| Show THE PLOT OF A FIEND A WAN ATTEMPTS TO THE LIFE LIF E OF HIS DIVORCED WIFE BUT ENDS BY TAKING HIS OWN portland feb 11 A tragedy ot unusual and which narrowly missed belne accompanied by horrify ans occurred this eveylne I 1 this city edmund D tobin a mining man from baker city thi state visited the rooms ot his divorced wife in the ainsworth block and begged her to accord him an interview the woman who conducts a dressmaking establishment spurned the man persistently refusing to have anything to do with him seeing that beitf was determined to avoid him tobin drew a revolver and alred three shots at the woman two of tha bullets ing her body but were deflected by her corset and the third pierced her arm inflicting a injury mrs tobin and a mrs burchee Bur phee who was her rushed from the apartment eart lett to himself tobin applied a lighted match to a box of dynamite which was hidden in the folds of paper in which the box was wrapped tobin then placed the muzzle of his revolver to the back ot his ear and alred he expired immediately attracted by the ahot robert dean ot the united stales service who haa an office in the ainsworth bunding rushed to tira T ira tobine apartments and seeing the box blazing on the floor beside body succeeded in extinguishing the flames it was then that the full 0 plot was auld bare it that lighted the corner of the box and the flames had abot reached the fuse when tho fire was i there was enough dynamite in the box to have completely tho 1 borth building which la orto of larget in this city had bobine bilan not miscarried it Is probable thai a or of llaca would have sacrificed to liis horrible cunning as tharo are always a large number oe people in the building the tobina laet april mrs tobin comans to this city from baker chiy to into the with a pin been in hia alty or weeks but his presence was unknown to mrs tobin |
