1931-07-06 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

BEAUTY QUEEN TRIED FOR MURDER CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Mrs. Nirdlinger's "Life of Pleasure."

DRAMATIC SCENES.

Mrs. Nirdlinger is 26 years old: her dead husband was 54. She says she shot him one night in self-defence after he had re- peatedly threatened to kill her.

Her mother, her cook and the nurse who looks after her two

"He Threatened Me."

"He wants me to stay at home always, but I'll be damned if I'll stay at home sitting reading in the corner. I'm too young When I arrive at his age perhaps 1 may stop."

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ORGANISATION.

Annual Meeting of the

Mother Church.

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IF FRANCE AGREES.

(Continued from Page 1.)

ways shall be made lats the Bank of International Settlements, and be returned to the railways for use Inter alia, as luans 'to the German Government.

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SUDDEN ATTACK-IN-

SUB-GAOL.

Guards Overpowered by Prisoners.

BURMA OUTBREAK.

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Policemen armed with rifles The presiding judge then read: SIX THOUSAND ATTEND. guarded the court when Mrs. out a letter written by Mrs.

About 6,000 members of The Nirdlinger to her brother, con- Charlotte Nixon Nirdlinger, the-taining the passage:

First Church of Christ, Sefentist, in

Rangoon, June 14. The United States is unable to ac- From information gathered, to- former beauty queen of 'Broad- "Be careful when you write as Boston, Massachusetta, attended copt the French suggestion for a day "at Nyaunglebin, it is way, was put on trial at Nice on lettere are censored. There are the annual meeting of this, their lean of G.$25,000,000 to the Central now learned that 14 Burmans, a charge of shooting her million continual rows. He hits me and Mother Church, on June 8, held in European countries, but suggests under trial prisoners who are

throws my clothes out of the the Church edifices.

that credit from the Central Banks mostly standing their trial on aire. husband dead in their window."

It was announced that all in-will serve the purpose. luxurious Riviera home.

debtedness

charge of, dacoity, had been removed Regarding payments in kind, the taken from from the Mother Church, its charit. United States suggests that the Court about 4.20 p.m. on Friday, the Magistrate's able institutions and its publishing problem should be discussed later, escorted by the usual guards, to the Society: also that considerable re tetween the experts of the Interest-lock-up in the sub-gaol, which ac lief work, necessitated by hurried Powers, and the technical diffcommodates under-trial prisoners. cane, earthquake, flood, famine, culties in connection with the Young On entering the sub-gaol, the drought, volcanic eruption, and plan (to which America is not a police guarda removed the handcuff other causes, had been undertaken.signatory) be reserved for a com-chains before putting the under Java, China, Europe, Britain and Intercated nations, provided they When all the prisoners had been in Santa Domingo, New Zealand, mission of Treasury experts of the trial prisoners into the lock-up. the United States, To further questions Mrs.

be settled in the spirit of Mr. freed from the handcuffs, ore of There are now Nirdlinger refused to

2519 branch Hoover's proposal. answer.churches and societies, also 40

them snatched a police dah and She was admonished by her law-college and university organisa-opinion that

Officials at Washington are of slashed a constable. The prisoner yer.

Franco-American then removed all the keys from the tione connected, with The Mother agreement in Principle now de injured constable. The other pri- "He threatened me, saying that 70 since the previous year's an-, payments in kind. The White similar attack on the guards. The Then she answered sobbingly: Church, this being an increase of ponds primarily on the question of soners simultaneously made had an Italian lover, and that

nouncements were made. he would put a detective on my

House expects a French reply on under-trial prisoners, then unlocked Over 10,000 members are now re- this point to-night.

all the doors and looted 25 carbines Christian Science in the Journal, source that the United States will the sub-gaol. gistered as public practitioners of It is pointed out by an official and all the available ammunition In an increase of nearly 800 during the probably participate in the com- year. These members devote their mission' on payments in kind, full time and energies to the heal the meeting of which the other armed with dahs, arrived and at ing work as taught in Christian Governments have not yet been tempted to surround the sub-gàol." consulted.-Reuter's American Ser-

babies all gave evidence to say that Mr. Nirdlinger was violent towards his wife and jealous of her.

Ritter Questions.

On the other side evidence was given that whenever Mrs. Nirdlinger could get away from her home she would go dancing with two professional dancers in the hotels and restaurants of the Riviera.

It was a very dramatic trial. Mrs, Nirdlinger was vigorously cross-examined by the presiding judge about her "life of plea- sure"-so vigorously that she burst into loud sobs, and fainted in the dock.

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The court was crowded with the fashionable folk of the Riviera. They were visibly hos tile to the bitter questions from the bench, and at one point the presiding judge made a stern de- mand for decorum.. "You are not ata mutinee," he said to the spectators..

A Fortune at Stake. Witnesses, from London are to be called to describe the Nird. lingers' married life. One wit- ness for the defence will be Mr. Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's brother. He is to any that Mrs. Nirdlinger was a good wife and a good mother.

