Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — BURIAL OF MISS BUSCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BURIAL OF MISS BUSCH.

Last Act in Omaha’s Religious sad Social Scandal. A great crowd of women gathered at the German Baptist Church in Omaha to attend the funeral of Miss Augusta

Busch, who with the Rev. William C. Itabe was found dead in the church. The finding of the bodies of Rabe and Miss Busch and tho developments which revealed the double lives of these two seemingly irreproachable persons, constituted one of the greatest shocks that tho church peo-

ple of Omaha ever experienced. Rabo was pastor of the German Baptist Church and Miss Busch was a missionary connected with the same congregation. Their bodies were found early in the morning in the pastor’s study, where they had lain all night. Death was due to asphyxiation, gae having escaped from a small gas stove. The coroner’s Jury returned a verdict to the effect that death had been caused by accidental asphyxiation due to their own carelessness. At the Inquest letters found in Babe’s effects were produced and they showed that he had led the same double life in Buffalo and elsewhere as in Omaha. Mr. Rabe was 54 years old and leaves a wife and son. Mies Busch was 31 years old.

AUG USTA BUSCH.