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Show LEAPED INTO BURNING OIL, Horrible Death Chosen by Would-Be Murderer Who Shot Wife. SISTERSVILLE, W. Va Feb. 7.-LInzy Owens, a prosperous farmer living about fourteen miles southeast of this city, suicided sui-cided ln a horrlblo manner after an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful attempt to murder his wife Maddened Mad-dened through Jealousy, so it Is alleged. Owens shot at his wife with a 2S-callbor revolver while- both wcro ln the house and then walked to the farm of a neighbor. F. T. McCullough, where nn oil tank was located and. after setting fire to the oil, deliberately plunged into tho burning Iluld. When tho fire could bo extinguished ex-tinguished and the body recovered It had been burned beyond nil recognition The bullet fired at Mrs. Owens struck hcr Just above the right temple and glanced off, inflicting a dangerous, but not necessarily fatal wound. |