Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1912 — Mystery Surrounds Man Who Died at DeMotte Recently. [ARTICLE]

Mystery Surrounds Man Who Died at DeMotte Recently.

The imploringa of friends were not sufficient to get H. H. Bush, who died Friday, March 22nd, at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Troxell, DeMotte, to tell anything of his past life or to give the name of any person who might furnish information. v, f Mr. Bush came to DeMotte several years ago and for some time worked for the Northern Indiana Land Co., when C. D. Shook was the foreman of the ranch. About eighteen months ago he took up his residence at the Troxell hotel, where be remained until his death. He was about 65 years of age I«tnd was a man of exempfary habits and of great industry. He Was * fine gardner, a good all around mechanic and was always doing something. He fiHufe maßy frteads snd provedßim .self a good citizen in every way/ He would never talk much about his past and never gave any information about his former residence. He talked some of having a son in the navy but would not give his name. He is also reported to have said that he carried 36.600 life insurance but no trace «f this could be found following his death. ’*• When it was realized that he could not live, acquaintances /asked him for information about himself but ,he Would not give sny and some decided ■.that he was going under an assumed .name. He said fr-ankiy that he did not want them to know a thing about his past, but assured them that there criminal about it/ He would not give them the nettte'jtlipv address of his son or tell anything about the life Insurance about which he had formerly claimed to have. In the hope that something might be learned concerning him, the body was held from Friday until the following Thursday, when it was buried in the DeMotte Bush shad shout |265 on his person and also had an account in the bank of Wheatfield, sufficient to take care of his .obligations and to bury him. He was a 82nd degree Mason, but refused to tell where he had held membership and George O. Stembel, of Wheatfield, and other Masons, who came to attend the funeral and acted as pall berers. refused to give the ritulistic burial ceremony because of the fact that he would not tell where he had belonged to the order. Shook claims that be owed him 3600 at the time of his death. • - Bush is said to have been in the county about ten. years ago and tot have worked for some time tael ibid near 'Wheatfield. ■ . L Stricken with pEr&lysjkj Mftfy 1 Mfli of Monroeville, jtfff Aisfrijtyyf saw home 8» tooroj