Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1915 — SON SUSPECTED IN BION TRAGEDY [ARTICLE]

SON SUSPECTED IN BION TRAGEDY

Sensation Created by Revelation of the Alleged Guilty Knowledge of Son in Elder Bion’s Death. Wabash, Ind., Oct. 12.—A sensation was created here today when it ‘became known that. Morris Bion, 16 ymrs'.old, who it is alleged was present when his father, August Bion, in a fit of rage murdered Bert Fear and shot down his wife and three children a week ago, was suspected of guilty knowledge of the elder Bion’s death. It was reported at the time that Bion bent over a shotgun and pulled the trigger, thereby ending his existence after his attack on Fear and his family. The coroner, prosecuting attorney and chief of police put young Bion to a rigid examination. The investigation did not produce sufficient evi-s dence it is said to hold the youth.