W.H. Bryant, Who Deserted Family, Now Has Another Wife and Child, April 11, 1925

Charge That Rich Lumber Man Left His Family in State. . . Warrant for W.H. Bryant of Macon Charges He Deserted Wife and Children in This State. . . One Child Lives at Wilmington. . . Reported That Bryant Is a Man of Wealth Now—Charges Are All Denied by Macon Man

By the Associated Press

Atlanta, Ga., April 11—Allegations that a man deserted his wife and five children in North Carolina, disappearing so far as they were concerned for eight years, only to reappear as a wealthy Georgia lumberman with a third wife and three small children, today were being investigated by Atlanta police.

The man in the case is W.H. Bryant, Macon, Ga. He was arrested at the home here of his present father-in-law, and is being held pending the arrival of a warrant from Wilmington, N.C., which charged, the police said, desertion of wife and minor children.

Mrs. P.N. McWhorter of Wilmington, who said she is one of Bryant’s children, and was a minor at the time of the alleged desertion, was responsible for the arrest.

She and her husband recently heard that Bryant was in Macon, she said, so they went there to investigate. Bryant had left for a business trip to Atlanta, they learned. With several officers, the couple found Bryant’s address here and directed the arrest.

Bryant denied Mrs. McWhorter’s identification, asserting he had never seen the woman before.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, April 11, 1925

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