The Girls Of Murder City Part 15

84 She felt it was a woman's prerogative: "Annan Killing to Grand Jury," CDJ, Apr. 7, 1924.

84 She looked at the flowered paper: Watkins, 3. Watkins's scene description of Roxie and Amos's fictional flat mirrored Beulah and Al's real one.

85 There's another man, she said: "Mrs. Annan Says She Is Glad She Killed Kalstedt," CEP, Apr. 4, 1924; CDN, Apr. 4, 1924.

85 "If that's the kind of a woman": " 'Glad,' Says Jazz Slayer," CEA, Apr. 4, 1924.

86 She'd been dancing around: "Spurns Husband Who Saved Her from Gallows," Washington Post, July 13, 1924.

86 Why, you're nothing but a dirty: Hamilton Evening Journal, May 5, 1928. The paper quotes her as saying, "Why, you're nothing but a four-flusher and a jail bird!" In her trial testimony, it came out that she also used an expletive.

86 "Come home, I've shot a man": CDN, Apr. 4, 1924.

87 "Where is the gun?": CDT, May 24, 1924.

87 When he came in the door, the first thing: CEA, May 24, 1924; "Jury Finds Beulah Annan Is 'Not Guilty,' " CDT, May 25, 1924.

87 When a voice tweeted over the line: "Woman Plays Jazz Air as Victim Dies," CDT, Apr. 4, 1924. This quote comes from Watkins's first story about Beulah. In later reports, in newspapers throughout the country, the quote was typically relayed as: "I've just killed a man!"

87 The nearness of wealthy Hyde Park and Kenwood: Holt and Pacyga, 87-88.

88 Fighting raged for days: Ciccone, 168; Wendt, 464-65.

88 "This will get us by," he said: Nash, Makers and Breakers of Chicago: From Long John Wentworth to Richard J. Daley, 52. Nash writes that the motorcycle's driver was Dean O' Banion. O'Banion would later become one of the city's foremost bootleggers.

89 "Midnight was like day": Ward and Burns, 87.

89 One of the officers, Sergeant Malachi Murphy: CEA, May 24, 1924.

89 "I came home and found this guy": San Antonio Light, Dec. 21, 1947. The headline is illegible on the University of Texas Library microfilm. The byline is Peter Levins.

89 "I am going to quit you": CEP, Apr. 4, 1924.

89 "I told him I would shoot": San Antonio Light, Dec. 21, 1947.

89 She dropped-a dead-away faint: CDT, May 24, 1924; "Beulah on Stand Fails to Keep Out Her Confession," CEP, May 23, 1924.

90 "Don't you know me?": CDT, May 24, 1924; CDT, May 25, 1924.

90 Albert Allen, the stenographer there to record: CEP, May 23, 1924.

Chapter 7: A Modern Salome.

91 "I've been a sucker, that's all!": "Demand Noose for 'Prettiest' Woman Slayer," CDT, Apr. 5, 1924; Pauly, 128.

91 "I guess I was too slow for her": "Hold Mrs. Annan for Murder," CDJ, Apr. 4, 1924.

91 The young, slender woman, with "wide blue eyes": Quoted section from "Select Jury to p.r.o.nounce Fate of Beulah Annan," CDT, May 23, 1924. The description of how Beulah Annan was dressed comes from CDN negatives collection, images DN-0076797 and DN-0076798, Chicago History Museum, and CDJ, Apr. 4, 1924.

92 "He came into my apartment this afternoon": "Woman Plays Jazz Air as Victim Dies," CDT, Apr. 4, 1924; Pauly, 123.

92 "I didn't know-I didn't realize": CEA, Apr. 4, 1924.

92 She said the same thing over and over: CDT, Apr. 4, 1924.

92 Harry's voice hung in the air: San Antonio Light, Dec. 21, 1947; Pauly, 125.

92 Photographs of the suspect in her revealing attire: CDJ, Apr. 4, 1924; "Will Her Red Head Vamp the Jury?" CDN, Apr. 4, 1924; " 'Glad,' Says Jazz Slayer," CEA, Apr. 4, 1924.

93 "You are right, I haven't been telling": Pauly, 122; CDT, Apr. 4, 1924.

93 After the shooting, she became "distracted": Unt.i.tled clipping, Lincoln State Journal, Apr. 4, 1924, Quinby Papers, Western Springs Historical Society.

93 "How much did you drink?" they asked: Pauly, 137; "Judge Admits All of Beulah's Killing Stories," CDT, May 24, 1924.

94 It wasn't because she was giving them : Ibid. W. W. Wilc.o.x described her as "smiling most of the time" that night.

95 Back at the station, flush with pride: CDN, Apr. 4, 1924.

95 "Harry was my greatest love": "Mrs. Annan Says She is Glad She Killed Kalstedt," CEP, Apr. 4, 1924.

95 "I am glad I did it," she said: Ibid. Also see CEA, Apr. 4, 1924.

95 "Mrs. Beulah Annan, termed by her questioners": CDN, Apr. 4, 1924.

95 In the Tribune, Maurine wrote that the popular: CDT, Apr. 4, 1924; Pauly, 123.

96 It borrowed from Edgar Allan Poe: CEA, Apr. 4, 1924.

96 "A grotesque dance over the body": "Dances Over Body of Man She Kills," Davenport (IA) Democrat and Leader, Apr. 6, 1924.

