Evening journal., 1891-05-14
NEW LIGHT on THE ToslN CASE.
Serious Charges Made Against DIR. Bryan
by a Woman.

by a Woman.
NEW YORK, May 14.-Ever since the con-
clusion of the coroner's inquest into the
mysterious death of Mary Tobin two years
ago there have been those on Staten
Island who believed that the whole truth
was not brought out at this inquiry. After
the lapse of two years, the New York
Herald claims to have discovered that the
inquest did fail to elicit the whole truth
from one, at least, Of the very witnesses
summoned before il.
This witness was an inmate OF DR..
Bryan's house at the time Of the terrible
tragedy. She seemingly told all she knew
at the inquest Her testimony in brief
amounted TO this: That she had seen DR..
Bryan and Miss Tobin separate on the
board walk before the station on the night
Of April l5, and that afterward she had
seen Miss Tobin enter the station.
Nobody volunteered to cross-question
| her.
She left the stand carrying with her a
| knowledge of the relations maintained be
tween DIR. Bryan and Miss Tobin which, II
ELECTED at the time, might have flooded
the entire situation with new light Her
name is Mrs. w. S. Glassford.
| She was an inmate OF DR. Bryan's house
| Abt hhOul MANttM tlbntlhs Eut went 10 MN
with the understanding that he should
pay the rent OF the house while she sup
| piled food, fuel, etc, and also managed
| the details of housekeeping. She left him
| some time in the fall Of 1889, because OF
various disagreements She was thus on
| intimate terms with DR. Bryan for the
/ greater part of the period over which the
relations of DIR. Bryan and Mary TObin ex.
/ tended
She says: "What first prejudiced me
against Miss Tobin was the unmaidenly
| way she acted with Dr. Bryan She used
to rush down TO his Office from Dr. Robin
sons the first thing after supper and they
would spend the whole evening in hi,
private office behind closed doors. Mis-,
| Tobin frequently remained with DR.
Bryan as late as 1890 o'clock, and then
she would sneak out of the house aud wall
back to Dr. R0binson's alone. This sori
Of thing went on for weeks and weeks
do you think, Mrs. Glassford, that DR.
Bryan was guilty of any impropriety al
these visitssn
81 don't think it, know itn
You mean TO tell me absolutely thai
| DR.. Bryan's relations with Miss Tobir
were not perfectly correctf'
~ mean to tell you that absolutely - shl
replied resolutely.
"Then you think that wish TO concea
her condition was indirectly the cause o
Mary Tobin's deathgn
YES, but do not think she killed her
self. She never lett the island after sh
parted with DIR. Bryan that night.
"Dr Bryan has repeatedly said that Mar
Tobin and he parted the best of friends OF
the night Of April Is, but when she left hi
house she was weeping. She wasn't give
to weeping for nothing. There was WON
an in the case, and very handsome won
an to boot. DR.. Bryan had received tel,
gram couple of days before from thi
woman, informing him that her husban
was dead. Mary Tobin knew Of this an
il made her frantic Now, two weeks afts
Mary Tobin's body had been found in tn
water off Clifton. DR. Bryan was seen
night in the company OF this woman
DIR. Bryan denies all Of Mrs Glassford
statements. The district attorney has d
cided to reopen the investigation into th
| causes of Miss TObinis death