A LONDON TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2605, 12 July 1923, Page 3

A LONDON TRAGEDY.

EGYPTIAN PRINCE SHOT. HIS WIFE ARRESTED. London, July 10. Fahmy Bey, who was found shot in his rooms at the Savoy Hotel, was 23 years of age, and his wife aged 32, a striking beauty, had been married to him for less than a year. She dined with her husband yesterday evening at the Savoy, when they were apparently on the best of terms.

The tragedy occurred after midnight. A member of the night staff hearing shots, hurried to the Prince’s rooms and found the Prince outside in the corridor in his night clothes. He died before he reached the hospital. There was a Browning pistol on the floor and bullet marks on the wall of the corridor, also blood stains on the Princess’s evening gown in the bedroom. When charged, the Princess sat in the dock in a slate of collapse, weeping bitterly. A police witness said the Princess’s doctor told him that accused was about to go to a nursing home for an operation. Fahmy Bey met his wife in the Hotel Majestic, at Paris. They were mutually attracted and were constantly together. The Frenchwoman left Paris suddenly and the Prince abandoned all hope of seeing her again. A feiv months later, while walking on the front at Deauville, he saw her and confessed his love, and eventually won her consent to an engagement. Returning to Egypt, he secured the consent of !iis family to the marriage. The Frenchwoman journeyed to Egypt, Mas presented to his relatives, and agreed to become a Mohammadan. The marriage, which took place at Cairo ill December, was most brilliant, and hundreds of guests were lavishly entertained. The first months of the honeymoon were spent in the Prince's palace, oil the hanks of the Nile. The Prince and his wife wore prominent at Luxor during the Tutankhamen season, and entertained Tail'd Carnarvon. The Prince’s income was estimated to be £IOO,OOO. He was a generous supporter of charitable aud educational institutes in Egypt.