If the verdict goes against Mrs. Nirdlinger she will lose the £145,000 that was left her in -hor-husband's will.

fact that Mrs. Nirdlinger is 25 "This was a reference to the while her husband was 54.

tracks."

Mrs. Nirdlinger's sobs resound- ed through the room as she de- scribed what happened on the night of the tragedy.

Further evidence showed that lent scene, during which Mr. on that night there was a vio-Science. Nirdlinger violently abused his] wife and threatened to take the children away from her.

"He Beat Her."

"Steadily Growing." :

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Meanwhile the gael guards raised on the alarm, whereupon the police.|

Shower of Bullets.

British Proposal.

A police sub-Inspector is alleged Paris, Yesterday, to have fired, two shots through a Franco-American meeting wall-hole. The under-trial prison- There era replied with a shower of bullets,

The retiring President, Mr. Dun- can Sinclair, in his opening address Irma Stolz, who looked after said, In part:"Our movement, the Mrs. Nirdlinger's children, said Church of Christ, Scientist, which that Mr. Nirdlinger often made we faithfully support, is steadily came to an end at 1 a.m.

growing. scenes, getting in dangerous fits

The reports which will will be final agreement on Monday which scared everyone from the of anger and calling his wife by be read this afternoon will bring if President Hoover approves the neighbourhood...

this out. And its progress is pro which has been cabled to him.

basis of the agreement, the text of The under-trial prisoners then abusive names,

asked the other prisoners to join portional to the increase In our spiritual understanding and the' The British proposal for a con-them, threatening to shoot them if She described a violent scene healings which of necessity accom Young Plan is likely to be accepted, the carbines, they came out of the ference of the signatories of the they refused. Later, armed with at a St. Moritz hotel, when Mr. pany this understanding. What Nirdlinger beat his wife and drew humanity to Christian Science the conference to include Germany, sub-gool in a body, fired a few shots knocked her down.

The French and American re at random, thus creating a panic in the early days? It was chiefly + Mr. Nirdlinger, she said, was the healings brought about by our presentatives are to meet again at throughout the town, then walked

13 pm. on Monday. the habit of "searching every-leader and her devoted students. body's belongings," including her Throughout all the years since, men It is believed that France has immediately they left, the others visited and women have come to Christian agreed that Germany shall make At the end of her evidence Science for healing, have received good the unconditional payment of the sub-gaol, where they found four Miss Stolz broke out crying.

healing, and have thereafter united the moratorium Ina...period within constables who had been injured called. She gave evidence of a mental in bringing the truth to

with dah cuts, two Burman, under- Next the Nirdlinger cook was with the church which was instru: France is insisting on the con- trial prisoners wounded in the legs

twelve years.

similar nature.

them, in order to support its activi. tinuance of the deliveries in Kind with gunshots and another Burman structed to make an investiga-

A detective who had been in-ties and to carry the truth to others. from Germany, whereas the United dead. 4

They also discovered that 40 out The progress of the Christian States desires the suspension of all

own.

...

off towards a hill not far off.

Medical Officer and

The worst that can happen to her is a sentence of from two to tion into Mrs. Nirdlinger's life on Science movement is to no inconsi-payments, water of the. 65 under-trial prisoners were five years. For the charge against her is not just "murder," the Riviera gave the court the derable extent measured by the in France is also sooking guaran- missing. but "murder with provocation."

SOBS IN THE DOCK.

crease in the number of its branch

itees from Germany that the latter

Arrival of Troops.

About half an hour later a mall

result of his inquiries.

He said that whenever she churches and societies, and of its will renounce her attempts at the could get away from the house practitioners whose names are in political hegemony of Central train carrying a party of Manches- she would go dancing with two The Christian Science Journal. It

Europe. professional dancers, both of is also indicated by the steadily in Pointed remarks, were made by futile attempt to pursue the escaped

ters arrived at Nyaunglebin. London Saturday

few soldiers detrained and made a Judge's "Why-Were-You-Always ality.

whom were of the Italian nation-creasing-needs-of-the-field, evid Mr. Philip Snowden in the House prisoners.. Amusing Yourself?"

Mrs. Nash, Mrs. Nirdlinger's of The Mother Church offices and of sacrifices under the Hoover mora of Pegu, with Mr. Barwell, Super-

enced in the expansion of the work (of " Commoǹle"""""regarding" ́British

Mr. Wise, Deputy Commissioner mother, was unable to stand to the Publishing Society here in Boa Mrs. Nirdlinger was dressed dive evidence when called and ton; at which we all rejoice. But lieved that the country was quite party, arrived a few hours Inter and torium plan. He said that he be-intendent of Police at Pegu, and a very carefully in order to she had to be assisted to a chair. principally, the progress of our impress the jury. She was all in She sobbed bitterly while she de-movement is determined by the

willing to shoulder the sacrifices went in search of the absconding black, with a close fitting described various scenes of violence growth of the spiritual understand which it had already declared prisoners, but failed to locate them. collete frock, a cont with a fur that she had witnessed when ing of Christian Scientists through- willingness to bear, but the Govern Early next morning, two, platoons collar and a hat that almost hid staying with her daughter.

out the world-by their growth in further sacrifices unless the other and are still stationed there. So ment was not prepared to make of the Buffs.arrived at Nyaunglebin her face.

spirituality, and their power to

} parties

to the Hoover proposals far no definite information of the heal.

were prepared to co-operate with absconders whereabouts has been received, but one report received

Three judges are trying the case Judge Gesta (who la presiding), and Judges The

- Eysautier and Grazinia.

