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Show S. H. Officer Shot in Family Row; Attacker Shoots Self Family trouble, allegedly arising from drinking by the husband, hus-band, flared up at two southeast homes Tuesday evening, ending in the shooting of Patrolman First Grade Paul Nelson of the Sugar House police squad and the suicide of Harold Park Rowsell, husband hus-band of Mrs. Letty Rowsell and father of five children. Rowsell, who had been approached by Officer Nelson shortly after 6:30 p.m. at the home of Rowsell's step-father-in-law, Arnold M. Bullough, 801 Claybourne Ave., after reportedly threatening members of the 'family with a 38-calibre pistol, struck the officer on the head when Mr. Nelson attempted to wrest the weapon from Rowsell. The assailant then shot Officer Nelson twice, once in the right arm and in the left shoulder from the rear after the patrol man had fallen to the ground. Rowsell then took Officer Nelson's police pistol from him and drove away. riente told him that he only had a .22 automatic rifle, which he loned to Rowsell when the latter told him he had a vicious clog I he wanted to kill, and would j bring back the rifle in about 20 I minutes. It was immediately after this that Rowsell drove to the Bui- j lough home at 861 Claybourne I Ave .and was met at the door I by his wife's brother. Eugene i Bullough. According to reports. he didn't say aword. but walk- ed in the front door a few feet '. with the nickle-plated pistol in his hand and looked around. He then turned around and started to walk out the front door when Officer Paul Nelson came up the front walk. Mr. Nelson asked Eugene if this were the man causing the trouble, indicating' Rowsell, and he received an affirmative af-firmative answer. The scut fie previously mentioned, ensued as, Mr. Nelson attempted to disarm! Rowsell. j Officers Roberts and Barrel t; of the Sugar House polu-e do-1 tail had been first notified of trouble about 5:12 p.m. via police radio, instructing them to investigate in-vestigate a family fight at 702 E. 2S25 South. Thev asked the dispatcher dis-patcher to check whether it was in te couhtv. and if so. to notifvi ; the sheriffs office. They then j proceded to the address and t Continued on Page S ; Rowsell drove to his home at 702 E. 2825 South. After seizing! a lunch box he got into his car ' to leave again when he noticed deputy sheriffs approaching from 'the est on 2S25 South and Salt Lake policemen coming south along Slh East. Apparently Appar-ently realizing that he could not! escape, Rowsell raised the police : pistol to a point above and for- i ward fro mhis right ear and fired. The bullet passed through his head and came out below his left ear. When the police and deputy sheriffs got to him, Rowsell was ' dead. j According to a police report. Mrs. Rowsell had sworn out a - complaint against her husband Jf in the citv court on Aug.. 3. 1917, for assault and battery. He was arrested that night and later released re-leased on promise of good behavior. behav-ior. The repor further states that since that time he contin-i ued his drinking and abuse, f i-, rally causing Mrs. Rowsell to go to her attorney for preparation of divorce papers. German Dean of the sheriffs office served divorce papers about 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Mr. Rowsell came home early on Tuesday, according to his wife, and at that time, in the presence of her brother, Eugene Bui-1 lough, age 19, and his bov friend, 1 Mr. Rowsell told her that she wouldn't live to go through with this divorce, that she would be "six-feet under the ground before be-fore she could get a cop," the report states. Rowsell then went to his sister's sis-ter's home on 48th South and obtained a 38-calibre pistol which he told her he was going to use to shoot his sick dog. His sister, after loaning him the pistol, pis-tol, realized that he might be out to cause trouble, so she phoned to 861 Clayborne. home of Mrs. Rowsell's mother and step father, where Mrs. Rowsell had taken her five children while she went to Murray under protection of the sheriff's deputies. dep-uties. The sister warned the family that Rowsell might come there to cause "trouble. A .22-calibre automatic rifle, which was found in the front seat of Rowsell's ear. was apparently ap-parently picked up after hp had obtained the pistol from bis sister. sis-ter. Dan Lauricnte. a garage-man, garage-man, at 21 IS So. State, who live; at SO E. 21st South, later identified identi-fied the rifle as belonging (o him. Mr. Lauriente said 'that' Rowsell had come to his home about 6:30 p.m. and asked for some .38 shells. Mr. L.mrien'e had none, but Rowsell saw soiixc .22 shells and asked if he could borrow a .2 revolver. Mr Lau- Suicide . . . Continued from Page 1 questioned Mrs. Rowsell. She said that her husband had threatened her and the family. Deputies then arrived from tin-sheriff's tin-sheriff's office and the police officers left. It was abou 6 p.m. when they received a cah in regard- t" another an-other family dispute at S61 Clay-borne. Clay-borne. The officers did not know until they arrived there that te second nispi-i - ived the same family. They found officer Nelson there, so i'--v decided de-cided to track down Rowsell who was supposed to have left his home to go to town. Shortly after they departed the fraca occurred 'between Rowsell and Officer Nelson. Mr. Npln is; rpnnrted "good" condition at the L. D. S. Hospital. |
