SPENDTHRIFT PAIR

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 13, 16 July 1923, Page 7

SPENDTHRIFT PAIR

FAHMY AND HIS FRENCH WIFE

A FATAL MIXTURE OF IDEAS.

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(Received 16th .July ; 10 a.m.)

LONDON; 15th July. Mane , Fahniy, who is chawed ' with having murdered her husband^ Fahmy tfey. is receiving special • attention in Holloway prison owing to her health. -I he authorities allow a maid to attend her, and brine clothing and necessaries V S F «"'"V Bey lived at the iate of £100 a day while in London The greater part of the money was spent on jewels, dress, and pleasure. There ■were always elaborate and expensive luncheons, extravagant dinners, theatres suppers, and dances. Madame Fahmy was well known in social circles in Paris. Her real name wa s Marguerite Laurent, though she used the name Maggie Meller. She was a constant attendant at fashionable watering resorts where she always had a host of well-to-do men friends. She lived extravagantly, and was well supplied with money Four years ago in Venice she marned the son of the wealthy owner °*a ans departmental store. Frequent differences resulted in a divorce after six months. It is stated that the differences between herself and Fahmy were due to Ins traditional ideas about the harem and the veil. He was often angrily intolerant of many harmless pranks in which Madame, like many other French wives, felt justified in indulging