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Varin
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 		[NEW SITE] Thomas Fitzsimmons site
As revealed in this thread, there's a new in-game site...

http://www.geocities.com/thomasfitzs/Bryon_Fitzsimmons.html

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LGarrett
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 		So...

Who's gonna be the one to tell Reed?
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TJ229ER
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 		Darn it it's acceded it's transfer rate. I can't veiw it now. Anyone want to post what is on it in spolier tags?

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catherwood
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 		Here are the images which might be inaccessible due to Geocities not liking high traffic... but you MUST read the story yourself.

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TJ229ER
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 		So these are our postcard pictures but what does this mean?

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rRootage
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 		Story?
If someone would be kind enough to post the entire story, it would be greatly appreciated. Geocities is worthless for just about any hosting.

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catherwood
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 		text from geocities site
http://www.geocities.com/thomasfitzs/Bryon_Fitzsimmons.html
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Bryon Fitzsimmons

Born June 15, 1912 - Died December 6, 1938.

When Bryon Fitzsimmons was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1912, the Fitzsimmons family was already wealthy and prestigious. The sixth of six sons at the time, Bryon grew disillusioned with the pursuit of wealth that consumed the rest of his family and refused to become part of the family's commercial enterprises. His father, a strict disciplinarian and somewhat abusive father, chose not to accept Bryon's decision and actually had him briefly committed to a mental hospital as a means of persuading Bryon to change his mind. Horrified by what he experienced there, Bryon quickly agreed to follow his father's wishes and was released after just a brief stay. But, only a week later, at the age of 18, Bryon ran away from Philadelphia and the Fitzsimmons family to make his own way in the world.

An early advocate of womens' and workers' rights, Bryon Fitzsimmons headed to San Francisco where an atmosphere of social consciousness and expose journalism had just begun to take shape. He took a menial job at the San Francisco Chronicle, the premier California newspaper of the time, to pay his bills and to try and get in the door and pursue his dream of becoming a writer and journalist.

While working at the Chronicle, Bryon was befriended by one of the more important and successful reporters, Royce Brier, who was to go on to win the Pulitzer Prize a few years later for his eye-witness report of San Francisco's "Bloody Thursday" in July 1934. Brier was critical in getting the Chronicle's management to give Bryon a chance as a reporter.

In just over a year, Bryon's accounts of corruption and dishonesty in California's governmental and business structures started to gain him both serious praise and dangerous attention.

Pressured by the Chronicle's editorial staff and anonymously received threats, Bryon publicly backed off of his expose reporting for a while, but, secretly, he began his most controversial and ambitious project yet, an expose of terrible conditions inside the nation's mental hospitals and asylums.

Driven by his own experience inside a mental hospital, Bryon, along with his girlfriend Ann Starling, came up with the idea to have Ann enter an insane asylum anonymously, as a "Jane Doe", to see first hand and document what was really happening.

Bryon would continue working and writing for the Chronicle on less controversial topics, to protect both himself and his and Ann's "secret" project. To maintain the illusion that Ann was alone and abandoned, they couldn't have Bryon stop in and check on her, so they developed a scheme where Ann would write a note for him and leave it with the staff when she had found out enough and was ready to get out. The asylum patients couldn't send mail or anything back then, but they were allowed to leave letters and postcards for their families to pick up.

To prevent the doctors and administrators from catching on, Bryon and Ann used a simple code on these postcards and notes, to make it appear they were meaningless and rambling. Once he received the proper message from her, Bryon would show up at the facility and identify Ann. Announcing himself as her caretaker, he would then have her released.

Ann stayed in the asylum a little over two weeks and was horrified at the conditions and abuse she saw. But the stay did two things for her and Bryon. First, it made them more determined than ever that there was a real expose to be done on the conditions inside these mental hospitals, and it introduced them to a certain doctor's name, whom patients and staff alike linked in whispers to a great deal of the truly horrible abuse that had gone on there.

Read PART 2 of this section by clicking on the Link to the left.

NOTE: Much of this information has come from personal effects of Bryon Fitzsimmons that have come into my possession during my research, including some of the actual postcards from Ann to Bryon while she was in various institutions, as well as letters between the two from the same time frame.


http://www.geocities.com/thomasfitzs/Bryon_Fitzsimmons2.html
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Bryon Fitzsimmons Part 2
What had begun as a plan to go into one mental hospital soon turned into an investigation that lasted over two years, as Ann moved from institution to institution. Bryon resigned his position at the Chronicle and sought interim jobs at smaller newspapers as he travelled around the country with Ann. Somehow Ann managed to remain relatively uninjured throughout this time and their notes indicate that they believed they were very close to finishing their exhaustive investigation and were almost ready to write and release their expose piece.

In 1938 Bryon returned to San Francisco and to the offices of the Chronicle, where he presented the editors with some of the evidence he and Ann had accumulated and his idea for a massive expose of the mental hospital system. A note found from this meeting however shows that the editorial staff were far from receptive to Bryon's proposal and doubted the truth of what he said. Bryon was devastated. The following day, his body was found in an alley behind the hotel he was staying at in San Francisco. After what most people felt was a half-hearted and totally ineffective investigation, the San Francisco police closed the case as "Unsolved."

NOTE: Much of this information has come from personal effects of Bryon Fitzsimmons that have come into my possession during my research, including some of the actual postcards from Ann to Bryon while she was in various institutions, as well as letters between the two from the same time frame.


(more pages coming up)

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Wishi-san
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 		Mirrored for your pleasure

Thanks to JustLurking for the extra files.
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TJ229ER
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 		Wow so Ann Starling was a faker.

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LGarrett
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TJ229ER wrote:
Wow so Ann Starling was a faker.


Initially, yes. But Reed's bio of her in Dead Poems states that she entered CMH in late 1938.

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So the question the remains is this: did Fitzsimmons kill himself while Ann was in CMH, or did his alleged suicide lead up to her institutionalization?

Based on the solutions to the ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR poems, I tend to believe the former, and she found out about Byron's death while she was inside, which caused her to slip over the edge into true insanity.

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KevDude
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 		Thanks for the mirror.

Woah. This is what strikes me on the page: Byron was "The sixth of six sons"

So, combining this with the poems, after Byron died Ann continued to be in the mental hostpital system until she actually went insane. She didn't know Byron had died so she thought he had just left her there.

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 		And, of course, he was killed once word got out that he knew too much, stranding Ann in CMH.

Who would be evil enough to kill him?... Twisted Evil

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 		Question: did Byron have a younger brother, the SEVENTH SON????

Was he killed by that 7th Son, or by the invisible killer?

I agree, CMH was the next mental hospital in line for their expose and she got stuck there (so there was nothing supernatural about her poems speaking about Dread House?????)

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KevDude
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 		Seems that way, although GMH still seems haunted to me. And the Invisible Killer.

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Flidget Jerome
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 		. . was trying to spec this in the chat but I kept getting disconnected.

It's pretty safe to assume that Byron's family eventually had a seventh son. But was their father a seventh son himself, or was it Byron's nephew who was the seventh son of the seventh son?

What's Thomas' relation to Byron? Is he a nephew? Ok, that's unlikely given he's only 22 and Byron died in the 30s, but hey, the more characters running for their lives in this game, the merrier. Or could he be a great-nephew? Could Thomas' father be a member of the Seventh Sons? Or maybe it was Byron's brother who was the seventh of the seventh. What's Thomas' relation to him? Grandson?

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