Show confession OF IS MADE BY A STATE SENATOR mental strain too great to bear drives a missouri legislator to disclose a shameful disregard of honor and decency st louis may 15 unable to bear the strain of mental torture which he says he has suffered since the grand jury investigation vesti gation into instituted former stale senator fred L busche went before circuit attorney folk this afternoon and made a complete and far reaching confession of his connection with corrupt deals extending over a period years duschek Du declarations involve several men of prominence and he names those who have been conspicuous at the state capital aa distributors of boodle later busche was taken before the grand he remained an hour when he emerged from the jury room tears were rolling down his cheeks with his face buried in his handkerchief he hurried down the steps to the eleventh street exit of the building 1 I will give you until monday to tell all you know about bo was the ultimatum which mr folk served on the senator the other day all right mr folk replied busche 1 I will think all over it has worried me a good deal 1 I had to do those things said in reciting his story to the circuit attorney there were circumstances that made a fellow take money or else get the worst of it busche then went on to narrate hia connection with legislation four years ago ho prefaced his remarks by saying that all of money was used at that time to influence legislation money he said vis offered on pretty nearly everything of importance the steam and street railroad interests were always very active and their representatives paid us busche proceeded to rime several senators who profited handsomely from legislation at the 1899 session and in eluded one or two who are members of the present assembly lie broke doan twice while confessing to sir folk and weeping bitterly said 1 I am telling these things only to arise my mind going back to the thirty eighth assembly when the bill to create a school book commission was one of the issues before the legislature busche said the school book trust put up a big fund 1 I got 1000 he said and others got just ds much and some maybe more on one occasion he said there was a resolution presented to have all bills held in committee I 1 got for holding up that resolution killing bills by smothering them in committee was very common said he because of the statute of limitations which prevents prosecution three years after the crime is committed none of the men against whom busche has testified can be indicted |