Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-06
BELIEVE miss BEA['
IS MOTHER OF TWO
Woman Who Slew Perfect
Lover Said to Be Divorcee
I Of Terre Haute
/, LETTER FLOOD PRAISES HER

Peggy" Marie Beal. slayer Of
Frank Warren Anderson. formerly Of
Collingswood, y. j., is believed to be
tAe mother of two children, Steven
Beall. Jr., sixteen. and Louis. thir-
teen.
A photograph Of Louis hung in her
home in Kansas City Mo-. where on
Sunday she shot Anderson and tried
to kill herself. News dispatches from
Terre Haute. Ind. indicate tina, though
she called herself Miss" and wrote
her name .'Beal.' with ono "i.' she
was the divorced wife of Steven Beall.
an iron worker OF that city. now mar
! ried again. The wounded nurse was
married 10 Beall. accordin% TO a re-
port said to have originated with the
iron workers present wife. in Dayton.
o.. when sixteen years old
Peggy" Beal in hospital in Kan
sas City fighting for her life. is begin
ming to receive the usual crop of letters
praising her for the murder of Ander-
son. A Kansas City doctor and his
wife and trained nurse were among
those who linked their names with hers
In commencing her act
"Our sympathy is yours. read one
OF Jhe letterS. ne WOrlu nePuS more
girls who have the courage and ability
that you shot yourself. There is plenty
to live for. The stars arc up there vet
and the flowers bloom the same as ever.
Miss Beal was on the road 10 recov-
cry, hospital attendants said late last
night.
Friends and relatives Of Anderson
continued TO deny today the early stories
that he was a gay Lothario or that he
had been properly designated as the
perfect lover"
A fourth woman. Miss Ada Wickert.
Of Quakertown. declared that Ander-
son. who was supposed to have kept n
''love list Of his conquests. must have
written down in his memorandum the
name OF every girl he met. She de-
clared that she did not even remember
how her meeting with the young man
came about.
Anderson father. +. NJ. Anderson.
who was the aviation officers real con.
fidant in all matters. declares uneOui-
vocally that the list of names was
merely that Of women acouaintances
Frank had formed since he was a boy
in school. and although he was un-
doubtedly sentimental about such mat =
ters. the list BY no means represented
his "conQuests.
There were as many mems names as
those of women in that memorandum
book" said the parent. "but the sen :
sational stories emanating from Kan.
.as City have made no mention of this
fact"
my SON. Mr.. Anderson went on
70 say. was twenty nine years old.
He was graduated from Blaine Gram.
mar School in Philadelphia and later
from Central Manual Training School
He was drafted into the army and
took a three months course at the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology
later being sent to the aviation repaIr
depot at Indianapolis. He had beer
married to Ruth Silvcrstein at the age
Of seventeen. but after a year they wer,
divorced. He later married Opal West
who lived near the aviation tatlon il
indianapolis. and he was very devoted
to her until q separation came about
through her jealousy and nagging.
"He had brought his wife here to liv,
with us and We treated her during he
fitness of lung trouble with every ten,
derness and as though she we're ou
own daughter. They later went Yves
after we had done everything possib
to keep them happily together. Opa
went to her home. and my son rode
motorcycle to St. Louis. where he tool
a temporary position. but later he foun,
q better opening in a large store /,
Kansas City as welfare director. whic
be held at the, time of his death
my boy had no bad habits and live
q clean and exemplary life He studie
and worked hard when other boys wer
out having good time. merely wis
70 add that the list Of fifty one name
docs not rcprescnt love affnirsn