Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-07
ALL MEN DECE|VERS,
SAYS PEGGY BEAL
Declares She Tried to Hold Love
Of Anderson, Whom She
Killed
SAY SHE WILL RECOVER

Kansas City. No., June 7.-"All
men are decGivers. 4 man cannot love
only one woman. and he's ever on the
alert for new hearts to win. When
they do win they grow weary Of their
prize and become Indifferent"
Peggy Marie Beal. who shot and
killed Frank Warren Anderson. Col
lingswood. \. j., "the perfect lover, "
sobbcd this declaration as she lay
propped up in bed in a hospital here
tcday.
With tears in her eyes. she con.
tinued II have killed a man and the
whole world seems to be asking the
eternal why. My own story. my pas,
| life and loves, my most intimate affair.
have become public property. ! nm
something for public holiday. the
woman who kills.
"A jury is going to try me and find
me guilty.
heart has died and what becomes OF
my body is of small moment now.
But if all am going through now
saves but one girl from such II fate as
mine l shall not have lived in vain.
have not turned man hntcr: one man
sins has not turned me against all men
''Bu. in the one man know so well
| INV IPTIctt IsoNtT, L DtllCNc
found the trait Of all men, even since
Adam.
"Warren Moro Daring
Warren. the man l believed per.
feet. was no different from other men.
believe he was more daring-that is oil
'For it is in all men to deceive. 4
woman can love but one man. a maj
cannot love but one woman.
Warren told me he had loved fifty
He wrote their names for me and tolt
:, ne of their intimate personalities
their hair, their eyes and their manner.
isms.
~ love the all. Peg. he said.
1T WAS then I realized for the frst
time the true nature Of man.
"Since then. as l lay here on my cot
I have wondered at the wisdom of mod
ern civilization. When the world wa.
young. when God Himself spoke through
the tongue Of Solomon and His choser
people, man recognized the spirit o
polygamy within man.
II do not believe it is ! who failed
I do not believe it is the woman
fault in the thousands upon thousand
of unhappy heart affairs which fill vol
umeS of newspaper space today.
Rather 1t Is the inbOrn spirit o
man.
Some are towards Of their con
science. They are the good men O
every community Others are mo
found out. Still others are like War
ren.
II tried by every vile of woman t
, hold his perfect love. ! wanted hii
, for myself lie had planted the see
o. love in my heart rs he told me. IN
it grew.
"Guard Man Every Minute"
''Do not guard a man too closcl!
, the sob sisters Of the press advise, le:
, he grow restless under the wifely ru
and seek compnnionship elsewhere.
! Guard him every minute II 70
would keep him. ! Gun answer from eX
perience.
, 1T is only fools like who 10
=, their man, women who give and gi
:, and never ask for anything In retur
b II gave my soul to Warren.
when he had won he grew wea
: Of the chase. just rs all men do. al
=. he sought new hearts, new souls
conquer
!. Physicians today pronounced Peg
J., on the road to recovery. With IL
J.. announcement. Cameron Orr. Coun
, Prosecutor. said he would file a char
- of murder within the week.
" Letters of praise for her courage
ID shooting Anderson are being recciv
" by the former nurse at the hospital.
One letter. from n Kansas City do
IN tor and his wife. reads:
pf "Our sympathy Is yours. The VOL
). needs more girls who have the coura
Id and ability to shoot straight. We r
2. gret, however. that you shot yourse
N There Is plenty to live for. The sta
j. are up there yet and the flowers bloc
ct the same ns ever
l. The theory that new woman
entered Anderson's life and was I
cause of the tragedy Is vourhcd for
II. 4. Miller who claims to have be
a personal friend of the dead man n
Miss Beal He told police how Andt
o. son had begun another affair" af
Miss Beal arrived Mt his hotel.