TIP OF NOSE BITTEN OFF

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 2

TIP OF NOSE BITTEN OFF

JILTED PRINCE’S REVENGE

NEPHEW OF ABYSSINIAN EMPEROR PARIS, July 2. Araya Haile Silassie, nephew of the Emperor of Abyssinia, will again face the court at Chambery, in southern France, to appeal against a sentence of one year’s imprisonment passed on him recently for having bitten off the tip of his sweetheart’s nose. Evidence given at the first hearing revealed that young Haile Silassie, while studying in Geneva, fell in love with beautiful Yamile, daughter of an Egyptian newspaper editor, Mr Ali El Gaiati.

Then, one day, the young Abyssinian was expelled from Switzerland. He tried to persuade Yamile to elope, but she refused, saying she would have nothing more to do with him. From France the young man sent letters and telegrams—all to no avail.

At last he sent a friend;, who told Yamile that Haile Silassie had 1 fallen ill and would die unless she consented to see him. Yamile Telented. She crossed 1 the border into France, and met Haile Silassie.

He begged Yamile to many-him 1 . He stormed, he pleaded. Then he said quietly, “Well, just let me kiss you good-bye.” Yamile put up her mouth, and* then she shrieked with pain. Haile Silassie, with one fierce snap of his strong African jaws, had bitten the delicate tilted tip of Yamile’s lovely nose. •Surgeons have now grafted a new tip on Yamile’s nose, and when she faces the young Abyssinian in court he will iixnl she is as beautiful as ever.