Show DOUBLE TRAGEDY ON SECOND SOUTH Murder and Suicide Sui ide Committed Committee In a Rooming House Last Nig Night t tEDGAR EDGAR BOWMAN KILLS WIFE Turns Turn ri on air hat Ills Before R RA A murder and suicide was coin corn milled 11 at 11 Ii oel k Insl night In lit a l ut at 64 01 6 west treat Second S con street by b Edgar Bowman a CT 01 from front Los Angeles Angered be Ills hili young unit and pretty wife refused to 10 live with him longer and suffer suiTor train Irom his brutality bIll I because she Rho wius takIng Inking steps to secure a rt divorce from ruin mutt him Bowman un shot allot her bur and anti titan then placing lug ing In tho weapon to 10 his own Mad head blew out mit hid hili Iii Bowman Instant Instantly ly Ir but hut tho thu young yoking woman lingered at set St Marks hospital until lifter 3 this when death ended her hor sufferings Thee Tho body hod or of tIre the th murderer anti hin SUI chlo Is in at nt undertaking par parlors lone lors while tho the body of oC tho tIre woman Is at nt Halls Balis That Bowman had planned to mur murder ibm der Inn his hI wife and mId then kill himself Is evident from the tho th circumstances About three hours before the tIre was com committed committed he lie borrowed 3 3 1 front from John Jhn EVa E anti and with tho tire money purchased the tho le te volver Bowman Hied two Io shots KhotA at ILL Ills his but the ho first went wild being di diverted d by II Frank 1 T who sprang upon tho tine man mall ns Us ho ice drew elmow the tho weapon The Tire second shot however t Mrs In tIre the I left breast just JURt above the heart hoart With lIh a II moan tiu 1113 woman stank sank to ta tire tho floor Tho The man then theIr turned tho tIne revolver upon himself lit lie fired Ired two shots one goIng Into the wall while the other through his hi brain He lie was Instantly killed TAKEN lAJaN TO I O HOSPITAL Mrs Bowman was hurriedly taken to II the tho emergency hospital at tat police head heaU anti and ln S 8 S G I Paul summoned After an nn examina examination tion of tIre the wound Dr DI Paul decided to wend send tho unfortunate woman to lo St Marks hospital He lie stated at It the tho time limo that lien her chances chance for Cor or recovery wore 1010 de tie decidedly slim she SIre wits was taken to the tho hos has hospital pital about 1 l otI lt und lived a I little hWo littleover littleover over aveI two hours hourN Bowman mend and his wife were WIO married In Iii Los Angeles about three years ago alTo Sho Site was sas tho thin daughter dou of forsook former Detec Detective tive E B A Mrs John Eva who was vas from tram Franks several years ago LEFT LUFT hEft HEtt HUSBAND AND Mrs Bon man unable to longer langei en duro tier hor husbands III ill treatment oC or oCher her hel left l ft him hrin about eight ollit mouths months m ago nHO nod and cume Caine to Salt Suit Lake to lIve with her heir mother at nt east cast Third South street r She was ins makIng preparations pr to 10 secure a II divorce and md Bowman learned of ot hot hor Intentions Ho wrote to hor mci several times lines and tried to Induce the wife to return to him but bu t she nho refused Ten days ago neo Bowman arrived from Los Angeles s and finally persuaded his wife to promise to return to Los An AnKeles Keles geless eles with him Ho lie promised 1 to stop drinking and said ho ito would treat trent har her bettor better A week ago ha Ira asked her hor to togo togo toFt go Ft with him to Junction to visit her hor grandmother hilt but b t sho Bho did not want t to go So and aird her hor refusal angered lingered Bowman and ho ha made mado threats to kill kili her She Sho told leer her father tathel of ot the thu throats threats anti and an ho advised her to secure a dl orco as are Boon lIoon an as possible and to keep keell away from tire the man Bowman nowman learned of or this and began begun drinking heavily After purchasing the tho revolver a 11 38 1 caliber he lie told Mrs hs Eva Vu va that he ho was wa going to kill tier her daughter Mrs 1111 Eva EI warned leer her daughter but tho tito latter paid little at attention attention to the tho throats FOUND HEll HEIl IN ROOM BOOM l Lat u t 1 night nigh I Bowman nowman announced his Intention or of going Heln buck to Los Loie Angeles Ho lie wanted to 10 see eo his hi wife before going and finally located her heu In be the tho rooming house whore where shien was visiting her hel sister lister Leonora Franks I and amId Mrs Ns Nora Noma Force I oreo Frank J J A a 1 waiter waite at itt the tho Bismarck and C J 1 Burt Buit a 11 bar barber ber iser wore sore In the thu room with Itte tho tire women when tottered entered After Aftel talking for fol a 0 few fow minutes und aird explaining that lie liu was WIH going to take tire tho midnight train for Cor Los Angeles Bowman nowman ticked asked Adamson to 10 take lalO a n drink with him and tIle tho two to wont to the thc Bismarck While there Bowman exhibited then tho Run gun nail nad said I am lun going to commit FOWl SHOTS FIttED on tiled to get gel possession of or the nut Ih weapon but Bowman to tr part with It In hem a It tow fow ow minutes th tine tho two attuned to tm tho tim flaw Baw no milan umu asked lila his tvIle If It i f alien ShA welo vero mud at It him anil shu sho replied yos yea Later sIne she saId lahl she alec he was wane only fool Cool She 81 slit lit on Oil her husbands IrICO anti and kissed him Another attempt nUe wits was madl then hen I lieu to get the t lie gun H i 1111 from hour tho then thoman man mitan hut but t ho Ito III em I and amid tin teat old to In kill It III everybody y In the lie I room Ho lien arose walked about tile the room noel and suddenly whipped out till thee sprang n rang upon UllIn till the I it loin u and 1111 vainly tried to 10 huh him from Crom shoot lug Two shots wet were fired olio line I lot Ing tho tIm woman In the lee hr The Tho bul huh let paused passed through her leer lungs Instant ly II I tile the weapon upon tried to 10 gut got tho tire aim lun Two mare shots wore were tIred llred tho the first INt missing The Th second o struck Bow Ulan malt In I n HID I loft teen plo and toni tha tho I manH inn its brains 1 were vre blown out nut Ho ito foil fell lIeu I IIII III II Mm Mrs Bowman did cud not neat lone Inset but called cullell for fur incur hiir moth mother ml lh er or and an it U Bowman for en bin hili Ii is mur urn i After Atle the Ih shooting nil all II tin witnesses wItnessed wert er tak li In tel by hy b Sergeant John Johll Hob Hou ei is They main lII de lit II to 10 JUK pf fit the Ire Peace Uina Ienni T I 1 Hu und ansI warm lh I n released d It IK Is not mint likely that hurt an ire II will lu ho held 1 wan WIlli 26 16 G r ago ages und anti v WiLS n na 1111 a 11 1181 by h tunic C 10 Mm tIiS 1111 XI 21 l y of vt use |