The Washington times., 1922-04-11

for it. They used 10 say that 4 was
wall flower but I was contented
to stand back while Helen danced
with other fellows and enjoyed her.
self. believed and trusted In her
and never for = moment suspected
that she could be lured away from
me-"
Haines stated this morning that
he had only known his wife two
months before they were married.
He said Mrs. Kirby = the girls
mother--whose home is at 125 Post
avenue, New York city, objected TO
his courtship.
marry . New York lawyer" said
Haines. But Helen did not like the
lawyer. Frequently when he
visited the Kirby home to see Helen,
+ called later. Helen detested the
young lawyer. and when called, she
would come to the door and walls
with me, leaving her mother to
entertain my rival.
Welded In Secret.
Finally Mrs. Kirby ordered that
keep away from Helen. Helen and
talked it over. apd ON May 30 4
obtained marriage license TO marry
Helen at Tuckahoc. NJ, Y. We
motored to the pastorate of Catholic
church, but because was a Prot.
estant and Helen a Catholic. the
priest would not marry us without a
dispensation from the archbishop.
The next day we obtained the ,iispen-
sation and were secretly wed. Helen
went home and our friends who had
learned of our marriage called to the
house to serenade us.
"Helen's mother asked why she
was being serenaded. Helen told her
we had been married. She was very
angry over the marriage, but later
gave us her blessing. We lived in
Tuckahoe. where the Kirbys then
lived. until 1915, when we came to
Washington. Helen and 1 exchang-
ed visits with her mother
but soon I was confronted with
too much mother-in-law. Helen and
/ had frequent spats, but they last.
ed but short periods, we hugging
and kising each other-making up.
''It is unfair for my motherin-law
to say I was cruel to Helen. she
should have said that / was too easy
with her. II was through me that
Mrs. Kirby found that Helen was
with DIR. Bryson at Cassville. She
wrote me to try and locate Helen.
II was then that pleaded with DIR.
| Bryson's mother, Mrs. John II. Bry-
son, TIA Twelfth street northeast. to
let me know where her son and Helen
were. Mrs. Bryson wrote DR.. Bry-
son and he in turn told Helen to
write her mother"
Haines denies that his wife obtained
divorce from him. He said that as
| she was Catholic she could not OBJ
tain other than separation, which
would not permit her to remarry. He
said he received no word from his
wife since August s, 1920. when she
lis said to have eloped with the Wash
ington physician.
On Stage In Washington.
Helen Haines was for several
months in a vaudeville sketch with
Ruth st. Denis. and played In Wash
/ ington in a weeks engagement at the
Columbia Theater. She gave up the
stage, according to Haines, because
4 Of his request to give up theatrical
life. Arriving in Washington, Mrs.
Haines' frequently visited the Tidal
Bathing Beach, where she was popu-
lar. She is said, however. never to
have taken part In any of the beauty
contests held at the Beach.
She did mott enter the contest be-
cause she was married to me, feeling
IT was imprudent for married wom-
an to take part in them"
1 DIR. Bryson. Ia forty eight years old.
T. h - ~
friends for years. He was what some
called an enigma. He had moods OF
strange temperament, desiring TO
keep to himself at times and at other
times to be voluble In his talk about
the women he knew.
HE wanted to make II appear that
he was n lady-killer, 30 to speak
said one OF his friends today, He was
surely a strange sort of fellow. He
was very moody at times"
His friends say that IL DR.. Bryson
killed Mrs. Haines II was in the heat
of passion--that he certainly was not
in his right mind. He was not che
type to slay without provocation, Il
was stated
Friends who were with him on the
Mexican border recalled today some
OF Bryson's strange stories and &C.
tiona. He was of peculiar makeup
they say--different from most men.
Kept Dual Life Secret.
His mother. Mrs. John II, Bryson
who is seventy years old, and with
whom he lived at ia Twelfth street
northeast prior to hts disappearing
from the Capital with Mrs. Haines. IL
in Cassviile today trying TO obtain
the freedom OF the physician.