Show l 1 Th 0 o d do o 4 v m a f 1 11 II fa U Jl w oll le y D t Jury Unable to Convict the Wl j r Beauty After Hearing Her Tell Tell t y I tf 2 q r t 1 v H How ow P Prince F Fahmy a h my B Beys Bey's ey s BI Black ac k s rk r Spies pies Inva Invaded d ed edven E Even ven the Privacy Y e 5 0 of f Her H er B Bridal fl d a I B Boudoir Oll d t iI t FR J t k t r 1 q A AN 1 fI I I 1 At t j 1 I art n f v t yR yRa 11 a t J I N 1 tX X It XI M M A om LV 1 I d f f v rv vw 7 r rf Y f n 1 11 to 1 Ii t 11 I J v J r v I W J 1 M 8 kf f fL v L l 1 0 N 1 aBr R j v t l 4 1 vt i t tI J I b wo M I f w Z mw 1 iI M I a wa w- w ta P 6 w y f tt N y p u oY t y I The motorboat on which the Prince and his bride made their honey honey- X s n z a r s s sy y I a y se moon trip up the Nile with his black servants watching her night and v N Nr r Fat 1 P day and below on one of the Princes Prince palatial homes in in Egypt 11 I i I l r rr r f f Jf I r I r S J Ali Fahmy Bey the millionaire Egyptian Egyptian Egyptian tian prince and the wife who killed him in the fashionable Hotel Savoy in London LONDON I f tide of evidence very I THE Marr had men s n-s setting against i beautiful Marguerite Fahmy on onI trIal for the murder of of her husband I AU All Fahmy Bey the wealthy Egyptian prince Th There re was little or nothing to offer In her defense except her own testImony for she and her husband had bad been alone In their suite in the Hotel Savoy on the night of the tragedy She alone lived to descrIbe the JAo quarrel that preceded the I shooting or say what if any pro oca provocation provocation tion she the had for the fa fatal tal shot she fired feed Those who listened to her testimonY felt that with Mth every word ord she sobbed out in French to the court interpreter she Was bringing herself nearer and nearer to the hangman's noose or noose or at least to a along along along long prison sentence Even Iven if she es- es escaped escaped es escaped the death penalty it seemed certain certain certain tain that she must be found guilty of manslaughter She admitted that her husband had been quite unarmed She swore snore that she had intended only to tu frighten him with a er which she thought she he had emp emp- emptied emptied tied of all its cartridges And she de- de declared de declared dared the she he was as amazed hon stricken honor honor or overcome with Ith grief and dismay when hen the pressure of her finger on the trigger as aas ft as follo followed ed by a shot and she saw the tho Prince fall dying at her feet Now this as everybody familiar with the habits of mind of English juries thought pas Was hardly sufficient to Win the Prim Pru ss the laws law's forgiveness for killing her not husband husband not even when hen sup sup- supported supported sup supported ported by her heartrending story of how hower howler ler er nerves had been wrecked and her life made miserable by his insane jeal jealousy The taking of human life under any Circumstances is regarded in England as a most serious matter Jures are arc not so prone as they arc are in America i ri be swayed by the beauty of a woman slayer or the pitiable state to which her nerves may have been reduced by her victim It ItIS Itis Itis IS thought that there is seldom if aver ver any real necessity for tor or murder when hen the English law offers otTers such ample pro pro- protection protection pro protection for tor a womans woman's person and prop prop- property property erty So it was that those who heard Mar Mar- Marguerite Marguerite Fahmy's story of the tho shooting felt that she was wag only tightening the coil of the rope about her pretty neck It was a pitiful story she told but one that hardly seemed to excuse killing her husband in told old blood If there had Leen betting on such a grave eve evi t as liS thIs trial the odds would surely have been at least a hundred to one ono against her ac- ac acquittal acquittal ac acquittal Then suddenly the tide turned in the th pale sad-faced sad beautys beauty's favor or A few minutes of skillful questioning by her lawyers left no longer any doubt that she would be given tho the laws law's forgiveness and permitted to leave her prison cell celland celland celland and return to the luxuries of her home In Paris The testimony that turned the tide and finally made Marguerite Fahmy rahmy u a Free Freewoman re woman was her recital of how bow her hus huss t i r J r w E EY S 4 Y band had had her shadowed by ugly black men who In obedience to his or- or orders or orders ders invaded even the privacy of her boudo boudoir r and the room where she slept