The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1905, Page 3

- LHE S4 _ERANCISCO CALL., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER %..1905 MURDER AND SUICIDE END THE PURSUIT TRAPPED FUGITIVES ACCEPT DEATH RATHER THAN LAW, Milton Andrews, the Accused Slayer of Bessie Bouto@gds_Life in Tragedy. With Police at His Door the Long-Hunted Man Uses Pistol as Last Resort. | Continued from Page 1, columns 1 and 2. 1 t the quest was not wholly successful, only i r wat the w eing fo BULLETS END FLIGHT. | For an ir the investigating officer was called out of the partmer I'he woman quickly slammed and locked the door. re heard. The police shot off the the woman dead on a bed. A man's . He had been hiding in a closet. ews and his consort was made at once his face and the large jeweled rings The corpses were evidence of guilt which even a long, ram- 1 denials, written by Andrews and found in the o o t refute. ‘ d, h himself by reflection through le dropped dead where I broke into the | D. m. They saw from the closet, esterd a space through which Andrews & s from the closet, where g while Burke was in b le of the woman's thrown into a small hand > mutely of the intended de- the house of the two. s Gibson eel positively he dead Search of his diamond ring also the oval- cluster of small di haped ring that the woman wore. In a purse < i $130 in gold and an Enghsh e g i . An emblem of the Eagles' gns g gold watch and chain com- roperty found on Andrews. e woman's clothes re- f closely written manu- n her right stocking. an fronical display the > 1 su o of < empted to prove an crimes that Burk to his hand. He o vements and asso- M iod of several yez re found a bott bleaching solution A bundle of dime 's Remorse” v the statement of An- anuscript that he som: detective storie . cneap w else of importance was found. « NDLORD’S STORY. r, the land- they never H ken to police ays Gibson, and clc , in his written wants the po- to the people hiding him in ca he rrender for the trials of murders he is accused of that h immunity icemén who surrpunded night are thankful that mber was not killed by ey knew the desperate er of the criminal and had an een made upon the room would have undoubtedly Andrews knew by instinct , when he entered the room, pol man he believed in the room. g to the state- t the e was really ordl e W ent of Meaghe c to his house and rented the oo ond floor from door. | room | e name of Miss agher says th left her room, but 3oth landlord and his that th ever man enter the it is how the > the rooms erday, for he was e rooms all day. It was morning that Policeman Burke ange access i the two from his stand across the Meag! and his wife live in xt room to the ones occupled by Andrews and Nulda Petrie, yet they solen aver that they did not hear | Andrews. The police believe that Andrews may have gained access to the house by clingbing from the porch of the ad- joiming domicile. Hanging on an im- ed clothes-line just outside of kitchen window was a white pi a woman's shirt, which it is be ed was used as ignal by the Andrews m hav: had a in a house on Golden Gate ave- r windows of which could en from the Meagher resi- a room but does nothing soap nly cleanse, it has no medical |aence. Haw Andrews could come and i, & 2 M A admitted that properties; for the color of she was suspicious of the woman’s ac- : tions, but retained her suspicions. To a health and health itself | o o e e e near by the g : R:! o woman said that she was from the use Pears’. Give it time. |gast, taking in the sights of the West. Deputy Coroner Brown took charge Sold all over the world. of the remains and removed the corpses to the Morgu RENT BERKELEY HOUSE. Add{ The story of how Ellis met Andrews, also known as Brush, is highly interest- ing. Ellls says that he first met the man at the National Sporting Club of Sydney, Australia, last spring. Andrews had worked as a trainer there. The two, with a woman whom Brush introduced as his wife, left Australia on the steamer Son- oma for San Francisco. They stopped at Honolulu for a time and then reached this port. The first night here was spent at the Occidental Hotel. This was on October 1. The next day the three went to Berke- ley. Later they rented the house where the assault upon Ellis was committed. The number was 2214 Ellsworth street. Then the three separated and met after- ward by appolntment at the Hotel Tour- D™ Graves’ Tooth Powder. to your toilet necessities if you want the best results. It removes discolorations and tartar. 