MISSING PRINCE
HEARD OF IN PARIS. Press Association—By ■ Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, September 13. (Received September 14, at 9.25 a.m.) Tho manager of an hotel in the suburb of Brunoy states that a man and lavo attendants resided there from September 3 till last night, when a motor car took them aAvay. The man admitted that ho was the missing Egyptian Prince Soif-ed-Din, and enjoined the manager to secrecy.—Reuter. [Mystery surrounds tho disappearance of Prince Ahmed Sief-cd-Din, bro-ther-in-IaAV of King Fuad, Avbo, for tAventy-threo years, has been an inmate of a private asylum at Ticelmrst, in Sussex. IVonty-seven years ago, when he Avas only seventeen, the Prince fired a revolver at King Fuad. After serving a term of four years’ imprisonment he Avas declared insane and was sent to Ticehurst. Tho Prince’s aged mother at Constantinople has never ceased in her efforts to obtain his release. Recently she instructed a writ to be issued against tho British Government, claiming £4,000,000 damages for the illegal detention and for the accumulated revenues from the Prince’s estates, which are stated to yield £150,000 a year. Ho escaped on September 1 as tho result, it is stated, of a careiully-Avorkcd-out scheme.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 2
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195MISSING PRINCE Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 2
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