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Show 8T. LOUIS' LATEST SENSATION. The Principal Actors la lbs Ilowmsn-Chambers Ilowmsn-Chambers Tragedy. Frank J. Bowmsn.who was shot recently In Missouri by B. M. Chambers, was in bis AUtb year. He was born in Barnard, Wlndsorcounty, Vt, of poor parents. After getting a limited lim-ited education he entered a law ofllca at Woonsocket When the civil war broke out be was 21 years old. He anllsted as a privet and cam out a major. When tho war ended he went to Bt. Louis and practiced law till 1877, when be was disbarred for irregular practices. a rUAXX t. bOWMAM B. M. CBAMBtM. He then left Ut. Louis ami went to New York. He sud his wife for divorce, but compromised the suit on a cross bill which she Hied, and paid hir a largs sum of money. Then it was given out that lit bad married woman lu tha east, and, this ouaiing to th ears of a Chicago woman, who claimed to bo married to him, sliesuol him for divorce in Chicago. The court i decided that this person per-son was bis wife and gave her a divorce, leaving Bowman In th position of a bigamist a .15 jf? V?'-"5'' j 3 -- J sccxa or th now sax snofrriviJ. B. M. Cbsmbars, who shot Bowman, wss M years ld. lie was a St. Louimaa by buth, and was gradual! from tbe tit Louis university. uni-versity. He tuherit1 iwistdrbl monsr when ha came of age. lis Ucanis a prominent promi-nent man in a busuwss way and wsa dir wuir of several moneyed inatitoui. finally ns boranie president of a raink. It falkd. o"w-evsr. o"w-evsr. and hs bougbt Tne Tiines. in this actrr'.p'M be bfrnuui involved with Bowman. Then he went to live a retired Ufa on a farm, seldom going to the city. As hoe a cigar as I evr Bracked i the Progress. |
