The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-07
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5euIah May Amman Found Her
Triangle Did Not Work Out
Like Ones in Fiction.

CHICAGO, April 7.-Beulah May
Amman can see her mistake now.
but the light did not come to her
until she had killed man.
The man was Harry Kolstedt.
She shot him last Thursday night
in the flat where she lived with her
husband. Albert Amman.
Beulah, in the county jail where
she 10 held for murder, recounted
the development Of her life today.
It began In Kentucky, q marriage
at fifteen, q baby. and a divorce.
Then her marriage to Amman. the
perfect lover" and the quarrel
that ended in Kolstedt's staying.
After she had turned the events of
her life over in her mind, Beulah
said:
Drifts. After Divorce.
After a wife separates from her
husband she just drifts, believing
nothing much matters"
She referred to her divorce from
her first husband.
The second husband-A. l.. An.
nan--is one of those Woodworking
patient sort Of men. Fourteen
hours a day he worked in a garage
to earn money that he might give
his wife those little things that
please a woman. She was always
seeking pleasure--more pleasure.
Kolstedt pleased her. He didn't
work much, was wild, gave her lots
Of emotion, had no conscience. He
wasn't much Of man, as the
moral world weighs a man. Amman.
the husband, was a thousand times
better. But Buelah looked upon
him as her meal ticket and upon
Kolstedt as her real man."
She told of her love for Kolstedt
explaining 1t as best she could.
when you love like loved Harry
Kolstedt, you go alone through life
with a half hope that perhaps your
triangle romance won't be like the
Others" she explained. You try
to think it will be like 1t is in the
motion pictures, and the story books
But that isn't true"
Then she spoke Of her divorce
from the boy she married in Ken
lucky when she was only fifteen
years old.
All Start Good.
1--WE all start the same way
good. We all want to do what's
right, but the worst enemy a WON
an can have il a past, and a di
vorce Is nothing else.
women who find their first love
heir ideal love, who marry and have
q family, are women who are wei
started along the right track, anC
what they resist is comparatively
small. married when l was fittee.
and had q baby when was six
teen. MY first marriage was unhap
by. It is silly to try to tell any
body what the trouble was. But
divorce puts a woman in the way
of temptation. 1t labels her.
"Tho experience that leads tt
divorce, and the feeling that the
divorce brand is not a flatterins
one, makes her conscious ant
careless. It's a done-for feeling
that makes you sure you've al
ready made pretty much of a mes:
Of life.
when my present husband ant
I were not exceedingly happy
could say little. There isn't any
thing wrong with him. But thing!
drifted along until I met Harry
these bars are the answer to thu
infatuation that followed tina
meeting"
Mrs. Amman learned for the frs
time today that Harry Kolsted
had served a term in the peniten
tiary.
IT am sorry to hear it," sh'
said. Il always wanted to thirl
Of him as a decent man. But
suppose that I am merely trying
to preserve a little self-respect.
don't like thinking 1 threw m!
body and soul in such a pit"