The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
Milton Franklin Andrews Kills
Woman and Himself.
Run Down by Police for At
tempted Murder and Robbery.
YES Is STATEMENT.
Denies Guilt OF Many Crimes of
Which He Was Accused.
Sets Up an Alibi in the Case OF
Bessie BoutOn.

San Francisco, Cal. Nov Milton
Franklin Andrews and his consort,
Nulda Petrie. who had fed after
brutaIly attacking and robbing Robert
Ellis, a horseman at Berkeley, whom they
had lured from Australia, were found
dead last night in their rooms at James
Nieader's house, 74S McAllister street.
The police had surrounded the place.
Andrews was hidden IN closet when a
policeman by subterfuge entered the
room.
Realizing that their hiding place was
discovered, the young woman persuaded
the policeman to leave the room. She
locked the door and Immediately after
wards two shots We're fired in the apart
ment. Tho police broke in and the bodies
of the fugitives with bullet holes in their
heads, were found. Andrews pistol
was clutched in his hand where he was
lying on the floor. The woman rested
on a bed as if asleep
+ Andrews was charged with the muT-
der Of Eugene Bosworth at New Britain,
Conn, with the Staying of woman at
Troy N Y, and with the killing OF BeS-
sic Bouton, at Colorado Springs.
He returned with Ellis to this coun-
try last month. Having selected the
horseman as another victim for his re-
markable record of crime
subsequently found in the stocking OF
the dead woman, in which he says:
Andrews Statement.
1.-THE people of the United States have
all read of Milton F. Andrews, the many
times murderer, and his terrible career
of bloodshed- am Andrews anu on
November [ offered to give myself up
for trial on the three murder charges
against me-the murder of Bessie Bou-
ton at Colorado Springs; the murder OF
Mrs Bosworth at New Britain, Conn,
and the murder of the Troy, n. Y, Wo-
man, whatever her name is. The police
claim to have all kinds of proof that
killed all three. I have few less ser
ious charges against me and agreed
to stand trial on all three OF the murder
charges provided the petty offenses were
ouashed and they would never nave
them brought up against me if l were
discharged gree man from the three
murder trials.
1.-THE first murder I am charged with
is that of Bessie Bouton, with whom
have travelled as man and wife we
had frequent quarrels and on the
strength of that they say | am the
murderer They say they found she
was a travelling sales lady. Her 1olks
say she sold hair dressing goods Tor g.
Parker Pray of New York. To pro-
tect myself, I am compelled to give her
history She never Travelled nor sold
any goods for any firm. No such nrm
as J. Parker Pray was in existence IN
New York employing Bessie Bouton-
She married an electrician named
George Bouton in Syracuse, n. Y, and
they both used to get drunk and hight,
and they did not live together only a
few weeks. Bessie was well known
character at Boone's saloon ana at the
rest of the principal saloons and joints
in Syracuse. She skipped to Utica, N
Y. and went to live in a house known
as the Globe I met here there and We
formed a liking for each other told
her 1 was a gambler ana she wanted
to travel with me and when she
promised to give up smoking slgar-
cites, getting drunk and meeting men.
I took her on the road with me
Bought Her Some Diamonds.
when we arrived in Chicago I
bought her some diamonds from the
Bauman Jeweiry company she agreed
that if ever she met men again or got
drunk 1 was to take them all back
and we would separate. We hired a
room and I gambled FOR a living and
won $4,000 in a few months IN the
big poker rooms I caught her play
ing sneak on me and going to the
twenty-seeond district in which she be-
came a we'll known character. We
split up several times on the strength
of it but each time I took the bag of
damon ds."
Here for several pages of the manu-
script which were closely written An
drews related a wandering and in
volved story of many quarrels and re-
cancellations with Bessie Bouton down
to the time of their going to Colorado
Springs. At this place Andrews said
he made up his mind to quit the wO-
man for good. There were various
Quarrels between the couple concluding
by Andrews leaving the woman on ac-
count of her unfaithfulness and going
to Denver and carrying with him some
of ReSSio T2OufO11sS ITpc7Ca and the
diamonds he had formerly given her.
Went to Toledo.
Continuing Andrews said:
''T went from there to Toledo, O.,
and sent her trunk to Columbus,
thinking she went there looking for
me. She was trying to trace me the
way she did from Toledo to Detroit.
pawned some of the diamonds in
Chicago and Detroit And the police
say Nulda is wearing them today but
the last of them was paWned in Ro-
chester. before we went to Australia.
Midas diamonds have no similarity to
Bessie's. I went to Battle Greek with
Jennie Andrews of Holyoke, Mass. for
few days and then Jennie went
home. I looked around the big cities,
and in New York I ran against Nulda
for the first time in my life. Yet the
police say she was with me in Colo
RADIO Springs. She was in the east all
the time I was in Colorado. In few
days the papers came out with muir
der mystery Of Mount Cutler, Colo,
and as Bessie and had been on
Mount Cutler and all through the