The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-26
NOW AFTER BROD|E
Young NobIeman to Aid
Alice Webb Duke.
Gives Her Papers to Help Out Suit for
Conspiracy Against Brodie L.
Duke, Detective Berry and
Champe Andrews.

The New York American has the
following which will be read with in
terest in North Carolina:
Charles S. Berry wronged my ia
Their and reduced him to poverty and
poisoned my mind against him when
/ was too young to understand.
When | discovered the truth l deter
mined to have revenge. What | have
done for Mrs. Alice Webb Duke is n
part of my vengeance.
I'm his manner, Herbert c. de Bruyn
yesterday explained his reasons for
selling out his foster father, Charles
S. Berry, the highest paid detective i'll
the United States, who, after having
gathered the evidence on which Brod1c
l.. Duke, of Tobacco Trust fame, has
begun suit for divorce against Alice
Webb Duke, finds that his foster son
and trusted go-between was all the
while in the employ of Mrs. Duke, and
is in possession of all the secret cor
respondence. which may turn the
tables on Mrs. Dukes prosecutors and
land the husband, his attorneys and
the detectives before the courts on q
charge of conspiracy.
Truth Stranger Than Fiction.
More like romance, lodged be-
tween the covers of yelloW-back
novel, than plain, unvarnished table
from real life, is the story which
young De Bruyn told to an American
reporter yesterday to Vindicate him
self from the charge of 'double-deal-
ing
1T deals with titled personages who
abandoned an ancient castle in staid
old Holland to mingle in the storm
and street of great money-making
America; Of fortune ventured and
of a. friend, and alienated from his
father while yet too young to realize
that he was being made pawn upon
the financial chess board; of a beau
tiful woman reduced to want; u
Hobleman driven to accept employment
as a driver of a street car in Chicago,
and. finally of the awakening of the
son. and his crafty purpose which has
brought to confusion the plans of the
alleged architect of all his family's
misfortune.
Herbert de Bruyn but recently at
tanned his twenty-frSt year. He is
fair faced and rosy and has the mark
ed traits Of the Hollander, whence his
family, noble one, sprung.
He displays marked pride in the
success of his plan to checkmate his
foster father and has attached him
self to Mrs Duke as her secretary.
Jury lhNChCu'
ION her part Mrs Duke is immense
" satisfied with the turn affairs have
taken and yesterday announced an
intention of placing all the evidence
she has in her possession before the
grand jury and asking for the indict,
ment of her husband, Champs S. An
drews, his attorneys, who is already
under arrest on another charge, and
Berry the detective, OH charge OF
conspiracy.
1t was in Mr.. Dukes apartments
that young De Bruyn told the story
of the wrongs that prompted his
scheme of vengeance.
81 have done nothing that | should
be ashamed Of" said he Indeed.
my only regret is that could not nave
more sweeping and complete revenge.
Just listen to the wrong that Charles
S. Berry did me and my family, and
then say wherther [ did wrong in
striking back when the opportunity
came.
Son of a Dutch Count.
"My father was Count Gerard JAG
cues de Bruyn, of Amestermdam, Hol-
land. He was wealthy, had large es-
tate in the interior of my native coun-
try and a fine winter palace at the
Hague. When | was child L had
every luxury the only unhapplness
that had come to any of us being the
death of my mother when l was only
a few weeks old.
''It was i'm 1892 that my father first
came to America. He liked the coun-
try, and when year later the oppor-
tunity presented he came back, this
time as a director at the Chicago
Worlds Fair, at which he owned the
Java exhibit 1t was during this visit
that he met Charles S. Berry.
Berry at that. time was running