The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-04
SHOOTING IN HOTEL
Woman Found Unconscious
Beside Man She Admits
Was Not Legal Mate
LEFT HER death POEM"
Many Letters and Clippings
Regarding Triangle Muir
der Cases" Found

KANSAS CITY. Mo. June 3-"I
am a devil and | can't help II, ]
have tried to ego straight but !
can't"
Those words, from tho lips OF
Frank Warren Anderson war Avia-
tor and department store cduca-
tional director. preceded his death
In the Midwest hotel early today, ac-
cording to n confession to police
made by woman who killed him,
Marie Peggy) Heal, this afternoon.
Il found his diary" Miss Beal.
herself suffering in General hospital
from n self-inflicted wound, told
police. WAS ever man thrown
into such swirling mix-up of hearts
as ~ the diary said. Then he
showed me a llsti OF so names OF
women he had known and loved. He
described each one to me. lie told
me he was married and could not
marry me. After that l kihed him.
This note was found following the
shooting.
MY name is Peggy Beai, l am 2!
years OF age. | live In Springfield
III. I came to Kansas City with thu
intention of marrying Frank War
rem Anderson. When i arrived ! me
him and we went to the Midwes
hotel together.
"Iie told me that he was married
and that he was not divorced yet
Therefore he could not marry me
There is nothing more TO tell.
shot him because he Brought mS
here and could not marry me.
(Signed) PEGGY BEAL."
Anderson was found dead In hii
room in the Midwest hotel here ear
ly today, a bullet through his brain
Beside him lay Mrs. Bcal, who's
name apepared on tbe hotel register
as his wife. She wak suffering from
n self inflicted bullet wound, which
pierced her right side. Her silker
| undergarments were aflame.
Don't ask me why | did IT," ah'
said. ASK him what he did" ther
she lapsed into Inconsistencies.
Woman May Recover.
At General hospital. where sh'
was taken, hope was expressed FOL
her recovery.
Beside the woman and on toI
OF a book, "Tiuvia," which wa
opened to chapter headed, "th'
han OF DOOM lay the woman
death note, "a poem in her owl
handwriting. II read:
THE mind has a thousand eyes
"And the heart but one:
"Yet the light OF a whole life
dies.
"When love 10 done"
on the page to which the bool
was opened was n picture OF
beautiful woman standing beside tn
body OF a slain man, blood drippe'
dagger poised in her hand.
Letters and Clippings Found.
Events behind the curtain OF mys
terry OF the lives Of the man an
woman appeared to be hidden Il
scores of clippings and bundles o
letters ex, hanged between tho two
found In the room by police.
There were newspaper account
OF murders---always stories OF tn
eternal triangle. There was also tn
life story OF Peggy Hopkins Joyce
international beauty.
From letters found bypolice. II
believed Anderson IN n member o
a wealthy eastern family. HI
father, 1t is believed, Is an officia
OF the John Wanamaker stores o
Philadelphia and New York. Ill
! mother, It Ia thought. lives eithe
In Camden or Coihngwood, y. j.
A Student Of Esperanto"
Anderson was n student Of Esper
uutO, tnt uIllNtINfl ldukA As'h
ters written In Esperanto and date
from all parts OF the world wer
among his effects.
At tho Jones stores II was sal
Anderson came to Kansas city tw
months ago from st. Louis.
Letters and love poems fror
Anderson to the girl also showe
that he loved her, az least until yer
recently.
Dearest girl. hurry TO me-" on
letter said. 1t was addressed to he
at the Colony hospital, Springfield
Disagreed for Some Cause.
Some unknown gulf Is believed I
have come between them after
o'clock last night. At shat hour tn
woman, talking with Mrs. Allc
Leonard, formerly Anderson's land
lady. said my husband has no
been the same to me lately
she said they had been marie
In Illinois two years ago.
At the Eamo time Anderson tol
the clerk at the Midwest hotel IN
wife If going back 10 Illinois sat
urdsy."
Il love him but IL Ia too late" IN
woman kept mumbling as she la
on her hospital cot today.
She shook her head mo- whe
a L. A. Vae