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Show NURSE SLAYER WANTS.TO DIE Echo of Another Romance! Heard in Connection With Shooting KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June "'- A-8- i aortlng again and again that she has no deslra to get. well, Poggy Mric Beftl, trained nur- of Springfield. P.I., early Saturday ended a war romance here by killing Frank An-fl, An-fl, Bion. ileparlment store welfare director, and then turning the pistol on herself, lay in a hMPfUl todlty fighting against what attendants said wa an excellent ohanca for recovery ;.-lv. i, s .1 l.ullet wound in her left 'UThe young woman killed Ander-.,. Ander-.,. at a hotel, where the poUco -miA they had registered a man and Wltc. According to her story the hooting took Place after Anderson had boa sled sl-ed to her of his love affairs with others, told her that he could i no love any one woman and revealed to, tSS he arai not yet divorced from hla wife. sill1. ' 1 " The young woman, told that she stood a goo.l chance to recover, turn-ed turn-ed her face to the wall. "I want to die." she said. Then she beckoned a hospital nurse to loan closer. .i ,, . l m not sorry I hot him. she aid "He deserved It. 1 did rtgh To shoot him. I should have killed him before 1 did. Meanwhile Anderson whose body, lies In an undertaking shop ;uln directum from relatives in Colllngs- wooa N J "ot l?rt2 hod"1 I nr. W omen came to see the boa., o the man declared by Miss Beal to have been "the perfect lover. tho i ;v J;;,;.a,c,,,d.,U.,b.. Kn boa,t ed to her of his conquests, told her 60 women loved him and declared. "Peg. I'm a devil. 1 lova no WO- man ECHO OF ROM 'CE. A possible echo of another romance I was seen by the police, today in the I sYorv of a woman .who to the hotel where Anderson and MlU ; Beal had lived U man and wifee l.us SS came the night after the toagedy ind' 'he woman asked for Mr or M Anderson ' The hotel clerk told her what had happened, and the woman wo-man screurncd. Dead'" she cried. Oh. no. 1 a" Iter'SS w'permuted to view the ( body gazed at a long time and shud- dC"i?ow could she!" she exclaimed. J (Continued on Page Two.) NURSE SLAYER OF EX AVIATOR WANTS TO DIE (Continued Troni Page One) and added. "What devils women are!" Letters from Anderson's father in ColllngSWOQd, N. J . found after his death, spoke of a woman, referred to as "B," who might be following the young man. NEVER OVERSEAS. 1 Anderson. It Is indicated In his papers, pa-pers, was an officer in the air service , during the war. Ho was never sent 1 overseas, apparently, but he prized his army experience greatly. It was I tho one streak of romance and ads' ad-s' nture in a workaday existence, and . w illy denied any service more exciting ex-citing than campaigning in behalf of Liberty bond drives, the avlator-n.--partment store employe solaced him- I self aiter the war by writing ro- ' tnanoei In one of these. the hero ; was an army filer, who achieved un- 1 dvlng fame during the war. and fell In love with a girl who scorned him b cause of his father's wealth. But , in fiu r found her .(I last, living III 1 the south seas, where she had fled t. escape his attentions, and they ruled , together in a kingdom of romance, implcal beauty and undying love. Letters Let-ters from Anderson to Miss Beal spoke of the possibility of honeymooning honey-mooning in the south seas, in a country coun-try of mellow moonlight and eternal 1 summer. ENDS IN BEDROOM. But the romance of Anderson and I Marie Beal ended In a hotel bedroom in the gray of dawn, In an atmosphere atmo-sphere not of tropical birds and flowers, flow-ers, but of clanging trolley cars, taxt-c taxt-c ibs and rumbling trains. Anderson, according to the girl, had told her he had changed his mind that ho couldn't marry her now Later, perhaps per-haps He had not divorced his wlfo t he said, according to Miss Beal. It was the second time a wedding ' had been postponed She had come ! here in February and there had been j no wedding "My faith survived that " she said "I ought to have known then. But I didn't. I believed him. I thought ho cared for me. And then he told me there were 50 others, and showed One their names written In a diary, and the cities where they lived. And) mv name was last of all. " Will there be more?' I asked him HE CANNOT TELL. " 'I don't know,' he said. 'Maybe thero will. Maybe I'll go back to some of these. I -an't tell.' Then I killed him I ought to have done it bofore. All I'm sony for l" that I didn't kill myself too. There la nothing more for me." Anderson, who had been here only a few months, boro the reputation of being quiet, reserved, Interested in his work and tennis and motor During his working hours he vraa a figure of no particular dib-tlnction dib-tlnction a young man pi tting :ih'-ul in the world. It was after working hours that romance ran amuck WIFE NOW MAID. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 5. Mrs. j : l l Anderson of this city was married to Frank Warren Anderson n November. 1918. and was divorced from him a year ago, according to i Ives of Mrs. Anderson, who lid that hi la now employed as a maid in B north side home. Sho could not be located bit night, but Joseph, a half brother, said he had talked With Mrs. Anderson yesterday regarding Anderson's Ander-son's death at Kansas City, where he was shot by Peggy Marie Beal. Anderson was stationed at Fort BenJajnlii Harrison near Indianapolis Indianapo-lis for a time during the world war, and is said to have made several ac-qualntances ac-qualntances hero. oo |