Evening star., 1905-11-07
Milton Andrews Kills Woman
and Commits Suicide.
LEAVES A STATEMENT
TELLS IN DETAIL STORY OF HIS
LIFE
Andrews Was a Crooked Gambler-His
Last Crime the Robbery of Aus
tralian Horseman.

SAN FRANCISCO. November Milton
Franklin Andrews and his cousort Nulda
Petrfe, who had fed after brutally attack
ing and robbing at Berkeley William Ellis
horseman whom they had lured from
Australia. were found dead last night in
their rooms at James Meagher's house at
'4o Mcaiiister street. The police had sur
rounded the place. Andrews was hidden in
closet when a policeman by subterfuge
entered the room
realizing that their hiding place was dis
covered, the young woman persuaded the
Policeman to leave the room. She locked
| the door. and Immediately afterward two
shots were heard in the apartment The
| police broke in. and the bodies of the fl,gi-
tives. with bullet holes in their heads. were
found. Andrews pistol was clutched in his
| 1ght hand. He was lying on the floor The
woman rested on a bed as if in sleep.
Andrews was charged with the murder of
Eugene Bosworth at New Britain Conn
with the staying of a woman at Troy n Y
ana with the killing of Bessie Bouton at
Colorado Springs. He returned with Ellis
70 TINS country last month. having selected
the horseman as another Victim for his re-
markable record of crime
S"SSAACAC COuuQ IN STOCKING.
statement signed by Andrews was sub
sequentiy found in the stocking of the dead
woman. In the confession he says:
The people of the United States have all
read OF Milton F. Andrews. the many-times
niuf oerer, ana his terrible career of blood
| she'd / am Andrews and on November z
onered to give myself up for trial on the
three murder charges against me-the muir
der of Bessie Bouton at Colorado Springs
the murder Of Miss Bosworth at New
Br1taln, Conn, and the murder of the Troy
| N l., woman, whatever her name is The
police claim to have all kinds of proof that
Killed all three. L have a few less serious
charges against me, and 1 agreed to stand
trial on all three of the murder charges
provided the petty offenses were auashed
and they would never have them brought
up against me If L were discharged a free
man from the three murder trials
The first murder / am charged with is
that of Bessie Bouton. We Travelled as
man and wife. We had frequent quarrels.
and on the strength OF that they say 1 am
was a travelling sales lady. Her folks say
she sold hair dressing goods for ]. Parker
Pray of New York. To protect myself L
am compelled to give her history. She
never travelled or sold any goods for any
firm. No such firm as J. Parker Pray
was in existence in New York employing
Bessie Bouton She married an electrician
name George Bouton In Syracuse. n. Y,
and they both used to get drunk and fight.
and they lived together only few weeks.
Bessie was a wellknown character at
Boone's saloon and all the rest of .he
principal saloons and joints in Syracuse.
She went to Utica. n. Y, and lived in
house known the Globe. l met her
there and we formed a liking for each 9th
er. l told her l was a gambler and she
wanted to travel with me, and when she
promised to give up smoking cigarettes,
getting drunk and meeting men. took her
on the road with me- mi,
tD'~ Won $4,000 at Poker.
when we arrived at Chicago 1 bought
her some diamonds. She agreed that II
ever she met men again or got drunk 1
was to take them back and we would sep
arate. We hired a room and gambled
for a living and won $4,000 in few
months in the big poker rooms. l caught
her playing sneak on me, and going TO the
22d street district, in which she became
weIl-known character. We split up several
times on the strength of 1t, but each time
l took the bag of diamonds.
Here for several pages of the manuscript
which were closely written Andrews re-
lated a wandering and involved story OF
many quarrels and reconciliatfons with Bes-
sic Boulon down to the time Of their going
to Colorado Springs. At this place An
drews said he made up his mind to quit
the woman for good. There were various
quarrels between the couple, concluding in
Andrews leaving the woman on account of
her unfaithfulnesS and going TO Denver,
carrying with him some of Bessie Bouton's
luggage and the diamonds he had formerly
given her.
Continuing, Andrews says: IT went from
there to Toledo, Ohio, and sent her trunk
to Columbus, thinking that she went there
looking for me. She was trying to trace
me the way she did from Toledo to Detroit.
l pawned some of the diamonds in Chicago
and Detroit. And the police say Nulda Is
wearing them today. but the last or them
was pawned in Rochester before we went
to Australia. Nulda's diamonds have no
sirr,ila III n Tn
Creek with Jennie Andrews of Holyoke
for. few days, and then Jennie went home.
l looked around the big cities and in New
York | ran against Nulda for the first time
in my life. Yet the police say she was with
me in Colorado Springs. She in the
east all the time l was in Colorado
The Bouton Murder.
IN few days the papers came out with
the murder mystery of Mount Cutler, Col.
and as Bessie and had been on Mount Cut
Ter and all through the canyon several
times on horseback 1t caught my eye. The
remains were Identified those of Bessie
Bouton. The liyeryman at Mount Cutler
says that he heard the shot fired the 18th
or 9th of October. | left there the 5th
of October and | was 900 miles away from
Mount Cutler and was accused of being her
murderer because We had had quarrels II
l had committed a murder l would have
drawn the $500 which l had in the Hfbernia
Bank of New Orleans and made my escape
/ consulted my brother at Hartford. Conn.
and he told me he had seen in a Colorado
paper where the citizens of Colorado were
preparing to lynch me, so l fled to Australia
with Nulda, where l played poker most of
the time"
Andrews then states that Mrs. Boswortb
was murdered August =. 1904, at New Brit
ain, Conn. Il was all that summer in Den
yer, taking treatment of Dr. Sherman VII
liams. he says. I travelled under the
name of G. Bouton and wife"
Andrews then goes into a history of his
life, eouched in somewhat sarcastic terms
Speaking of the Ellis affair when he at
tempted to murder the latter in Berkeley
after his arrival here from Australia he
said that his assault was made the re-
suit of gamblers quarrel, in which Nulda
was the bone of contention.
Il told Nulda." says Andrews, that il
was his life or mine. and that l would Kill
him for two reasons: First, what he had