The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Blondes Settle
Rows With Guns
When Love Fails
Romances End in Fights;
Then Fair-Haired
Start Shooting.

CHICAGO. - Psychiatrists say
shades of complexion and hair hues
have nothing to do with tempera-
ment or behavior.
But among Chicago women who
have murdered their sweethearts
blonde bomb shells" have shown
I'D with impressive consistency.
Most recent of the taffy-haired.
blue-eyed killers is Mrs. Eleanor
("Honey") Williams, who shot Cor
don McNaughton. ex-pitcher for the
Boston Red Sox, as the "other wom
an looked on, when Honey" found
McNaughton in the woman's apart
ment.
Tremblingly, blonde. 24-year-old
Honey" told police of her bhghted
romance with the ex-athlete. Be
tween the lines of her tawdry tale
ran the strange story of the broken
marriages of three women whose
paths had crossed McNaughton's-
that of his own wife, that of
Honey" and that of Mrs. Dorothy
Moos, the "other woman" who said
she had just left her husband for
the ex-baseball player.
Decides to Kill.
Bitterly the attractive blonde told
of her first meeting with the glamor-
Gus ex-big Lacquer in a tavern In
1889. He persuaded her to demand
that her "homebody" husband.
Clarence Williams, mild-mannered
telegraph operator, divorce her and
take custody of their daughter, JAG
queline, now five. She continued:
1T was McNaughton' fault lpst
my home and baby He made me
60 home and tell my husband he'd
have to get divorce. A few weeks
ago he said everything was going to
be all right. He even said he'd
have his lawyer arrange it so we
would have my baby. Then found
ipstick on his coat"
1t was then that Moneys" tragic
romance died and she made up her
mind to kill McNaughton.
She went to the hotel where Mrs.
MODS lived She found McNaugltor
and Mrs. Moos alone in Mrs. Moe
apartment Mrs. Moos said "Hon-
ey" whipped out a revolver and told
McNaughton: .
I've got you now. I'm going to
kill you"
Mrs. Moos tried to save Nc
Naughton's life. She wrestled the
revolver away from Honey" and
threw it into the bathroom. But
Honey" ran past Mrs. Moos and
got the weapon again. She fired
twice, one bullet striking Nc
Naughton in the chest and killing
him.
Takes to Gunplay.
Another outraged blonde of Chi
cago who chose gunplay as the solu-
ton of a romantic dilemma was
Mrs. Nellie Baker. Mrs. Baker,
who at 80 was the mother OF four
children, fell in love with Peter
Winkler, back, in 1923.
1t was not until they had, in her
words, kept company for several
years that she discovered that
Winkler was married and the father
Of two children.
She demanded he divorce his wife
and marry her and, she declared,
when he refused she went into an
other room of her home and came
out waving a pistol. While her chill
dren watched, she shot and killed
Winkler, then fatally wounded her.
self.
Blonde Betty Parker Folbert Mar
tin, q, finally married her boy
friend in 1886, but the marriage last
ed only three months. One night
Andrew L. Martin, 37-year-old
"bookie," didn't come home for din
ner. Mrs. Martin, armed with an
automatic pistol, went on a tour of
taverns, looking for him..
In the Golden Spray, South Side
night club, she found him with a
pretty young woman, also a blonde.
AS Mrs. Martin shot, he fell to the
floor dead. She told police.
He gave me a dirty deal. He
lied to me-"