The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-17
TOO MUCH BIBLE
FOR MRS. BUSH
Wife of Officer of 10th Infantry
Secures Divorce for
Cruelty.

SAN FRANCISCO. October s.--By
! the granting Of a divorce al Winnie
mucca. New TO Flora Bush from her
husband, Captain Ross L. Bush of the
Tenth Infantry. stationed at Alcatraz
island. marital tragedy is marked
| as a result of incompatibiity OF tenn
permanent
| Both parties to the separation are
prominent in Army life. although NOV
i ing in widely separated strata Of So
! ciety. Mrs. Bush is the daughter of
I Colonel and Mrs. Alfred Girard. both
Of whom are well known in this city.
IColone. Girard. who is attached to the
medical department of the Army, and
who at one time was in charge of the
Preside Hospital. is now making his
home in Alameda. Mrs. Girard is in
Manila.
The tongue of gossip has wagged in
dustriously about the affair for some
time, the fact that the pair were mis-
mated being plainly evident to their
friends. Captain Rush as of a retir-
ing, serious-minded disposition, not
overly fond Of the ordinary frivoIties
Of social life, while Mrs. Bush crave1
indulgence and pleasure
The parting had its inception after
visit 10 Manila by Captain Bush. dur
ing which he became deeply religious.
II
Bush, who produced affldavits to sus-
tain her plea. that it was an overzeal
in reading the Bible which was her
principal complaint against her hus-
band. These affidavits. which We're
made by prominent Army officers of
the Preside and surgeons of the Army /
tended TO show that Captain Bush was /
almost a religious fanatic. Reading |
the Bible and praying were his only !
aVoeations, according to these state
ments.
Mrs. Bush, on the contrary, was of i
a dashing, pleasure-loving disposition. /
She was a talented musician and a |
pleasing vocalist. She was a crack
shot with a pistol, and often broke |
records in contests with the Army Of |
fcers and their wives. She was a lead
er in Army society.
READ BIBLE TO HER.
Shortly after Captain Bush's reIi-
gious conversion he forbade her furth-
er indulgence in these pleasures so
dear to her heart. and desired that she
stay at home all the time and listen
while he read the Bible He demand
ed that she cease attendance at the
social functions and drop the pastimes
SO pleasing 10 her.
Mrs. Bush in her complaint declar-
ed that this was cruelty of the most
extreme kind. even though it was men
tai instead of physical. She said that
her husband, by his actions and his
peculiar religious ways, had broken her
health and made her tired of life.
There is another side to this story.
however, which is related by the
friends of Captain Bush. They link
her name with that OF a prominent Ne
vada miner, who belongs to a very
well-eonnected Boston family.
At the time of the Spanish War,
Captain Bush was sent to Cuba, and
later TO the Philippines. His wife fol-
lowed him to the latter place. She
was living in the city in luxurious
stvle while he was in the field.
From Manila Bush was ordered back
. the Pacific Coast with his regiment.
MS wife accompanying him. When the
Tenth was sent to Honolulu Mrs. Bush
behind on the plea Of caring
,or her eldest child. boy. and sTent
he major part of the captains income
1t Del Monte and various resorts The
,aptain, his friends declare. stinted
himself even to the point of denying
himself ordinary comforts and dress
ng with the utmost shabbiness that
le might satisfy his wife's demands
or money.
When Captain Bush was sent to Al
atraz on detached duty, his regiment
having gone to Alaska, Mrs. Bush, who
lad sent the boy TO Winnemucca, New,
n the meantime sent her two other
and finally went there her
'elf
There, it is alleged, she was Joined
" the man with whom her name has !
,een linked.
After securing her divorce Mrs. Bush
old the judge that she intended leav-
ng Immediately for Paris and would
pend a year travelling with her par