Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-06-06
Sentimental Cranks
Commend Miss Neal
For Killing of Lover
fRy Associated Pressl

"ouilu 'SuSIlHeu WHEN she attempted
to take her own life early Sunday af-
ter she had shot and killed Frank
Warren Anderson, department store
welfare director in a local hotel.
"Our sympathy is yours" read one
of the letters. "The world needs
more girls who have the courage and
abil!t" 10 shoot straight. Ne regret,
howe;e" that you shot you s".i There
lis Ienty to live for. II. st.rs are
up there yet sld the flowers h! ,om
the same as tte1
Mss Real was on the road to rec"1-
ery 3"sp':'l attendants saia.
Physicians we're watch ,. clNseI,
We ,r- 'c!siic t,ttay all, v'a; no re
to converse with her.
Collingswood, N. j., June 6-Denial
that Frank Warren Anderson, who
was shot and killed in Kansas City
hotel last Saturday night by Peggy
Beal, was either a gay Lothario or a
perfect lover" was made today by F.
NJ. Anderson, his father.
"The boy was no doubt romantic,
like thousands of other boys" said
Mr.. Anderson, "but he never did a
mean thing in his life, was never cruel
to living thing. l wish to state en-
phatically that the list of 81 names
does not represent love affairs. The
list contains names and addresses of
schoomateS Lack to the ages Of IA
and -. No mention has been made
Of the male names found in the list.
He was methodical boy and from.
tie time he went to school kept rec
ords, names and addresses"
The young woman, told that she
stood a good chance to recover, turn
ed her face to the wall.
81 want to de-" she said.
Then she beckoned to nurse
I'm not sorry l shot him." she gasp
ed. "He deserved it. l did right tc
shoot him. should have killed him
before l did"
At Miss Beals request, visitors
were barred from her room yester.
day. Physicians last night said that
in spite of bullet through her lung
Miss Beal's chances of recovery are
GOOD and that her condition has i'm
proved.
Meanwhile Anderson, whose body
awaits directions from relatives il
Collngswood, N. j., was not without
visitors. Women came to hee the
body of the man, declared by Miss
Beal to have been "the perfect low
err" the man who, according to the
girl. boosted to her of his conquests
told her fifty women loved him anc
declared:
peg, I'b devil. l love no WON
an" A possible echo of another 70
nance was seen by the police yester
day in the story of woman wit
called by telephone to the hote
where Anderson and Miss Beal hal
lived as man and wife. This tele
phone call came the night after tn
tragedy, and the woman asked TO
'rNr. and Mrs. Anderson" The hote
clerk told her what had happened
and the woman screamed:
"Deadr she cried. "Oh, no;
can't believe it,"
She asked where the body ha
been taken, and yesterday womal
about 80 years of age, who refuse
70 give her name, asked to see tn
body. She said she had been frien
of the dead man and had known hir
in department store welfare work
she said. She was permitted to Sc
the body, gazed at it a long time an
shuddered.
GLOW could shew she exclaimed
and added, "What devils women are!
Then she left.
Letters from Anderson's father i
] Collingswood, N. j., found after hi
death. spoke of a woman, referred I