New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1928, Page 13

e e et e el i b Sl e A Life Finally Did to 1&5%’!% the anid Ey and [llness. Chicago's Most Beautiful Slayer WISTFUL EYFS. The Bloagent Qre o Bovkeh Annan, Wiich Won ter Fesodom Wine Changes Her mechanic and earned sixty dollars a week; they lived in a small, furnished apartment, just as thousands of other young married N t D people do in every large city in America. ame O L e Al Annan adored his Beulah and she seemed perl;e:tl);| haypy.t‘ = " U k Wh . l ut she wasn’f e vivacity e, and restlessness that helped to n nown l e ning is= i make her so attractive to men RA0% - mu}tlle her :nwi‘;lin, to b!e a "gg" F M W at-home, humdrum wife, e t i) had studied book-keeping and she our en ee p a s suggested that she find a job. m'u‘:_': This would mean , H T . * more money to put in the bank er raglc rsal, and more pretty ;’I«}:‘thes l{or Be:- 57 W 9 ah. Al agreed, | S el Fade-Out 0:45 almost every- avor 3 thing his wife A 5 Servs said. If he could S . have looked cting : ahead to the g wille | § ), & ple- § & snior § o Beulah Photographed with Her Third Husband, & Edward Harl on the Day of Their lana § Wedding in 1927. . 3 8 ¥ “Her name was Hula Lou, N The kind of girl who never could be i — true.” 8 > N the afternoon of April 3, 1924, ¢ & ; O Beulah Annan played that cheap, b silly song madly on the phonograph H 7 in her Chicago apartment. Stretched out § . on anearby bed lay her lover, shot to death. 4 o i N Next morning Beulah was famous as E “Cook County's most beautiful slayer.” i 4 She confessed, was tried and acquitted; o ! she went on to new men and new thrills, @‘ And then— x Four years later, almost to the day, they carried thix girl with the gazelle eyes L ristful mouth back to her tiny Ken. veres Apals ’ H i : tucky home in a casket. ey playe » £ i . music of a different sort in the Green ""“"‘.2 Whe ¢ & River Valley Presbyterian Church—the Sacrificed 5 M Beulah at the Time She was Called “Cook funeral march. And four men who had 3 “'"" 3 County’s Most Beautiful Slayer.” Note loved her wept, softly and bitterly. Dot i nalig the Delicate, Child-like Contours of Four amazingly crowded, passion-swept sranes i 8 s Her Face. years, then the quick, silent fade-out. 5 I iy, LS And ‘some people say philosophically: fearful conse. : i 5 white light on her face, movie cameras be- | “Well, Beulah "Annan certainly lived Quences he might i gan grinding. Her lawyer addressed ber, {| while she lasted!” But others demur: have asserted him- oh, so gently: = | “What a frightful waste of vouth, beauty, 8elf and said no : “Did you shoot this man?” S H health! What an uncontrolled, purpose- _ Yet you can’t ] P z Sy (L 8] — | less career!” blame Al Aanan 4 et “Why?" Curiously, both these viewpoints have for those conse- L7 A 5 “‘Because he was going to shoot me.” their justifications. quences. Thousands THE FADING PAST That was Beulah's defence and it Beulah _Sheriff-Stephens-Annan-Harl- of married women » . “stood up” with the jury. After two bit was whirled along into love, crime, go out to work and Boulah Thanking the Jurors for hours of consultation ‘they returned s fame and death by torrential forces with- continue to live well- Acquitting H verdict of not guilty. | in her and without, which the could not balanced of Kalstedt. Ovation, tears of Jjoy from Beulah, on { control. Let us analyze her story and happy lives. i p much thanking of the jurors. Much snap- fird out why. eulah be- ysterical wife broke down and ping of newspaper cameras as Beulah made three confessions, all of which stood up with the jurors, her attorney, were later introduced into the evi- and her loyal husband. dence against her. Next day she had still another story After the wronged husband was re- for her friends, the m-wsp?ef boys and h leased he did another generous thing. He girls. She sat, legs crossed, in the city drew all his savings from the bank and room of & Chicago daily and murmured i hired the best lawyer he could find to softly: defend Beulah. He stood by her like a I have left my husband. He is tos g ANGUISHED. rock ~throughout the most sensational o Beulah Annan Behind the Bars murder trial in Chicago’s history. Meanwhile, a new factor had entered the case. Beulah Annan, who had been % o B just a pretty unknown wife, became a stedt money with which to buy some gin. n.,umF and notorious celebrity. . He returned to the apartment with sands of people in hundreds of it, they drank, and Beulah put that her story, gazed at photographs of her record on the phonograph— “Hula lovely, wistful face, waited eagerly for Lou” They embraced, but all the her trial. Beulah in her cell felt the stir time the fear of losing the man was of | this; every day she received an gnawing at the girl’s heart and pride. armful of “fan mail” from people she In such a mood quarrels occur easily. didn't know. “I reminded him,” said Beulah She had been frightened at f afterward, “of the trust I had put in. now she began to think of he him, but he only laughed.” heroine. Finally she flared up des- perately: “Why, you're noth- “Can you tle that!” exclaimed the Jours nalists, dashing for their typewriters. ut one among their number had [ better