Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-26
THE BUNCH OF GRAPES MUIR
DER.
The Victim Identinedas a Prom.
inent Citizen of Pennsylvania
steps 10 be Taken 10
Punish the Murderers.

Punish the Murderers.
New York Herald.l
PIrTsBURa, August 22.-The latest
development in the Bunch of
Grapes murder at Agnew station, is
ola startling and wholly unexpected
nature. Late on Friday afternoon a
man who was rowing on the Ohio riv-
er, near Freedom, Beaver county, dis
covered the body Of a man floating in
the water. The coroner Of Beaver
county was notified, and an inquest
was held, resulting in a simple verdict
Of Found Drowned" The body was
much decomposed, having evidently
been in the water for some time, and
it was buried at once in the cemetery
at Beaver. A hole supposed to have
been caused bya bullet was discovered
in his forehead, and this suggested he
had been murdered or committed sui
eide. There was some little talk to
the effect that this was the body of
the man murdered at Agnew, as Toll
port is not very far below hat place.
Nothing was done to identify the man
until late yesterday, and the result
was not fully known until to-day. 1t
was established, beyond a doubt, that
the body found at Tolport vas the
man so brutally murdered at Agnew.
Letters were found in the pockets of
the dead man which showed that he
was Robert Bryson, of Harrisburg.
When this name was made public
yesterday, General John McLanahan,
Of this city, came forward and said he
could tell something about Mr.. Bry-
son. He had met him at Hot Springs,
Ark, and described him as an elegant
fellow, we'll educated and intelligent,
we'll liked byeverybodyat the Springs.
He had the marks of three
bullets on his forehead, all directly in
the center, between the eyes. He
explained these by saying that he had
been shot in a row in New York, but,
as he told thirty different stories, the
conclusion was arrived at by those
who saw much Of him that he had at
tempted to commit suicide at some
time. Bryson left Hot Springs about
June 20, and was accompanied as far
as st. Louis by Mr.. Leopold Hart.
He had plenty of money with him to
reach Harrisburg, but he stopped in
st. Louis.
BRYsON's CONDITION.
His clothes were somewhat dilapi-
dated and his shoes were worn out.
His friends joked with him about this
and asked him, having plenty of
money, why he did not buy some new
shoes, but he paid no attention to
them. Mr.. Bryson's relatives were
informed of his death and two gentle
men here were deputed to bring the
body home. They arrived in Pitts
burg to-day and from them | learned
Bryson's story. His father, Robert
Bryson, ST., is a wealthy retired iron
manufacturer in Harrisburg his
uncles, James and Robert McCor-
mick, are the wealthiest men in Cen
trail Pennsylvania, They ewn the
Lochiel iron works, an enormous es-
tate of over twenty farms in the Cum
berland valley, and besides this are
bankers, and are engaged in various
other kinds Of business. Miss Mary
Mccormick, the sister Of these two
gentlemen, was the first wife Of Sena.
tor Cameron. She was young Bry.
sons first cousin. Robert Bryson, jr.,
was always a hard working fellow he
was highly educated and was quite a
society man he was superbly built
physically he was employed for q
time in his %uncle's ironworks, and
while he had some severe nervous af.
lection which slightly clouded his
intellect, he recovered from this and
went to Philadelphia, where he was
given a clerkship by Louden Snow
den, who was his cousin. After that
he was appointed to a railway post
Office ~clerkship, which he resigned
last April he could have had any one
of a dozen political appointments il
he desired, but he would not take
them. He then went TO Hot Springs,
his family had not heard of him foI
some weeks and they believe that he
became demented and either tramped
from st. Louis or got off a train some.
where on the road. The coroner OIL
Allegheny county will view the body
in order to bring it under his juris-
diction and yill then hold an inquest
Cameron and other relatives of Bry.
son are resolved to haye his murder.
ers punished, and there is no doubi
but that they will succeed.