The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-05-06
A nRoTuER'S PERFDITY.
A Young Girl Enticcd from Her Home
in Franklin. y. 4.

Mary Bryson. the young girl of Franklin
y. c., who was supposed to have been
myster.ousiy murdered three weeks aEo.
turned up in au unexpected way Monday
through the arrest Of r. a. Henry, cap
tured just before Il o'clock by Detective
Cason.
In the disappearance Of the girl and the
CAPTURE OF the young man comes a sensd-
ton startling and strange.
When James Bryson, an old and Well
known farmer of the Tar Heel state
learns this morning that his daughter, for
whom he has gr.eyeG as dead. has at last
boon found his JOY Will be great. but when
her brother-in-law who was responsible for
her absence and who maneuvered the bold
abduction, his rage will rise high.
When caught yesterday Henry had just
returned from visit to a sister OF the
girl whom he had enticed from home she
was iamcnting the mysterious disappear
ance of Mary ana asked the young man
10 return 40 .Franklin to help in the
search. but in heartless duplicty Henry
watched her weep and pretended TO share
the sorrow.
The story is queer.
Three weeks ago there disappeared from
her home in Macon county, North caro-
INA one of tine prctticst and most popu'ar
girls of the place. She was the dauGhlei
OF a prosperous farmer. "A man OF street
religious convictions and Purltdnlc pflhcl-
pies Mary Bryson was a schoolgirl SIN
teen years old and her fresh face ami
charming manner had endeared her to
an who knew her in that quaint little town
OF Franklin.
Just after supper one night she informed
her parents that she was going 10 the
house OF a friend TO spend the niSht' -
was some distance TO the place ana her
father offered to 20 with her, but She
laughed at tho idea of fear ami FASTENED
from the house.
Next morning 1t was expected that she
would return, but she came not Inc gay
went by ami sum she did not come. 1heh
her parents became alarmed. They were
more alarmed TO know that she had never
reached the place where she had told
them she would be for the night.
The excitement in the Ee.Ghborhood when
the news of her disappearance spread
abroad was great. The country Is ""u
and mountainous and the theory after
her continued absence. that the girl had
been waylaid, and perhaps murdered me.
with due credence among the irlehds anu
family.
dcso!atc region for miles about was scour-
cd night ana day, but not a trace OF the
missing e.rl could be had and her parents
BEGAN 10 grieve for her as dead
The family of old man Bryson consisted
OF four girls one of these was IN ~
Iauta with a family in West Fad. AmonS
a
the strict integrity of her father dlG not
approve of the hayward course Oh the
husband and separation was elected
This husband was a young man OF
twenty-five years OF age with H5L.
brown n,ustache and an appearance that
told of his reckless and daring nature.
After separation from his wife he had
moved 10 Asheville, where he was ell
raced in the detective BUSINESS,
mia Not suspect HIS Son-tn-LaW.
When Mary Bryson disappeared her
father cast not CLINT of suspicion on nis
son-in-Iaw. Henry he knew 10 DC VIM
but he could not dream that he Wouiu Dc
connected IN any way with the disappear
.ace IL was Il crime greater imam ms
nuritauic nature could conceive OIL me
fact that Henry had anything TO 40 Win
m affair never entered his head.
o. tbore was ole who did think that
-, ,-ornr man was connected with the
stran,.. departure. His wife had noticed
tL,t thcre was some understandings between
her husband ana her little SISTER Mary
Ions. before their separation; so without
trIlin., her parents, she wrote to Chief Con
IolIv, asking that the man be located anu
watched, as she had heard that he was Ia
Atlanta.
So it happened that Henry, who has
bcen at work or the government building
nj the exposition grounds, was arrested
Yesterday uy Detective CaSon then came out
the fun story of the abduction.
on the night that the Sirl WAS missed
Henry had come from Ashevilc- As she
left home he met her. 1t is forty miles
TO any railroad frcm Franklin and the pair
walked twenty miles during the night,
striking "A ccech for Tallulah the next
morning. Here they boarded the Southern
ard came to Gainesville. The girl was
placed liz a boarding house there and the
next day Henry came on To Atlanta.
Miss Mary is really pretty, with eyes
that sparkle and shnnmering golden hair
hanging down her back.
Il didn't away with him. she said,
with the tears chasing each other down
her tinted checks. He told me that If
would come l would get something TO 10