Show KILLS HIMSELF II I FOR FOB A WO WOMAN OMAN I IJohn John P. P Owens Swallows Laudanum Laudanum Lau Lau- danum When Spurned by Former Female Friend I Cincinnati 0 O. O Aug 17 John P. P Owens well known newspaper writer and traveler ler whose hose infatuation for or Mrs Irs Bonnie Tucker TuckerS th the former wife of a politician of oC this city led him to desert INic rt his wife and home hom and travel around the country with her commit commit- led suicide at ot a rooming house in this city late yesterday Owens ended his hi life b by swallowing laudanum after afler he im had hod had a 1 brief In InIc Interview Interview In- In Ic with Mrs Tucker In which he hI pleaded for a reconciliation On her herro ro refusal Owens Owns committed suicide I rhe tragic death of Owens was waH the climax of his sensational escapade with Mrs Mr Trl Tucker In Mexico City Cily Mexico l months ago ogo The two had traveled reached the some time timp and anti finally Mexican capital Owens cau caused ed a sensation sen son b by asking king the tho police pollee to locate his wIre wife who had left him on ac account account lC- lC count of or his In Insane no jealousy I n H Uy fly Woman I A few fAW days aS a'S later she went to Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Ohm I homa City and on the same train was Frank Ballard an nn American hotel hotelKeeper hotelkeeper Keeper at it Mexico City at whose hotel the couple had stopped Owens started started start start- ed liP imP pursuit asserting that Ballard had induced Mrs Tucker to leave him He Ho wired Iho tho police authorities s of Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Ok Ok- lahoma City to place tit the couple under Owens Owens Ow Ow- arrest on a charge of smuggling ens charged chargo Ballard with having stolen a n revolver from Crom him and was himself placed In jail for threatening threatening- tho the woman Mrs Irs Tucker and Ballard Ballar were released Owens finally got ot out of jail and foll followed fol followed fol- fol l lowed the tile object of his Infatuation He effected a 11 reconciliation with her heron heron heron on a n. train going to St. St Louis hut again separated E. E o ll ho Traveler Tra Owens ns was vas about 48 years old He traveled in Iii many parts paris of the world and amI was In South Africa during luring the first Boer war 1 In 1881 He lie came to this country about the time of the Jamieson Jamieson Ja- Ja raid in 1 and worked on newspapers In a number of or cities until he finally settled In Cincinati where here he was employed as a writer until his elopement with Mrs Ir Tucker |