in the Lewis and Hayes shoe store. But 171 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: though there was information on who had bought most of 172 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: that lot of shoes, two were sold without any customer information, 173 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: and one of those two pairs of shoes was the 174 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: one that was worn by the murdered woman. Incidentally, we 175 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: don't bring it up later, but her name was in 176 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: their register of purchase as buying a size three pair 177 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: of shoes, but they hadn't attached it to the make 178 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: of the shoes, so there was a little bit of 179 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: data mismatch going on there. And simultaneously, as this shoe 180 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: investigation was going on, the description of the woman's body 181 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: and clothing had already been printed in papers all over 182 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: the country, and then a woman named Susan Bryan, who 183 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: was married to Alexander Bryan and who lived in Greencastle, 184 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: started to think about the similarities in those descriptions to 185 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: her daughter Pearl. Pearl was at that time visiting friends 186 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, at least that is what she had told 187 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: her family. Pearl's brother Fred telegraphed her friends in Indianapolis 188 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: just to make sure she was okay, and they responded 189 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: that she was not visiting them. This news was seen 190 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: first by Western Union manager aw Early, who knew the 191 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: second he saw it that the message conveyed even more 192 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: than the identity of the deceased. Because of his own 193 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: social connections to Pearl's circle, he knew who Pearl's likely 194 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: killer or killers were. Coming up. We'll talk about who 195 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: Pearl Brian was, but first we'll take a quick sponsor break. 196 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: Pearl Brian was the twelfth and youngest child of farmer 197 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: Alexander S. Bryan and his wife Susan, who, as we said, 198 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: lived in Greencastle, Indiana. At least seven of those children 199 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: lived to adulthood, but specifics beyond that are a little 200 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: bit unclear, and part of that is due to the 201 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: Brian family being one of the largest in the area, 202 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: with many many people having that name. Pearl's father, Alexander, 203 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: was successful, and Pearl is often described as the family's favorite. 204 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: In addition to being the youngest, Pearl is described as 205 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: a young woman who everybody tended to adore. She was smart, 206 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: she graduated from high school with honors in eighteen ninety two, 207 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: and by all accounts, she was very beautiful. After she 208 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: finished school, Pearl had started teaching Sunday School in Greencastle, 209 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: and she's described as having an endless list of admirers, 210 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: but also as a young woman who wasn't especially interested 211 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: in romances with any of them. She wasn't easily impressed, 212 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: and most of the young men who expressed their interest 213 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: in her found themselves her friends, but nothing more. It's 214 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: worth noting, of course, that these descriptions of her are 215 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: from accounts that happened after her death, so the odds 216 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: of it anybody's saying anything really negative about her were 217 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: a little lower than they might have been. Otherwise she 218 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: may have been as beloved and virtuous as everyone said, 219 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: like the Bell of Putnam County, as she was called 220 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: in one rite up, but we don't really have a 221 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: way to verify that information, Like, we don't really know 222 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: how much of this is the eulogizing of a person 223 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: after they had died, Yeah, and how much is really 224 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: what people remember. In eighteen ninety five, so around the 225 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: time she was twenty one, Pearl met a young man 226 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: named Scott Jackson. Jackson had recently moved to Greencastle from 227 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: New Jersey with his mother. He had a sister that 228 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: was already living in the area, and in Greencastle, Jackson 229 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: became good friends with one of Pearl's close friends, a 230 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: young man and her second cousin named Will Wood. Scott 231 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: also enrolled in dental college in Indianapolis, and Will would 232 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: often visit him in the city, and the two were 233 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: known to carouse there and then in the spring of 234 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: eighteen nine, twenty five, Will brought Scott to the Brian 235 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: home to introduce him, and Pearl is said to have 236 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: instantly fallen for Jackson. Will later said of the two 237 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: of them, quote, Pearl was stuck on Jackson from the 238 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: first time they met. Jackson would come and get my 239 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: horse and buggy and drive over to Pearl's house. When 240 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: they would often go driving together, Pearl was pretty and ambitious, 241 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: but I never thought she would do wrong. Now I 242 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: can see she was perfectly infatuated with Jackson from the start, 243 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: so much that I am firmly convinced she was completely 244 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: in his power and he took advantage of his influence 245 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: over her. So going back to the telegraph manager aw 246 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: Early that we mentioned before the break, Early was friends 247 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: with Will Wood, and through Will he had learned that 248 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: Scott Jackson and Pearl Brian were having a sexual romantic relationship. 