Show ANDREW A STORY OF CRIME confession i of a gamblers career with a reference to three women murders A charged against him jaan francisco nov 7 muton franklin andrews and his consort aulda patrie who had fled after brutally brutal lr attacking and robbing william eells a horseman at berkeley whom they had lured from australia were found dead last night in the rooms meathres res house at mcallaster McAll lster street the police bad surrounded the place andrews was hidden in a closet when a policeman by subterfuge entered the room that their hiding place was discovered the young woman persuaded the policemen to leave the room she locked the door and immediately afterward two shots were beara in the apartment the police broke in and the bodies of the fugitives with bullet holes in their heads were found andrews pistol was clutched in his right hand rehe was lying on the floor the woman rested on a bed as if in sleep andrews was charged the murder of eugene bosworth at new britain conn with the slaying of a woman at troy N Y and with the killing of bessie bouton at colorado springs he returned with eells to chis country last month having selected the horseman as another victim tor his remarkable record of crime A statement signed by andrews was subsequently found in the stocking of tha dead woman in which he says as follows the people of the united staica have all read of milton F andrews the many times murderer and his ter rabla career of bloodshed I 1 am andrews and on NOT ard 3rd I 1 offered to give myself up for trial on the three murder charges against me the warder of bessie beuton at colorado springs the murder ot mrs at new britain conn and the murder of the troy N Y woman whatever her name is the police claim to have all kinds of proof that I 1 killed all three I 1 have a few leas serious charges against me and I 1 agreed to stand trial on all three of the burdor charges provided the petty offenses cs were quashed and they would never have them brought up against me it I 1 were discharged a free man from the three murder trials the first murder I 1 am charged with Js that of bessie bouton with whom I 1 traveled as man and wife we had frequent quarrels and on the strength of that they say I 1 ua the murderer They say they found she was a traveling sales lady her folks say she sold hair dressing gooda for J parker pray of new york to protect myself I 1 am compelled to gi history she never traveled or sold any goods tor any firm no such firm as J parker pray was in existence in new york employing bessie bouton she married an electrician named geo bouton in syracuse N Y and they both used to get drunk and fight and they dif not live together only a few weeks bessie was a well known character at boones saloon and all the rest of the principal saloons and joints in syracuse to N Y and went to live in a house known as the globe I 1 met her there and we formed a liking for each other I 1 told her I 1 was a gambler and faiq wanted to travel with me and when eh promised to give up smoking cigarettes getting drunk and meeting men I 1 took on the road with me when we arrived at chicago I 1 bought her some diamonds from the bauman jewelry company she agreed that if ever she met men again or got drunk I 1 was to take them all back and we would separate we hired a room on cottage grove avenue opposite glebes saloon and I 1 gambled for a living and won in a few months in a big poker room I 1 caught her playing sneak on me and going to the Alfa ambra hotel district in which she became a well known character we split up several times on the strength of it but each time I 1 took the bag of diamonds here on several sheets 0 the manuscript which were closely written andrews related a and involved story of many quarrels and with bessie bouton down to the time of their going to colorado Cp lorado springs at this place andrews said he mad up ats mind to quit the woman tor good there were various quarrels between the couple concluding in andrews leaving the woman on account 0 her unfaithfulness and going to denver carrying with him some of bessie bottons Bou tons luggage and the diamonds he had formerly given her continuing andrews baye 1 I went from there to toledo ohio and sent her trunk to columbus thinking that she went there looking for ime she was trying to trace me the way she did from toledo to detroit I 1 pawned some of the diamonds in chicago and detroit and the police say nulda is wearing them today but the last one of them was pawned in rochester before we went to australia diamonds have no similarity to bessiea Bes sies I 1 went to battle creek with jennie andrews of holyoke mass for a few days and then jennie went home I 1 looked around the big cities in new york and I 1 ran against nulda tor the first time in my life yet the police say she was in colorado springs she was in the east all the lime I 1 was in colorado in a few days he papers came out with the murder mystery jot mount cutler colo and as bessie and I 1 had been on mount cutler and all through the canyon several limes on horseback it caught my eye the remains were identified as those of bossio bouton the livery man at cutler says that he beard the achot fired the lath or of october I 1 left there the fifth of october and I 1 als 1000 from mount cutler and visas accused ot being her murderer because we had bad quarrels if I 1 bad committed a murder I 1 would have ehg which I 1 had in dihe bank of nw orleans and idaile my escape 1 consulted my brother at hartford conn and he told me ho had seen in a colorado paper where the citta ens ot colorado were preparing to lynch mo so I 1 fled to australia with nulda where I 1 played poker most ot the time andrews then slates that mrs bosworth was murdered august 2 1804 at new britain conn 1 I was all that summer in denser taking treatment ot dr sherman williams he says 1 I traveled under the name of G bouton and wife andrews then goes into a history oc his life couched in somewhat sarcastic terms speaking ot the ellis affair when he attempted to murder the latter in berkeley after his arrival here from australia he that hia assault was made as the 0 a gamblers quarrel in which nulda was the bone of contention 1 I told nulda says andrews that it was his life or mine and I 1 would adl him for two reasons first what h had done to her and second that he would tell the police it we had another quarrel as I 1 had told him in confidence that I 1 was a fugitive from justice A man who makes money at gambling as I 1 do does not have to murder people tor a few hundred dollars he recited at length the story ot his crooked methods of gambling in which bills was a partner and of the big winnings which he claims to have made he further claims that the alleged attempt to shoot bills at alamond head honolulu on the way up from australia was a lie saying As I 1 was too suck to climb the mountain and bills wanted revenge for the crack I 1 gave him on the head he then says after I 1 am cleared of my trials I 1 want the judge to arrange tor BIS a divorce irom my unmated holysko wife so I 1 can marry nulda nulda is to be entirely free of any charge in case I 1 surrender and no charge is to be brought against her and no sweating of any description the people who are hiding us are not to be prosecuted an examination of andrews after the bodies were taken to the morgue brought to light the large diamond ring he was known to wear also the oval shaped ring of a cluster of small diamonds that the woman wore in a purse was found in gold and an english sovereign an emblem of a fraternal order lodge and a gold watch chain completed the property found on andrews no property of importance was found in the room where the pair had been concealed and where they bad evidently lived from hand to mouth and on the cheapest scale possible there were evidences too that they were prepared tor flight when the end cam |