FAHMY BEY'S MURDER.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1923, Page 3

FAHMY BEY'S MURDER.

FURTHER EVIDENCE. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 1).45 am.) LONDON, Sep. 11. Tile trial of .Madame Eahmy was continued. and public interest is unabated, Marin na, night manager of the Savoy Hotel, said that after Enhniy’s deatii Madame said that she bad been quarrelling with her husband a l ,-out a divorce. Doctor Gordon gave evidence to the effect that Madame was suffering Lorn a painful ailment, which was consistent with her story of her husband's cruel conduct, and an operation had been arranged. After the tragedy Madame told witness that when her husband came to her bedroom she filed out of the window with the idea of frightening him. The chambermaid at the' Savoy gave evidence that she found an empty cartridge case under the dressing table, this being consistent with Madame’s statement that she fired the first shot out of the window. Sir E. Marshal! Hall, in opening the case for the defence, urged that i!i<> prisoner honestly believed that her life was in danger. 11 she presented the pistol at her husband to prevent him effecting his purpose and lie was killed, such a. killing was just. Eahmy was a degenerate who gloried in the sufferings of women. Ili> perverted conduct towards his wife was the cause ol all the trouble. AYlien prisoner tired the first shot out of the window she thought that the pistol had become harmless. She had never fired it before. Oil Juls 3rd. the prisoner received an anonymous letter fnam Paris whiili made her husband furious. The letter said:Permit a friend who lias travelled wule|v among Orientals to advice you not te return to Egypt. Abandon your Income rather than risk your lile oil the journey, which means poison in food — subtle weapon neither seen nor heard. Remain in Paris.’’ Eahmy accused his wife of writing letters and struck her violent blows. There had been money trouble. Her husband in May refused to piiv a. hill of HS.<m francs, saying: “ Von go and gei a lover. the wife replied : - “ If l do you will divorce me." i'idimy replied:—“No. 1 won’t.’’ When she said that she was going to Rajas for an operation, alto asked her husband for the money he showed her a bundle of notes, but before giving them made an outrageous suggestion. She called him a beast, and a. violent struggle followed. Eahmy spat in his wife’s eves and gripped her throat, She broke away and he made •, ,eeoml effort to strangle her. As lie crouched for a further spring, she put a pistol to his face, and to her horror it went off. , , , Sir E. Marshall Hall concluded:— ii This man met his death in a struggle due to his own iniquity.’'