Show i PARETIC SLAYS SCHOOL PRINCIPAl Jealous J Janitor an lor Planned to Burn Twenty Girls and Kill Wife if e Br TIT Universal Los Ios Angeles Feb leb 25 Miss 5 Miss Frances Housel principal of tho Hall school for girls or of South Pasadena one ono of oC tho the most fashionable Institutions of oC Its kind in tho the tho west wes was shot In her I room ro room m at 3 o'clock this morning b by tar Ilar- tarry ry Var Warren n Bowen a paretic whose purpose had been to slay his wife Itc Before this act ael Bo Bowen wen drenched the woodwork of or the tho kitchen and old clothes and furniture stored in the attic with distillate After firing iring the fatal bullet he rushed to the l kitchen and applied ap- ap plied a match Ho lie figured that the flames lames would shoot up the tho flue into tho the attic and that the tho house would be destroyed Ho lie went outside to wait walt for his wife who as ho supposed would be driven out b by the fire elre Aged j Father In I Hero But nut IL lL II n Housel SO Q 0 father of oC the thc slain principal heard tho the crackling flames James and reached tho kitchen in time to save avo tho the lives of forty girls asleep on tho the second floor That he should have havo done this was almost a miracle as he used buckets of water on the dis dis- e and this thiS' according to firemen Usually accelerates th the fuel After Atter waiting In a a. near nearby summer house until he l knew new that his incendiary diary scheme had be been n defeated Bowen fired ired a a. bullet into his head Ie Girl Find Madman adman 1 Officers searched the tho countr countryside si o for him for hours supposing he lie had es es- es At S o'clock this morning a little lit lit- lit tle lie girl irl entered tho Ue summer house to look for a book and found round the bod body Mrs Laura Bowen the widow ascribed as as- as the crimo to delusions of suspicion suspicion sus sus- and Jealousy jealous int induced ced b by paresis She had her husband confined to the tho psychopathic ward of tho the country hos pital a a. year ago Later ho wa was employed em em- as gardener at the tho school |