The San Francisco call., 1904-12-27
Victim a Sister Of Mrs.
Charles Nelson Of San
ia Barbara.
Syracuse Members of the Family
Suspect Certain Man of the
Crime
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CO1ORAOO OE EHlINdO, OOlO., DSC.
26.-It is now considered certain that
the woman who was murdered on
Mount Cutler, near this city, and whose
body was found on December II, was
and Mrs. Charles r. Kempter of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, and sister of Mrs. Charles
r. Nelson of Santa Barbara, Cal,
whom she visited in August. Every
bit of description of Mrs. Bouton's ap-
pearance received thus far corresponds
with that of the dead woman. The
dental work was described by Mr.. and
Mrs. Kempter as nearly as lay minds
could describe it. Mrs. Nelson is COM
ing to Colorado Springs and if she
identifies the teeth and the dental
work. all doubt will have been re-
moved.
Mrs. Bouton Travelled for DR.. j. Park
er Pray, IL East Twenty-third street,
New York. He is a manufacturing
chemist, making toilet and manicure
articles. The body of the dead woman
showed ccreful manicuring of fingers
and toes. Mrs. Bouton kept her hands
and feet in such condition because of
her business. Mrs. Bouton is remem-
bered by Mrs H. r. Crooks, hair
dresser. who dressed her hair; by Miss
Beryl Chalmers. who manicured her
hands, and by S. l.. Leaseer, a driver,
who took her through the Cheyenne
canyons. She gave him her name.
ACCOMPANIED BY A MAN.
Charles Zobrist, druggist, to whom
she tried to sell a bill of goods, re-
members her, also that stockily built
man was with her when she called
upon him on one occasion.
Mrs. Bouton wrote to her parents
from this city and said she would be
at home on Christmas. She has not
been heard of since that time 1t is
claimed she had made arrangements to
sue her husband for divorce, her mar
ried life having been unhappy, and that
she had engaged a Denver attorney
Her parents do not implicate Bouton in
her death, but suspect a man named
Gambler, salesman for a barb wire
firm. He is more than six feet tall
while the man described by Zobrist was
short. However, the latter recalls i'm
pressions only and his description is not
exact.
Thus far motive sufficient to ex-
plain the crime is lacking. Mrs Bou-
ton wore jewels valued at more than
$1,000 and carried several hundred dol
lars in cash, yet the officers do not be-
lieve that a robber would have tried
to cremate the body, or have carried all
her clothing away. The crime suggests
degeneracy and fiendishness.
SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 26.-
When Mrs. Charles R. Nelson of this
city read the description of the dental
work in the teeth of the Mount Cutler
victim, the nature of the gold filings
and the bridging being quite out of the
ordinary, she concluded at once that
the dead woman was her sister, Mrs
Bessie Bouton. Other circumstances
supported this conclusion, she said,
Mrs. Bouton having left Santa Barbara
last August for Los Angeles, going
thence to Denver. 1t is said she trav-
eled in company with travelling sales
man, who is said to have given her
several thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds. Mrs. Bouton wore the jewels
| conspicuously while in Santa Barbara,
and her sister believes the murder was
committed to get possession of the
jewels. Mrs. Nelson declares she knows
nothing of the whereabouts of Mrs
Bouton's husband.
BEREAVED SISTER TALKS.
IT believe my sister is the murdered
: woman" said Mrs. Nelson tonight
| "She answers every description in de-
, tail. Milton Franklin has been keeping
company with Bessie for a long time
and few months ago brought her t.
! this city, where they remained a month
He was lavish in his generosity to her
1.-The last letter 1 received from Bes
sic was from Colorado Springs about
six or seven weeks ago, in which sh,
wrote that she was about to make &
trip east In this letter she told o.
trouble she had had with Franklin
They were to have been married soon
and this trouble probably broke the en-
1gagement. The jewels which Mrs
Bouton had were given to her by
| Franklin. A watch alone was valued
at more than $780, The nature of tn,
trouble she did not state, but it is evi
dent that 1t ended all relations be
| tween them.
/ Shortly after the disagreement
Franklin said that he would leave i'm
mediately for England and would no
return"
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. 26.-Mrs
Charles r. Kempter of this city believe.
- Al til H.