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Show Andrews Attributes Downfall ; ; " - to Reading of Dime HovelsJ To dme novels Milton franklin Andrews, An-drews, the supposed murderer of Bessie Bouton, attributes hla downfall. He make this admission In hitherto unpublished un-published portion of a second remarkable remark-able .conesslon.,found uppn the person of Nulda Petre Olivia, hta companion, after the double killing- in Berkeley, Cal. Andrews and Bessie Bouton were In Salt Lake last summer, shortly be-tors be-tors the Bouton woman was foully murdered at Colorado Springs. The confession contains the following, showing- that his career of crime from the beginning, when he was a mere ;hlld, to the time he met William Ellis, the Australian race track man, whom he and the Olivia woman robbed and almost al-most killed In a vacant house In Berkeley, Berke-ley, Gal., October 5. The portion of the confession referred to Is as follows: " "When a boy In knee pants I read dime novels with the natural result. I committed a few thefts and got found out. I wanted to raise money to come West and be a cowboy and hunt buffaloes. buf-faloes. Older heads showed me what the result would be and that ended that career. - I have gambled for a living evef since I was of age. and nothing worse. I made the mistake of my life when I married Jennie Walsh of Holyoke, Mass. She and her father are Roman Catholics and I am a Protestant. He swore that we should be marrlen by the priest or there would be trouble. I paid no attention to his threats, and we got married by a minister. From that day as long as I was In Holxoke, which was a few years, my life was made a nightmare night-mare by him. He threatened my life openly and hounded me Incessantly. "My wife .is not mated to me any more than a dog Is to a cat. I am not a wooden man, so I departed to parts unknown. I met Bessie Bouton on my travels, and you know the rest. I wish I had a divorce so I could marry Nulda. A man Is made for a woman, and I cannot travel alone, but I would rather be dead than to live with my wife. That is another an-other of my crimes. -My next offense Is I am a gambler and why? I am a physical wreck, as any physician's examination will certify. cer-tify. I have consumption, catarrh of the intestines, crushed ribs and heart failure. I cannot do hardly any kind of work in my condition. Sifting a deck of cards does not strain my muscles, neither does counting my winnings, but the worst is yet to come. I always win. I am an expert. If such were not the case I could not earn my living. "My next crime Is that on certain occasions oc-casions I Illegally wore Elk and Shriner buttons, the better to mix In with gambling-house people, who belong to those orders. - "My last and worst ofTense was the assault on "William Ellis. 1 will have to give his history so you will know the reason I assaulted him. "He Is a crack billiard player and I met him at the National Sporting club. Sydney. He being a billiard grafter, tumbled to my game when he saw me getting the money. He played a few crooked match games of billiards at the club and told me which way to bet. I took his tips and won S300 on him. I was grateful and taught him how to get the money playing poker. He became expert and we formed a partnership to travel together as two men can work to greater advantage than one and get considerable more money out of a poker game. "He was a bookmaker and welched at the race track there for a few hundred dollars and borrowed all he could get and had at the finish $1000 of a bank roll. He bought a 125 steamer trunk and clothes at $50 per suit, and an outfit out-fit suitable for continuous travel In all climates. You will presently see why this history Is necessary. "We stayed at Mosman Bay, Australia, Aus-tralia, for three weeks until the sports and bookmakers got tired watching the boats and then we went to Auckland. New Zealand, and lived three weeks at the Star hotrl and won $.100 in a small poker game there. We took the boat Sierra to Honolulu and lived three weeks at Young's hotel at $2.50 per day board. "We took the boat Sonoma for San Francisco and on route George Fuller Golden, the actor, detected our work In the poker game and threatened our arrest ar-rest In San Francisco If he did not get his money back. I gave the captain $106 we had won to give back to the players. "Golden caught Ellis getting rid of one of his cards Into the discard and when the hand was called he laid down four cards and In the act of spreading open the hand on the table would palm into the four cards the other necessary card to fill his flush of threes, etc. Ellis told the police after I assaulted him that he was not in the deal and always lost and I always won." |