Hendersonville, Jan. 3—In the shortest session ever held by the board of aldermen of this this city, the board this afternoon accepted without comment the resignation of Mayor Sam Y. Bryson. Mayor Bryson’s resignation was tendered as a result of a personal encounter he had with B.L. Brooks, a local barber, last Saturday and the subsequent filing of a suit by Brooks against Bryson charging him with alienation of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife.
Mayor pro tem W.R. Kirk automatically became chief executive of the city upon acceptance of Mayor Bryson’s resignation. In his letter to the board the Mayor asked the citizenship of the city to withhold comment upon his case until trial of it. He is said to have declined a settlement of the case out of court and his attorneys indicate that he will fight the case and will return to this city to live. He has been in Asheville since the trouble occurred.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Jan. 5, 1925
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