GIRL CLERK STABBED

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1923, Page 5

GIRL CLERK STABBED

BY REJECTED LOVER. LOMBARD STREET SENSATION (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 10. While the city streets were most crowded with men and women leaving the offices, a pretty Irish girl, Josephine O’Reilly, reeled screaming into Lombard Street from St. George’s Yard, with a knife wound in her side. In Saint George’s Yard, a young man was found lying with a wound above the heart. Tiie girl was carried into Barclay's Bank, where she was employed, and afterwards taken to the hospital where she was found to be seriously hurt, and unable to make a coherent statement. The man was named Rodney Geary, a clerk in the London County Council offices. He was only slightly hurt. He had been seen talking to the girl. It is understood that he wished to marry her but she rejected his suit. EGYPTIAN PRINCE KILLED. WIFE ARRESTED. LONDON, July 10. All Kamel Fahiny Bey, an Egyptian' prince, who has been staying at the Savoy Hotel for a few weeks, and was well-known in West End social circles, was found fatally shot in his rooms at the hotel in the early morning. His princess, who is a Frenchwoman, has bee.n arrested and charged with murder. A JAPANESE TRAGEDY. SUICIDE ENDS LOVE AFFAIR. TOKIO, July 9. A sensation was caused in Tokio society circles by the discovery today of the bodies of Arishma, the most popular novelist in Japan, and Mrs. Akiko Hatano, leader of the Japanese women’s movement, and wife of a prominent business man, hanging from silk scarfs in a villa belonging to Arishma. It was a case of double suicide arising out of a hopeless love affair. A letter to the woman’s husband urged him to take the matter with equanimity and make no excuses to. friends, because she and Arishma were only following their fate. ■ The couple disappeared a month ago, but their friends had not informed the police, and did not conduct a search. Tradesmen forcing an entrance into the villa found the bodies.