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Pretty Peggy Beale, 28, who shot her perfect lover, Frank Warren Anderson,

philosophizes on the age-old question of whether or not the

present social order of one man for one woman is logical and natural.

Wormann, she says, can be loyal to one man, but no man is loyal to one woman.

Even if he preserves the artificial aspect of loyalty to his wife or sweetheart,

there is an inherent urge for other conquests, she declares. She classifies the male of the species

in three categories. One, they either secretly dream of other loves.

Two, they are open ruse who flout the conventions, or three, they pretend to be loyal but are not.

Will the jury recognize Pretty Peggy's theory of man's inhumanity to woman when she faces the charge of second-degree manslaughter

for killing her sweetheart.

The True Crime historian presents yesterday's news.

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels, and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism. Episode 209 is a deadly doubleheader, two stories about women murdering their floundering men and getting away with it.

Later on you'll hear what happens when a nurse leaves her job and moves to another state to follow the man she loves on the promise of marriage.

But when she gets there, she discovers he's nothing but a love pirate with a detailed log of his conquest.

But first up, a housewife complains to her husband that he should spend

more time with his children and less time drinking with his friends. Then he cracks her over the head

with a pool cube. Yeah, big mistake. I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and I give you two acquitted women.

First up, the Broadway Playboy picks a fight.

The song. Paulsboro, New Jersey, November 21st, 1933.

A former chorus girl with 15 stitches closing a wound in her head lay in Woodbury Hospital last night and told detectives how she shot and killed her husband, a former Broadway playboy.

Sheldon Clark, 34, Sion of the family that founded Paulsboro, New Jersey,

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