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William Huntington Russell (1809-85): Graduated Yale 1833. Founder of
Skull and Bones Society (or Russell Trust Association), which came to
dominate Yale. Founded prep school for boys, 1836. His secret
organization spread in the 1870s to Phillips Academy (AUV and the secret
societies), the Andover, Massachusetts prep school.
http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush7.html
from a Skull and Bones Society internal history, entitled Continuation
of the History of Our Order for the Century Celebration, 17 June 1933,
by The Little Devil of D'121.
>From the war days [W.W. I] also sprang the mad expedition from the
School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, that brought to the T[omb] its
most spectacular ``crook,'' the skull of Geronimo the terrible, the
Indian Chief who had taken forty-nine white scalps. An expedition in
late May, 1918, by members of four Clubs [i.e. four graduating-class
years of the Society], Xit D.114, Barebones, Caliban and Dingbat, D.115,
S'Mike D.116, and Hellbender D.117, planned with great caution since in
the words of one of them: ``Six army captains robbing a grave wouldn't
look good in the papers.'' The stirring climax was recorded by
Hellbender in the Black Book of D.117: ``... The ring of pick on stone
and thud of earth on earth alone disturbs the peace of the prairie. An
axe pried open the iron door of the tomb, and Pat[riarch] Bush entered
and started to dig. We dug in turn, each on relief taking a turn on the
road as guards.... Finally Pat[riarch] Ellery James turned up a bridle,
soon a saddle horn and rotten leathers followed, then wood and then, at
the exact bottom of the small round hole, Pat[riarch] James dug deep and
pried out the trophy itself.... We quickly closed the grave, shut the
door and sped home to Pat[riarch] Mallon's room, where we cleaned the
Bones. Pat[riarch] Mallon sat on the floor liberally applying carbolic
acid. The Skull was fairly clean, having only some flesh inside and a
little hair. I showered and hit the hay ... a happy man....''
George Bush's crowning as a Bonesman was intensely, personally important
to him. These men were tapped for the Class of 1948:
�Thomas William Ludlow Ashley
�Lucius Horatio Biglow, Jr.
�George Herbert Walker Bush
�John Erwin Caulkins
�William Judkins Clark
�William James Connelly, Jr.
�George Cook III
�David Charles Grimes
�Richard Elwood Jenkins
�Richard Gerstle Mack
�Thomas Wilder Moseley
�George Harold Pfau, Jr.
�Samuel Sloane Walker, Jr.
�Howard Sayre Weaver
�Valleau Wilkie, Jr.
Bush's Own Bones
Among the traditional artifacts collected and maintained within the High
Street Tomb are human remains of various derivations. The following
concerns one such set of Skull and Bones.
Geronimo, an Apache faction leader and warrior, led a party of warriors
on a raid in 1876, after Apaches were moved to the San Carlos
Reservation in Arizona territory. He led other raids against U.S. and
Mexican forces well into the 1880s; he was captured and escaped many
times.
Geronimo was finally interned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He became a farmer
and joined a Christian congregation. He died at the age of 79 years in
1909, and was buried at Fort Sill. Three-quarters of a century later,
his tribesmen raised the question of getting their famous warrior
reinterred back in Arizona.
Ned Anderson was Tribal Chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe from
1978 to 1986. This is the story he tells@s8:
Around the fall of 1983, the leader of an Apache group in another
section of Arizona said he was interested in having the remains of
Geronimo returned to his tribe's custody. Taking up this idea, Anderson
said that the remains properly belonged to his group as much as to the
other Apaches. After much discussion, several Apache groups met at a
kind of summit meeting held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The army authorities
were not favorable to the meeting, and it only occurred through the
intervention of the office of the Governor of Oklahoma.
As a result of this meeting, Ned Anderson was written up in the
newspapers as an articulate Apache activist. Soon afterwards, in late
1983 or early 1984, a Skull and Bones member contacted Anderson and
leaked evidence that Geronimo's remains had long ago been pilfered--by
Prescott Bush, George's father. The informant said that in May of 1918,
Prescott Bush and five other officers at Fort Sill desecrated the grave
of Geronimo. They took turns watching while they robbed the grave,
taking items including a skull, some other bones, a horse bit and
straps. These prizes were taken back to the Tomb, the home of the Skull
and Bones Society at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. They were put into
a display case, which members and visitors could easily view upon entry
to the building.
The informant provided Anderson with photographs of the stolen remains,
and a copy of a Skull and Bones log book in which the 1918 grave robbery
had been recorded. The informant said that Skull and Bones members used
the pilfered remains in performing some of their Thursday and Sunday
night rituals, with Geronimo's skull sitting out on a table in front of
them.
Outraged, Anderson traveled to New Haven. He did some investigation on
the Yale campus and held numerous discussions, to learn what the Apaches
would be up against when they took action, and what type of action would
be most fruitful.
Through an attorney, Ned Anderson asked the FBI to move into the case.
The attorney conveyed to him the Bureau's response: If he would turn
over every scrap of evidence to the FBI, and completely remove himself
from the case, they would get involved. He rejected this bargain, since
it did not seem likely to lead toward recovery of Geronimo's remains.
