The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-01

The ainve diagram shows the situa-
ton of the house, and is the plat exhil,-
tied to the CorOner's Jury. The bed
room numbered ''C' was the scene OF
the arson, murder and suicide. In the
west corner Of the rs'Oml is the bed.
marked 3D." OH which was found the
lNdy of the child, and under which the
wretcllcd maniac Rolled in his death as-
"ny.
When Dur:ss heard the shot he rush
I'll in to bed room &c" and found it in
flames. \ strong scent Of Kerosene per-
va'lcd the air. The little boy laid on the
bed, encirclctl by flames. There was no
sign of the murderer. He bore out tll;.
LOdy If the child, but in the meantime
another hidden witness to the crime had
heard more particulars of the most
tragic scene on record. When Busch
rushed into the room where his hand
some, innocent boy lay peacefully sleep
ing, another boartlcr, in the room over
head, heard the father. soon to lHtUlne a
murderer, sob''iny and crying. When
Durcss ran i'm and found the
boy bleeding and wrapt in fire, he
,Durt-ss, cried out, "Oh, he Ina. killed
his child! Then the hidden witness
overhead heard the miserable wrctcl,
lwh0 had set his own house on fire, and
who was then crawling under the bed,
cry out: "Oh no, he did it hinlsclf!'
What blaspllenlOus but agonizetl ut
tcrance! The father had come into the
room, crnze.l with drink and jealousy.
He had fired a hall through the body Of
the sleeping innocent. Then the hoy
waking, seeing the flames, and gladly
recognizing in this hour of pain and
danger, that his father was standing by
his side, had called out, as heard by the
witness overhead, "Oh, Father" Then
the monster in human form, had shot
him again through the head, killing him
instantly. The lo<ly Of the child was
un;'urnc,l, hut he brsathed his last few
minutes after being carried t" the house
of Mr.. Williams. The first shot enter
I'll "n the r;.'ht side Of the body, just
above the stomach, and came out about
tw" and :.-l,;.ii inches t" the left OF the
spine. The second shot entered on the
left side OF the forehead and was taken
out to the right Of the l,asc If the skull.
being necessarily AMI Immediately i
fatal.
When the flames were finally cxtin-
"ui>hc!, after the sleeping Imar,lrr< had
with difficulty escaped from the house
which WAS soon Il bare mass q: cin.lcrs.
u bloody, m;rrratcd, misshap.n mon
>tr~ity which had once been Il human !
body WAS found in surl, II position as - :
indicate that it hal lain under tn, bed !
marked "D'' in the diagram,
rH:: WEAPON.
\ i"rty-tw" calihrc sclt-crking six
>ln"trr. Of Colts improved make, was
found in The ruins. This did the MUIR !,
Her. Kerosene lamp f:;rni>hin. oil for
Inc flames which sd rapidly 'ievo,,rc,i
the Whole house. How the n,urlcro,,s
suicide came to his end will never lie
known. Only two cartridges in the IT.
v"'vcr bore marks IF having been dis
charged. Nojury will be needed to de-
idle the ''dcep .lan,nation Of his taking
'ff''' before that higher tribunal to which
he has gone. He may have cut his
throat, he may have taken and most
likely did take poison. He possibly
hot himself. 1t is impossible to saw
which.
THE MURDERER
William Busch had twice attcmDte.l
uicidc In Helena, once by poison and
nee by pistol The first time a