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Show l . SET FBE TO HMD If , IN ORDER TO MARRY LOVER Hi m mm ' l: Terrible Crime of Pennsylvania Hiy Woman, Who Evidently Thought HJ c the Divorce Courts Were too HR- 9 Slow. HJ I Scrnnton, Pn. Mrs. Kimlrn Howes- HJ to, ngod 18 'years, of Dunmore, Ih In HJ If the county jail churged with having HJ W hnrncd her husband to death that she HJ f mlRht hu froo to marry her former HJ lover, Ignntz Hutro, who Is nlso In HJ h jail, charged with being an accessory. HJ f' Thu police officials say that Mrs. I low- HJ K esto has confessed and given nil the HJ ilotnlls of tlio crime. All tho parties HJ i? nro Lithuanians. HJ El According to the story told to tho HJ ff pollco liy Mrs. Howesto, shu nnd Hut- HJ & ro were lovers before she married HJ Jb' Howesto, In tho old country, two HJ ; years uko. Hutro preceded them to HJ I. this country. When they enmo here Hi C they settled near where Hutro was Hi C living, In Duumoro borough. H.itro HJ renewed his attentions to Mrs. How- HJ R csto and frequently was nt their HJ V- Jiomo. According to her confession. HJ 8 Hutro came to Howesto's homoouMou- HJ f liny and suggested that she do away Hi I with her hUBhand so that they could HJ ho mnrrled. HJ Following Hut id's suggestion, tho I woman got her husband drunk, nnd HJ when ho wus stuplflcd In bed, sho HJ ? went to tho room with a koroseno HJ f tamp. She poured the oU from the HJ lamp on tho bed nnd then, sho says, HJ ' tho lamp dropped on tho bed, setting HJ f It afire. At thu sight of her husband HJ ': ronstlng nnd squirming In the llamlng HJ ' bed she beenmc horror stricken and HJ ' rushed from tho houso crying lire. HJ f Neighbor's extinguished the llnmes H nnd had Howesto sent to a hospital, HI whero ho died without regaining con- HI sclousness. HHI' Hutro donlcs nil knowledgo of tin, HHk. crime. Hoth are hold pending nu In- HHJ . vusllgiillun uf the story. |