Arizona republican., 1917-12-20

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 Mrs Bush, in an alleged confession of more than fifteen hundred words in length, says she was compelled to wit ness the murder of the boy and forced to assist Bush in disposing of the dis membered body. After the murder, the confession says, Bush went to his room, taking the aX with which he had chopped to pieces the body of his so2 and went to sleep.
 As Bush slept, his mother, fearing Bush would kill her when he awakened, entered the room and killed Bush with the ax, ehopping the body to pieces and boiling it in lye, then tossing the bones out into the yard.
 The confession was made before Coroner J. c. Allen at the inquest. Cor oner Allen tonight expressed the be- lief that Mrs. Bush had not told ths whole story. He said that he did not doubt that she had killed her son, but gave it as his opinion that she had hid den the body and that it would be found later.
 T want you to state to this jury, as briefly as you can, just what occurred last Saturday night" said Coroner Allen
 Well, the beginning of the trouble that led to the awful thing was that my sons wife's boy had taken money out of my pocketbook and I told his father about it and he said he would correct him." Mrs Bush said. He said he had punished the boy so often it didn't seem to do any good He didn't know what to do unless he sent him to the reform school He didn't 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 10 correct him about 10 o'clock.
 The child went out of doors through the front gate and down the road and after they had been out, I suppose about half an hour. he and the child came in the north kitchen door and went into the bedroom and went to bed. l was lying on tne couch in this room and only lay there a short time until l heard my son walk out of doors and I suppose he must have carried the boy out. After they had been out a few minutes he came to the kitchen door, where they went out, and called tO liIt tO Scl up anu COI1t out.
 T asked him what he wanted and he said get up and come. out When he went out, l followed him.
 The boy lay prostrate on the ground and l suppose he was dead a that time. When I walked up to him, my son was awfully nervous and seemed to be terribly excited and laboring un- ] der great strain and said:
 [" If Wqc an acrilaOt I want +o aot rect him and struck him too hard
 T said, Johnny, how did this hap | pen?' and he said. it happened just | like this, and We will have to do some 1 thing
 T said to him, Johnny, I have noth- ing in it with you to do this and he says, well you have got to help me We got to conceal this
 T said. Johnny, how can we do it? and he studied a little bit and was aw- fully nervous and excited. 1 had been making soap that afternoon and he knew I had some lye and he told me tc go into the cellar and bring the five cans of lye and when l. got back with the lye, he had the boys body in the vat
 Il refused before I went after the I've and said, Johnny, l cant do this ano he went to the closet and got mag aZine rifle and came towards me anC said you will
 T Tt seems to me that afterward l be- came excited and he repeated to me once or twice that l had to help hin get out of this
 T saw that I was going to have tC do what he told me to or he would kill me. So, when I got the lye. saio here it is,' and he says open the cans and pour them in there and then ht said get some water and pour ovel 1t and when l came back with bucke
 of water he said pour it in there ant he was starting a fire.
 He seemed to be hardly rational
 He told me to go to the house ana
 lie down. l am awfully weak myself
 and he started for the house and
 followed. When I came in I lay dowl . again on the couch, where I had beel in the first place, and he went int, the bedroom and lay down on the bed
 He had lain there, I think, five minute
 until he began to snore as if asleer but I knew that he wasn't After l listened to him snore ant knew that he was faking, 1 began t,
 get awfully scared. because it occure,
 to me something of what his intention were. 1 heard him get up and wall up lightly to where I was. Then l, thought he was going to kill me in hi excitement. in order to keep me iron telling what had happened.
 When I found him walking towar
 me I jumped up on my feet. Whel
 he heard me get up on the floor h
 went and lay down again. As 500 as he lay down, he began to snor again. After quite while, about fiv minutes, 1 guess. he supposed 1 ha gone to sleep. He got up and starte again.