ays knew when her fourteen roomers were at home. She is able
to remember for two weeks the exact hour of the night when each of her
guests came into the house. Her memory is quite a good one.

A certain individual who gave his name as Wm. Trusty was introduced by
the defense. Trusty claimed to have driven the cab containing Pearl
Bryan to Fort Thomas. He stated that she was dead and that Jackson and
Walling were in charge of the corpse. He claimes to have been told that
an abortion had been attempted and that the woman had died from the
effects of it, and that Jackson and Walling had undertaken to get rid of
the body.

Immediately after testifying Trusty flew for parts unknown. None
believed his story.

On May 12th, Colonel Nelson began his speech to the jury. It was a most
remarkable effort, being intensely dramatic and spell-binding in its
eloquence.

Colonel Crawford replied for the defense and made an able argument.

On May 14th, Colonel Lockhart made the concluding speech for the
Commonwealth and the case went to the jury.

After a short session the jury returned and informed the court of their
joint agreement that they find Scott Jackson

GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.

Transcriber's Notes:

The original text does not contain pages numbered 1 through 18.

Additional spacing after the block quotes is intentional to indicate
both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as
presented in the original text.

Usage of possessive apostrophe in the original is sporadic and often
incorrect (not corrected).

Phonetic misspellings were corrected only if necessary for clarity or
if spelled correctly elsewhere in the original.

The following misspellings and misprints were corrected:
"emidiately" corrected to "immediately" (Page 21)
"gratuated" corrected to "graduated" (page 22)
"dotting" corrected to "doting" (page 22)
"cupids" corrected to "cupid's" (page 22)
"later" corrected to "latter" (page 24, 84)
"accurrences" corrected to "occurrences" (page 26)
"sucessful" corrected to "successful" (Page 32)
"brocken" corrected to "broken" (page 32)
"Deitsh" corrected to "Deitsch"(Page 35)
"of" corrected to "off" (Page 35)
"Mitchel" corrected to "Mitchell" (Page 40)
"Carother's" corrected to "Carothers" (Page 43)
"Pook" corrected to "Poock" (Page 44)
"telegramm" corrected to "telegram" (Page 44)
"own" corrected to "owe" (page 45)
"rembling" correcte