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Show MURDERED WOMAN IN JEALOUS RAGE San Francisco, Feb. 23. Crazed by Jealous rage, William Hans, an engineer engi-neer employed at the Ralston Iron works, ehot and killed Mrs. F. Woods, his landlady, and William Ludford, another an-other lodger, tonight, and then fired a bullet Into his brain, after procuring a new pistol with which to end his life. Hans returned to tho houso tonight as Mrs. Woods was cooking supper and discovered Ludford with her. What occurred then Is unknown, but In a few minutes Ludford ran out of the back door, with Hans in pursuit, pistol pis-tol In hand. As Ludford endeavored to scale a fenco, Hans fired threo times, ono bullet penetrating the fleeing flee-ing man's heart and both others taking tak-ing effect. Returning to the kitchen, Hans shot Mrs. Woods through the heart. He then turnrd the weapon upon himself, but tho last cartridge miased Are. Ho rushed out of the house and, hastening to a nearby store, purchased a new pistol, with which he ended his own life at the room of a friend several blocks away. Both Hans and Ludford had been paying attentions to Mrs. Woods, and Jealousy led to tho triple killing. |