AN INHUMAN MONSTER

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 118, 14 December 1905, Page 4

AN INHUMAN MONSTER

(By Mail Steamer at Auckland.) New York, Dovember 8. The suicide of Milton Franklin Andrews, which occurred in San Francisco on November 6, put an end to the life of a most inhuman mouster. Before ending his own life, this fiend assailant of William C. Ellis, of Australia, and the murderer of Bessie Bouton and others, killed a beautiful young woman who had become his companion iv crime. This girl was known as Nulda Olivia, but while her body lay iv the Morgue at San Francisco it va^ idenfied a 9 that of Eva Howard, formerly a resident of San Francisco, and a daughter of a criminal whose deeds were known to the police of this city, ot Australia, and of Honolulu. What connection Andrews had with Howard is not known, but it possible he was a member of the " Howard Gang," known to exist but never traced. The police of San Francisco were on the point of arresting Andrews, when his suicide occurred. The guilty couple had for three weeks occupied a room in a lodging house at 748, McAllister Street. Without the other inmates of the house suspecting the presence of the man, the woman went out regularly, and it was owing to her large purchases of peculiar foods that the couple were first suspected. Detectives then went into the room in the guise of plumbers and it was learned afterwards that Andrews must have concealed himself in a closet and watched tbe men all the time they were in tbe room. Being satisfied with their investigation, the officers left the house, returning at 8 in the evening to arrest the couple. Following the knock of the officers on the door of tbe room two shots were heard in close succession. When the door was opened the man and woman were both dead. Andrews was known as an expert shot, and his nerve had not failed him at the critical moment. He placed the muzzle of the revolver at the woman's temple, and she had died without a struggle. He then placed the muzzle of the gun at his own temple and fired again, this time holding a small mirror in one hand. It was found that the couple had been living in poor circumstances, though the man had 180 dollars in gold, some diamonds and trinkets. Andrews left a long rambling letter to the editor of a local paper, in which he admitted his identity and spoke of the murder of Bessie , Bouton, denying that he had corn- ] mitted it. William Ellis identified i Andrews as his assailant, expressing ■ his hatred of the man in his un- ' familiar Cockney accent. Ellis spoke j in a friendly fashion of the woman, , but denied positively that he had been infatuated with her. He still ] bears scars of his terrible encounter i with Andrews, but is in good health. > He has become interested in the racing season, and declares he will remain in California till it is over. t Andrews' brothers arranged to have ( the remains of Andrews sent to j Connecticut. Andrews' wife, from £ whom he has been separated some years, and their daughter, eight years old, live at Holyoke, Massa- - ohusetts.