GIRL SHOT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

GIRL SHOT.

HOPELESS LOVE DRAMA. AUSTRIAN BLONDE’S FATE. EATAL INFATUATION. Hopeless love for a wealthy married London company director is believed to lie behind a tragedy at Victoria Station, Loudon, when Tina Kloester, a beautiful 23-years-old Austrian blonde, shot herself in a first-class compartment. Fraulein Kloester, who was the only daughter of a couple who keep a boardinghouse at the fashionable resort of Bad Ischl, joined the Folkestone-Boulogne express boat train. She was alone in a firstclass compartment which was only an arm’s length from a nurse and an hotel porter, who had accompanied her to the station, and who were standing on the platform. Only one shot was fired, and it entered Fraulein Kloester’s chest. She collapsed and died as the nurse and porter and others who had heard the shot rushed to her aid. The train was held up for 18 minutes, and the carriage .in which was the woman’s body was shunted into a siding, where it remained while police officers took flashlight photographs and made an examination. Fraulein Kloester arrived in London a week previously and on arrival she drove to a Strand hotel. While she was filling up her registration form at the hotel she collapsed and had to be taken to her room. From then on a nurse attended her night and day, and she received frequent visits from a man. “Miss Kloester seemed ill and weak when she left her hotel,” a reporter was told by one of the hotel staff. “She seemed distressed also at the prospect of having to p-o home. She spoke very good English. Her mind seemed centred upon the parting from the man for whom she obviously had the greatest affection.” A witness of the tragedy said: “I heard a revolver shot, and as I spun round I saw the nurse and porter rush into the carriage. A revolver was just dropping from the young woman’s hand. She was extremely beautiful with cle/ir-cut features. She was dressed in a smartly-cut travelling costume.” It is understood that the company director whom Fraulein Kloester knew has made a statement to the police.