The Glenwood post., 1919-04-12
Most Gruesome Story by Aged
Woman Of Killing Son
and Little Grandson
COOKED THE BODIES

Aoatrose, April 7.-Nancy Jane Bush,
Oh trial for the murder of her son and
grandson and charged with disposing
of their bodies by chopping them up
and making soap out of the flesh in
rendering vat and then placing the
bones in stove and trying to burn
them up, was placed on the witness
stand on her own behalf today in the
district court. She was examined by
Charles J. Moynihan of counsel for the
defense
Mrs. Bush gave the same testimony
as given and signed by her at the cor
oner's inquest up to the point where
she told about killing her son, but
there she changed and said she did not
kill him as previously stated. In a
sruesome manner, apparently without
s1y great emotion, she told of the
grandson stealing some of her money
and how her son, John, chastised the
boy, ls years cid, severely for it. They
were outdoors and John left the boy
lying on tne ground. Later they found
that the lad was dead and the question
cane up as to how to dispose of The
body. She said that John finally
thought of chopping up the body AID
prtting it in the rendering vat. At the
point of gun he made her assist him
in this, tut she refused to put the con
centrated I'VE upon the pieces of body.
she tried to run away and John ran
liter her and knocked her down and
unconscious, striking her on the back
Of the head with GARD. He made hor
como back and help him dispose of
the remains.
Mrs. Bush said that after the boy
had been disposed of, she and John re-
tired in separate rooms. While she was
lying there she heard John get up and
come to her door twice and she asked
him what he wanted, she being afraid
Of him. He said he did not want any
thing and went back to bed. She final
ly got up and went to his room and
found him asleep. She saw the az that
he was going to kill her with and she
picked it up and held it over him, and
then called him, having to call two or
three times before he answered, as he
was sleeping soundly. Then she asked
hin if he intended to kill her with
that AZ and he said he did not. Then
she told him he had better leave the
country right away or he would be
charged with murder, and so it was
agreed that he should leave that night,
he agreeing to do 50 only on the under
standing that she tell that she had
killed him, too. That was the reason
she said she told that story at the in
quest and that it was for the purpose
of protecting him so he could get out
of the country.
At the coroner's inquest she testified
that she was satisfied John intended
to kill her when he came to her room
twice and so after he had gone back to
bod and was breathing deeply she got
up and went to his room, where she saw
an AZ sitting at the side Of his bed.
She picked up the ak, and being con-
vinced that he intended to kill her,
something told her to kill him, so she
struck him on the head with the az and
crushed the skull, the blood splatterins
all over the wall. She then told of how
she dragged the body out Of the little
hut and placed it on small wagon and
hauled it ont to the vat and chopped it
up and did with it the same as they
lad done with the body Of the boy.
DIR. stadler of Ouray testified for the
defonse stating that the bone which
the Denver specialist had testified was
the tibia Of an adult was not large
enough to have come from an adult.
He testified that she was suffering
from senile dementia.
Upon crossexamination by District
Attorney Burgess, the doctor admitted
the senile dementia was condition OF
the nind resultant from old age and
was sort Of childishness. And then
he admitted that Mrs. Bush was not
inHane.
In Esbuttal, Nfs. Chadwick Of Grand