Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — A FATHER ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

A FATHER ARRESTED.

6us Biishong is in Jail for Mistreating His Wife. Gus Bushong, who lives northeast of town, was arrested in Rensselaer last Friday on the charge of mistreating his wife, who says she is in fear of her life. A few days before his arrest Mrs. Bushong gave birth to twins, and is now very low with pneumonia as a result of exposure, presumably caused by being driven from the house by Bushong the evening before the birth of the twins. Bushong has been a terror not only to his family, but to the neighborhood, it is said, and has often threatened his wife with death. The Friday before, he beat his wife’s brother, who was at his house attending her in her sickness and drove him from the place, and since the birth they claim he has shaken his wife roughly and frightened her in various ways. Bushong is evidently insane, as the result of an attack of spinal meningitis contracted while a soldier in the Spanish war. Bushong is now in jail in default of |4OO bail. He will have his hearing before Squire Burnham Friday.