249 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: But though he was friends with Wood, Early told the 250 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: police everything he knew about Wood and Jackson and their 251 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: connection to Pearl, and specifically that he had seen a 252 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: letter that Jackson wrote to Wood about the fact that 253 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: Pearl was going to be a mother, and that the 254 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: two men had corresponded about ways the pregnancy might be terminated. 255 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: Allegedly some of those had been tried. There's some talk 256 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: of medicines being ordered and would giving them to Pearl, 257 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: but none of them worked. The next thing discussed in 258 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: the letters was an abortion, and that Pearl was going 259 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: to tell her family she was visiting friends in Indianapolis, 260 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: while in reality she would go to Cincinnati for that procedure. 261 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: With this information, the Greencastle police went to the Brian 262 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: home with additional information and clothing samples to confirm that 263 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: this dead woman was indeed Pearl. Then they sent word 264 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: to Cincinnati police, leading to the arrest of three men, 265 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: Scott Jackson, Alonzo Walling, who will talk about in a bit, 266 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: and William Wood. During early questioning, Jackson said that he 267 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: had last seen Pearl during the holidays, maybe January second, 268 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: and that he and Pearl were quote only friendly. There 269 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: was also the matter of a valise that Jackson had 270 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: left in a saloon and then was alleged to have 271 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: switched out for another, and how that valise was missing. 272 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: Jackson said that he had loaned this suitcase to somebody 273 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: and that it had not been returned. Jackson was strip 274 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: searched and there were two significant scratches on one of 275 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: his arms, as well as some blood spatters on a sleeve. 276 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: To explain, he told police quote, I was bothered by 277 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: bugs the other night, and I scratched myself. He also 278 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: said that he would like to be guarded while in 279 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: the jail, and at one point asked, quote, hasn't Walling 280 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: been arrested yet? At that point they had not considered 281 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: Walling a suspect, but that resulted in Walling's arrest. While 282 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: in custody, Jackson was examined by Sergeant Kiffmeyer from the 283 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Police Force. Kiffmeyer used a system of measurements known 284 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: as the Bertial system to assess Jackson's physicality. So this 285 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: system was kind of a precursor to fingerprinting and mugshots, 286 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: and that it created a database based on data collected 287 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 1: from an individual of criminal identities. This was like specific 288 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: measurements of parts of their body and that sort of 289 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: made a profile of their physicality. But kiff Meyer seems 290 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: to have applied this same kind of system to the 291 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: kind of analysis that we would more associate with phrenology. 292 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: So instead of just measurements built up to identify a person, 293 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: it was more like this person's head as a murderer's head. 294 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: And today phrenology is recognized as not being a real science. 295 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: At the same time, kiff Meyer's assessment of this suspect 296 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: was really damning. At the time, he said of Scott 297 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: Jackson quote, every man's head tells its own story. Jackson 298 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: is another H. H. Holmes. Jackson has the cunning to 299 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: plot and plan and to conceal. Jackson is a mind 300 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,239 Speaker 1: far beyond the ordinary. He has a head such as 301 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: Napoleon would have. Jackson knew fully and realized what lay 302 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: before him in the murder of Pearl Brian. Jackson is 303 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: absolutely incapable of any expression of remorse. The only appeal 304 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 1: that can be made to Jackson is through his fear 305 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: of punishment. Jackson's skull is abnormal and unusually long in 306 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: proportion to its breadth. It is abnormally developed on the 307 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: right side in front and on the left side in 308 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: the rear of the head. Jackson is a natural monster 309 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: or monstrosity, whichever you will look at. His portrait is 310 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: that the face of a criminal. Jackson has other peculiarities. 311 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,959 Speaker 1: His fingers are disproportionately long to his height. Jackson has 312 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: all the characteristics of a criminal by nature. So if 313 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: you have long fingers, hide them from the Kiff Meyers 314 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: of the world. Yeah, I'll also note the guy that 315 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: developed this system of measurements. We're gonna do an episode 316 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: on him. We are, yes, Okay, He's come up in 317 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: a past episode, although we did not name him specifically, Right, 318 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: should we tell listeners what that was he was the 319 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: person that did the handwriting analysis in the Dreyfus affair, Yes, 320 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: which will come up yeah in a very soon episode. 