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Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Co. ng out beneath | s enter the hc , though | eve that he was a con- Detective Gibson be- is not te the | he nev v An- police are ned to t Meagher knows more than the | | killing of Bessle Bouton at Colorado Springs. having selected the horseman as another but Burke had but | victim for his remarkable record of crime. she was from | | FITIEITOTS 7O BORK 77E S0 -~ — e e | ' PAIR E police had surrounded the place. | their heads. was lying on the floor. to this country last month, FEAR TO FACE CHARGES OF CRIME Milton Andredis and his comsort, Nulda Peirie, who had fled after brutally attacking and robbing William Ellis, a horseman, at Berkeley, whom they had lured from Australia, their rooms at James Meagher’'s house at Andrews was when a policeman by subterfuge entered the room. | Realizing that their hiding-place was discovered, the young woman persunded the policeman to leave the room. immediately afterward two shots were heard in the apartment. police broke in and aaw the bodies of the fugitives with bullet holes in Andrews’ pistol was clutched in his right hand where he ‘The woman rested on a bed as If in sleep. signs were of her voluntary acceptance of death at her lover's hands. Andrews vwas charged with the murder of Eugene Bosworth, Britain, Conn., with the slayer of a woman at Troy, N. Y., and with the were found dead last night in 748 McAllister street. The hidden in a closet She ‘locked the door and The The New He returned with Ellis i aine, Oakland. Personal matters were |a ed and Sllis accepted their invita- | tion to come out to the house. | Ellis said he had decided to accept their proposition to go to New York. Early during the morning of October 11, Ellis went to the Berkeley cottage, but found no one there. He returned to his hotel at Oakland and found Andrews. The pair went back to Berkeley to the cottage. Ellis continued: “I ncticed the woman seemed consider- abiy agitated. She did not make a re- ply to my comment on her appearance. I also mentioned she was wéaring no bo- dice. Being a trifle warm I removed .my hat and coat and went into the dining- room, where, after considerabie coaxing on their part, [ accepted their invitation to a light luncheon. STRUCK FROM BEHIND. “I had just seated myself and was raising a spoonful of marmalade to my mouth when I was struck from behind. 1 fell off the chalr. I was not entirely unconscious and got a glance of Brush (Andrews) standing behind me with a hammer in one hand and a dagger in the other. I attempted to rise, and as I did so he struck me two more blows. He then put his hends in my hip pocket and took five $100 American bills that I had with me. This scemed to bring me to my senses and I struck him on the jaw with my left hand. I then rose and found the woman standing and pointing a revolver | at me. This I knocked from her hand with my right hand and made for the door as fast as I possibly could in my dazed condition. Just as I arrived at the door he made a terrible lunge at me with ammer again.” “::c?ordlng to the story of Detective Shulz, an officer from Colorado, the life | ot Andrews has been one of crime. He declares that the Colorado police know that it was. Andrews who killed Eugene Bosworth in New' Britain in August, 1904 ‘Although Andrews’ crime was known to the police soon after the deed was ac- complished, they were only able to track him to California, here to lose his trail. | Later Andrews kiliéd the Bouton wom- an, who was living with him at the time. This was in Colorado, where Andrews and his companion quarreled over the Petrie woman, the present mate of the murderer, The result of this quarrel was the murder of the Bouton woman and the flight of Andrews ith the Petrle woman. The Chance of a lifetime. Suits 9 half price, account of building to be torn Z,wn. $40 suits | at $25. J. Smith, Tailor, 778 iarket,street. * | it was too late. — two hid in Denver for two months, says the detective, and then crept into Battle Creek, Mich.,, where they barely missed capture by the police. AT BATTLE CREEK. Andrews' escape from detection in Battle Creek was by a narrow margin. He had sent his trousers to a tailor to be pressed. The tailor's boy forgot the name of his customer and looked through the pockets of the trousers to find the address. In one of the pock- ets he found the name ‘“Bouton” writ- ten on a card. A few days later, when the Colorado police arrived and began their search for Andrews, or Bouton, as they knew him, this tailor's boy led them to the address of the man. But Andrews and his com- panion had flown, only to turn up later in Vancouver. From thence they shipped to Australia. Shulz says that while in Australia Andrews always wore a large dlamond ring. This he carefuily concealed when in America. EIlis’' description of this diamond tallies with that given by the police of New Britain in the advertisement giving the description of the ring worn by the faurderer of Eu- gene Bosworth. The identification of the so-called Wil- liam Brush, Ellis’ companion, as Milton Franklin Andrews, was made by the Berkeley police a few days after the flight from the college town. In the po- lice office a circular description and pho- tograph of Andrews was found among the archives. The circular had been sent out by the Colorado police after suspicion attached to him as the murderer of Bes- sie Bouton. The description that Ellis furnished of his assallant fitted so closely that the police at once went to him with the photograph. Ellis unhesitatingly pronounced Brush and Andrews to be identical. His decision was without reservation. Then the pursuit was taken up all theé harder. A