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...deeply and sincerely resent the type of journalism practiced in the March 19 Press section; although I have no connection with the principals of the "Bridey Murphy" story-except that I am acquainted with Bill Barker-I do know that all means have been taken to prevent the publication of the real name of "Ruth Simmons." TIME disregarded the plea for privacy voiced by Mr. Barker in the Denver Post and, in the very sarcastic manner that seems to have invaded your fine magazine, told the whole story like a schoolboy at a Peeping Tom session...
Animals have a memory but no intellect. Man has both, but the memory is an organic faculty, not a spiritual one. The inconsistencies in the Bridey Murphy revelations are understandable. Even if Ruth Simmons (Virginia Tighe) had lived before as Bridey, the only things she could remember are those which happened to her as the present Ruth Simmons...
There were other discrepancies. Bridey described her metal bed in 1804, but Irish authorities said that metal beds did not arrive in Ireland until 1850. Bridey's father's first name was Duncan, a Scottish name that the Irish found utterly incongruous with Murphy. Bridey had spoken of living in Cork in a wooden house, but the houses in that boggy part of the country were almost invariably made of stone. She had spoken of Cork as a "town" and "village," but it was a big city in the 1800s...
Though nobody could find a scrap of evidence that she ever lived, Bridey died hard-even with Reporter Barker, who was frankly hoping to prove her real. Barker consoled himself and his readers with the thought that the search was really not over...