321 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: All Right, Knowing the horrific outcome of their relationship between 322 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: Scott Jackson and Pearl, it's easy to envision him as 323 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: like a mustache twirling villain, particularly after you hear this 324 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: description from this police analysis. And while he was undoubtedly 325 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 1: evil and apparently lacking in a conscience, his potential for 326 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: violence was not at all apparent to anyone close to 327 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: him or Pearl. Her parents are said to have really, 328 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: really loved him, and surely they and others thought that 329 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: the two might make a future together. There are a 330 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: lot of writings about how they were totally fine with 331 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: the two of them sitting in the parlor alone together 332 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: because they knew nothing would happen. But it's also likely 333 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: that because Pearl had not been involved with anyone else 334 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: romantically up to that point, she was easily manipulated by Jackson, 335 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: who seemed much more worldly than her. By all accounts, 336 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: Scott Jackson was charming, and he seemed to be a 337 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: fine and upstanding young man to everybody in Indiana. But 338 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 1: it turned out he had been in serious legal trouble 339 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: before he met Pearl Bryan. He'd concealed his past when 340 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: moving from New Jersey to Indiana. When he arrived in 341 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: Greencastle with his mother, it was after he had been 342 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: involved in an embezzlement scandal as an employee of the 343 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His job there had included opening and 344 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: routing mail, and it turned out that he, along with 345 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: a partner named Alexander Letz, had been keeping checks that 346 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: came into the railroad and cashing them for themselves. By 347 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: the time this racket was discovered, they were estimated to 348 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: have stolen thirty two thousand dollars. They used the money 349 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: to live a life of dreams, thinking, betting on races 350 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: and sport, and generally just partying. When the railroad discovered 351 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: this missing money, it was apparently pretty obvious that Scott 352 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: Jackson was guilty. He cut a deal to turn state's 353 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: evidence and testified against his partner in the scheme, Alexander 354 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: lets Once the trial was over, Let's was in state 355 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: prison and Jackson was on his way out of Jersey City. 356 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: And now we get to Alonzo Walling. Alonzo was from 357 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 1: Mount Carmel, Indiana to the east of Indianapolis. He had 358 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: worked in a glass factory as a child, and when 359 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: that factory had closed, his mother arranged for him to 360 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 1: attend Indianapolis Dental College. It's there where he met Scott Jackson. 361 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 1: You're wondering why he was working in a glass factory 362 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: as a kid, is because his father died when he 363 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: was very very young and the family needed the income. 364 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: So Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling also roomed together in 365 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: Cincinnati later on, and Alonzo was aware not only of 366 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: Scott Jackson's relationship with Pearl, but also so that he 367 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: had gotten her pregnant and that he intended to kill her. 368 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: And Walling confessed to all of this when he was 369 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: brought in by police. In a statement to police, Walling 370 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: said that on Christmas Day of eighteen ninety five, so 371 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: a little more than a month before the murder quote, 372 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: Jackson took me into a corner of the room and 373 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: told me that he and Billy Wood had gotten Pearlbrian 374 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: into trouble and that he must get rid of her. 375 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: He suggested two ways in which it might be done. 376 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: One of the plans he suggested was to take her 377 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: to a room and kill her there and leave her. 378 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: Then he spoke up quickly and said, no, I have 379 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: a sudden thought, as something often tells me when I 380 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: am on the wrong idea, it would not do to 381 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: leave her there, so I will instead cut her to 382 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: pieces and drop the pieces in different vaults around town. 383 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: Walling was also examined by kiff Meyer, and kiff Meyern 384 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: analyzed his head measurements too. Of the second suspect, the 385 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 1: sergeant stated quote, Walling's head is that of a I'm 386 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: in place criminal. He's just the opposite of Scott Jackson. 387 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: At the same time, Walling is utterly void of any 388 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: ability or cunning to plot and plan and to conceal. 389 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: Jackson knew fully and realized what lay before him in 390 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: the murder of Pearl Brian. Walling had not realized the 391 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: enormity of the crime and is supremely indifferent to the 392 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: consequences and to the crime committed. No appeal, not even 393 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: the fear of punishment, will have any impression on Walling. 