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g CAPTAIN B. C. BUNBURY DEAD Well Known Veteran Trainer Suddenly Passes Away Saturday Morning in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 13. Captain Bernard C. Bunbury, 77, and one of the oldest active trainers in this country, died suddenly and without visible suffering in his apartment in Gentilly Road, within a stones throw of the Fair Grounds, here this morning. The veteran turfman, widely known and greatly beloved throughout racing, was stricken only a short time after rising, and died before medical aid could be summoned. Up to the last he was most active, and this, despite somewhat ailing health during recent months. At the time of his death he was training the horses of August B. Letel-lier, of New Orleans, and those of Gus F. Schreiner, of Kerrville, Texas. He saddled Green Wave, owned by Letellier, for his winning performance at the Fair Grounds Tuesday, Mardi Gras day. The deceased came from fine Irish parentage and was born in Dublin. At twenty-six he came to this country with a group of Irish and English friends, and all settled in the cattle country of Texas. Some years after settling in Texas, Captain Bunbury became interested in thoroughbreds and was placed in complete charge of the vast breeding ranch and properties of John A. Morris at Fredericksburg, Texas. Later he trained for O. G. Parke of Kyle, Texas, and raced with much success the get of imported Gallantry, which stood at the Parke stud. For many years he was employed by Charles F. Schreiner, banker of Kerrville and father of Gus F. Schreiner, for whom Captain Bunbury had five two-year-olds, all by Swope and bred by their owner, at the Fair Grounds this winter. The deceased is said to have seen military service both in Ireland and England, and during his boyhood rode a number of races in Ireland. A sister, residing in southern France is the nearest kin surviving, and Admiral Beatty, the distinguished British naval officer, is a distant relative. The remains were removed to the Shoen Parlor, Elysian Fields Street, and announcement of funeral arrangements will be made later.
