The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-06-15
IAN Of MYSTERY
|sHARRY BUSHNELL.
|PONT|ACPR|S0NER3
1nIIor Of the Lakes, in Jail for Shoot
rs william Tate and Suspected Of
Killing Frank Bevier, Puzzles
Pontiac People.
Has Spent Half His Life Exploring
highways and By,ways of tho
Middle West.

(Tlmes' staff corresPondsnt)

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PONTIAC. Mich. June HILARY
Bushnell. In jail here on q charge OF
having attempted TO kill William
Tate, OF Detroit, at Cass Lake. on
Sunday, May 2s, and suspected OF
having shot and killed Frank Bevier
also OF Detroit, on Franklin boule-
ward. this city. II q man Of mystery.
Born IN Oswego, N. Y, 2e years ago
be hiss spent half his life exploring
the highways and by-ways OF the
Great Lakes az sailor. Almost two
years ago-after he had married the
daughter of well-to-do farmer LIVING
near Pennington. he came to Pontiac
and obtained employment In factory
that makes automobile bodies.
He was one OF the best workers
IN this factory. The foreman says he
never heard Bushnell say much about
himself. He always carried an air
Of mystery. At nights when he up
peared on the streets his wife was
usually with him and he was con-
Bfdered an ideal home man. He work.
ed IN the factory until Saturday, May
"a. Had not the shooting occurred
at Cass Lake, he probably would
have returned TO work the following
Monday, but the next his employers
heard OF him was the news that he
had been arrested In Milwaukee.
There he was discovered under the
name Of Morgan" q fireman on q
big lake freighter.
The shooting ARRAY at Cass lake In
the center around which this wheel OF
mystery revolves. Sheriff Tnpp says
Bushnell has confessed that he shot
Tate, but that he fred In self
defense, after Tate had emptied
his shotgun at MIN. He has not ex.
planned why he fired first over Tate
and his wife ''just to scare them"
a. he puts It. Even Sheriff Trip 10
unable to supply q motive for the
Cass Lake affair. nor has Bushnell
given one.
Bushnell was arraigned in NUM-
cipal court Tuesday. His attorneys,
Frank l.. Doty and Glenn Gillespie,
waived the reading of the complaint
and demanded an examination which
Justice Stockwell set for Tuesday.
June "a at a m. BAH was fixed at
$4,000. Bushnell's attorneys said
they would not attempt 70 obtain
bail for their client until after the
examination.
Bushnell is tall with a breadth OF
shoulders that come from hard work
on the lakes. His hair ID black his
hazel eyes dull and brooding. His
lips are drawn tightly when his
mouth IL closed. He looks like he had
seen the grosser aspects of the world.
unconscious Of restrictions and linn
ftafions.
Mrs. Bushnell lives two blocks from
the gloomy building where her hus-
band L. prisoner. Her eyes filled
with tears when she saw him In court
Tuesday She shook hands with
him and inquired how he felt. Mrs.
Bushnell owns their home In Pontiac.
She Is supplying the funds TO hire
attorneys and otherwise provide an
adequate defense for her husband.
She refuses to discuss the Bevier
case. the attorneys having cautioned
Bushnell and herself to say absolutely
nothing. Neither will Sheriff Trip
disclose all the facts which may war.
rant him to suspect that Bushnell kill
Cd Bevier while he was walking with
Mrs. Cassie Ellis, an employe OF a
4 1ve-cent theater. on Franklin boule-
ward. Mrs. Ellis effort to Identity
Bushnell as the man who shot Bevfer
was not az successful az had been ex.
pected by the officers.
The sheriff told me that you knew