FAHMY BEY’S MURDER.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1923, Page 3

FAHMY BEY’S MURDER .

lIIS WIFE ON TRIAL. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) h LONDON. September 11. Great crowds atruidid the Old Hailey to witness the trial ol the so-called j Pi ineess who shot Fabmy Bey on the llitli. of July, the crowd including C many society women. No expense has 1 been spared on the defence. .Marshall t Hall, and Curtis Bennett represented 1 llie accused, Madame Fabmy, who ap- 1 poured a pale and fragile figure in 1 deep black. Slic. pleaded not guilty. 1 As she knew no English, two French > interpreters were present. Iwo women *• were included in the jury, aftei Sii ' Reivive! ( larke. for the Crown, lmd ! detailed me ciivutustauee- of the mar- 1 rirnu' and Fahmy's death. ' Kuani. Secretary to I'ahmy. gave evideiue that on ibe night of the tra,redy bail in v and liis wife and witness t occupied a I.un at the Theatre. Fabmy j was nice to bis wife. Witness tefuseil 1 tll ibnil that Fabmy was a bully, ami ' i„ tile babit of beating women. Witness could not remember whether I Mirny smacked his wife’s fare, or kicked her. Counsel then detailed an incident in which Fahmv allegedly dislocated Ins wife's jaw. Emini said that he roineniheied the incident. He denied the suggestion T,y Mar.-Tmll Hall that there had been a conspiracy between himself and Faiiniv to get the__prisonel to Cairo against her will, in order to make Iter Fahmy’s mistress. Enani said that tnis was Faluny’s lirst liitentinn Later be decided to make prisoner his wife. When Madame arrived she became a Moslem and F-ihiny could divorce her at <t moment's notice. Faluny was entitled to have toutwives. Witness had also been told that Madame, by lemarrying. forfeited 1,. large allowance from her former husbaneb Enani admitted mat lie received live per cent upon an order for ; furnishing Fahmy's beautiful palace in

Cairo. Marshall Hall read Faluny s love Liters. which wore couched in passionate oriental imagery. A typical paragraph iea.l: "Torture of my life, your image appears to he surrounded by a halo and ,your head encircled by the crown 1 reserve for you here." Marshall Hull put to Enani a series 0 f drainaticallv worded telegrams sag cresting they bad been sent to the prisoner to induce her to come to Egypt in the belief that Faluny was desperately ill. The witness denied a cartoon in an Egyptian paper, representFaluny himself, and a third man, and that they were given to evil practices, The hearing was adjourned. ,