Public Prosecutor is M. Favalelli, described as "The man who has never lost a case." For the de- fence two of the most famous lawyers in Nice, Maitre Gasin and Maitre Bonifacio, have been charged.

The presiding judge opened the trial by saying to her:

"You have been exceptionally

QUEER WEDDING PACT.

.

"I Will Not Smoke, Powder or Use Lipstick."

them.

J Symbolic of Strength.

Our church adifices and the other

The observations were passed in late last night stated that the various material appurtenances of connection with the statement that absconders had attacked a village our movement are undoubtedly sym the moratorium would involve some miles away and were camping bolic of its strength and of the British loss of £11,000,000-a most linger's strange married life is to is being done; but we do not fall Reuter,

The full story of Mrs. Nird-healing and regenerating work that serious burden to the tax-payers.

in a forest reserve..

Param (Idaho), Saturday.

be unfolded to the jury to remember that it is the power

successes.

to

Surrender of 40 Absconders.

Of the absconding under-tria}

Mrs. Nirdlinger was her bus to think and act rightly, to thinkA plea to the lending nations band's third wife. He was a mi from the standpoint of principle co-operate to restore the price of prisoners; 40, Including one. Burm-1 lionaire and the owner of one of and to act accordingly, that is the silver and thus to complete the ese woman, returned and surren the largest theatre circuits in the United States.

great essential. It inspires all our effects of the moratorium, was dered yesterday. favoured in having spent only He "discovered" her when she activities; it determines all our made by Senator Borah, who point fred a large number of shots. So It is believed that the escapees 42 days awaiting your trial. The was 17, and after she had gone The call now, as always, is for France held (65 per cent of the far, only two chees of gunshot

med out that the United States and reports regarding your morals to a fashionable finishing" school and character are very favour married her and directed her greater spiritual understanding on world's gold, leaving, the remaining wounds have been reported, the vic- the part of us all; greater consecra- 1,600,000,000 people in the world time being an under-trial prisoner the Central News.

According to the Paris Journal, Divine law; greater humility International currency and thus the first marriage ceremony necessary to the expression of drying up their purchasing power. had a narrow escape while vacating was in Maryland in 1924, greater Jove Our dearly loved-Reuter's American Service but

leader, Mrs. Eddy, says on page 180 valid because Mr. Nirdlinger's of "Miscellaneous Writings": divorce from his previous wife Love is not puffed up: and the had not been made absolute.meek and loving God anointe and ap The couple were re-married in points to lead the line of mankind's Par but in 1926 the union was triumphal march out of the wilder. dissolved, only to be renewed two ness, out of darkness into light.”— years later.AHUTKI

Contributed.”:

able, but you spent too much stage career on Broadway, 8ation to truth; greater obedience to only twenty-one cents per head of and a cowellvalum v

time in making yourself pretty and in dancing.”.

Mrs. Nirdlinger broke out into violent sols.

While she was telling the judge how she had fired at her husband she collapsed in the dock. It was several minutes be fore fore she could continue,

Marks on Her Throat

The doctor's report said that the first shot was not sufficient

to kill Mr. Nirdlinger, and there

it was

declared in

the United States Vice-Consul, a On the last marriage before

fore it was necessary to fire a remarkable contract, in which second time, which was done at the tiniest details of Mrs, Nird close range.

He said Mrs. Nirdlinger had marks on her throat caused by violent pressure. Her husband's body showed no, signs of alcohol- lam, but it was possible ha suffer- ed from mental trouble caused by a motor accident

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gave evidence. Nirdlinger

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VISIT TO PARIS.

linger's life were rightly fixed Duke and Duchess of

One clause of this document was signed

York on Vacation.

reads:

lipstick,

Charlotte will not. awears not to use tobacco in any powder, or cold cream. She also

manner or form

AMBASSADOR'S-GUESTS.

Mra. Niydlinger's two children, York will

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are expected to

ant part in her

to the ayr She has not

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Two European forest assistants employed by a mercantile concern

their bungalow before the absconders fired at it.

The escaped prisoners left the town about five o'clock and for half an hour the panic was so great that very few persons were seen any-

where in the streets.

According to one rumour, the absconders, in order to "ayold the police hid themselves in the Chin- ese cemetery on the outskirts of the town the same night and left early next morning towards the hill forests, armed with guns,

The town is quiet and conditions are normal to-day

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