Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1901 — Bushoung Is Arrested. [ARTICLE]

Bushoung Is Arrested.

Gus Bushsung, husband of Mrs. Ora Bushoung, who gave birth to. twin boys Sunday, and is now very low with pneumonia, a few miles northeast of town, was arrested in town Friday p. m., by Constables Vick and Childers. The warrant was sworn to by Mrs. Bushoung, who states that she is in fear of her life from him. According to the story told by Mrs. Bushoung and her mother, Mrs. Henkle, he has been terrorizing the family, and in fact the neighborhood. They state that he has threatned to kill his wife, her mother and then himself. Also that on the very evening before the children were born, he frightened his wife so that she left the house and went to the neighbors. He was taken before Squire Burnham and his hearing set for next Friday May 31st. He is held under bonds of S4OO. He denies all that is charged against him.