394 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: We kind of said this earlier, but I'm just going 395 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: to say, you can't know these things for measuring a 396 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: person's skull. No, are you sure Tracy, can we measure 397 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: our skulls and find out that I'm a monster? I 398 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: hope not. Probably. I don't need a skull measurement to 399 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: tell me that. Uh. Walling also said that Jackson asked 400 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: medical students about fast acting poisons, and that he told 401 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: Waling he had a combination of arsenic and cocaine in 402 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: a syringe which he intended to use to kill Pearl. 403 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: Walling also said to police, quote, I don't think it 404 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: killed her at once, and that she tried to fight 405 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: him off when he went to cut off her head. 406 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: Walling also mentioned that valise we brought up earlier, and 407 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: the particularly unsettling detail that quote, I think it was 408 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: after midnight. He came in with the valise and I 409 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: saw him open it and say you are a butte 410 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 1: you are? He thought I was asleep. He told authorities 411 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: that he thought that Jackson had buried the head, but 412 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: Jackson told his own version of the story and that 413 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: placed the blame on Wood and Walling. He said it 414 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 1: was Wood and not himself, who had gotten Pearl pregnant, 415 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: and that woold masterminded the murder. Jackson told police quote 416 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: Wood wrote to me telling me of the trouble and 417 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: asking me to assist him out of it. I showed 418 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: the letter to Walling and he volunteered to undertake the job. 419 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: It was then planned to bring the girl here. She 420 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: arrived on Tuesday of last week, and what I saw 421 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: and know of her after her arrival here I have told. 422 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 1: And of course William Wood told yet another version of 423 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: the story. Under questioning, He indicated that both Jackson and 424 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: Pearl had confided in him about their sexual relationship and 425 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: about the pregnancy. He confirmed that an abortion had been discussed, 426 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: and that he had been the one to tell Pearl 427 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: about that plan, and that a friend of Wallings was 428 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: to perform the procedure. It was later determined by police 429 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: at Walling was the one who intended to perform it. 430 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: Wood also said that he had intended to accompany Pearl 431 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: to that appointment, but that his father had requested him 432 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: at home that day. Wood was, according to accounts of 433 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: the day, registered by police, but not detained at that time. 434 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 1: He was eventually indicted with a betting an abortion, but 435 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: not murder, and then he kind of vanishes from the 436 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: historical record. The missing valise was brought to the police 437 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: by a saloon keeper named John Coogle, and that valize 438 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: was used in the questioning of Jackson. Jackson said it 439 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: had been filled with miss Brian's things that those were 440 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: now in the river. He also said that it and 441 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 1: another smaller valise that had been found sitting in a 442 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: barber shop that both Jackson and Walling often went to, 443 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: were both Pearls. The proprietor of a pub frequented by 444 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: Walling and Jackson was also questioned, as was a black 445 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: employee of the pub named Alan Johnson. This sounds like 446 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 1: a strange scenario where the suspects were also present during 447 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: these witness interviews. Obviously, police work has changed a lot 448 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: since eighteen ninety six. Both men stated that Jackson, Walling, 449 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: and Pearl Brian had been in the saloon and that 450 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: Jackson had ordered a whiskey for himself and a sasprilla 451 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: for Pearl, and that they left in a carriage together 452 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: around seven pm. They also said Jackson was back the 453 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: next night by himself, in an odd mood and complaining 454 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: of a headache, with a valise. Yeah, there's the whole 455 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: secondary part of this, for that Selen may or may 456 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: not have also been a brothel, and that Alan Johnson 457 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: had also implicated another man as having been the carriage driver, 458 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: which turned out to not be true. It gets very complicated. 459 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: This is one of those stories where I'm trying to 460 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: pare down an awful lot of information for clarity. So 461 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: if you go looking and you're like, why didn't that 462 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: get mentioned, That's why. There was also a letter that 463 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: was intercepted within the postal service. This had been written 464 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 1: by Scott Jackson to Will Wood. It had actually been 465 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: written the day he was arrested, several hours prior to 466 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: being taken in. In this letter used a code that 467 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: the men had worked up, referring to Pearl as a 468 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: man named Bert. Jackson explained this code to police, and 469 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: this letter instructed will to write to the Brian family 470 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: as though the letter is from Pearl and say that 471 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: she has found work in Chicago or somewhere else and 472 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: will write more later. The letter has instructions to burn 473 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: it after it's been read, and concludes with quote stick 474 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 1: by your old chum, Bill, and I will help you 475 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: in the same way. Sometimes. There is also a PostScript 476 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: that reads quote be careful what you write to me. 477 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: When questioned about this letter, Jackson very casually confessed to 478 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: writing it, but then he said that Walling had made 479 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: him write it, and Walling, of course denied that. Basically, 480 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: both Jackson and Walling told the story repeatedly and with 481 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: ever changing details between the two of them, They gave 482 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: several different locations for the missing head, none of which 483 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: proved out when investigated. They both continued to blame the 484 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: other and will Wood for Pearl's murder. The papers ran 485 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: new confession after new confession as each man added to 486 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: the story. At one point, Walling had stated quote. For 487 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: several days before the murder, Jackson would sit about our 488 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: room and read a medical dictionary to try and learn 489 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: all about the effect of poisons. He finally selected cocaine 490 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: as the most suitable for his purpose. At last, you 491 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: to four grains of cocaine and put in sixteen drops 492 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,239 Speaker 1: of water. He told me that he was going to 493 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: give the cocaine solution to Pearl and make her drink it, 494 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: and that it would kill the vocal powers. She would 495 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: be unable to scream or talk, and then he was 496 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: going to cut her head off. Jackson admitted to purchasing cocaine, 497 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: but said that he gave it to walling. Even when 498 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: put in a room with the corpse of Pearl Brian, 499 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: both men continued this just really bickery rhetoric, that the 500 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: other one was lying. But as the two men had 501 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: tried to lay blame on one another, they had both 502 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: implicated themselves so deeply in the murder that to most 503 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: people the fine points of who did what hardly mattered. 504 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: Articles ran in paper under headlines like both are guilty 505 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: from early on in the reporting of all their various statements. Yeah, 506 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: it kind of becomes like a matter of degrees of like, well, 507 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: I bought the cocaine and took her in the carriage, 508 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: but I didn't actually kill her, and the other guy 509 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: did and he said the exact opposite. It was clear 510 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: they were both involved. Nobody was really all that concerned 511 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: about like who did exactly what part of it. Coming up, 512 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: we are going to talk about the legal proceedings that 513 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: were held regarding the murder, but before we do, we 514 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: will take a break and hear from stuff you missed 515 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: in history classes, sponsors. So all of the things that 516 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: we have talked about up to this point happened in 517 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: the course of less than a week. Pearl had been 518 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: found on February first. Jackson had been arrested on February fifth, 519 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: and Walling had been taken into custody in the very 520 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: early hours of February sixth. Then there was this moment 521 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: of a very strange confession, not from any of them, 522 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: but from a woman named May Hollingsworth, and that happened 523 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: shortly after both men had been arrested. Initially, Hollingsworth made 524 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: a statement to police that she had met Pearl at 525 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: Union Station by chance, and that she had procured drugs 526 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: for Miss Brian, presumably to end the pregnancy, and then 527 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: promised to meet her again two days later, but May 528 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: said she stood Pearl up for that second meeting. The 529 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: next day, Hollingsworth said she had performed an operation presumably 530 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: an abortion on Pearl Brian on January thirty. First. She 531 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: said this operation had gone wrong and that Pearl had 532 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: died as a consequence, and that the body had been dumped. 533 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: After that, she claimed to have a letter that was 534 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: written by Scott Jackson explaining that Pearl had died in 535 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: his room and that a black man had cut off 536 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: her head to try to help hide her identity. Police 537 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that Hollingsworth was probably addicted to 538 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: opium and was an acquaintance of Jackson and Wallingen, that 539 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: what was going on here was she was trying to 540 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: save them whatever was happening. Her confession was thrown out. 541 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: The Indianapolis Journal article relaying this story says glibly quote anyway, 542 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: Miss Hollingsworth is a study. When the coroner's inquest was 543 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: held on February eleventh, the facts of the case were 544 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: laid out based on what had been confirmed through investigation. 