The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-23
BYRD,s DIVORCE.
His Wife Wanted 1t on Account Of
Mental Troubles.

Atlanta, Ca, July 22-The MORNING
News printed a dispatch few days ago
announcing that Charles P. Byrd of this
city had secured in New York divorce
from his wife, nee Pearl Bryan, a
daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, the
writer
Mr.. Byrd is a well known publisher.
He has but recently returned from New
York, where he went to look after the
divorce proceedings, and he has written
the following explanatory card concern
ing the trouble:
Atlanta. Ga. July 81. ls9I-Editor Consti-
tuition wish to say word in regard 10 the
divorce which, as has been published, 1 have
obtained from my wife, Pearl Bryan Byrd. 1t
Is most peculiar case. / believe my wife to
pc perfectly pure and innocent woman.
OWING 10 the diseased state of her mind, she
hau become possessed with the idea mat she
could no longer live with me. She did every
thing IN her power to procure a divorce.
ABOUT year ago she entered a suit against
me which she could not prosecute because
she had no grounds. AS her physicians had
informed me OF her morbid condition, l bore
with her, hoping she would be cured she
twice attempted to take her life last
summer, owing to her morbid condition.
She continued to insist upon the dl
Vorce, and begged her to wait three years
ana allow me to get ii on the ground OF de
Sertlon, but this her Door restless mind for
perate-to take her life-if | did not come at
once and get the divorce. At times she re :Og-
nlzed her unsound mental state. She went
willingly to the asylum for the deranged at
Amityvllle, where she remained for six
months Hoping she was better, / brought
her home last November, but soon found that
she was not cured, and she went back to the
care Of DR.. Wilsey, though not to the asylum,
which she objected to. He visited
her at her boarding house, pa West
Fourteenth street. She was more than ever
bent on obtaining divorce, and frequently
wrote threatening to take her life and TO pu y
lish everything injurious she could think OF II
1t were not procured. do notsbelieve for a
moment that any intimate relations ever ex-
listed between her and Rockwell She has
not seen him for over year and has not held
any communication with him. She did not
elope with him. put her on the train my
self, and Rockwell was in Atlanta during the
whole OF her stay in New York He and
we're both boarding at the kimball house and
eating at the same table daily.
have given her the divorce with the hope
OF satisfying her mind and preventing her
doing anything desperate. / Thought | could
manage 10 do this without any publicity, and
thus save the humiliation which all connected
with this unfortunate AFFAIR are now suffer
calmer. She had been leading the life OF
recluse, but got her to go out with me every
evening while l remained in New York. She
was, as she has always been, friendly and
kind, seeming to look on me as her best
friend. She appeared not to realize in the
least the disgrace attached to the divorce
and was so sweet and unconscious that l did
not and never can attach any idea Of guilt to
her. She will always be to me pure and
sweet memory, clouded only by misfortune
due, as / know, to her mental malady.
CHARLES 2. BYRD.