97 Sometimes it seemed that running down payment: Stewart, Stewart on Trial Strategy, 60.

97 He was so successful with murder cases: "William Scott Stewart Dies Broke, Alone," CDT, Mar. 20, 1964.

97 Wanderer was a veteran of the World War: Lesy, 9-15.

97 So did the hanging, when Wanderer: Murray, 240-241.

98 He prepared for each court appearance: Stewart, Stewart on Trial Strategy, 109-10.

98 "I am a great believer in original": Ibid., 568.

98 He married a performer, Louise Dolly: ISA: O'Brien, 31.

98 In 1922, he married a third time: Case B-121999 (O'Brien, William and Zoe, 1925), Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

99 In 1922, two a.s.sistant state's attorneys accused: "2 Bribe Efforts Cited in Charges Against O'Brien," CDT, Oct. 5, 1922; "Seek to Disbar W. W. O'Brien on Bribery Charge," CDT, Oct. 3, 1922.

99 Two years later, it happened again: ISA: O'Brien, 32.

99 "I haven't much money," he told reporters: " 'I'd Rather Be Dead,' Mrs. Annan Sobs as She Prays," CEP, Apr. 5, 1924.

99 "Beulah wanted a gay life": "Beulah, the Beautiful Killer!" CDT, Dec. 30, 1951.

100 She wore a light brown dress, a darker brown coat: CDT, Apr. 5, 1924.

100 From the next room could be heard strains of: Ibid.

100 "I wish they'd let me see him": Ibid.

100 She had a seven-year-old son: Ibid.

100 She had married that first time: "Mrs. Annan Sorry She Won Race for Pistol," CDN, Apr. 5, 1924.

100 "I didn't love Harry so much": CDN, Apr. 4, 1924.

101 "They say she's the prettiest woman ever accused": CDT, Apr. 5, 1924.

101 "Both went for the gun!": Ibid.

101 The inquest dragged on, and Beulah grew: CDT, Apr. 5, 1924; CDJ, Apr. 5, 1924.

102 "He pressed a $5 bill into her hand": CDJ, Apr. 5, 1924.

102 After the inquest, the police moved Beulah: CDN, Apr. 5, 1924.

102 "Murderesses have such lovely names": "Pistol Fire Lights Up 'Chicago'; or, Telling It to the Maurine," NYW, Jan. 16, 1927.

102 In the morning, Sabella clomped past the cell: CEA, Apr. 5, 1924.

103 "You pretty-pretty," she croaked: Ibid.

103 When the Italian immigrant was convicted, Forbes: "Death for 2 Women Slayers," CDT, July 10, 1923.

103 "Mrs. Nitti Consoles Beulah": CEA, Apr. 5, 1924.

Chapter 8: Her Mind Works Vagrantly.

104 "Twenty-three, not twenty-nine": "Gin Killing Is Re-enacted in Cell in Jail," CDJ, Apr. 5, 1924.

104 "Harr y said, 'You won't call me a name like that' ": "Woman in Salome Dance After Killing," CDN, Apr., 4, 1924.

105 She suggested they have a picture taken: Pauly, xvi.

105 "No, no, no. It would choke me": " 'I'd Rather Be Dead,' Mrs. Annan Sobs as She Prays," CEP, Apr. 5, 1924.

105 The thought of what she'd done to her husband: What Beulah said is paraphrased in CDJ, Apr. 5, 1924.

105 "My husband says he'll see me through": "Mrs. Nitti Consoles Beulah," CEA, Apr. 5, 1924.

105 "I suppose it is true that a man may drift ": " 'Too Slow' for the Wife He Fought for in the Gallows' Shadow," Fres...o...b..e, Aug. 8, 1926.

105 He had refused to talk to reporters at the inquest: "Demand Noose for 'Prettiest' Woman Slayer," CDT, Apr. 5, 1924.

105 "I can't believe it, I can't": "Mrs. Nitti Consoles Beulah," CEA, Apr. 5, 1924.

106 A part of her believed Al had made her cheat: CEP, Apr. 5, 1924; "Beulah Annan Sobs Regret for Life She Took," CDT, Apr. 6, 1924.

106 "Sun. Oct. 7: Daddy and I had an argument ": "What Life Finally Did to 'the Girl with the Man-Taming Eyes,' " Hamilton (OH) Evening Journal, May 5, 1928. The newspaper published a photostat of a page from Beulah's diary, which ran alongside the article.

107 Two years ago, she and Al had taken a trip: CDJ, Apr. 5, 1924.

107 "I didn't want to hurt Albert," she said: "Annan Killing to Grand Jury," CDJ, Apr. 7, 1924.

108 They stared at her, followed her, told stupid jokes: Hamilton (OH) Evening Journal, May 5, 1928.

108 She and Perry were just teenagers when: Spencer County (IN) Index to Marriage Records 1850-1920, Spencer County Clerk's Office, ancestry.com.

108 A year and a half later, she gave birth: Kentucky Birth Index, 1911-1999, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

108 "There will always be temptations": CEA, Apr. 4, 1924.

108 "If I hadn't been working, I'd never have met": CEP, Apr. 5, 1924.

108 Quinby had waited an hour: Ibid.

109 "Well, thinking it all over, I think": "Mrs. Annan Sorry She Won Race for Pistol," CDN, Apr. 5, 1924.

109 "I am just a fool," she said: CEP, Apr. 5, 1924.

109 "I had never shot a gun but once": "Mrs. Nitti Consoles Beulah," CEA, Apr. 5, 1924.

110 "Will Her Red Head Vamp the Jury?": Headline of large photograph accompanying "Woman in Salome Dance After Killing," CDN, Apr. 4, 1924.

110 "Forty hours of questioning and cogitation": CEP, Apr. 5, 1924.