545 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: The most damning for Jackson and walling was that while 546 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 1: they had been seen getting into a cab outside Wallingford's 547 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: saloon on the night of January thirty first, no one 548 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: could account for their whereabouts from seven pm that night 549 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: until the next morning. The coroner's jury announced their conclusions, 550 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: which were that the body was Pearl Brian, that she 551 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: had been given cocaine quote for reasons unknown, that she 552 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: had been decapitated while alive, and that she was last 553 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: seen with Jackson and walling The next step in the 554 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: justice system was the convening of the Grand jury of 555 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: Campbell County, Kentucky, and this quickly resulted in an indictment 556 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: against both of the suspects. At this point, both men 557 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: were being held in Cincinnati, Ohio, so there was a 558 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: little bit of legal lag as the paperwork was done 559 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: to get them transferred to Kentucky. The defendant's council wanted 560 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: them to stay in Ohio because they felt they would 561 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: be lynched in Kentucky before the trial could even take place. 562 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: The governor of Kentucky at the time, William O'Connell Bradley, 563 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: assigned the entire state militia to the Campbell County Sheriff, 564 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: Julius Plumber to try to keep the prisoners safe. The 565 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: defense council continued to find reasons to delay this transfer, 566 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: but finally, on March seventeenth, the two men were moved. 567 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: A crowd witnessed them departing Cincinnati, and another crowd witnessed 568 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: them arriving in Newport, Kentucky. Yeah there, Throughout all of this, 569 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: the police departments involved were constantly just glutted with people 570 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: who wanted to witness some of this. Jackson and Walling 571 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: were arraigned on Monday, March twenty third. Both men pled 572 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: not guilty four days after the arragnmant Pearl Brian was 573 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: at last laid to rest almost two months after her death. 574 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 1: Pearl's parents wanted to wait even longer. They were adamant 575 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: that she should not be buried without her head, but 576 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: Pearl's siblings begged their parents to just let her body 577 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: be interred until they finally acquiesced. The day of the 578 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: burial at Greencastle's Forest Hill Cemetery, a huge crowd gathered 579 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: to see Pearl interred, as requested by her parents, at 580 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: the highest point in the cemetery. Scott Jackson's trial was 581 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 1: set to start on April seventh, and wallings would start 582 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,959 Speaker 1: as soon as Jackson's was concluded. Although hundreds of onlookers 583 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: had attended the arraignment, there had been a decision to 584 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: limit who could watch the trial, so the crowd inside 585 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 1: the courtroom was small. Even so, Jackson was kicked by 586 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: a woman who was seated in the courtroom as he 587 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: walked by. In the court of public opinion, he was guilty, 588 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: but the trial didn't start that day though Jackson's a turn. L. J. 589 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 1: Crawford had been given two weeks from the arraignment to 590 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,720 Speaker 1: prepare for the case. He was insistent that he needed 591 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: more time. He wanted a month. He got two more weeks. 592 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 1: One of the concerns was the testimony of William Wood, 593 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,359 Speaker 1: which Crawford said he had not had time to prepare for, 594 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: and that he had witnesses he could call that would 595 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 1: indicate that Wood was not trustworthy. He just needed more 596 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 1: time to arrange for that. Finally, on April twenty second, 597 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: the Jackson trial began. During the trial, the prosecution made 598 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: the case that Scott had charmed Pearl into a relationship 599 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: that resulted in pregnancy, that he had arranged for her 600 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: to travel to Cincinnati, that he was seen with her 601 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: in the two days leading up to her death, that 602 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: he had been in possession of pearl satchel after her death, 603 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 1: and that he had been seen showing off a dissecting 604 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,439 Speaker 1: knife in the weeks leading up to the murder. One 605 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: surprising witness was included. That was George H. Jackson. He 606 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: was a black Surrey driver who said he had been 607 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,960 Speaker 1: hired by Alonzo Walling the night of the murder to 608 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,879 Speaker 1: take the trio of Walling, Jackson, and Brian from Cincinnati 609 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: to Kentucky. He had approached police after the coroner's inquest 610 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,360 Speaker 1: with this information, but newspaper coverage at the time indicated 611 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: that his story had been deemed untrustworthy. According to George 612 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,840 Speaker 1: Jackson quote, he heard a noise that sounded like a 613 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: woman suffering, and they moved around and shook the carriage, 614 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,720 Speaker 1: and they broke a glass. And then I was scared, 615 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: and I put my left hand out and my right 616 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: hand on the lantern, and it kind of bent down, 617 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: and I started to jump off, and I said, there 618 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,360 Speaker 1: is something wrong in the back part of that carriage, 619 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,920 Speaker 1: and I don't care anything about this job. And I 620 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: went to hand the lines to him. And when I 621 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,760 Speaker 1: went to look at him, I was looking at a gun. 622 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: He said, if you don't drive this horse, I will 623 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: blow you to hell. Of course I understood and began 624 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: to drive the horse. George said that after he saw 625 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: the two men disembark with a woman in between