EGYPTIAN PRINCE SHOT.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 5

EGYPTIAN PRINCE SHOT.

FRENCH WIFE ARRESTED. MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY IN LONDON HOTEL. A BRIEF ROMANCE. [By Electric Cable—Copyright]. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received "Wednesday, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 10. Fahmy Boy, who was found shot in his rooms at the Savoy Hotel, was 23 years of age, and his wife aged 32, a striking beauty, had been married to him for less than a year. She dined with her husband yesterday evening at the Savoy, when they were apparently on the best of terms. The tragedy occurred after midnight. A member of the night staff, hearing shots, hurried to the Prince's rooms and found the Prince outside in the corridor in his night clothes. He died before he reached the hospital. There was a Browning pistol on the floor and bullet marks on the wall of the corridor, also bloodstains on the Princess's evening gown in the bedroom. When charged, the Princess sat in the dock in a stato of collapse, weeping bitterly, A police witness said the Princess's doctor told him that accused was about to go to a nursing home for an operation. FOUNP HIS FATE. BRILLIANT MARRIAGE IN-CAIRO. Received Thursday, 2 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. Fahmy Bey met his wife in the Hotel Majestic, at Paris. They were mutually attracted and were constantly together. The Frenchwoman left Paris suddenly and the Prince abandoned all hope of seeing her again. A few month? later-, while walking on the front at Deauville, he saw her ana confessed Ills love, and eventually won her consent to an engagemet. Returnig to Egypt, he secured the consent of his family to the marriage. The Frenchwoman journeyed to Egypt, Was presented to his relatives, and agreed to become a Mohammadan. The marriage, which took place at Cairo in December, was most brilliant, and hundreds of guest's were lavishly entertained. The first months of the honeymoon were spent in the Prince's palace, on the banks of the Nile. The Price and his wif e were prominent at Luxor during the Tutankhamen season, and entertained Lord Carnarvon. The Prince's income was estimated to be £IOO,OOO. H e was a generous supporter of •charitable and educational institutions in Egypt. THE FIRST NEWS. LONDON, July 10. Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey, an Egyptian Prince, who was staying at the Savoy Hotel for a few weeks, ana who was well known in West End social circles, was found fatally shot in his rooms af the hotel in the early morning. morning. The Princess, who is n Frenchwoman, has been arrested and charged with the murder.