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Show NORSE KILLS AVIATOR TO SAVE OTHERS' HEARTS VICTIM LOVER OF 50 WOMEN, SLAYERJVERS! Goes Wild When She Finds Her Name Is Last on List LETTERS ENDEARING Note Found Showing Dead Man Was Warned He Was Trailed KANSAS CITY, June 3. (By In"r-nailonal In"r-nailonal News Service ) Branding Frank Warren Anderson, war aviator, and the man she shot to death, as a lover of 50 women. Marie PeggS Beal suffering from a self Inflicted bullet wound, tonight declared she shot Anderson to save other women's wo-men's hearts." "Ha was a perfect lover." she said the most wonderful of men He had told n-.e he was married ou s.l.j a divorce was pending I believed him and promised to wait. "But last night." she continued, "ho showed mo a list with 60 names on It The last name on the list was mine. He described each one of them to me. He told me how he had loved them. Then he told me he had not secured a divorce and could not marry me I went wild Then I killed him." Previous to his confession to her of his own many loves. Miss i .1 said she found a diary belonging to Anderson An-derson in which he Is t.ald to ha'o written; "Was ever a man thrown Into such a whirling vortex of human hearts as j COULDN'T GO STRAIGHT "Ho told mo he had tried to go straight but could not," Miss Beal said tonight. "I'm a devil and can't help It," ho said. Police are awaiting wor.l from other oth-er cities where they have wired the names of Anderson's other alleged sweethearts Twenty-four of them, according ac-cording to the list found In Miss Beat's trunk today. In Anderson's handwriting, handwrit-ing, live In Philadelphia. Tho Others are scattered in the following cities Gloucester. Miss . Boston, Union -town. New Hampshire Chicago. Rock-I Rock-I ford, ills., St. Louis. Indianapolis. 'oltlngswood. N. J , Quakortown. Pa, Fort Wayne, ind. and Camden, N.J. SLAYER GRADUATE M USE Miss Beal a graduate nure. s. r -ed as a nurse In France during the war. Anderson was a lieutenant In the aviation corps. Whlie Anderson was working In St Louis and Ml-s Beal was living In Ferguson. Mo. tho two met. Their n- experiences gave them a common topic of conversation. They became fast friends. Their marriage mar-riage was planned for this month. Then there was a separation whilo Anderson came to Kansas City taking a position as educational director in the Jones Company store. Miss Beal went to Springfield Ills , which she says Is her home, working as u nurse .ii the Fresh Air colony there, LETTERS EMM UIN(. Kndearlng letters passed between them. Dearest, dearest Peg." said one "I am thinking of everything, dear. ' and trying to plan things for your ! happiness. It will be the best medl-j. medl-j. n,- and the most treasured for me to always be able to make you happy." Another Indicated a different mood "Are you inclined to doubt me at itlmoH"5" it read "Please don't dear L Lease T feel sure my outlook on C . a . h, nco.i T t.,1,1 i-oii :inrl In .,.)- Fjldon to th il I h be. n a very, very good boy, honestly NURSE TELLS sTORV L Two weeks .ik" I COOIC to Kansas City." Miss Beal said tonight I "Something had come between us Ir h'w th.t it on..- He was so dlf- ,,.nt. He was .old and his neglect Evas apparent from tho moment we Knot " I Thn ihe little nurse, lying on her Mot In General Hospital, told of his .nfcsslon to her lost n:t:ht of his Bany love affairs She professed herj K ' WSS 1 blah " tM'-' details of( Bl actual shooti; g. Hf'Thal Is Oil. That is m v story." she. Bt.j "That Is why I killed. God K-give me. I wan: to die non BVTou know bow It Is 'n th- eternal Banglo." she said when questioned ftput Anderson's wl!V Bfl do not know nor or where nhe Is Bt I suppose she is praying for him BKv She will i urn on me I know I wife always turns on the second Heiuii In the triangle of eternity " B'hyslclans bellevi Miss Beal will re- flfter. IN FEAR OF LIFE Evidence that IT rank Warren tnder-f tnder-f war aviator shot an. I killed hem Hjv today by Maris "Peggy" Bi i Br nurse was living In fear of death H mini n Page Two.; II GRADUATE NURSE KILLS FORMER 1 f FLYER TO STOP HEART BREAKING Young W)man Fires Fatal Shot When She Finds Sweetheart Had Her Name at Bottom Of List Of Fifty Others (Continued from Page One) from t lie linnds of somo woman, "B" nine to licht tonight In :i L iter found Hi ' among Anderson's effects, and signed Dad." The letter was dated waj jo, 19 22, and expreasod fears that !'B" was trying to lof-ate him. The writer of the letter aald h had on two occasions heard "B" 3j" ihrentr.n Anderson's life. 'barren. I nm Worried," the lottOI ! read. Lcona. has been visiting us r gufarly and r would not be surprlaed f j if some Of us had mentioned your be- ln In Kansas City, without thlnk- Inc. "She ( drop th" "tark that Bin had heard from "B" and that "B" 'was starting for the middlewcst. I Dji did not dare to question her Then Is something I have not (old you before, for .is you know. wc have hot even mentioned "B" since you went :;Kway. ;JW When "B" left here she swore tl.it she would find you If .t took .' ' 'nnd that she would do all the harm .-die could. I, IKK WILD WOMAN 'She noted like a wild woman th n and had a most peculiar look out of rlvft 'her eyes. You know T heard her threaten to kill you on two occasions lift when ou were on your good behavior foi things she .-ould not prove Lfter-ward. Lfter-ward. 1 want to warn you. Be on your ,i i guard for we all love you. boy. and .4,'' ' don't want harm to come to you. If things don't turn out well 1 DM u B ' should h.ipnon to locate you and MfKj , you want to get away from there quick you are welcome to conn: back r$k,t home " iJj The letter also stated the writer ' mlrht be able to get back for the '.linger Anderson his old place at trE-1! Police believe tne mysterious "B" " referred lo in the letter was An ler-'Sjj ler-'Sjj ;Kon's wife, the woman he declared to IliSfj Miss Deal he could not divorce IJkB .V This theory was borne out by an-HMH an-HMH other I J t r discovered tonight. It H1 wa saddresed to ' Dearest Peg" writ- JvWlt, ten by Anderson, and contained a H reference t. 0." iSShL Speakinr o; receiving a trunk from hi old honu- at 'oltingswood, X. .1 Anderson wrote: Hfi I do not know whether th" folks broke it or If "B" did It." NURSE) ILXl'L Miss Beal. shown copies of the let-urs let-urs in the hospital tonight, declared kjjfflP "B" was Anderson's wife, whose real name she believes ts Mrs. Opal Ander- "He called her Babe." she said. but It was n nickname Just as he had a nickname for all of us who loved him. The last T knew of Mrs And. r-kon r-kon she w-as in Philadelphia in a hospital hos-pital where he had deserted her to die." "He married Babe armistice nichl " Il9s Boal said ' They lived together for a year and then he left her ' The Ieona referred to In the letter trom "Dad" Is a married woman Miss Beal said, adding- "Ho made love to her too." "And there was another wife before that "Ruth Anderson He told me he divorced di-vorced Ruth " "I have played in hearts. Peg." he told me on our fatal night1" ehe ! "I am a dealer in hearts. Here is my hand,' and hn handed me the list I of fifty names with mine "Little Peg 1 I at the very end. I "And Peg, his little sunshine, is the last heart his hand ever held," she concluded, sinking hac k on her |