Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-08
A Man Supposed to be p. 3. Bush FounA
Dead I'm Central Park

DeSu In NeutfAt F0fk.
NEW YORK, Sept Sat i've O'Clock this
morning the dead body of a man was found In
the summer house i'm Central Park. He was
ssxfy years Of age feet 10 inches in height.
sack coat, black velvet vest gray pants, boots,
and white shirt. On his person was bag
ington,' package OF arsenic, and large smith
Wesson revolver. He Is supposed to have
Deen r; 5. Bush. He had letters to leading men
Arthur, also letters addressed to ali the news
papers Of this CITY,.
Park policemen who heard the report of the
weapon hurried to the spot and found the old
man Leaning against the railing with his face
SoiSer dropped Prom o% his nana ss the ocer
died Hs'psf had sonvs sses asis
let had entered his brain. Before the the shoot. DOT.
ing he had tied himself to the railing with a
rope In small leather satchel that lay beside
the reverse. offering to the finder the aiterna-
tive of opening them and reading their con.
tents or mailing them just as they were. There
were letters addressed to ex-President
Arthur, the editors Of the Galveston Ne,cs,
Express in Texas and to the Lowville Journal
and Republican In Lowvlll, N. Y; to Gov. z.
K. Lubbock and Gov. John Ireland at Austin,
large package inclosing letters and notes to
most of the newspapers in the city. Besides
these there were cards Of the Parker Hotel at
Washington and the Eagle Hotel at Jersey
City, at both of which the dead man had EVIL
oently been guest The body was removed
10 the morgue, where an autopsy disclosed the
fact that the suicide had swallowed half an
ounce of laudanum before he shot himself In
ms satchel was package of arsenic and an
empty phial that had contained laudanum. 1t
was covered with blood. On the shirt was the
mark Buck, NJ. d." The signature to all the
letters and ePistles was 1T. A. Buck" The
| AS the labels showed Some of the letters
were also dated Washington, as far back as
the besiiriling OF last month, and others were
written within few days in this city. They
were all the rawlings of an insane man, and
from them 1t appeared that the suicide was In
pursuit of Il cranky scheme to redeem the
world on new and better plan than the old
one. 1t appeared also from the letters that the
writer was d Texan and did not have a cent A
long rambling sermon on purity, the text for
which was furnished by Parson Newman )
funeral sermon on Gen. Grant, was dedicated
to THE statesmen, moraiists, better minds and
better thinkers of society and OF the world
There were special addresses To Bob Ingersoll
and Henry Ward Beecher, whom the writer
designated as two of the best men on the globe
ana charged to keep right at their work, but to
sive," he wrote to Mr.. Beecher "You came
pretty near knowing something once" He
charged Beecfcr and IngcrsoIi with the duty OF
seeing that the mass of heterogeneous stuff
he had left behind be published to the world.
He estimated the amount al t5pu PAGES all OF
II in the hands OF his son. Waiter Buck or de-
posted in the bank of George Il Sturgs,o Hills
boro lex. In one letter he spoke of all attempt
al suicide he made IL the AStur uoust. Oh Jan
uary ., 1884, and he wrote about his failure
with regret. The letters hat would have been
found with his dead body then, he said, were
IN the hands of his son Daniel, at blooming
Grove, lex. reference was also made in a let
ter OF projected attempt at suicide at Wash.
Inston that had come TO nothing.