idea. She was Maurine Watkins, a girl reporter, who had sat through the trial. She went home and made Beulah's story into a play, which was a biting in- dictment of the human ego. Maurine’s play, “Chicago,” made her famous. If you saw it you must realige that she retold Beulah Annan’s story almost o;nvtly ?sui‘t ha}])per;'ed. lBut thehre ‘was one Phase of the tale the playwright coul tell—the aftermath, paan ay After Beulah divorced Al Annan he dropped from the picture. He said in the Chicago Ja After She Al but elf as a Her lawyers assured her that no o Ay ?othidn‘ nnimtfhl- wife; perhaps he 4 Sgpis ound some satisfaction in the maxims of ing but a four-flusher and a & Lk 20 the moralists about honesty, loyalty an " This reference to a prison i 80 on. being their own rewards. ) term that Kalstedt had served re:a"i‘" ?;:r:h.‘r"f’ ;’:5 ‘i"‘::‘"‘!:;"l‘m to Murder for trouble with another girl, Paed received her divorce decres. in 1"‘2’9 f:: “Girl Murderers” Row” with “Roxie Hart” (the et lome maningy. Heoalsd 0 0 in 1927 she married Edward Harlbit, a Character Similar te Boulah) at Left. and angrily turnw}: to N:w the ¢ A former pugilist and garage owner. is - e o T e A d " - union lasted only three months, when she Picture Beulah Sheriff at the age of came a book-keeper at Tennant's Model Was Al Annan;s rel ok s , ' By again sued for divorce, charging cruelty, fifteen, & slim, dark haired, dreamy-eyed Laundry. There were a number of men haps Ralstedt Baulih mitn . <l g i The next Chicagoan on whom Beulak girl, with strapped books slung over her employed there; they all admired her and haps d oth 5 At an r"e“ P ’ J ; 3 \ turned her “man-taming eyes” was A. shoulders, on the way to high school. This liked to murmur complimentary words as ‘g“ miltl e i risiiad 4 'f"fi&( Marcus. She was en to ‘him was in Owensboro, Kentucky, a placid they passed her desk. Among them was l'h:-’;;m:{}m? There ‘-a:lttrug— & M ; 5 when she became ill. Her hectic dh in the il gfi:‘b'rgnd G tfih; H‘lr(r’lnt‘:ltfl:fi the best-looking youth in Ele, 8 loud report. ~Kalstedt lay fiv & west metropolis was demanding 10 cl l, and even en e Al g 'y 4 5 : o] ‘thn"ezeryvhm Beulah went the the office; he “had a way” with women, dead on h'h!‘d flo}?irx}x Bke':;i‘h e g,'" i ‘ /6 7 Suddenly it seemed as {f Beulah hed masculine glances were sure to follow. just as Beulah had a way with men. The ‘;"P'"FN EE bend lth “Sh ll come to her senses—too late. The lights During that year Beulsh married a two personalities came together like a A'Cf‘% o ‘"‘: l‘t’:’B ]"'h‘h"‘ the clamor, the clicking cameras, the cray. linotype operator named Perry Stephens. prairie fire and a haystack. While Al ied the “Huls Low tecond ing for publicity faded away and becane A year later she had a baby, and got a Annan, the faithful, plodding husband, starte d’ e r} b "’""“ grave, wept, and went away. hateful to her. She became *Doroth divores, Later, when she raved and wept went his way, believing in his wife, Beu- 3gain, and was dancing madly W Lok Stephens”—taking her first husband’s | ‘n a Chicago cell, charged with murder, lah and Kalstedt were drinking and danc- &bout the apartment. ¢ Moy fl‘f MV_ED. |woman had ever been hanged for name—and entered the Chicago ] she attributed the start of her trouble to ing together. Then Beulah began enter- Two hours later sne tele- catlt & A ""LO * murder in Cook County, that of forty- Air Sanitarium. e first marriage. She intimated that taining her sweetheart at the apartment phoned her husband and asked s | cight women who had been tried on At last she was unknown again, just a her parents were responsible for her rush- during her husband’s absence. his went him to hurry home. Then a mL B ete, | that charge thirty-seven had been pretty, pale-faced girl, far gone with [ ing into marriage before she “knew her on until the day when the girl poticed that strange thin, happened. When fro « tuberculosis, sitting, day after day, bun- own mind.” Kalstedt's ardor was cooling. Al Annan called the police he in- M AN . The trial opened, the day came dled up in a wheel chair on an open porch. But the schoolgirl divorcee didn’t stay By this time the relations of the two sisted that he had found Kalstedt . % Zhd when Beulah took the stand. She After her death, at the age of thirty- 1 SLL single long. Her second husband was had changed subtly. Beulah was the in the room and that he had 5 wore a new dress of navy blue twill,| two, Marcus took her body back to Owens- wn, Albert Annan, a young garage mechanic. aggressor, Beulah generally paid for the killed him. He held to this story A Page Torn frem Beulah's Diary, Written i a simple dress designed to emphasize] boro, Kentucky. When the burial services were married in Louisville and went liquor they drank. On the afternoon of in spite of a gnllu:',. but there October, 1923. The “Daddy” Mentioned Is her look of innocence and childishl were over he put a wreath on her grave, | o Chicago in 1918. Annan was a good the y she said she had given Kal- were too many discrepancies. Kalstedt, the Man She Killed. appeal. Klieg lamps threw a ghastly wept, and went away. 7 Copyright. 19028, letermations! Featuie Kervice, Inc., Great Britadn Righis Rescrvod p— {