GRANDSON OF SULTAN
TRAGIC DEATH IN NEW YORK FAILURE OF MARRIAGE PLAN (Received August 4. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YOBK. Aug. 3 Identified by the police as a grandson of Abdul Hamid 11, the last Sultan of Turkey, and a. son of the Crown Prince, Abdul Kerim shot himself in a room in a cheap Broadway hotel. Only 75 cents were found among his effects. An almost empty liquor bottle was left on the table. In a note addressed to the police, Kerim, who was 31,. said he was destroying himself because of his failure to win a wealthy American woman in marriage, with whose fortune he hoped to facilitate the restoration of his family to Turkey.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22179, 5 August 1935, Page 9
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