Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-10-08
MORE DISCLOSURES
IN RUSH MURDER
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| clearly seen, one Oh the floor and an
other on bed.
Examination of the charred bodies
| by the coroner's jury disclosed gun
wads and shot in the back of Rush S
head, and the body was on the bed.
Paper gun wads were found in Mrs.
Rush's left shoulder, and her skull
had been crushed with a blunt in
strument.
Remains of a shotgun we're found
after men entered the ruins. In the
yard piece of a freshly splintered
gunstock was found, spattered with
human blood. An examination
showed that the fragment belonged
to the gun partly burned in the fire.
Admits Gun Belonged to Him
Victor d. Rush was examined by
the jury, and admitted that the part
ly burned gun belonged to him, but
insisted he had not seen it in more
than a week The conclusion reached
by members of the investigating
party is that Mrs. Rush had been
shot while in the house, and escaped
to the yard where she was struck on
the head with the gunstock. A piece
of the splintered wood fell off. Then
Mrs. Rush's body evidently was
dragged into the house, where it was
seen on the floor by Wilson when he
reached the place just before the
roof fell in.
Tracks in the yard showed where
feet had been heavily planted, and
the course of the dragged body was
plainly visible.
Victor d. Rush resides about rs
yards from the scene of the crime,
and it was when the bloody towel
was found in his house that he was
arrested. Chattanooga bloodhounds
tracked the course of a man between
Victor d. Rush's house and the ruins
of his deceased brothers. house.
Rush was brought to Crossville
tied with rope by Sheriff Toney
Yesterday afternoon. He is % years
OF age. 1t is declared that he sang
and whistled all the way here from
Grassy Cove, ate hearty supper
and talked laughingly with all at
the table before being committed to
Jail. Former Senator E. G. Toilet
and l.. NJ. Smith, of this place, have
been retained to defend Rush.
A dispatch in another Tennessee
paper contained the following in.
formation:
"A mass of evidence has accumu.
lated against the accused man, it ia
said. The killing was done with
No. IL shotgun loaded with No.
shot. Some shells corresponding to
the kind used in the gun were found
in the trunk of the accused man. He
admitted, also, that the gun was his.
The shooting was done at close range
in both instances and wads from the
gun were found in the bodies of the
murdered man and woman.
After the killing the murderer at
tempted to throw the gun into the
house, but the barrel and stock part
ed and the stock fell outside and was
not entirely consumed. The muir
derer lost a piece of his gun near
where the woman fell outside the
house.
THE bodies of the murdered man
and woman were so badly burned as
to be unrecognizable, the arms and
legs being largely burned off and the
bodies otherwise disfigured by the
fire.
Sheriff Toney found some shells
in the trunk of Victor Rush that fit
the gun and contain No. shot Rush
admits that the gun is his, but de-
MES being the murderer.
Victor Rush and the murdered
woman had quarreled a few days
ago. The farm, stock and crops were
owned Jointly by Will Rush and his
brother, Victor Rush. 1t is reported
that the father of the two men, John
Rush, had made will setting out
that the farm of 1919 acres should
not be sold to strangers, but that one
brother should buy out the part of
the other if they were not satisfied
to own it Jointly"
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