The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-29
A LITTLE GIRL TOLD OF DEATH
SHE FOUND HER MOTHER AND
FATHER ON THE FLOOR.
Brickiayer Whe Was out cf q .pob Shot
His wife and Himself His A.YeafsOld
Oaughter walked Two Hooks Alone
To Tell Her Grandmo other About H..

HrickJayer VINO WAS Out O1 q ion SnOs
Hts wife and Himself His A.Iear.Oid
Oaughter walked Two blocks Alone
TO Tell ler GRANDMOTHER About H..
When Florence Rowden. who ie four
years old, woke up yesterday morning in
her family's rooms at 3s2 East i4%th
street it seemed to her that everything
was pretty quiet She craw!ed over her
little brother and went into the kitchen.
where abe stumbled over her father and
mother. They we're lying on the floor.
dressed As they had been the night before.
She went back to her room. and with
out waking her brother and two-year- old
sister she put on her very beet Sunday
dress and went out Of the dark kitchen.
out Of the house. and walked to the home
Of her grandmother. Mrs. Anna Tslvot.
who lives at $50 Fast i42d street, two
blocks away
Mrs. Talvot was surprised TO see the
little girl out so early and she couldn Z
learn from Florence what was wrong
All that the child could explain was that
her mother didn't move when she kissed
her
Mrs Talvot went back with Florence
and a. soon a. she had seen the kitchen
abe had some one 60 for . policeman.
The Coroner found that William Rowden
had shot his wife in the left temple and
then had put two bullets into his own
head
Rowden vas a bricklayer. He had loet
his job q week ago Monday and all last
week up to Friday he kept away from
his house. On Friday he went to his
mother law and asked her to go
around and make things easy for him
when he returned On Saturday Rowden
went out and did a half days work.
When he came back he found his wife
at the door with her hat on. The brick
layer asked her where she was going
She told him that she was going to give
him a taste of his own medicine. She
said that che was going to leave him with
the children as he had left her.
That afternoon she spent at her mothers
house. Mrs. Talvot advised her TO go
back to her husband. In the evening
Mrs Talvot and Mrs. Rowden went to
the theatre together In the meantime
her husband stayed around the house.
he knocked at the door OF Mrs. Nora
Casey's rooms. across the hall. and told
Mrs Casey that he was worried about his
wife.
He kept sweeping his hand across his
head. and he told his neighbor that his
head hurt him 30 that he could not sleep.
He said that when he was q boy he had
fallen down and his skull had been frac-
tured and that every now and then his
head kept him awake. Mrs. Casey told
him TO 20 back to bed and when q few
minutes later she heard the bricklayer's
wife on the stairs she concluded that
everything would be all right and went TO
sleep. She heard no shooting. nor did
any one else in tho house.
Rowden must have shot his wife a. she
met him At the door after her little hing
at independence. When the doctor from
Lebanon Hospital found her che was
clutching In her hand . handkerchief
with some money and theatre checks
in Il.
On one Of his trips from the house on
Saturday night Rowden went TO . sta
TONERS ahop and wrote . letter there.
which. he told the storekeeper. was to
his brother. He mailed the letter.