The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-17
BONNIE LAMAR'S CAREER
RECORD OF A WOMAN NOW IN
SALT LAKE.
The Story of Her Many Experiences
In Colorado-Has Not Done Any
thing to Attract Attention Since
Arriving Here.

The Denver Republican contains the
following comment:
Bonnie Lamar is still a subject of
/ inquiry at police headquarters. Yester-
day a letter was received from Salt
| Lake in which questions were asked
/ concerning Bonnie Lamar. alias Mrs. c.
: C. DensmOre, who is in the Utah cap
/ ital, engaged, according to the letter.
/ in the industry of proclaiming herself
a much prosecuted woman. She has
succeeded so far in gaining the SYM
pathies of many with her recital of the
story of her life in Colorado. Chief of
Detectives Howe answered the query
from Salt Lake.
Bonnie Lamar. of Mrs. Densmore, as
she called herself sometimes, had a
varied experience during her six years
Of life in Colorado. She first attracted
police attention in 1890, under the name
OF Bonnie Mitchell, when she was ar
rested at Nineteenth and Champa
streets at the request of the authori-
ties of McCook, Neb., for robbery, with
Thomas Sinnott. The man who was
robbed refused to prosecute and Mrs.
Lamar continued to live in Denver, and
to assert her reputation as an alleged
daughter of Maggie Mitchell, the ac-
tress.
Subsequently she went to Montana
and was also heard of in Arizona and
New Mexico under the names of DR..
Harvey, Mrs. Caldwell. Mrs. ]. T. Ia
Dor, Mrs Gresham, Mrs. Lamar and
Mrs. Densmore. In 1898 she started a
fashionable boarding house in Cripple
Creek, where she was known as Mrs.
Bonnie Graham. While running the
boarding house it was said that she
had been engaged to w. II. Bradshaw,
efr-T,,,
sented to her a valuable diamond ring
at the time, but it disappeared after
she had worn it a short time. To Brad
shaw she is said to have told a weird
story of the cause of its disappearance
in which a snake and a nightmare
played prominent parts. Bradshaw was
skertical over the story and he and
she disagreed. One night she cowhided
Bradshaw in the rotunda of the Palace
Hotel at Cripple Greek. Before a war
rant had issued for her arrest she left
the town.
The next heard of her was in Pueblo,
where she was arrested for crueltysto a
S-year-old hoy she claimed as her child.
The charges did not stick and she re-
turned to Denver. Her return marked
the beginning of a series of expert
ences in the courts, in which sensation
followed sensation, and finally ended
in decision in which she was deprived
of the care of the child, who was COM
mitted to the state home for dependent
children, where he has remained since.
Secretary Whitehead of the Humane
society caused Bonnie Lamar's arrest
Oct. q. 1896, on a charge of treating
the child cruelty. The cruelty charge
was not established, and she secured a
writ of habeas corpus and recovered
the child. The Humane society then
filed a petition in the county court ask
ing that the child be committed to the
state home for dependent children, al
leging that Mrs. Lamar was not the
proper kind of person to have charge
of him. The petition had one hearing
before Judge Steele, and was contin-
ued for second time Till Nov. Is. 1896.
When the case was called the second
time Mrs. Lamar and the boy had dis
Her description was sent TO the chiefs
of police and sheriffs in Colorado. New
Mexico and Utah. She was located in
n. NJ, Nov. 20, and
brought back with the boy. The case
was again taken up in the county court.
and sensations succeeded each other
quick and fast. l. NJ. Griggsby, Grip
pie Creek miner, furnished the most |