The Washington times., 1922-06-05
NURSE IS
GLADOvER
SLA ! IN {
Feels Death of Anderson Re-
moves Temptation for
Other Girls.
BY Universal Service.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, June g.
Marie ("Peggy") Beal, the nurse
from Springfield. ILL.,, who killed
F.. Warren Anderson, a Philadel-
phia clubman. in their room in
an. obscure hotel here Saturday
morning, must face trial on a
charge Of murder. A.
This was announced today by
Cameron L. Orr, county prose
cutor, who says the girl fired the
shot while Anderson slept.
Shot While He Slept.
Miss BeaI shot Anderson while
he slept: the law can find no ex'
cuse for such an act" Orr. whose
detectives have Investigated the
case, said.
Miss BeaI denies the charge.
He was not asleep" she said.
I'VE had talked and he told me OF
his other loves and we had re-
tired. I lay there sobbing in the
dark. Our love had died and my
heart was broken.
THEM remember II now-I
got up and in the dark groped my
way to my trunk, where an old re-.
volver. given me by my father, lay.
got 1t. fired blindly-1 don't
know how many shots. II he spoke
did not hear him. do not know
how / hit him. for l never fired a
gun before. Then shot myself.
He was not asleep then"
Orr rejects the theory that she
was betrayed.
said, gave herself to this man
knowing he was married. They
lived together as man and wife.
can understand how. He decided to
cast her off.
She had been reading a book.
'Thuvia-Maid of Mars In It she
saw a picture-a girl with a blood.
dripping dagger standing over the
still form of her lover she had
killed. Her mind turned to the
thought. She planned to kill.
Tells Of Betrayal.
Perhaps jury, will soften to
the story Of betrayed love she tells
but the State hopes to prove that
the woman killed because she
feared to face the world after her
sin-a sin she committed, with open
eyes. with a married man. There
is no betrayal there. The law OF
God and the law Of man In equally
clear on that"
The authorities have found tha,
Anderson was a man of many ac
complishments. In addition to be
ing a player of hearts," he was an
airman, inventor, author, and
! painter.
Effects found in his trunk reveal
! his interests and character. II an
pears he divided his time between
the game of tennis and the study
of Esperanto. Letters he received
from Miss Beal and his other fifty
loves are missing.
I During his spare hours, II ap
pears, he attempted to write shor,
stories about the life he knew best
the air service, the department
store, and affairs OF women's hearts
Among the drawings Of inven
! tions he was working on was one
Of a device to bring about interior
! lighting by sunlight. Another was
an electrical contraption to page
hotel guests.
He was also Bible student as
Il evident from the marked pass
ages I'm the volume In his trunk
One marked passage read:
ooh, spare me, that I may recover
strength before I 20 hence, and
be no more" Another follows:
my heart was hot within me
while ! unused the fire burned: ther
spale I with nay tongue" Still an
other:
"He brought me up also out Of 9
horrible pit, out OF the miry clay
and set nay foot upon q rock and
established my goings."
Mystery Woman Mt Morgue.
Interest in the tragedy which !,
the topic OF conversation on city
street corners and In Kansas City
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