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en -5 a Pi A ii)r TVIef Momentoes of a hero-worshipper: baseball souvenirs found in Kuth Steinhagens room, including Waitkus foto and Cubs ticket stubs. Waitkus Rallies, Girl Tells Why She Had To' JF 1 Mas JfcjggB' I- (Acme Telefoto) Mrs. Edith Steinhagen and her daughter Rita, 18, mother and sit-ter of Waitkus attacker, as they heard the news at home. (Br Acme with part of his collection. three years in the Army wnere ne saw combat service in the Facihc.

She watched him play every I Saturdav SundavH rom the stands behind first-base in 1947 1 and 1948 when he was the Cubs' classy fielding first baseman and a good hitter to boot. aitkus is in banoting for first base pn lh National League All-Star- team. Picture in Frame. (AfllTHe(l-) Stanislaus Waitkus. as he arrived at hospital to see his son, Eddie.

He'd just flown to Chicago from Boston. neat gold frame was a Sunday supplement picture of Waitkus in throwing position. Her mother, Mrs. Edith Steinhagen, said the giii a year ago had talked about killing Waitkus anil herself. An acquaintance, Joyce Stringly, 19, said Miss Steinhagtn had talked about wanting excitement and seemed bored with single life.

"She wrote" Waitkus lots of letters," said Joyce, "and phoned him whenever he was in town." But the letters end phone calls went unanswered. Had Other Crushes. Another girl friend, Henel Fara-zis, 18, said Ruth had similar crushes on Harry (Peanuts) Lower-, Cubs outfielder, and movie star Alan Ladd. Mrs. Steinhagen said that her daughter was so "crazy" about Waitkus that she tried to learn to speak Lithuanian when she learned that Eddie was of Lithuanian extraction.

Ruth was so upset, her mother added, when Waitkus was sold to the Phillies that sh wpnt- Pd to move to PhiUdlnhia tn three years, and she had 1 (d'NttHUfd from page 5) i to suffer so. I'm sorry it ha to he him. "But I had to shoot somebody. Only in that way could I relieve the nervous tension I've been under i the ast two years. "The shooting relieved that tension." i "Just a Simple One." The State's Attorney warned her that the shooting was a serious ffense.

I "Oh," retorted Miss Steinhagen, just a simple She admitted she had never met "Waitkus before the shooting. Tjiken to his hospital room for identification, she faced Waitkus while he pointed a finger at her' nd asked weaklv, "Whv did you lo it?" She turned her head away and eaid. "I'm not sure." The girl took a room at the Edgewater when Waitkus came to town with his team "for a series with the Cubs. He played in yesterday's game. Police found a paring knife in the room and Miss Steinhagen confessed she had planned to stab the i Athlete and take her own life in a i dramatic murder and suicide.

But Waitkus upset her plans. he had given a bellhop to de- "liver a note to Waitkus' room, tell- ing him to come to her room on an -important" matter. Had Three Drinks. 1 She said she thought Waitkus then would call the police and she wuli become famous and I wouldn't have to go back being a typist. I didn't want to live like that." Around 9:30 she ordered a daiquiri and two whisky sours sent up to her room.

She drank them all. Then she had a change of mind, rVie sard, this time deciding to sta" Waitkus and shoot herself. Waitkus found the note when he returned just before midnight. He called the girl. She insisted he see ker in person.

Re-enacting the shooting for police, she said he strode into the Toorn asking "What's up?" and sat Iown in a chair. "It confused me." she said. "I couldn't stab him that way. -What Goes Here." "I yaid have a surprise for you, and I got the gun out of the closet and I told him to get up and move toward the window, and lie was shocked and surprised. "I said to him, 'For two years you have been bothering me' and tie said, 'I don't understand.

What In the world goes here?" And before be had a chance, to say eny- Jurgcs' Shot By Girl in "32 Chicsgo. June 15. The shooting of Eddie Waitkus by a love-, crazed girl fan here last night recalled that Billy Juries, journeyman shortstop for the Cubs in the latter half of their winning: 1932 campaign, was shot ami wounded by a showgirl admirer. Violet Yalli, in the Carlos Hotel here on July 6 of that year. The way Jurges shrugged off wounds in the side and hand earned him the sobriquet, "Bullet Proof Billy," which he still carries.

thing else I shot him. He slumped to the floor and he said, 'Oh Baby, what did rou do that for? or something to ihat effect." she called the hotel desk imme diately 1 just shot a man, siwlJ said. A house officer came to the Tooin and Waitkus was rushed to the hospital. Story Changes. Miss Steinhagen then plunged into a series of recitals to police whicn they said she changed her Bt t- shft eves Nick Reidy said she seemed to be a "pathological liar," wht? rjwd th rofe a thrill-killer.

Court psychiatrist Edward J. These words, writtee by Ruth In a suitcase in the hotel room nea'L h'11-police found numerous tables of "She had been crazy about Eddie a''unreus oi pictures oi mm. me gun fancier Eddie Waitk Kelleher said the girl either had a KTAt nersonaTltv or was under i "major hyster.a. After telling police she had no friends and had been under psy- chiatric care, the girl went to sleep at a women jail. Miss Jsteinhagen told police she was nuts about r.dtlie as a ball- player.

"He reminds me of everybody, especially my father," she said. She saw her first baseball game and Eddie Waitkus on July 7. 1946. Waitkus had returned from Mm ijtn Steinhagen, broug ht Eddie Waitkus baseball statistics, emblems and I Cub pennants. On a table dm) te room in which he was shot.

in motner said. nny, ao you Know, she used to spread them out on the table and even on the floor and look at them for hours." Diagnoses Herself. "I'm a good case for a psychiatrist." the girl told police simply. She said that last month she lought the rifle an old-style Remington model 510 at a pawnshop and got instructions on how to load and fire it. As long ago as May 10 she reserved the room at the Edgewater for this week after consulting; schedules and learning that the Phillies would be here.

Three days ago she registered as Ruth Ann Burns of Boston. "Yesterday." she said, "I went to the Cubs park and watched Eddie help the Phillies beat the -Cubs, 9 to 2. It was wonderful." In addition to tfie note she wrote Waitkus asking him to come to her room, she penned another her parents which police found in a waste basket. It read: I hope you understand things. I love you things will turn out for the.