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Show TRIED TO KILL WIFE; LEAPED INTO FIRE SISTERSVILLE. W. Va.. Feb. 8.-Llnxy Owens, a prosperous farmer living about fourteen miles southeast of this city, suicided sui-cided In a horrible 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 88-caliber revolver while both were In the house and then walked to the farm of a neighbor, F. T. McCul lough, where an oil tank was located and, after setting fire to the oil, deliberately plunged Into the burning fluid. When the fire could be extinguished ex-tinguished and the body recovered It had been, burned beyond all recognition. The bullet fired at Mrs. Owens struck her Just above the right temple and glanced off, inflicting a dangerous, but not necessarily fataJ wound. - |