Alice Boynton Died 1927

BOYNTON, HAMILTON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/11/2016 at 13:23:20

Sioux City Journal
15 May 1927

Queen Of Night Life Is Dead

Alice Boynton, a Leader in the Underworld, Passes Away

Alice Boynton, 32, a well known leader of the Sioux City underworld, is dead. She passed away Saturday night at her home, 901 Main Street.

Greatest public attention probably was attracted to her at the time of her first husband’s death. Boynton died from a shot fired from a gun held in his wife’s hands. Suspicions of murder were cast upon her, but Boynton loyally exonerated her in a dying statement. He declared that they had been struggling and that the gun had been discharged accidentally.

Soon after her husband’s death, Mrs. Boynton became known as the proprietress of a house of revelry.

Several times she got into trouble with the police and other law enforcing officers and on more than one occasion she played the role of defendant in both district and federal courts.

At the present time United States Marshal Charles Kloster is holding a warrant for her and had been waiting only for her recovery from an illness which had confined her to bed for several weeks, to serve the writ. Although it was known she was ill death was unexpected.

A year ago last January, after a New Year’s eve party and a whirlwind elopement; she married C.E. Hamilton, a well known Sioux City insurance man. The marriage, however, was not a happy one, and several months later they separated. Mrs. Hamilton was given a divorce by default, from Hamilton during the last term of district court. She charged cruel and inhuman treatment.