Evening star., 1922-04-11
BRYSON'S MOTHER
WEEPSAT HIS CELL
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HUNTINGDON, Pa, April 1.-Two
mothers have met here In the shadow
Of that inexorable higher law which
skaters the human triangle wherever
its unstable links may be welded to-
gether.
One. desperate over the death Of her
murdered daughter, is fighting brave
ly to save the dead girl from the
charge of bigamy. or a second welded
life without benefit of clergy. The
other weeps with broken heart over
the tragedy which has brought her
beloved son to a secluded cell in ''mur-
derers' row of the county jail Naturally
this mother blames the girl The
other mother eXclaims:
Punish the man, but spare my
daughters honor"
Mystery in Motive.
In the overwhelming tragedy which
stalked into this little community of
5000 souls there seems to be crowded
every human emotion. Filian love,
Illicit love. romance, the glamor of
the stage, the mysterious motive of a
shell-Shocked brain. the mingled feel
ings of seorned husband whose
wife has been done to death at the
hands of the man with whom she
eloped. and last, but perhaps not least
OF all. the call of the great white
lights of Broadway, which undoubt-
edly impelled the new husband" to
shoot the dancing girl who had been
months. rather than lose her in that
mad maelstrom of New York for
which she yearned. --.. .--,---
Figures In the TRAGEDY.
The pitiful figures in this grim
tragedy are:
DR.. Herbert J. Bryson major and
| medical officer in the famous Rain
bow Division: gassed. wounded and
shell. shocked in the Argonne. Charg-
ed with the murder of Mrs. Bryson, -
he remains sullenly silent in his cell.
Helen Irene Kirby, the claimed
wife of Bruce E. Haines. chauffeur
of Washington. D. c., but living re-
who in dying statement accused the
world war veteran with having
broken down her door and shot her.
Mrs. Kathleen Kirby of New York
city, mother of the murdered girl,
who VOWS that her daughter mar
although in August of that year she
was still the wife of Haines and
living in Washington.
Mrs. John Bryson of Washington
D. C., is mother of the man accused of
murder. Mrs. Bryson says her son
was never wed. Frustrated by the
tragedy, bitter against the girl whom
she accuses of having led her son to
ruin. she will fight for the life of her
boy on the ground that he was not
| mentally responsible for the crime.
Says He Could Not Hold Her.
Bruce E. Haines, chauffeur, of
/ Washington. says he could not
hold his wife because she longed for
the things his limited income could
not give her. Unwittingly Hanes
| directed his wife to Bryson's house in
Washington in the summer of 1920.
She was a war worker" at the time
| in the war risk bureau-working to
help out the family income and to
buy the pretty clothes of which she
was SO passionately fond. She wanted
bureau. DR.. Bryson gave it to her. A
! month later the girl disappeared,
Bryson followed. H..
Bryson promised the girl the luxury
and the excitement she craved. For
two years she had been ON the stage
She had appeared at Kefth's Theater,
in Washington. and had met Haines.
A youthful love of romance had caused
her to marry the man, but she soon
found that the wife Of q chauffeur had
but little upon which to live. ;sssr#
village a Prison to Girl.
DR.. Bryson, once the girl became his
wife" forgot his promise Of "gay
times" and after q somewhat extended
honeymoon in New York, in which he
jealously watched the admiring glances
cast at the girl by other men. brought
her out here to central Pennsylvania
and took a house in Cassville, tiny
village of not more than $50 souls. To
Helen fIaines. who had lived upon
admiration, the village was a prison.
In her dying statement she said her
husband often had threatened to kill
her and kill himself rather than to
give her up. When, after one Of the
inevitable quarrels as to the course
Of their life, he left her alone for a
moment, the girl said she knew he
had gone for his Army revolver. The
pistol her husband had regarded as
his best friend" in the blood red
days and the murderous nights Of