The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1922, Page 4

NS KIRBY HOME, DEFENDS DAUGHTER MLED BY DOCTOR Says Accused Man Know What He Was Doing When He Shot Her. Mrs, Margaret Kirby, the mother of the girl known as Mrs fF was Killed by Dr. Herbert Bryson, with whom she lived at Huntingdon Pa., said to-day to an Evening W Didn't reporter at her home, No. 925 Post Avenue, in this city: “Dr, Bryson loved my baby. I bear him no il will I forgive him. He did not know what he was doing when he shot her.’ Mrs. Kirby, who is a stenographer employed in a business fice down town and boards in 1 @ small woman of showed in her pale eyes the suffering since her daug “Everything Girl's sad ending sald. “She was th girl in the world, 1 shall do every thing possible to defend her." When she was asked whether her daughter had been married to Bruc H. Haines, chauffeur of a Wa ton banker, as reported in telegr from Washington and Hunting¢ and whether she had later been di- vorced and had married Dr. Bryson, Mrs. Kirby evaded answers. Her at- tention was called to the published stories of her own testimony before the Coroner at Huntingdon she was quoted as sayin ter had told her of a marr Bryson, and Mrs. Kirby nd reddened s undergone wwered “That ia all true, except that I did Not become hysterical on the stand, an it says there. “Bruce Haines was trying to de- she fame and vilify my daughter,” went on. “And he will be pun’ As for Dr. Bryson, he would give tl world to undo what he has lone cannot bring my daughter back and T leave it to a higher tribunal to pun ish Dr. Bryson. But I forgive him." pamrgigpemtls BRYSON CONFESSED, SAYS MRS. KIRBY Hospital Surgeon Says Woman, Dying, Accused Him of Shooting. HUNTINGDON, Ia, April 11 Before « Coroner's jury had held Dr. Herbert Bryson for the murder of his supposed wife, the former Helen Kirby of No. 125 Post Avenue, New York, “ Everyone an st Avenue, is 42. She ch. | Philadelphia. 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She's nine and I will fight for her to the end” When Mrs. Kirby was asked when and where her daughter was married to Dr. Bryson she replied: “They wore married in September, 1920, by a Magistrate or Judge somewhere near More than that they never told me, but I had no reason to disbelleve them. My daughter showed me her engagement and wed- ding rings. “You're trying to daughter of her bh at the Corone strip my poor nor,” she shouted unish Dr. Bryson destroy her good hen she sobbingly told the that when she interviewed Dr Bryson in the County Jail yesterday he admitted killing his supposed wife. “He toid me he shot her,” Mrs. Kir- This was the first intl the authorities that the jan had admitted guilt b © bringing his wife to the hos- pital here Saturday evening he had maintained steadfastly that she shot herself, although the victim accused him in an ante-mortem statement, Dr. Fred Hutchison, the hospital surgeon who attended the dying woman, testified that she told him her domestic life had been troubled for some time past, and quoted her: "We quarreiled Saturday afternoon after one of the neighbor women left ow house. He pursued me to the second floor, and I finally threw a 30% 2 Capes,too,in plaid and plaid - lined wool . materials — one model with a smart throw scarf. ? THE Jamp shade at him downstairs and T knew he was going for his revolver. He had told me sev- eral times that if I didn't listen to him he would kill me and shoot him self “L went into a dressing room and locked the door. A few momenta later he returned to the second floor, smashed down the door and started for me, rin hand, Me had covered half the distance of the room when he fired.” HAINES SAYS BRYSON LURED WIFE AWAY Says He Will Spend His Last] un Cent to Aid in Prosecu- tion of Doctor. WASHINGTON, April 11. — Mrs. Elizabeth Bryson, mother of Dr. Her- bert Bryson, held on a charge of mur- der in Huntington, Pa., said that she had no knowledge her son was mar- ried. He had left Washington, she said, to recover from shell shock Bruce Haines, who clatms the dead woman was his wife, and that they wero married in Tucknhoe, N, Y., May 30, 1913, told of a premonition |‘ he had on Saturday. “I know it may he told the police, Helen needed me sound peculiar,” “but L felt that 1 could hear her calling tom It seemed as if she w ulling to me for help. The next morning | read of ier murder."’ Haines is bitter toward Dr. Bry whom he accuses of wrecking ross space, son, his home and stealing his wife while she was employed in the War Risk Bureau, He said when he married Miss Kirby she hud been in vaude- ville with the Ruth St, Denis dan cers. Haines sald his wife, on recom mendation of a woman friend, went to Dr. Bryson for treatmenut, and that was the beginning of her friend- ship with the doctor. “LT intend to spend every nickel 1 have to see that Dr, Bryson is prose- cuted," said Haines, "He claims to have been shell-shocked while In France, and no doubt will make this plea as a defense for killing my wite He is more normal than I am. He stole my wife from me 1 never blamed her, J did all 1 could for her. She was happy with me until she met Dr. Bryson “It is a simple matter for a man to steal the wife of a poor man That is just what Dr He had a profession and a record war service, It was his uniform his smooth tongue that deceive wife into believing that he loved her more than I did. After she disap peared with Dr, Bryson, on Aug. 5, 1920, I searched everywhere for her I employed private detectives to help find her. 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