The Washington times., 1922-04-10
PRISONER REVENGE IS.
CENTER OF sWEE 7, IN
AFFECTING OPINION Of
JAIL SCENE CHAUFFEUR
Repeats Denial He Killed
Woman-Permitted to
View Body.

HUNTINGDON. Pa. April TO-
81 forgive him; he couldn't have
been in his right mind"
Mrs. C. G. Kirby. of New York,
who arrived in Huntington last
night, made this statement today
as she stood sobbing over the body
of her daughter, Mrs. Helen Bry-
son, of Washington. for whose
murder Herbert Bryson.s also of
Washington, is held In the county
Jail here. y,
Mrs. Bryson. a beautiful brtin-
ette Of twenty six years. died at
b:30 o'clock yesterday morning in
q hospital here of a gun shot
wound in the stomach.
Her husband, prominent physi-
clan and a gassed veteran Of the
world war. declared she shot her
self. when he arrived at the hos
pital with his dying wife.
Wife Accuses Bryson.
In an ante mortem statement, the
wife accused her husband of break
ing down the door of a room into
which she had taken shelter and
firing a shot point plank from his
army revolver. The shooting took
place at jCassville, a farming COM
munity. twenty-three miles from
Huntington.
Mrs. Kirby was alone with the
body OF her daughter for several
minutes last night. She then went
10 the county Jail and asked permis-
ws4, tn oaa nr pruaon Gharfff Will
liam NJ. Corbin accompanied her to
his cell.
At first DIR. Bryson. who has re-
fused to say anything since his ar
rest, appeared not to recognize Mrs.
Kirby.
Don't you know me, Herbert3"
she asked, in anguish. II forgive
Bryson then rose from his cot and
spoke to his mother-in-law, A.
"How could you do IL, HERBERT"
she repeated again and again.
Bryson Denies Shooting.
Finally her question brought a de-
nial from the physician.
81 did not kill her; she shot her.
self" he declared.
Mrs. Kirby wept and embraced her
son-in-law before she was led away
by the sheriff. She then went TO the
Bryson home Mt Cassville, where the
tragedy took place.
She will return to Huntington this
afternoon and probably will be a
chief witness at the inquest to be
conducted by Coroner r. L. Schum.
Just before she left the jail Mrs.
Kirby pleaded with the sheriff 10
permit DIR. Bryson to view the body
of his wife. Accordingly, he win be
taken from his cell under close guard
10 the morglie, where the body Is be
ing held pending the inquest.
District Attorney Chester ID. Fet-
ierhoff. after an exhaustive investi-
cation at Cassville, declared this
morning that he believed the shoot
ing was the outcome of q trivial
quarrel which was aggravated by
by the nervous temperament of the
shell-shocked physician"
Inquiry to Be Pushed.
At the same time, he will bend
every effort TO determine why yDr.
Bryson concealed from his mother
in Washington, ID. c., the fact that
he was married and was living in
Huntingdon county.
The accused physicians mother
told the authorities she believed her
son was hNink III INeW IOfk anu
that she had been writing TO him
regularly there. The district attor-
ney said that DIR. Bryson had made
few trips to New York since com
Ing TO Cassville a year ago
Neighbors OF the Brysons be-
lieved the surgeon came TO the
farming community IN the hope
that the country would improve his
SCATTERED health. They had no
hint that he and his wife were
leading a life of seclusion.
DIR. Bryson IL forty-eight years
old and his wife. an attractive bru.
nette, was eighteen years his Junior.
They came to Cassville about n year
ago and are believed to be wealthy.
The shooting occurred about $50
o'clock Saturday afternoon. DR..
Bryson telephoned to Or. Fred
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