Due to his persistence, he was able to arrange a September 1986
Manhattan meeting with Jonathan Bush, George Bush's brother. Jonathan
Bush vaguely assured Anderson that he would get what he had come after,
and set a followup meeting for the next day. But Bush stalled--Anderson
believes this was to gain time to hide and secure the stolen remains
against any possible rescue action.
The Skull and Bones attorney representing the Bush family and managing
the case was Endicott Peabody Davison. His father was the F. Trubee
Davison mentioned above, who had been president of New York's American
Museum of Natural History, and personnel director for the Central
Intelligence Agency. The general attitude of this Museum crowd has long
been that ``Natives'' should be stuffed and mounted for display to the
Fashionable Set.
Finally, after about 11 days, another meeting occurred. A display case
was produced, which did in fact match the one in the photograph the
informant had given to Ned Anderson. But the skull he was shown was that
of a ten-year-old child, and Anderson refused to receive it or to sign a
legal document promising to shut up about the matter.
Anderson took his complaint to Arizona Congressmen Morris Udahl and John
McCain III, but with no results. George Bush refused Congressman
McCain's request that he meet with Anderson.
Anderson wrote to Udahl, enclosing a photograph of the wall case and
skull at the ``Tomb,'' showing a black and white photograph of the
living Geronimo, which members of the Order had boastfully posted next
to their display of his skull. Anderson quoted from a Skull and Bones
Society internal history, entitled Continuation of the History of Our
Order for the Century Celebration, 17 June 1933, by The Little Devil of
D'121.
�From the war days [W.W. I] also sprang the mad expedition from the
School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, that brought to the T[omb] its
most spectacular ``crook,'' the skull of Geronimo the terrible, the
Indian Chief who had taken forty-nine white scalps. An expedition in
late May, 1918, by members of four Clubs [i.e. four graduating-class
years of the Society], Xit D.114, Barebones, Caliban and Dingbat, D.115,
S'Mike D.116, and Hellbender D.117, planned with great caution since in
the words of one of them: ``Six army captains robbing a grave wouldn't
look good in the papers.'' The stirring climax was recorded by
Hellbender in the Black Book of D.117: ``... The ring of pick on stone
and thud of earth on earth alone disturbs the peace of the prairie. An
axe pried open the iron door of the tomb, and Pat[riarch] Bush entered
and started to dig. We dug in turn, each on relief taking a turn on the
road as guards.... Finally Pat[riarch] Ellery James turned up a bridle,
soon a saddle horn and rotten leathers followed, then wood and then, at
the exact bottom of the small round hole, Pat[riarch] James dug deep and
pried out the trophy itself.... We quickly closed the grave, shut the
door and sped home to Pat[riarch] Mallon's room, where we cleaned the
Bones. Pat[riarch] Mallon sat on the floor liberally applying carbolic
acid. The Skull was fairly clean, having only some flesh inside and a
little hair. I showered and hit the hay ... a happy man....''@s9
The other grave robber whose name is given, Ellery James, we encountered
in Chapter 1--he was to be an usher at Prescott's wedding three years
later. And the fellow who applied acid to the stolen skull, burning off
the flesh and hair, was Neil Mallon. Years later, Prescott Bush and his
partners chose Mallon as chairman of Dresser Industries; Mallon hired
Prescott's son, George Bush, for George's first job; and George Bush
named his son, Neil Mallon Bush, after the flesh-picker.
In 1988, the Washington Post ran an article, originating from the
Establishment-line Arizona Republic, entitled ``Skull for Scandal: Did
Bush's Father Rob Geronimo's Grave?'' The article included a small quote
from the 1933 Skull and Bones History of Our Order: ``An axe pried open
the iron door of the tomb, and ... Bush entered and started to dig....''
and so forth, but neglected to include other names beside Bush.
According to the Washington Post, the document which Bush attorney
Endicott Davison tried to get the Apache leader to sign, stipulated that
Ned Anderson agreed it would be ``inappropriate for you, me [Jonathan
Bush] or anyone in association with us to make or permit any publication
in connection with this transaction.'' Anderson called the document
``very insulting to Indians.'' Davison claimed later that the Order's
own history book is a hoax, but during the negotiations with Anderson,
Bush's attorney demanded Anderson give up his copy of the book.@s1@s0
Bush crony Fitzhugh Green gives the view of the President's backers on
this affair, and conveys the arrogant racial attitude typical of Skull
and Bones:
``Prescott Bush had a colorful side. In 1988 the press revealed the
complaint of an Apache leader about Bush. This was Ned Anderson of San
Carlos, Oklahoma [sic], who charged that as a young army officer Bush
stole the skull of Indian Chief [sic] Geronimo and had it hung on the
wall of Yale's Skull and Bones Club. After exposure of `true facts' by
Anderson, and consideration by some representatives in Congress, the
issue faded from public sight. Whether or not this alleged skullduggery
actually occurred, the mere idea casts the senior Bush in an adventurous
light''@s1@s1[emphasis added].
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