Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-08
DEATH CHEATS THE POLICE
Alleged Murderer Andrews and 0onSOrt
Fad Life When Surrounded.
MN LEAVES LETTER TELLING or LIFE
I;enies He Committed Three Murders
Attributed 20 Him, but Admits
He Was Guilty OF
some Crimes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. Milton Frank
In Andrews and his consort, Nulda Petrie,
Who had fed after brutally attacking and
robbing william Ellis, horseman, at
Iorkeley, whom they had lured from
australia, were found dead last night in
tacir rooms at James Meagher's house, at
IS McAllister street. The police had sur
I-unded the place. Andrews was hidden
So a closet when a policeman by subter-
re entered the room.
Realizing that their hiding place was dis
covered the young woman persuaded the
liceman to leave the room. She locked
the door and Immediately afterward two
shots were heard in the apartment. The
lice broke in and the bodies of the fugi-
tSves with bullet holes in their heads were
found. Andrews pistol was clutched in his
yht hand, where he was lying on the
roor. The woman rested on a bed. as II in
alcep.
andrews was charged with the murder
6 Eugene Bosworth at New Britain. Conn;
it'll the staying of woman at Troy, N.
y, and with the killing Of Bessie Bouton
Colorado Springs He returned with
Gis to this country last month, having
telected the horseman as another victim
for his remarkable record Of crime.
Andrews signs Statement.
\ statement signed by Andrews was sub
scquently found in the stocking of the dead
woman, in which he says:
The people of the United States have all
lrad OF Milton Andrews, the many times
l"urderer, and his terrible career of blood
sied. j am Andrews, and on November
. | offered to give myself up for trial on
the three murder charges against me-the
iprngs the murder of Mrs. Bosworth at
lew Britain, Conn. and the, murder of
lame is. The police claim to have ali kinds
Cf proof that / killed all three. l have
lew less serious charges against me, and
a5reed TO stand trial on all three of the
urder charges provided the petty offenses
ere quashed and they would never have
tuem brought up against me II 1 were
discharged free man from the three muir
der trials.
The frst murder I am charged with is
led as man and wife. We had frequent
uarrels and on the strength of that they
found she was a travelling sales woman
Her folks say she sold hair dressing goods
for ]. Parker Pray OF New York. TO pro-
STORY. She never Travelled, nor sold any
Ioods for any firm. No such firm as J.
Parker Pray was in existence In New York
Employing Bessie Bouton.
Alleged Career of Woman.
She married an electrician named George
liouton in Syracuse, n. Y, and they both
Used 10 get drunk and fight, and they did
rot live together only a few weeks. Bessie
Was well known character at Boone $
saloon and all the rest of the principal
saloons and Joints" in Syracuse. She
IN a house known as the Globe / met her
there and we formed liking for each
other. ] told her / was a gambler and she
wanted to travel with me, and when she
promised to give up smoking cigarettes,
getting drunk and meeting men, j took
Ier on the road with me.
When we arrived at Chicago I bought
Ter some diamonds from the Bauman Jew
tTet men again or got drunk was to take
hem all back and we would separate. We
aired a room end gambled for a living
and won $4,000 in few months in the big
poker rooms caught her playing sneak
IN me and going TO the Twenty second
known Character We split up several
times on the strength of It. but each time
I took the bag of diamonds
Here for several pages of the manuscript,
which were closely written, Andrews related
I wandering and involved story of many
guarrels and reconciliations with Bessie
Bouton down to the time of their going 10
Colorado Springs At this place Andrews
said he made up his mind TO quit the
woman for good There were various quar-
rels between the couple. concluding in
andrews leaving the woman on account OF
her unfaithfulness and going to Denver,
carrying with him some Of Bessie Boutons
luggage and the diamonds he had formerly
given her.
Continuing Andrews said:
went from there 20 Toledo, o.. and sent
her trunk to Columbus, thinking that she
went there looking for me- She was try
ing to trace me the way she did from To-
ledo to Detroit 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,
Nulda's diamonds have no similarity. to
Bessies. / went to Battle Creek with Jen-
nie Andrews of Holyoke. Mass, for a few
around in the big cities aud in New York
and / ran against Nuda for the first time
IN my life Yet the police say she was with
ne in Colorado SPRINGS; She was in the
cast all the time ] was in Colorado.
In a few days the papers came out witt
the murder mystery Of Mount Cutler, Colo.
Cutler and all through the canyon severa
times on horseback It caught my eye The
remains were identified as those Of Bessie
Bouton The liveryman at Mount Cutler
says he heard the shot fired the 18th OF
9Th of October, / left there the 5th OF
October and / was 900 miles away from
Mount cutler, and was accused OF beinf
her murderer because we had had quarrels
II had committed a murder would have
drawn the $500 which ] had in the Hibernia
bank Of New Orleans and made my escape
consulted my brother at Hartford Conn.
paper. where the citizens of Colorado wer,
preparing ia lynch me. so fed to Australia
with Nulda, where played poker most o.
the time.
Andrews then states that Mrs Bos
worth was murdered August ? 1904. at New
Britain, Conn. Il was all that summer IL
Denver, taking treatment of DR.. Sherman
Williams" he says. II Travelled under tn,
name of G. Bouton and wife"
Quarrel with Ellis.
Andrews then goes into a history of hi
life eOuched I'm somewhat sarcastic terms
Speaking Of the Ellis AFFAIR. when he at
tempted to murder the latter in Berkeley