New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-04
War Flyer Shot
Dead byWoman
HeHadDeluded
Nurse Met Him To Be Mar
ried, Only To Be Told He
Already Had a Wife and
Had Not Been Divorced
Attempts to Kill Herself
Writes Note Explaining the
Tragedy Before She Falls
Unconscious FromWound
Spccial Drratch 10 The TrispHs

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June IA ro-
nance which sprsng from the war and
mutual interest in Esperanto. an arti-
fetal language, ended trag!cally early
to-day for Frank ". Anderson and
Peggy Marie l.. Beal, nurse, Of Day
ton. Ohio, and Springfield, H.
Patrolmcn, responding 10 O call from
the Midwest Hotel this morning, were
directed 10 a room. Guests had heard
two shots. The pstrolmen tried the
door. II was locked They climbed
through the trsnsom. In the room
they found Anderson dead on the bed,
shot while he slept. On the foor
bullet through her left breast, lay Miss
Besl clad in nightgown. Beside her
was a revolver.
The room was not in disorder the
he'd cevers were drawn smoothly
around Anderson's shoulders. and an
alarm clock. set for o'clock, ticked
within reach under the bed.
Deadly Inspiration in Novel
On the dresser was novel by Edgar
Rice Burroughs. "Thuvia. Maid Of the
Marsh" IL was open and a corner OF
a page turned down ~ AT illustration
nortraying n woman dancer standing
over the PROSTATE form Of man, the
Woman holding a dagger IN her hand.
On a table was the following note:
my name is Peggy Beal. | am
tventy-nine years Of age. live in
Springfield. III. | came 20 Kansas
City with the intention OF marrying
Frank Warren Anderson. When
arrived | met him and we went 10 the
Midwest Hotel together.
"He told me he was married and
that ne was not divorced yet There
fore. he could not marry me.
There is nothing more 20 tell.
shot him because he brought me here
"PEGGY BEAL."
Miss Beal, unconscious, was sent 20
the General Hospital. She had a bul.
let through the lung. Anderson and
Miss Beal had lived at the hotel as
man and wife since wednesday. An
derson had met Miss Beal while ne
was n lieutenant in the Signal Corps
and she was nurse IN the East.
courtship began in an Eastern hospitsl.
Their letters contained frequent pas
saVes written in Esperanto. Anderson,
after the war. worked in ST. Louis
dry goods house, then came 10 Kansas
CITY three months ago.
Letters Spoke Of Marriage
Miss Beal for FIVE months had been
n nurse in the Open Air Colony az
Snrinofeld. III. Letters 10 her from
Anderson plainly showed that they
contemplated marriage, and the date
for her coming 70 Kansas CITY 70 oe-
come mis- wife was set weeks ago.
Anderson was shot in the back OF
the head as he lay on his side. he
was thirty-three years old, according
20 an application for work iled with
the dry goods store where he was en-
ployed.
SPRINGFIELD. H., June 3.-Miss
Marie Beal left Springfield a week ago.
after working as nurse at the Open
Air Colony here for FIVE months. she
came here from her parents home az
DAYTON. Ohio. She left with the an
nouncement that she was gong TO KAN
sas City 10 be married.
CoLLINGSwooD, n. j., June D.
Frank ". Anderson, who was snot IN
Kansas City by Peggy Beal, lived here
until eight montns ago, wnen ne went
West. He worked for awhile IN 81
Louis and then went 10 Kansas Clty'