Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-26
MURDERERS OF
GETTYSBURG MAN
TO VISIT SCENE
Youths Who Slew Garage
Owner to Point Out Spot
of Crime
CONFESS TO THE KILLING
Robbery Was Motive of Crime
Which Gave Them So
in Cash

Clarence J. Collins. and Charles c.
Reinecker, Gettysburg lads who last
night confessed TO the murder of
George J. Bushman. well-to-do Get
tysburg garage man, Wednesday
night, October 16. will be taken in an
automobile to the scene of the crime,
supposedly near Idaville. on the road
from Carlisle to Gettsburg, to de-
termine if the murder was committed
in Adams or Cumberland county.
The men cannot tell the exact To-
cation of the shooting, and it will be
necessary TO return to the scene be-
fore the men are turned over to the
authorities OF either county. When it
is finally determined where Bushman
was murdered. the case will be dis
charged by the authorities OF Dau-
phn county through Alderman
Shaner. who made out the informa-
tion. II is likely the trip will be
made Monday or Tuesday.
Ages FaISiticd
Renieckeg gave his age as Is. but
authorities have reason to suppose he
is at least two years older. Reinecker
lived with his sister In Gettys burg.
Both his parents are dead.
Collins also gave his age as Is. but
it is said he is 2l years old, 1t also
is said he is married. He figured in
a white slave case a ( one time, detec-
ttves say, but was acquitted. He has
been living with his widowed mother
on the Baltimore pike, five miles out
of Gettysburg.
Collins was arrested by Detective
Wilson. OF Adams county, at the
Lands Tool Works in Waynesboro
Thursday night. Reinecker was ar
rested at Reiehles' Butcher shop in
Gettysburg yesterday. They made
partial confession to Wilson at Get
tysburg yesterday and when Harry
c. White, private detective, brought
them TO the county jail here last night
both men made what was learned a
complete confession to the authori-
ties
According to both young men,
Reinecker fired the shots. The sec
ind shot was for precaution. fired
into the dead mans breast at such
close range it burned his coat. The
second shot WAS fired after he had
been bundled into the tonneau for
the gruesome trip from Mount Holly
TO Harrisburg. and then up the river
road, for tipal disposal of the body.
According to the confession. Bush
man was in the act of running his
automobile into his garage at about
o'clock Wednesday evening, Octo-
Der Is. when Reinecker and Collins
hailed him and asked him TO take
them 10 Carlisle. Bushman agreed
TO take them. s. to be paid in ad-
vance, and the remaining s. when
they began their return trip from
Carlisle to Gettysburg. The trip to
Carlisle was made and at II o'clock
were ready to return to Gettysburg.
Without asking for the remaining 81
owed him, Bushman complied
Shortly after they passed Mount
Holly. the murder was committed
Collins rode beside Bushman in the
front seat, ReinecSer was in the
tonneau. Reinecker pulled a 3S-cali-
her revolver from his pocket. and shot
Bushman in the back Of the head
Bushman was driving very slowly,
and fell over the steering wheel,
Collins jammed on the brakes. after
which the two boys lifted the inert
form into the tonneau. where they
fired another shot TO insure that he
would be dead 1t was then they went
through his pockets, and found only
the five dollars they had given him,
and eighty cents in change. They
expressed surprise last night when
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