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Show WAR INSANITY DEFENSE PLEA Doctor Goes on Trial for Slaying of Young Matron HUNTINGTON, Pa., Sept 21. In-sanltv In-sanltv . ue,e sd by shell shock suffere 1 In the world war was the formal plea of the defense Wednesday In the i SSC of Dr Herbert Bryson, formerly of 1 Washington D. C. on trial for the slaying of Mrs Helen Irene Haines. I with whom he had been living in the remote village of Cassville, this coun-ty. coun-ty. A number of wltiVesses. Including old professional and personal ac-I ac-I qualntances of Dr Bryson. testified that he had undergone startling men- I tal and physical deterioration sim j I his experience In the fighting In the ; Argonne sector Several alienists will be called by I the defense Mrs. Helen Klrby of New York. I mother of the slain woman, admitted under oath that she knew her dautrh- ter and Dr. P.rvson were not married, i She had learned of this, she said, from Mrs. Ilnlnes herself in the course j of a visit she oaid the couole at their ! mountain vlllaee home j The daughter. 28 years old. wife of Bruce E. Haine9. a chauffeur of Washington D C, the witness said, j left Haines because of unbearable treatment, and eloped with Dr. Bry-j Bry-j son. ct- |