PRINCESS'S 700 PEARLS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 6

PRINCESS'S 700 PEARLS

MURDERED. WOMAN AND JILTED | SUITOR. '' , (London Daily Mail Correspondent) VIENNA, Nov. 5. ’ Baron Felix von Gartner, who shot ; ;;.;pi’incess,. i Dschidschi jMouheb, the , daughter, of, an .Egyptian Pasha, in..a • Vienna, concert hall, was at his wits’ lend for money. He had nothing but ibis pension of about £1 a week as an ex-icaptain of the-Austrian Army. His l.fatljei: was a field: marshal, ■ ! Before his marriage last March to iMrs Eleonore Hamilton Mac Garvey, a .'British petroleum merchant,, lie borifrdwed from .Tier to satisfy the alleged claim's of his first wife after their divorce. After the wedding she gave Hiim a similar amount, which, she allfeges, fie spent upo'n other women and gambling.

Gartner, whose second "ivife had started divorce proceedings, had hopes :of marrying Princess Mouheb and restoring his- fortunes, until her Turkish suitor, Omar Osiam Pasha, appeared and was supported by- her father. Tlie. princess was to leave this week for Egypt, and Gartner implored and then, forbade her to go. FREQUENT QUARRELS.

" She* frequently, visited. Baron von j Gartner, at. his lodgings,, where, it. is I said, they, always had violent, quarrels. •On Saturday afternoon they met at the Museum Coffee-house near her home and talked for two hours. Then.they i separated, and: Gartner aftewards called at her House.

Hearing that she was at* tlie concert;' 'he borrowed- money from tho , coffeehouso waiter and bought a ticket foi the nearest unsold box: to-that occupied' ’ by.-Princess Mouheb: After his acresu : lie said lie meant: only to-shoot himself J and' tliati he. had been- drinking heavily, j ■ Tbe princess recently lent him- .£300; ion. which: ho had been living. ■ _ Princess. Mouheb was born in Gaiio • and was 32 years old. When killed jshe was wearing- diamond rings-,; a> i bracelet, of 200 pearls, and- two pearl . necklaces containing 500' pearls. She, | also wore a valuable comb incribed with .words meaning “By cow and word of: ;honour,” • -V.: : The; princess went to school, at tLausanne, and spoke French, English, ; German, Italian-, Turkish and Arabic. ; fluently.