Show Man an Slays Sons In hi Poor Health I Takes Own Life Money Troubles Hinted in Suicide e Message Estate of S Is Left PASADENA Cal Dec 9 AP AP- AP Disappointment and grief over the mental and physical condition of his two cons ons as well as possible financial troubles were believed by bythe bythe bythe the police polica today to have been the the forces which drove Francis E. E Stevens Stevens Ste Stevens vens 51 year p Pasadena sadena banker and broker to slay elay the two youths and then take his own life Letters found in Stevens' Stevens car dated November 10 10 addressed to business associates gave the first direct clue to the reasons for the killing here hero yesterday Sickness In my family and financial financial finan finan- cial m matters are responsible Please tell police pollee the thc reason for my action action ac ac- ac- ac I tion one ono of tho letters said No I mention was made mado of any Intention I Stevens had of 01 taking the lives of his hi two sons SONS IN ILL HEALTH Questioning o of friends of the man the authorities said strengthened their conclusion that the tho ill health of tho the two boys Francis E. E Jr 20 and George 13 was tho the main reasOn reason rea rca son for his slaying them and himself him him- self S The Thc younger boy had been In ill health since sinco birth The other son on on whom the tho father lather was said by friends to o have centered his hopes of tho the future received a seri serious us basal fracture of the tho skull in an automobile accident a year ago Ho lie was a a student of the University of Michigan where his father also had studied and while shile motoring from Detroit to Ann An Arbor Arbo Arbor his bis car crashed Into a d t telephone pole He Ic was in a hospital for several months and while his physical condition condition con con- showed some improvement his progress to mental normalcy ap appeal appeared ap- ap peal pearel ed slow As the police reconstructed the tragedy Stevens left his home in his automobile yesterday morning morningto to take his young son to the grammar grammar grammar gram gram- mar school Probably at some se secluded secluded so- so eluded spot the banker shot the tho boy and concealed the body In the rear of tho car LEAVES PAPERS PAPERS S At the sanitarium where the other son was living Stevens left a packet of papers In tho the caro care of his sons son's attendant A few minutes later on ona ona ona a tennis court at the rear of the tho sanitarium the tho banker was seen to place a pistol at his sons son's temple and fire then place the muzzle ot the gun in his own mouth and commit commit com corn mit suicide In the packet of papers given to his older sons son's attendant was found an envelope elope containing the ashes of ofa ofa ofa a daughter who died some time ago and was vas cremated There were several several several sev sev- eral letters to business associates a will dated November 21 which disposed of an estate listed at and data dato concerning an Insurance I ance anco policy for lor 52 00 |