FAMOUS BEAUTY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1931, Page 5

FAMOUS BEAUTY

SHOT HER HUSBAND

I United Press Association—By Electri Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 12. At. Nice Charlotte Nirdlinger, who won the title of Aliss St. Louis at a beauty competition in 1923 and was famed for her dimples, which were insured for a large sum before her marriage, states: —- ‘‘.My husband frequently accused me of unfaithfulness and threatened to kill me, so 1 bought a small revolver which I had loaded under my pillow. Last night my husband was drinking heavily. I was reading an Italian paper when my husband came in and asked me if I was learning the Italian language because I loved Gigolo. I did not reply but went to my bedroom and undressed and went to bed. My husband continued drinking but later came in and repeated the accusations. He tried to strangle me and finding, I was being overpowered 1 reached for the revolver. My husband's fingers wore still on nty throat when I fired live shots and he reeled from the bedside and collapsed with one bullet in his head and another in his heart.” Doctors agree the bruises on the widow’s throat were due to an effort to strangle her. The two babies aged 34 and 14 years were not awakened.