Show MADMAN lA f fP P PROMINENT WOMAN Victim i Head o of of Exclusive J r School for Gi Girls ls iI in in California LOS ANGELES F Feb Feb 25 H. H W W. Bowen 58 former houseman at th the h exclusive Huntington Hall sch school ol for tor girls in South Pasadena early today shot and killed Miss Florence Housel el 50 60 owner and manager of ot the schoOl set fire to the building and then committed committed committed com com- suicide by firing tIring a bullet Into his brain Bowens Bowen's body was found by deputy sheriffs in a small building adjoining the school Apparently he had killed himself with the same same revolver he used in slaying Miss Housel II usel Miss Housel s body was found by her father tather Herman N No Housel 80 80 soon after alter he had been awakened by bythe bythe bythe the shot which killed herThe her The dead woman lay in bed Housel went to the kitchen and extinguished a fire blazing furiously there Bowen had ignited a quantity of excelsior which he had first saturated with distillate MAN WAS CRAZED Deputy sheriffs found a number ot of old mattresses furniture and other objects stored in the attic saturated with distillate but these had not been Ignited Officers believe Bowen suffered from froma a delusion that Miss Housel had persecuted persecuted persecuted per per- him He had recently been confined In an asylum it Is said Had it not been that Bowens Bowen's wife housekeeper at the school was locked locke in her room for tor the night It Is be believed believed be- be she too would have nave been slain Recently Bowen came to Miss Housel House t and told her his wife had never been bee n properly married to him was a disgrace disgrace disgrace dis dis- dis- dis grace to the school and arul should be ousted Yesterday Bowen returned t to o the school and demanded that he b be oe e allowed to see his wife He was In Informed Informed In- In formed she was busy and went away I without seeing her Miss Housel had received an anonymous anonymous anonymous letter a few tew days ago warning g her against fire tire which according t to the letter would occur where the saturated saturated saturated sat sat- mattresses were found In the attic CU CULTURED WOMAN Miss Miss Housel was a graduate o of ot t Wellesley college and came to Cali CaU- California California fornia tornia about twenty years ago About thirty young women daughters daughters daughters daugh daugh- of ot millionaires of southern California California Cali Call fornia and the East Cast are residents a athe at atthe atthe the school Miss Housel established Huntington Huntingto n Hall In 1906 1806 To Miss Hous Housel's ls l's hig high h nh nS scholastic standards nad refinement i Is S attributed much of ot the success of ot the Institution In addition to a thorough classical education she provided for tor her pupils pupil s special courses in domestic science dairying and gardening The girls were taught to provide for tor their own needs They donned ap apparel apparel apparel ap- ap parel and worked about bout the school farm when h 1 not In class |