The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-23
After FOys Home at EnsIey Had Burned Horrible Sight
 Mas Disclosed
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF
 4 YOUNG ELECTRICIAN
Police Are Investigating Origin of the Fire and the Murder Theory
 Has Been Advaneed-Mr.
 Bunch We'll Connected.

In the smoking ruins of the home of J. T. Fox at Ensley the mutilated remains of Odis Bunch. young electrician, were found yesterday morning shortly after daylight The head was almost severed from the body, as f slashed with some sharp instrument, and the broken and distorted limbs, separated from the un- slightly trunk, were found In different parts of the room. When found the body was lying beside a wrecked piano, where 1t had fallen from the room above when the floor gave way to the flames.
 The house which was destroyed was ten-room structure. situated on the cor ner of Avenue D and Twenty-fourth street. and was occupied by Mir Fox and family, who conducted boarding house. Eighteen young men roomed at the house and all were asleep when the house was discovered ablaEe. By leaping from upper stery windows in their night clothes all of the young men escaped except young Bunch Several of them sustained slight injuries and lost all of their belongings.
 Flames Past Control.
 The flames were past control when dis covered and the house and all It's con tents were destroyed. The loss is total as there was no. insurance carried.
 When the inmates of the house had gotten together 1t was found that young Bunch. who Is only IS years of age. was missing. A search of the ruins revealed his dismembered body, horribly burned in what had been the parlor.
 It was at first reported that he had started down the steps, but finding them on fire rushed back up the stairs into another young mans room with the hope of escaping from one of the windows As he reached the center of the room the floor gave way and he was precipitated to the lower floor Later this story could not be substantiated and on account of the mutilated condition of the body sus- picion was aroused as to how he came to his death. The Ensley police are inves- tigating the matter but as yet have made no arrest. The officers say that 1t would have been impossible for the body to have been so dismembered merely by the fall. The theory Is advanced that young Bunch was murdered and the house set on fire to hide the crime. No alarm was turned in until the structure was almost con- sumed
 Relatives Are Wealthy.
 Odis Bunch came to Ensley from Pulaski Tenn, several months ago and secured a position in the Ensley steel mills as an electrician. His family is said to be wealthy and after a techni- cal education, he had left home to get experience in some of the large indus- trial plants of the south. He was paid big salary in full aSturady but none of his money has been found, though 1t is possible 1t was destroyed in the fire.
 On account of the quick destruction of the house 1t was rumored that the strue- ture may have been fired to secure the insurance money. but this was soon dis carded as absurd because no insurance was carried.
 The entire affair Is enveloped in mvs tery and the city attorney and police are working hard to solve it. No direct charges have been made against any individual. but on account of the hor rible mutilation of the boys body the authorities deemed an investigation nee essary
 James Bunch. a brother of the dead boy arrived last night and had the remains sent to Pulaski, Tenn. were funeral services will be held tomorrow.