reward of $2000 was offeved by the Colorado police for Andrews' ar- rest and a reward of $3200 was stand- ing for Andrews’ capture on the charge of having murdered Eugene Bosworth in Connecticut. . Andrews, through some pecullar reason- ing, intended to send his lengthy state- ment to the press and through it to con- clude a truce with the police and be granted immunity from prosecution on minor charges if he surrendered for trial on the murder charges. He had prepared an elaborate BESSIE BowToxw i CRLORATOO < ~ alibi, covering a period of several years, and evidently expected to be acquitted of the murders charged to his hand. His reason’ for such a move Is given as sickness, Andrews' statement says that he has consumption, intestinal and gen- eral, and heart faflure. He ‘“‘would die in a cell,”” he says, and desires to be treated as a sick man. | In his manusecript Andrews, coloring this lines with extreme sarcasm, at- tempts to prove alibis for his many crimes and says that he is willing to surrender to the charges of murder if all other charges against him are dropped. He flays the police and ac- cuses them of placing every unsolved crime of the century at his door. Andrews states that he married Jen- nie Walsh of Holyoke, Mass. His de- sire, expressed in his statement, was to secure a divorce after he.had stood trial for his crimes and then marry | Nulda Petrie. Andrews denied that he fired a shot | at Ellis in Honolulu and said that he did try to kill him in Berkeley be- cause Ellis attempted to assault Nulda, | and secondly, because he feared that Ellis would give him up to the police. PLAYS CROOKED POKER. The statement says in a rambling fash- fon that Andrews earned his living by crooked poker.playing and that Ellis was in on the deal with him. He alleges that he and Ellis in a poker game robbed IGeorge Fuller Golden, -the comedian, ot $106 on the voyage from Honolulu. Gol den threatened arrest and the money was returned. = As proof of Ellis’ complicity Andrews courts the interviews of Golden and the captain of the Sonoma, whom he says knew of the theft in the game. An- drews tells of his life, of how he met Bessie Bouton and of his wanderings and quarrel with Ellis. The letter was dated November 5 and was addressed to the press of San Franclsco. In his opening paragraph Andrews writes: “The people of the United States have all read of Milton F. Andrews, the many times murderer and his terrible career of bloodshed.. I am Andrews, and on No- vember the 3d I offered to give my- self up for- trial on the three murder charges against me, the murder of Bes- sie Bouton at Colorado Springs, the mur- der of Mrs. Bosworth at New Britain; Conn., and the murder of the Troy, New York, woman, whatever here name is. The police claim to have all kinds of proof that I killed all three.. I have-a few less serious charges against me and I agreed to stand trial on all three of the' murder charges, providing the petty of-| fenses were quashed and they would| never have them brought up against me if T were discharged a fre¢ man from the three murder trials, -Have 1 given the public'of the United States a fair propo- | sitfon? My ' terms of surrender are .not| accepted. Will you publish this in your; paper and' let the public look into this: matter?” MEETS BESSIE BOUTON. Andrews .writes that he first met | Bessie Bouton in a house of ill-fame at Syracuse, New York. He says she was married to an electriclan named George Bouton, but as they both drank, ey separated after living together | #nly a few weeks. According to An- jdrews' statement, he took the woman Itn’vellng with him after she promised | to: stop drinking and receiving other j men. | The statement tells of how they went ! to Chicago together and how he soon cleaned up $10,000 playing poker. He ! says he found out that Bessie was un- ! true to him and they quafreled several ! times. They always managed to patch | up their differences, so Andrews writes, till the final split-up came in- Colorado Springs... . Andrews wrote at. length of how" they quarreled and fought at the latter place after he discovered she was unfaithful. | SHOGILs BFr ZiiAF FT HONOGTLT e - - NrF woseeer on xpsse Y BEraxELE > - - = FUGITIVE MURDEREB WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE, HIS FEMALE COMPAN- JON. WHOM .HE RILLED BEFORE SHOOTING HIMSELF, AND THE V TIM OF HIS COLQRADO CRIME. DIAGRAM OF LAST NIGHT'S TRAGEDY. C- He says he made a vow to leave the | time. woman then and did so. He says sfie| Continuing, Andrews tells of hearing followed him in a vafa endeavor to bring | about the murder of Bessie Bouton and about a reconciliation. In the meantime, | the stories implicating him with the mur- drews says, he went East again and | New York he met: Nulda for the first | Continued on Page € mn 4. IF YOU CAN FIND One lone reason why any shoe in town should cost you one cent more than the Regal— If you can point to one single cent’s-worth of actual value in any shoe at any price, that’ isn’t built into the Regal— —We are ready to begin making Regals « that way. 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