AIRWOMAN'S DEATH
STORY OF SUICIDE STRANGE CASE AT ALEPPO (Received May 31, 5.5 p.m.) ALEPPO, May 31 A strange story of the supposed suicide of Fraulein Marga von Etzdortf, the German airwoman who crashed near Aleppo on May 28 while on a flight to Australia, was told in an official medical report on her death. After receiving every attention in the aviators' mess at the Mouslimieh aerodrome tlie airwoman retired to the rest room. Suddenly shots were heard. Fraulein von Etzdorff was found dead, wi'.h a gun which she had carried during her journey, beside her. Two bullets had pierced her head. Medical opinion confirms the theory thit deceased committed suicide but no statement was found and no reason is kcown why she should have dono so. Her body is to be sent to Berlin.
A cablegram from Aleppo on May ~S stated: Fraulein Marga von Ltzdorn, who started from Berlin yesterday on a flight to Australia in a small Klemm aeroplane, crashed in making a defective landing at Mouslimieh aerodrome, near Aleppo to-day. The airwoman did not appear to have been injured but she died later.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21506, 1 June 1933, Page 11
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