Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-02-28

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murder as was ever perpetrated In
the Rogue valley, the bodies OF the
Rev. Luther Bryant Akors and his
wife. Elsie. lie In the morgue today,
while their slayer. NJ. d. Bousman.
sr.. 10 held In the county Jail to
answer for the crime.
The double murder was committed
Sunday morning. al about o'clock.
near the farm home OF the Akers on
Bull creek. n small tributary OF the
Appiegaie four miles above Wilder
Vile. though tho bodies were not
found TIL 8 o'clock Sunday evening.
At that hour. J, II. Brinigar. COINS
up the road 10 the sawmill where
he was employed. came upon the
bodies OF Mr.. and Mrs. Akers lying
about 80 feet apart by the roadside.
while a short distance away was the
team that the Akers had been driy-
ing. one horse already dead and the
other near TO death. having been
shot by tho murderer.
Neighbor II Suspected
Lying near tho scene Of the tragedy
was found the canes that II was
known NJ. d. Bousman. who owned
an adjoining farm to that OF the
Akers. had been In the habit OF car
rying. and suspicion at once pointed
10 Bousman. II was also known that
there had been trouble between the
Akers and Bousman for number OF
years. and that the latter had threat
ened violence to both Mr.. and Mrs.
Akers on various occasions. Bous-
man had, In fact. been placed under
bonds at one time to observe tho
peace. Tho trouble between the
nsYsbors had been caused by dis
putes over fences and by the allow
ing OF the Bousman hogs TO run at
large.
Bousman Arrested
When Sheriff Smith was notified OF
the tragedy. he left ut once with
Deputy Dennison for the scene. go
ing TO the home OF Mr., Bousman.
When they raped upon the door,
nousman answered, asking who was
,ore. When told that Il was the
shd.F, b. Nssaed II there was q mob
outsf. and S.sN told there was not,
he GIFTED a lamN and admitted the
Mcors. When the sheriff asked
g,ousman II he know anything about
the murder down the road he replied
that he knew all about II, Snd at no
time mass.r att{gnpt to deny that
he was the perpeiiator. Inside the
house Bousman's HD-aS caliber Win
chester carbine, folly loaded. was
found lying upon the bed, but the old
man offered no resistance when
placed under arrcst BY the officers,
showing much relief that there was
no mob present to DC summary ven
geance,
Prisoner Confcsscs the Crime
The prisoner, who gave his age to
the Courier representative after he
had been lodged In she county jail
late at night as 90 years, looks to be
fully 20, his hair beng gray and his
long beard nearly white, As he sat
upon tho edge OF the cot within the
steel cage he tallsed Freely OF the
murder and of the causes that led up
TO It. He showed no remorse at his
act, but seemed rather to wish to
Justify himself for the killing. He
recounted the differences that had
grown up between himeslf and the
Akers during period Of four or
Ave years, the chief contention, ac-
cording to him, having been over his
having allowed his stock to run at
large, He said that nrst he had
raised goats, but because these
troubled his nelghbors he had sold
them and gone into the hog business.
The precinct voted not to allow hogs
to run at large, md the Akers made