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Show PEGGY DEPENDS ONLY ON STORY Slayer of "Perfect Lover" Confident Jury Will Free Her By DOUGLAS (TV8IjEX lnt-rt, ,l...r .. V. .. u t!....l KANSAS CITY. Mo., 1 et. 21. "He was my perfect lover but I killed him to sue other girl.s." Sitting In her cell In the county jail here almost on tin eve f her trial for murder which Is Scheduled to begin Monday In criminal court. Marl- Peggy 1 Heal, slayer, of F. Warren Anderson. Philadelphia and Kansas City clubman, several months go. dedar.d tonight that this would be her defense. "I will tell my story to the Jury. If they believe what I say they will acquit me." she said oer and 0V0I "if they don't believe me they win convict me. If they don't believe mo I want them to convict me for even though convicted, I know that my story will save other girls." Efforts of her attorneys to Induce her to allow some other defense have proven unavailing. She remains firm In her determination to tell "her story" to twelve men. She apparently j haa a childlike faith in Hm ability to free her. She will be her only witness. No other lips will move to 1 say a word In her behalf from the ' witness stand Her trial Is expected to set a record for be Itj Peggy Tieal shot and killed Ander- son June 3 in a downtown h.i where they had lived for a mouth when, she says, ihe discovered that he had broken the hearts of fifty women and that she was scheduled to be the fifty-first. Mrs. Peal lias written what she says Is the story of her life and her love for Anderson which sin . he will read to the jur George Birmingham, her attorney. declared tonight thai he win accept I be first twelve men who enter the box. |