Paid The Wages Of Sin

PAID THE WAGES OF SIN.

Fallen Preacher Whose Former Paramour Had Been Forgiven.

Olathe, Kan., Nov. 8. - Rev. R. E. Howell, a traveling evangelist, committed suicide here yesterday by taking carbolic acid. The suicide followed a disturbance in a boarding house where Howell forced his way into a room occupied by Mrs. Cora Henderson, of Columbus, Mo., and her husband. Mrs. Henderson eloped from Columbus with the evangelist last spring, but she has since returned and been forgiven by her husband.

When Howell intruded upon them yesterday a violent quarrel between the men followed, in which the woman took the part of her husband. This fact caused the preacher's self-destruction. Howell came here from Decatur, Ills. He leaves a widow at Eureka, Ills.