Newspapers, Adair County KY: The Adair County News  12-Jan-1898

Submitted By: Laura Frost Wright <lsllwright@fuse.net>
Submission Date: 09-Aug-2000

Jesse HODGE, a farmer near Lewsburg, dropped dead.
It costs Mason County fifty dollars a day to guard her toll-gates.
An infant child of John ROBY of McLean County was burned to death.
A little daughter of Colonel HUNPHREY of Caldwell County was burned to death.
James Reed FULKERSON, a prominent farmer of Daviess county, committed suicide
   by hanging.
S.W. BARROW, a merchant of Logan County, was attacked by robbers and
   narrowly escaped death.
Raiders have threatened to destroy the property of members of the Garrard
   County court if Pikes are not freed.
General Cash CLAY has written a book of the "Vendetta" and sold the
   manuscript to the New York Herald for $100
Robt. L. PRATHER, a married man, is under arrest at Flemingsburg charged
   with abducting sixteen year old Anna-Bell BROWN.
At Russellville, Robert EVANS, aged seventeen, stabbed to death his
   schoolmate George DUNCAN, about the same age, during a boyish quarrel,
   while returning home from school.
Friday night, fifty or more negroes who live at Glendale, Hardin County, got
into a fight with the result that Bob KLINLESMITH stabbed Charles SMITH to
death. During the fight, Charles SMITH's mother ran in to help her son and
it is said someone cut her in fifteen different places.

Murderer: J.BUSHMAN, the murderer of his mother-in-law Mrs. STEWART, was
arrested by Louis STUBER, his brother-in-law, in a cornfield about
seventy-five yards from the house where the deed was done. He was brought
to town and carried before "Squire Collins" and, upon waving trial, was
committed to jail to await the next term of Circuit Court. BUSHMAN said
yesterday that he was coming to town to surrender when arrested, and that
the night before he had gone sixty miles from Paris, crossing into Kentucky.
He was consideraby exhausted and suffered from the effects of exposure since
he became a fugitive. Sheriff HAYNES and possee and City Marshall MILLS were
out searching for him when he was arrested by STUBER. It is not known
whether STUBER will claim the $100 reward offered for BUSHMAN'S arrest. It
was feared that BUSHMAN would resist arrest. It is also believed that he
ventured back to the scene of his crime with the intention of killing his
wife who had been very anxious to see him arrested and punished.
Mrs. Mary Ann STEWART, keeper of the house of ill-fame near Paris, was shot
by her son-in-law, BUSHMAN, on Christmas Eve, from the effects of which she
died Sunday evening. BUSH, as he is generally known, was trying to extort
money from his wife and her mother and became engaged in a fight with his
wife when the old woman interferred. Whereupon he drew his pistol and opened
fire on both, the bullets aimed at his wife going wild, but one struck
Mrs. STEWART on the fourth rib on the right side, glancing around and passing
out the back. It is said that the woman was armed, but it is not known to be a
fact. Immediately after the shootong, BUSH came to town and bought a quantity
of morphine and made his escape. Since then, he has been (seen) in the
vicinity by several negroes and had been chased day and night by Sheriff
HAYNES and posse and Marshal MILLS but had managed to elude the officers. He
is about 40 years of age with his home being at Bowling Green, but came
originally from Indiana. He married a daughter of the murdered woman in 1892.
The murdered woman was buried in the city cemetery. She was born of
respectable parentage in this County and led a virtuous life until the War,
her husband being a respectable man and a Confederate soldier. For many years
she kept the house of ill-fame near town where she met her violent death. The
name of STEWART was neither her maiden name nor that of her husband but an
assumed one. There is a strong feeling against BUSHMAN here.
Bowling Green Times

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