He told a long story of his acquaintance with Jackson, but the most
startling points were when he came down to a conversation held in their
room last Christmas day. Then he said: "Jackson took me into a corner of
the room and told me that he and Billy Woods had gotten Pearl Bryan
into trouble and that he must get rid of her. He suggested two ways in
which it might be done. One of the plans he suggested was to take her to
a room and kill her there and leave her. Then he spoke up quickly and
said: 'No, I have a sudden thought as something often tells me when I am
on the wrong idea. It would not do to leave her there, so I will instead
cut her to pieces and drop the pieces in different vaults around town.'"
A few days afterward Walling says that he and Jackson were in
Wallingford's saloon with a number of medical students, and there
Jackson made inquiries as to the poison that would kill the quickest. He
was told that hydrocyanic or prussic acid was the quickest, but that
cocaine was about the next and most deadly.