The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-17
HE KILLS HIS Wife
Mrs. Georgia Bryant Shot at
215 East Seventh at Noon.
Husband Attempted to End His
Life Following Shooting.
HAD QUARRELED MANY TIMES
Walter Bryant Had Been
Drinking, 1t Is Reported.
Is Said to Have Threatened His
Wife Several Times.
HAD QUARRELED MANY TIMES

Mrs. Georgia Bryant, about so years
old. was shot and instantly killed
about noon today by her husband.
Walter Bryant. at the home of Mrs.
Bryants sister, Mrs. Mart Roach. 215
East Seventh street. Bryant fired four
bullets into his wife's body and then
attempted to kill himself, but the bull
let glanced from his breast bone with
out infIicing serious injury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryant, who formerly
lived a 1859 Polk street, had moved
to Kansas City about a month ago,
where Bryant has been running a
grocery store According to Mrs.
Roach. the couple had had trouble
nearly all their twenty-five years of
married life. Mrs. Roach said Bryant
had mistreated and abused his wife
for years. and that her sister had told
for the sake of their children.
Bottle of Whisky Found.
Bryant is said to have been at least
partly under the influence of liquor
when he committed the murder. A
small bottle partly filled with whisky
was found in his possession, accord
ing to police officers who placed him
under arrest following the shooting.
Relatives of Mrs. Bryant said she
came to Topeka about ten days ago on
visit and was supposed to return
to Kansas City a week ago Sunday,
They said she called her husband and
that he told her ''if she felt that way
she needn't come at all" Mrs. Bryant
then decided to remain in Topeka, it
was said, and was staying with her
sister.
Sunday night, it was stated, Bryant
came to Topeka and called on his
wife He seemed to be in excellent
remained all night at the Roach home,
Mrs. Bryant staying with Mrs.
Fanchon Blankenship, 703 Monroe
street
Pulmotor Is Called.
Mrs. Roach said she was in her
heard her sister and Bryant talking
in the sitting room. She said she
heard Bryant say something about
seeing a lawyer and that a moment
later she heard four shots fired She
said she rushed into the room to find
her sister lying dead upon the floor,
and that Bryant was lying on the
floor in front of the divan with a SOFA
pillow under his head. The pulmotor
from the fire station was called and
an attempt made to revive Mrs Bry-
ant. but without avail
When police officers arrived Bryant
was able to get up and walk around
He apparently was unhurt. The bull
let which had glanced from his breast
bone had left a welt, but otherwise
he appeared to be uninjured- On his
wav to the police station he expressed
the wish that he had succeeded in kill
ing himself, according to Detective
Tim Donovan, one of the arresting
officers.
Turned Over to County.
Mrs Roach said she had known
Rrvant to threaten his wife many
times and that they had talked of
notifying the police Sunday night
when he came to town. She said she
felt certain that he did not have a gun
on his person until he went uptown
this morning and came back, few
minutes before the murder. Bryant
was taken to the police station and
booked, and then turned over to the
county and locked up in the Shawnee
county jail.
Mrs. Bryant is survived by three
daughters, Mildred and Ruth Bryant,
of Topeka, and Mrs. Minnie Strodhe-
man of Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Roach
said that Sunday night Bryant had
suggested giving their home in Topeka
to his wife and that they live apart in
the future
Bryant was formerly employed by
the Dibble grocery company in To-
peka as a meat cutter.
The gun used in the shooting was
a 3S caliber Iver-Johnson, apparently
new. All of the five cartridges had
been fired. Mrs. Bryants body was
taken to PenwelI's undertaking estab-
lishment. 1t is not known how many
bullets penetrated the body. but one is
said to have pierced the heart Bryant
was being questioned by county Off
GERS late this afternoon