Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-12-20


Coroner Allen tonight expressed the
belief that Mrs, Bush had not told tho
whole story. He said that he did not
doubt that she had killed her son, but
gave 1t as his opinion that she had
hidden the body and that it would he
found later.
L want you to state to this Jury. as
briefly as you can, just what occurred
last Saturday night" said Coroner
Allen.
Boy Had Stolen Money.
well. the beginning of the troubls
that led to the awful thing was that
my sons wife's boy had taken money
out of my pocketbook and | told his
rather about 1t and he said he would
correct him." Mrs. Bush said. He
said he had punished the boy so often
II didn't seem to do any good He
didn't know what to do unless he sent
him to the reform school, He didn's
correct the child until night;
didn't say anything about it until
night. He was away all day and had
no chance to be with the child That
night he told the boy he was going to
correct him about 10 O'clock.
Gives Gruesome Details.
THE child went out of doors
through the front gate and down the
road and after they had been out |
suppose about half an hour he and the
chlld came in the north kitchen door
and went into the bed room. | was
lying on the couch in this room and
only lay there a short time when I
heard my son walk out of doors and
suppose he must have carried the
boy out. After they had been out a
rev minutes he came to the kitchen
door, where they went out, and called
to me to get up and come out
i asked him what he wanted and
he said, get up and some out When
he went out followed him.
Boy Is Killed.
The boy lay PROSTATE on the
ground and l suppose he was dead
at that time. When ] walked up to
him my son was awfully nervous and
seemed to be terribly excited and
laboring under great strain and
said
1t was an accident. / went to
correct him and struck him too
hard
81 said, Johnny, how did this hap
pen?' and he said 1t happened just
like this, and we will have to do
something
Il said to him, Johnny, have Moth
ing in it with you to do this and he
says, well you have got to help me.
We've got to conceal this
II said, Johnny, how can we do it
and he studied little bit and was
awfully nervous and excited. | had
been making soap that afternoon and
he knew / had some lye and he told
me to go into the cellar and bring
the five cans of lye and when / got
back with the lye he had the boys
body in the vat
Under Threat of Death.
II refused before | went after the
lye and said, Johnny, | can't do this
and he went to the closet and got 4
rifle and come towards me
and said, you will
1T seems to me that afterward l
became excited and he repeated to me
once or twice and he repeated to me
get out of this.
II saw that was going to have to
do what he told me to or he would
kill me. SO when got the lye, said,
here it is and he says, open the cans
and pour them in there and then he
said, get some water and pour over
it, and when came back with Il
bucket of water, he said, pour 1t i'll
there and he was starting a fire.
Meant to Kill HcI.
'He seemed to be hardly rational.
He told me to go to the house and lie
down. ! am awfully weak myself and
he started for the house and | fol-
lowed. When | came in l lay down
again on the couch, where | had been
in the first place, and he went into
the bedroom and lay down on the bed.
He had lain there, think five min
utes until he began to snore as il
asleep but | knew that he wasn't.
After | listened to him snore and
knew that he was taking. ! began to
get awfully scared, because it occurred
to me something of what his inten-
tons were, heard him get up and