PRINCESS THREATENS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 139, 18 July 1914, Page 3

PRINCESS THREATENS.

MAJOR IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE.

The Princess Seham Yousry, an Egyptian, of St. Luke's Road, Bayswater, was' bound over at the Woodbridge (Suffolk) petty sessions recently, for threatening Major W. E. G. Donnelly, and was the subject of a hostile demonstration, comments an English exchange. A remarkable story was told by Major Connolly. '' I knew her at Cairo,' '-he said, *' and I didnoteee her between>l9lo and Monday last, when she came to my house at Hasketon. I asked her in Arabic what she was doing there, and she replied, 'At last ! have found you. I am your wife, and have two children.' These statements w6se" untrue. She attempted to shake me, and I ordered her out 6f the house. She replied that she would not go until she had taken my life and my wife's. " ' " That put me in fear of my life. I know what Egyptians are, so I sent my man tor the police, and then, with jny wife, went out of the house. The princess struck both its with her shoe. " When a policemau; arrived she said, 'lf youiltav'e any charg| prefer, against me - do; so, and I will Kdpf end it.' - . The policeman advised hereto go away, and! she did. -;• M *•; .. _ ,4. Whip Attack. "I put in my pony to go to poliee. station. I overtook her and the policeman she said: ' I .will, take that man's life.' Later she again came to my house and attacled" me with a whip.. "These threats," added the major., "were part of a series, for she had demanded money by letter front me before.. In June, 1910, she wrote that •, she was not going back to Egypt if I did not write or telephone to her. In another letter she said that £5 which I had offered her was not enough, but that if I sent her £25 she would go back to Bgypt." In answer to the princess, Major Connolly said that he first met her when she came uninvited to his quarters in Cairo. He denied that he'had any children Ijy her, or that he married her by Egyptian law. The princess admitted the assault, but contended that she was properly married to Major Connolly in 1907 at the Government House, Cairo, and said she had travelled in many parts of the world to find him. . The decision of the bench was received with loud applause by a crowded court.