them, 626 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 1: he fled the scene in a panic, although he had 627 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: been instructed to wait on the road and listened for 628 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: them to whistle for a pickup when they were ready. Yeah, 629 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: that person he's referring to when he said he tried 630 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: to hand the reins to him was Alonzo Walling, who 631 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: had sat up on the seat with him to direct 632 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,359 Speaker 1: him where to go. So it seemed surprising to me that, 633 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: after his testimony had initially been talked about in the 634 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 1: papers as though it was worthless, he was kind of 635 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,400 Speaker 1: an important witness in the actual trial. The rest of 636 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: the trial relayed the various accounts given by people connected 637 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: to Jackson, including Wood and the investigators who had questioned 638 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: both men. We've gone over a lot of those details already, 639 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: and on May fourteenth, Scott Jackson was found guilty of 640 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: murder in the first degree. Walling's trial took place the 641 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 1: following month. It included a lot of the same information, 642 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 1: and on June eighteenth, he too was found guilty of 643 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 1: murder in the first degree. Both men were sentenced to death. 644 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were hanged on March twenty second, 645 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,240 Speaker 1: eighteen ninety seven. Even up to the last minute, Scott 646 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: Jackson was changing his story. He briefly claimed before heading 647 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: to the gallows that Walling was innocent. He said this 648 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: with so much conviction that the governor was contacted. The 649 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,239 Speaker 1: governor indicated that if Jackson stated on the gallows that 650 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,239 Speaker 1: Walling was innocent, that the execution of Jackson could continue, 651 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,879 Speaker 1: but that Walling's would be stayed, but after counting down 652 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,920 Speaker 1: the clock, Jackson said he could not say that Walling 653 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 1: was innocent, No, and they were both hanged. One of 654 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: the things that's jarring about this entire case, if you 655 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 1: start looking at it, is the way that Pearl is 656 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,319 Speaker 1: kind of sidelined in almost all of the writing about 657 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: it from the time. Whether that's due to the unsavory 658 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: idea that a woman that everyone perceived as innocent had 659 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: become pregnant, or because the gruesome nature of her death 660 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,640 Speaker 1: was just too much to handle. People talked a lot 661 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 1: about the logistics of the murder and the suspects, while 662 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: not really talking about Pearl Brian much at all. The 663 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,080 Speaker 1: odd nature of Pearl's death and the trial was summed 664 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 1: up in the opening of a Chicago Chronicle multi page 665 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,920 Speaker 1: analysis of the story that appeared on May tenth, eighteen 666 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 1: ninety six, so as those trials were wrapping up, and 667 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,760 Speaker 1: it read quote, Pearl Brian's murder will always be a strange, 668 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: empathetic story in the annals of crime by reason of 669 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,280 Speaker 1: all that sprung up in connection with it, almost daily, 670 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: running into the very last days of the trial of 671 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,799 Speaker 1: one of the accused, Scott Jackson, some of which fell 672 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,200 Speaker 1: to pieces as rapidly as they had been constructed. The 673 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,239 Speaker 1: chains of circumstances which often seemed complete, only to be 674 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,840 Speaker 1: broken in a moment. The previous life of the girl 675 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: in Greencastle, Indiana, where she grew up without a whisper 676 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: of suspicion against her reputation until her headless body was identified, 677 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 1: the story is without parallel. There was something in connection 678 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: with the butchery of the victims of Holmes that was 679 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 1: so revolting that the public nearly forgot to bestow that 680 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: sympathy which usually follows such cases. I'm sorry this is 681 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 1: not a fun Halloween episode. I promise I tried for 682 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 1: fun ones, and this one has just been lurking and 683 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 1: lingering there. It really has, and we can talk more 684 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,399 Speaker 1: about it in behind the scenes. But I do have 685 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: a very brief and fun and very Halloween e listener mail, 686 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: which unfortunately is really a description of a picture. This 687 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: is from our listener Brandy, who sent us the cutest 688 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:33,399 Speaker 1: Halloween card of her puppies, Merle and Luca. One I'm 689 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,840 Speaker 1: not sure which is which. One is a little fluffy 690 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,040 Speaker 1: beebe who is black, and one is a much larger 691 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 1: dog who is black and white, and they're both dressed 692 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 1: as males, and it just is a big trigger treat card. 693 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: It's the cutest thing. Brandy, Thank you. This was like 694 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,799 Speaker 1: a delight and I actually opened it after I had 695 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 1: finished writing this episode outline and I was like, oh, 696 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,240 Speaker 1: that was exactly what I needed. So hopefully that's exactly 697 00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 1: what listeners need to contemplate adorable dog stressed as snails 698 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: and looking pretty relaxed about it. I must say. 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