Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling
Cincinnati Post, Monday, 11 January 1897, page 6
Frankfort Ky. Jan 11-The petition for rehearing in the Scott Jackson case had not been received at 1 pm at the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals.
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Cincinnati Post, Wednesday, 13 January 1897, page 1
Frankfort Ky. Jan 13-The petition for a rehearing in the Scott Jackson case arrived here this morning and was filed with Clark Adams, of the Court of Appeals. The case has been assigned to Judge Hazelrigg and will be reviewed by another Judge. Both the Jackson and Walling petitions are expected to be overruled by the last of the week, and a mandate will then go to the Governor, who will fix the date of execution.
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Cincinnati Post, Saturday, 13 February 1897, page 8
Frankfort Ky. Feb 13-The official entry overruling the appeal of Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling was made this morning. It is agreed there will be little further delay so far as Governor Bradley is concerned.
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Cincinnati Post, Tuesday, 16 February 1897, page 1
The fate of Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling has been sealed and nothing short of a miracle can now prevent their execution for the murder of Pearl Bryan. Governor Bradley today signed the warrant for their deaths, fixing the date on which they shall pay the penalty for their crime, Saturday, March 20.
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Cincinnati Post, Saturday, 20 March 1897, page 2
Feb 16-George J Jackson, colored, told Officer Edwin M Swain, that he was the man who drove the cab in which Jackson and Walling conveyed Pearl Bryan to Ft Thomas.
The preparations for the hanging were begun at daybreak, Ed Faught, of Lexington, took the hangman's ropes and oiled the nooses, in order to make them work smoothly. At 6 am the gates to the scaffold inclosure were thrown open and a crowd of ticket holders entered the place. Jackson and Walling were at 7:35 am ordered to prepare themselves for the last. Undertaker Costigan was notified to be at the scene of execution by 7 am and to remain their until the body of Scott Jackson should be turned over to him. Undertaker Cunningham, of Bellevue, arranged to take charge of Walling.
The McCreary Guards arrived from Frankfort Friday night and at 2 pm Saturday morning, 17 men were placed on duty about the Courthouse and jail. As the day grew, the crowd was estimated that 2000 people were outside the militia line.
9:50-Governor Bradley ordered Sheriff Plummer to go ahead with Jackson's execution. 11:15-Message from Governor, no respite for Walling. 11:30-Sheriff and Deputies started for inclosure and procession of death formed.
11:37-Ropes adjusted, feet and hands strapped. Black caps adjusted. 11:40-drop fell. 11:55-Alonzo Walling pronounced dead. 12:01-Scott Jackson pronounced dead and both bodies were cut down.
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Cincinnati Post, Monday, 22 March 1897, page 1
Scott Jackson's body was incinerated Saturday night at
the Clifton crematory. All that remains of the misguided young man, a handful of
white bone ashes, purified by fire, Sunday was given into the keeping of the
heart-broken, but still loving mother.
In the early arrangement of the
details concerning the judicial execution of the two prisoners, the plan of
incineration was proposed to the mother of Scott Jackson. She received the
suggestion favorably, and after mature deliberation decided to act upon it.
The fact that various concerns, seeking to gratify the morbid curiosity of
the public mind, had offered Mrs. Jackson enormous sums of money for the dead
body of her only son and the fear of ghouls and grave robbery, influenced the
mother in her decision to resort to cremation as not only a sensible but the
only safe means for the disposal of her erring son's dead body.
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Alonzo Walling was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton, Butler Co. Ohio.