DRAMA OF JEALOUSY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 144, 14 March 1931, Page 7

DRAMA OF JEALOUSY

Ex-Beauty Queeri’s Action FRENZIED HUSBAND SHOT (Rec. March 13, 5.5 p.m.) Nice, March 12. Charlotte Nirdlinger, who won the title of “Miss St. Louis” in a beauty competition in 1923, famed for dimples, which she insured for a large sum before carriage, states-that her husband frequently accused her of unfaithfulness and threatened to kill her. So she bought a small revolver and had it loaded under her pillow. “Last night,” she said, “my husband had been drinking heavily. I was reading an Italian paper. My husband came in and asked if ‘I was learning Italian because I loved a gigolo. I didn’t reply, but went to-the bedroom and undressed. My husband continued drinking. Later he came in and. repeated his accusations, and tried to strangle me. “Finding that I was being overpowered, I reached for the revolver. My husband’s fingers were still on my throat when I fired five shots. My husband reeled from the bedside and collapsed with one bullet in his head and another in his heart.” > Doctors agree that the bruises on the widow’s throat were due to an effort to strangle her. The babies were not awakened. They are aged 3J and 1| years respectively.