BOUTON, bessie

I am not related to these families… Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado) Dec 30, 1904 Page 7 VICTIM IDENTIFIED Sister in California Believes Mrs. Bouton Was Murdered. DENVER,Dec. 27--The News this morning says: Bessie Bouton, believed to be the young woman who was found on Cutler mountain with a bullet in her brain and her face burned beyond recognition, was, with her alleged paramour, Milton Franklin, a guest at the Albany hotel from May 2nd to Jul 13th. This was established by the hotel register last evening. The couple registered as G. Bouton and wife, but it is believed Franklin took the name of the woman, who had been married to Bouton in Syracuse and separated from him four years ago. The man at the Albany was a gambler. Special dispatches to the News from Syracuse, New York and Santa Barbara, California, give many additional facts, all of which seem to corroborate the belief that Bessie Bouton was the victim. Mrs. Charles Nelson of Santa Barbara, where Bessie Bouton and Franklin visited, says she received a letter six weeks ago from her sister, saying she had quarreled with Frankling, and the next heard of Bessie Bouton was when she read descriptions of the Cutler Mountain victim. W. J. Bodno, whose wife’s elopment was told in special dispatches to the News fro Butte recently, is on his way to Colorado Springs to see if the remains are those of his wife. It is thought he is mistaken.