The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-10
DOCTOR
IRRATIONAL WHEN
HIS WIFE WASSLA|N
Charged Hypodernic Needle
Found Upon Him When
Placed Under Arrest.
HER MOTHER FORGIVES.
Chauffeur in Washington Says
Dead Woman Was His Wife
and Never Divorced.

HUNTINGDON, Pa, April 1o.--Dr.
Herbert Bryson, charged with killing
his wife at their home in the remote
village of Cassville, Saturday night,
was visited in the Huntingdon County
Jail to-day by Mrs. c. G.. Kirby Of
New York, mother of Mrs. Helen X.
Bryson, the dead woman. 1t is said
she feclingly expressed her Forgive
ness OF his alleged deed and assured
him that he must have been irrational
at the time. as his married life Of
year and half had been tranquil and
Happy.
DR.. Bryson yesterd'lS denied he had
shot his wife and declared she killed
herself. Mrs. Bryson, according to
the authorities, made a statement
shortly before her death that her
husband had shot her after a quarrel.
The doctor made 4 detailed state
ment to Sheriff Corbn last night.
Owing to the fact that the prisoner
has no attorney at this time, the
Sheriff refuses to divulge the nature
of his interview with DR.. Bryson. A
report that DR.. Bryson admitted the
shooting and attempted to justify the
act could not be confirmed. The
inquist will he held late this after
noon.
The case assumed new angle to.
day when the Sheriff, who arrested
Dr. Bryson at the hospital when his
wife 'succumbed to the bullet wound
in the abdomen, disclosed the fact
that he had taken a charged hypo-
dermis needle from Dir. Bryson. The
Sheriff said he believed the physician
was unde rthe influence Of an opiate
about the time of the shooting.
DR.. Bryson, who was member OF
the Rainbow Division during the war
and suffered from shell shock, had
been living in the mountainous region
of Cassville for about two years at the
| advice of his Washington physician.
For a time he felt benefited and ap-
piled himself diligently to his profess
sion. Both he and his wife worked
| heroically during a severe epidemic of
influenza in the community in the
fall of 1920.
Mrs. Bryson died in a hospital here
from a wound in the stomach, in
flicted bY her husbands army re-
volVer. Dr.. Bryson insists she shot
herself, but when told that she would
die Mrs. Bryson sent for the Dis
| trict Attorney and declared that her
husband shot her
1--WE quarrelled." said the pretty
brunette. "a went to the second floor
after had bathed. l went to a room
| at the northwest end of the house
and locked myself in. l was afraid.
The doctor came to the door and or
dered me to open it. Then he broke
it down and rushed In, pointed his
| revolver at me and fired"
| DR.. Bryson is a son of Mrs. John
| Bryson of Washington. d. c.. and his
| family Is prominent He is a gradu-
ate of George Washington University.
He and Miss Kirby were married in
September, 1920. They lived in New
York and Washington, and year ago
went to Cassville because doctors ad-
vised him 10 go to a small town In
Ian effort to overcome nervous dis
lorders due to his war experience.
WASHINGTON, April 1o.-Bruce
Haines, a chauffeur, to-day told the
police here that Mrs. Herbert Bryson,
who was killed as alleged by her
| husband at Huntingdon, Pa, was his
wife. They were married, he said. in
Tuckahoe, N. Y, on May 80, 1915.
He had never been notified of any
divorce proceedings. he said.
| According 10 Haines. DR.. Herbert
Bryson met the woman while she was
employed in the War Risk Bureau
here in July. 1920. A few weeks later
they disappeared, he said. Haines
wrote to the woman's mother, Mrs.
Katherine Kirby, No. l25 Post Ave-
nue., New York City, but she was un-
able to induce her daughter to return
to Haines.
Haines said he would 20 TO Hunt
Iingdon to testify in the case