The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-29
SALT LAKE END To
MURDER MYSTERY
Mrs. Bessie BOutOn Was in City
Last July.
ACCOMPANIED BY TALL MAN
LATTER HELPED OUT OF GAM
BLING TROUBLE.
kRRS. BESSIE BOUTON of Syracuse. ".
IV y, who the Colorado Springs police

m RS. BESSIE BOUTON of Syracuse. y.
lV y, who the Colorado Springs police
believe was the girl found murdered
ON Cutler mountain, spent week in Salt
Lake last summer She was registered at
the Wilson hOtct as the wife of G. BOu-
ton and when the latter got into trouble
ever "a gambling debt 10 was she who
went 20 Chief OF Police Lynch TO see II he
could do anything 70 heip her husband.
C. BOutOn and his alleged wife regis
tered at the Wilson July j. and remained
in the city until July p. said Chief
Lynch last evening. The first that
knew Of the couple was when the woman
came to my office one afternoon and said
that she wanted to see me upon very
important business. l told her TO sit
down, ana though me door of the office
Was smut and We were perfectly alone,
I she would every now and then glance
apprehensiVely about as though fearful
OF interruption She said that her huS-
band was in trouble and wanted 10 meet
me somewhere.
u told her II he did. that ne knew
where L could be found and then / in
CURED what the trouble was. She said
that she herself did not really want 10
Z tell but ii was something to do with
gambling. and THAI her husband would
not come to the station as ne was fearful
of someone seeing him.
Has Detectives Follow.
&.
! trying TO work some game on me, 1 told
! her that | would meet her husband that
3 HiSnI Where she suggested and mean
nile thought that Z would have a cOU-
PIE Of men somewhere near who could
DC called upon If necessary. She left then.
end that night as agreed. I met the man.
VINO told me after a few moments con-
NersauOn that he had been in a.~farO
same in a certain place in the city and
mad lost Sl,2OO, $1,000 IN money and a 500
I diamond pin. he wanted me 10 get the
money back for him. After telling him
what / thought Of. man who would
gamble in the first place and what my
5urthCr opinion OF q man WAS who would
gamble and then Squeal. ! promised To
DO what / could 20 get his money. This
J succeeded IN doing. After that ] saw
them both about the city. but they man
aged TO keep as far away as possible
from me. no doubt remembering what /
had said 10 him In regard To my feelings
on his venture. Before parting with me
me night in question he made me prom
lse that / would not tell his wife that he
| lad been up against the faro game. as he
said that he had promised her ION his
word as 4 southern gentleman" that he
would let faro alone, though he had not
made a similar promise in regard 10
poker He claimed 10 have come from
New Orleans. said that lac was running
a billiard han there and from his CONVEX
sation evidently knew all about the place.
Description of the Man.
HE was a very tail man. I should
I say about six feet two or three. angular
end not stout. He had "A moustache and
was of moderately light complexion.
/ The woman was young. not at al pretty
( hut neat i'm appearance, with light hair.
I and somewhere in the neighbOrhood OF
i've feet two or three inches tall She
| was not strihngiy dressed with the ex-
/ Cepuon Of her diamonds which were as
! large and beautiful as any nave ever
/ seen especially those which she wore as
! earrings The man would DC easily taken
! for the sport that he was. but she looked
! more Ike a demure. ordinary individual 10
/ The clerk at the Wilson SAYS that he
| remembers distinctly he two people ana Z
I that whenever the woman went out she
/ left her diamonds. of which she had
/ plenty, in the safe and wrote her name
! On the package as Bessie Bouton." never
/ signing il as Mrs G. BoUton--- In fact
/ he and the rest of the employees Of the
/ hotel always doubted during their stay
/ Tat they really We're man and wife.
/ There was another couple with them at
! the time named Mitchell Mrs Mitchell
! was a handsome woman but the clerk
4 cOrrobOrates Chief Lynch I'm saying that
/ Bessie BOutOn was far from that
! According TO the Denver papers a cou-
/ pie correspondence exactly in name and
! appearance July l3 left the Albany hotel
! IN that city, where they were stopping
! which those interested here lake to show
! that they came immediately TO Salt Lake
| after leaving the latter CITY
! Chief Lynch wired Chief Reynolds OF
! Denver yesterday what he knew of the
! couple including the trouble over the
/ gambling game.