, 1908-01-16
BEATRICE GORDON LIVED AT LAR.
AMIE BEFORE GOING TO
NORTH PARK AND LAT
Err TO DENVER.
Was Domestic in City and Learned the
Business of Dressmaking With
Mrs. Bath-Said to Have Been En-
gagged to Marry Two Young Men of
North Park Section-Has Made a
Full Confession of Denver KiIIinu.

the city Jail there charged with having
killed William Shirley, a man of that
city, was formerly a resident of this
city and has an aunt living near town,
Mrs. James Vass. Miss Gordon was in
the employ of a Grand avenue lady
here as a domestic, later learning the
business of dressmaking with Mrs.
Bath of this city, who then occupied
the Presbyterian parsonage at the cor
ner of Third and Fremont streets. She
went from here to North park and
from North park to Denver, having
been a resident of hal city, she says,
about eight years. She is perhaps thir-
ty-three years of age.
From Laramie to North Park.
Miss Gordon came here from Rich
Hill, Mo-, and engaged as a domestic.
She stayed here some time, later 60
ing to the Independence Land and Cat
tie company's ranch in North park as
cook and h~ousekeeper. Later she
went to Walden with a Mrs. Reinhardt,
who tried to get her to enter a house
of prostitution, Miss Gordon at that
time refusing to go with her into a
life of shame.
1t is said that Miss Gordon was at
one time engaged to be married to IA
young ranchman now living near Glen.
eyre, Colo, but hat his brother sue
ceeded in breaking off the match after
making inquiries here n elsewhere
as to her reputation.
Mourned for Dead MaEs.1er.
Later she claimed to have been the
fiance of Art Hill, at the time of her
residence on the Independence ranch
the manager of that concern, and after
his death she went into mourning out
of respect to his memory. He is said
to have had a sweetheart in the east
whom he discarded for Miss Gordon.
From Walden to Denver.
From North park Miss Gordon weht
TO Denver, the date of her leaving this
section corresponding with the number
of years she herself said she had lived
in Denver.
The following paragraphs from the
reports of the killing and the woman's
subsequent confession are clipped from
the Denver Post and Times of yester-
day:
Will Plead Unwritten Law.
To the charge of numbering William
Shirley, deputy sheriff, which the state
will prefer against her, Miss Beatrice
Gordon, who has confessed to the
shooting, will plead the unwritten law
and the fact that her life with the dead
man rendered her nothing more than
a female white slave.
The woman tells a remarkable and
thrilling tale of her relations with Shir.
ey, and amid tears and sobs and hys'
terical weeping portrays a life CT
shame in which her very soul was torn
with anguish and jealousy.
Does Not Deny Killing.
Apparently living in a house on
Champa street, Immediately in the
rear of the Shirley home, most of her
life was in reality spent at the latter
place. The Champa street room,
which she was supposed to occupy,
SHOWS none OI inc COLIlOl VI hohi-,
is almost barren of furniture, and re-
veals neglect in almost every article
it contains.
Miss Gordon makes no pretense TO-
day at denying the killing, but insists
that it was done at or about IL O'Clock
Monday night and that it was acct
dental. She AYERS that she complain,
ed of her bitter lot to Shirley and ex'
pressed the desire to end it all; that
he met her tears with the heartless
declaration: Here is my gun; take
it and shoot your - head OF"
Tried to Kill Herself.
She grabbed the revolver with the
determination to end her life, when
Shirley, becoming panic-stricken, at
tempted to wrest it from her. In the
scuf1e which ensued the gun vas dis
charged and the man fell dead.
Not knowing that he had been killed
the m declares that she remained
in the room all night and departed In
the early morning hours for her home
in Lafayette.