The Bowbells tribune., 1920-11-12
KILLS WIFE AkO :
THEN SUICIDES

,.;,ot N D.. Nov. 11.-Mrs. Pat
r,cl bowling, aged about 4o' Wa "a
shot and instantly killed at o:1v
',c1ock this evening at the nome W
Mrs Hilda Freeburg, VINO restoe'
~, the Ed Colvert residence west {
.no 49, Home Hotel ony West Centra
.uenna .ne bowling then turned tha
gnn on himself. shooting hl1nsen ~ ~
the right temple, dying Ten ll.nue q. -
after he was taken TO the o. ~
senh's hospital. Jealousy was Tue
cause of the murder ana suicloe:
Mrs. Bowling had lived WIN nes
husband in the northern seclloh y,
the city during the summer anu
thew had frequently quarfelea
now,ing drank considerable lquor
.nd ,t such times threatened to XIII
nis wife believing that she was re-
reiving the attentions Of other men.
During the fall, Mrs. bowling
worked on a cook car for a thresher,
re,urning to Minot about a.Week
aeo. taking a room at Hilda Free
here's home, Bowling visited the
Freeberg home early in the evening
and waited for the return or MS
wife. who was over town shopping.
The couple were in bedroom on
the main floor and Mrs. Freeberg's S
twelve-year-old son, the only other
OCCUPANT of the house at the time,
heard the couple Quarreling. A let
ter was found in the room written
to Mrs. Dowling by a man who sigh
ed his name as Ed and this
aroused the jealousy Of the hus-
band, no doubt. There Is another
angle to the case, however. Mrs.
Bowling told Mrs. Freebcrg recent
" that her husband had threatened
her life because she refused to sign
certain papers in al ACTON Whlch
he wished to start against M1not
concern for $4,000 for the loss of
her two children, Il girl and boy,
who were drowned in an old we'll
on a farm four miles north OF Mlnot
year ago last summer, These
children were Mrs. DOwling"s by a
former marriage and Bowling him.
self had no authority to start the
action. Papers all made out ready
for Mrs. Dowling's signature were
found on Dowling's person after he
died. 1t is presumed that he had
gone to his wife and told her that
unless she signed the papers he
would kill her. Bowling thot she
had a chance to recovery because
they were living on a rented farm
and the we'll was unprotected. Mrs.
Bowling had told Mrs. Freeberg
that bringing an action would never
restore her children and she never
intended to sign it.
VIM. Bertleson, Mrs. Freeberg's
13-year- old son, told the authori-
ties that Dowling fired one shot in
the bedroom. which evidently killed
Mrs. Bowling, then walked out into
the other room with the revolver in
his hand. looking wild-eyed, then
returned to the room, closed the
door and fired another shot, shoot
ing out his own brains. The boy
gave the alarm and Officers Kane
and Bakeman rushed to the scene.
Both bodies were on the floor of
the bedroom and SO close to the
door it was hard to open it. Mrs.
DOwling was dressed and had on her
plush coat just as she came from
over town, and had taken off her
hat. placing 1t on the dresser. She
had been shot thru the neck just
above the chest and WAS dead.
Bowling had shot himself thru the
head. the bullet from his little .22
calibre revolver entering the head.
The woman's body was placed on the
bed and Downing was carried to the
hospital by Chief Lano, who soon
al peared. and died ten minutes af-
ter reaching the hospital.