TRAGEDY ON A LINER
There was a tragic end to a love romance on the arrival of tho mail liner Aragon at Southampton from Buenos Ayres. Amongst the passengers by the vessel was Miss Jnstina Margaret Flatau. a Hungarian lady, who was accompanied by her. married sister, Mrs Wilkinson, the wife of Air Wilkinson, of Harcourt-build-ings, Middle Temple, London. Miss Flatau, it is understood, had been out to South America to be married, but for some unexplained reason thc nuptials were not solemnised, and she returned with her sister to England.. Shortly after the arrival of the vessel in dock she vvais seen in a hysterical condition in her cabin, and directly afterwards the report of a revolver was heard On the ship’s doctor hastening there, he found that she was shot throuo-h the temple, and she expired almost immediately. By her side was a small bulldonrevolver, one of the chambers having been discharged. Alias Flatau was only nineteen years of age.
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Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 7
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162TRAGEDY ON A LINER Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 7
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