Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1914 — WRONGED HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AND SELF [ARTICLE]

WRONGED HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AND SELF

Lafayette Contractor Shot Wife Who Had Despoiled His Home —Then Killed Himself. Alfred Bowen, cement contractor, shot and killed his wife and then turned the revolver on himself, firing a bullet through his brain. Their 14-year-old son tried to stop the father. Mrs. Bowen had left the home two weeks ago and gone to Crawfordsville in company with a railroad man and was there arrested and fined on a statutory charge. Sunday night she was out late and refused to explain to her husband, who was an industrious man, where she had been. They quarreled and he pulled the gun from his pocket and opened fire. The first bullen went through her arm and as she ran screaming from the house he- sent another bullet through her heart. The sympathy of the neighbors were with the husband, who is said to have provided well for his family, while she was cruel to himself and children in addition to her associations with other men. * \