Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15
BrysOn's Life.

George d. Bryson is the son of David
Brysob, gentleman living in comfortable
circumstances at Hoosick Station on the
line of the Grand Trunk railway in Canada.
Of his early life there is little which would
interest the public, as it was entirely un-
eventful. In 1881 Bryson married Miss
Emma Chase, of Montreal. Shortly there
after his wife fell heir to sum of money
from her mother. With this money Bry-
son opened grocery store in the city of
Montreal, but being possessed of extrava-
CANT habits, he soon succeeded in squander-
ing the little fortune and was compelled to
sell out his store.
Through his fathers influence he was
appointed station and express agent at
Hoosick station. On the night previous to
his leaving for Hoosick he broke into the
store he had sold and carrie away what he
thought sufficient to start housekeeping.
He escaped the consequences of his crime
and left for his new post, where he soon
tired of the quiet life, and laid his plans to
change its current.
He embezzled the funds of both railway
and express companies and reported to
their respective officers that the Office had
been burglarized. Chief Detective Flynn,
of the Grand Trunk system, investigated
the case and to BrysOn's CONSERVATION re-
ported that suspicious fell on him. That
same night Bryson decamped for Detroit,
Michigan, and his wife lett for Port Col
burn, Canada, where she told her friends
what had occurred. She soon followed him
to Detroit and Joined him. In the mean
time Bryson's father sold everything the
son had left behind at HoOsick made good
his sons defalcatiOn and the complaint was
withdrawn.
Hearing this Bryson ventured to return
to Gambia and obtained situation in q
grocery store kept by Mr.. Smith at Port
Colburn, who took a great liking to his
new clerk and introduced him to many
people of good standing, but he soon left
under social cloud,
Brys0n managed to get letter of recon-
mendatiOn from his employer and left for
Toronto, where he got employment as news
agent on the mail steamers, but he was
soon discharged from his position by reason
of insults offered to lady passengers. Fall
ing back on his letter of recommendation,
he obtained position in a clothing store
in Toronto. A short time after his former
employer, Smith, had occasion to visit
Toronto on a purchasing trip and was sur
prised to hear that his former clerk, whom
he recommended, had absconded, taking
with him all the cash receipts of the store
for an entire week. This was early in
1883. For q brief period Bryson was lost
sight of, but finally turned up in st. Paul.
His smooth bearing soon obtained for
him q position as travelling salesman for
the New York Tea Company. He soon re-
peated his former larcenies and embezzled
large sum of money This time he could
not escape the penalty and on July Sd, 1885,
he was sent to the Saltwater penitentiary
for one year and ten months, which SEN
tence he served and was released on Jan.
16. 1887.
He returned to ST. Paul, and alternating
between the Twin Cities served several
short Jail terms for crooked transactions.
He had now entirely abandoned his wife
and the child that had been born them, a
girl five years of age He managed to get
work in Minneapolis from the Pacific Tea
Company but soon embezzled another sum
of money, which he returned, fearing an
other prosecution.
At st. Paul, in 1883, Bryson met Anna
LundstrOm. He quickly read her char
acter and, playing on her vanity, he soon
completely gulled the woman into placing
unbounded confidence in him. He never
paid her any roem rent, and soon obtained
5000 from her under false pretenses. He