“BEAUTY QUEEN”
ACQUITTED AT NICE. AFTER SHOOTING HUSBAND. rUoited pret>» Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright * NICE, May 20. The trial on a charge of murder ol Mrs Charlotte Xirdlinger, a forme,i American “Beauty Queen,” has aroused tremendous interest. blie is charged with shooting her husband, who owned a chain of American theatres. She. pleaded selJ-de-ence on the ground of her husband s cruelty, and she was acquitted. She received a tremendous ovation outside the court. It was realised that she had married her husband three times. When she first married him she discovered he was a bigamist. The then divorced' him; but she then remarried him. The pair were divorced a few months latei. and they were married for- the* thud time two years ago.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1931, Page 6
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