Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-12
Schmidt store the day before she COM

mitted the act.
Emphasis was given to the claim
that no more than very friendly rela-
tions existed between Rush and Lulu
Warner. the telephone girl
He charged Mrs. Rush with being
jealous, and of assaultipg Miss Warner.
and he asserted that 1t would be proved
that Mrs Rush shot her husband while
he was sitting, in his chair at his desk,
States Resume Of Case.
In opening County Attorney Clock
said the Rushes has been married ten
years. and had. lived almost two years
at Sheffield. Their home was in the
depot building. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Rush, he said. became prominent in So
cial and church life of Sheffield soon
after going there.
tIe described the station building and
the arrangement of its interior. He
asserted the state would show that
Rush was frequently absent from his
office while collecting freight bills.
During such times it was his custom to
have the telephone girl keep record OF
the calls to the station. and he fire.
quently stopped In the phone office
when up town, and answered them.
In this way he came to know Miss
Warner and the other girls employed
at the exchange.
The state alleges that Rush, when
asked by his wife regarding the post
card. said he knew nothing about il.
Clock continued by telling of Mrs Rush
purchasing the revolver at the Schmidt
store Thursday. where she was shown
how to open 1t. He charged that he
would show that Mrs. Rush went to
President Leonard, Of the telephone
company. and asked that the Warner
girl be discharged. She told him while
there her troubles. She said to Leonard
that she was going home the next day.
Tells Story Of Murder.
"The state will prove" he said, that
late in the afternoon Of Friday. Aug. 4,
Mrs. Rush came into her husbands S
office with a chicken in her apron, and
a revolver in her hand. Rush was sit
ting at his telegrapher's desk. Mrs.
Rush went to the east end of the room
and started to talk to him about the
post card. Hot words followed. and
both became very angry. While in the
midst Of the conversation she turned
and fred the shot that killed him. She
fired while he sat at the desk. and
W
room After she fred he got up The
revolver dropped from her hands. He
picked 1t up took the cylinder out. and
1t dropped under wall desk. He put
the revolver down on his telegra pher' s
desk and walked to the telephone. Mrs,
Rush also tried to telephone While
| walking across the room Rush fell in
front of his desk Following the mur-
n 1x,ft ba inc
Evidence Of Post Mortem.
The evidence which the state claims
to have as growing out OF the post
mortem examination was told in detail
by Clock. He described how the bull
let entered Rushs left wrist passed
thru the muscles of the forearm. and
entered the hsdy two and one-quarter
inches below the left nipple. passing
between the sixth .,lld seventh ribs. II
| ranged downward thru the apex OF the
heart, diaphram, lobe Of the liver, and
was found lodged against the spine
was found three and one-puarter
inches below the point Of entrance. and
its course downward was at an angle
of about forty y-tlve degrees.
I'VE Will prove" Clock said. that
: Lue one llTlnS lildl SHol % WAS lliCIl
higher up than the person shot"
He described how Mrs. Rush, scream
ing and wringing her hands. rushed out
OF the station and found F.. II. Chiches
ter manager Of the Farmers elevator
near by. and told him II shot Willard:
he made for me-"
Clock told by telling Of the efforts
| Chichester made to get doctor by
<11o Il no L.,
Of Rushs body and stove poker, and
in regard to the latter said 1T was
lying near Rush's left hand. point to-
ward him, ringed end or handle away
from him. He told briefly how Mrs
Rush went to the James Hawke home
and told Mrs. Hawke she had shot
Willard. "He was coming for me.
were her words Clock used.
Andrews Outlines Defense.
In rather brief resume of the main
points of the case that he expects to
prove without attempting to touch on
clients defense Some of the minor
and less important details of the state S
case were admitted by the attorney
Coming down rapidly in his state
ment MIR Andrews said Mrs. Rush was
would not believe the gossip and rum
ors she had heard regarding him and
Miss Warner.
About three weeks before the muir
der he said, she demonstrated with
Rush, and advised him not to have
anything more to do with Miss War
per. because Of the rumors, and re-
gardless of whether they were true or
not Andrews said Rush abused his
wife with hot words and threats OF
| personal violence.
This conversation. he said, took place
in the office of the station. Mrs. Rush
went up stairs following 1t. Going VI
a moment later Rush. he declared
threatened his wife with revolver
and said IF YOU interfere between us
your life will not be worth that.
meaning, the attorney indicated. a snap
Of the finger.
Believed Him Dangerous.
Mrs. Rush became convinced, An
Grews continued, following her hus-
hand threatening her, that she was in
the hands of dangerous man. From
| that time she lived life Of dread and
fear
Rush kept a revolver at the station
and when Mrs. Rush was alone after