slop That melted the hearts hearts heart of this stern English jur jury They could not think of finding Marguerite Marguente Fahmy guilty after hearing how she had been followed while she waked aked and slept she dressed and undressed followed undressed followed through all the most intimate moments of a womans woman's life by the eyes of these spies Many n II keen observer felt he could read the fhe change in the tho hearts of the theten theten theten ten men and two women omen who composed the jury from the moment when Mar Mar- Marguerite Marguerite Fahmy told how h w she had turned from what she supposed was ass the privacy racy vacy acy of her dressing table to see a black face leering at her from the folds of a portiere She had been sitting as she testified In a s stage stage ge of undress in which her mod mod- modesty modesty modesty esty would have forbidden her facing even her maid when her attention was arrested by a suspicious noise noise-a noise a raise like those she the had often heard of late when hen she supposed she was entirely alone Leaping from her chair she pull pulled d aside the hangings that screened an al- al alcove alcove al alcove cove and saw crouching there where here he could see sec every move she made mado one of her husbands husband's numerous ugly black civilized half cIvIlized men servants who obeyed like slaves his every word The terrified woman screamed for help but when her husband appeared from froman froman froman an adjoining room he only laughed lIe Ile gave her to understand that when he was not at her side she must expect to tobe tobe tobe be watched by one of his servants That man doesn't count said the Prince pointing to the man she had dis dis- discovered dis- dis covered ered peering at her from behind the portieres lIe He is nobody He does not count But he ho has the right to come here or anywhere you vou ou may go and tell me what you are arc doing This incident occurred in Cairo lust Just after Marguerite Marguente Fahmy had accepted the Mo Moslem cm faith in order to become the Princes Prince's wife It was repeated many times after they left Egypt for London and ParIs Pans From the moment that she was mar mar- married married ried Tied the Princess was almost contin contin- continually continually continually under the surveillance of one or more of the brutal brut l black back men who did her ber husbands husband's bidding Waking or sleeping their spying eyes were always ah ay upon her And it is believed that it was this testimony more than anything els else that thai Impelled the jury fury to pronounce Marguerite Mar Mar- Marguerite Marguerite Fahmy not guilty as it finally did after only a n short deliberation These men and women who ho held her lIer fate in their h hands were unable to tolerate tolerate tol- tol tolerate erate the shameless way a brIde brides bride's vacy had been Invaded b by the spying servants eyes which her husband turned upon her They felt that it might easIly have made her irresponsible for the deed which ca caused sed his death Ands And s so so the Princess went free free-free free tree to return to to- her beloved Paris begin the fight for some of the tho millions her husband possessed Prince Fahmy B Bey By y is dead and the law has released its hold on the wife who ho ho killed him but it will be a long time before the psychologists are through over the strange love leva that brought them together and yet filled theIr hearts at times with the most mur mur- murderous murderous murderous derous hate The quarrels that finally ended in the Princes Prince's death began before he and hIs brIde had started on their honeymoon trip up the Nile in the swift motor boat that was the marvel of the prImitive EgyptIan natives On the tle night before they left loft Cairo on thIs trip the Princess testified that her husband took the Koran in m his hands and looking her straight in the ee eyes saId I swear on the Koran that I wIll kIll you you that that you shall some day die by my hand terrified But when Marguerite Fahmy terri terri- fied fled by this and other similar murderous threats would make a move to leave her husband he at once became sorry for all his cruelties begged her forgIveness on bended beaded knee and declared he would kill himself if she ever forsook him What should have been the moat most bliss bliss- bliss ful blissful of journeys up the Nile on the Princes Prince's motorboat was according to the testimony hi his widow gayo gave at her trial one long series senes of quarrels that at often stopped just short of murder Before the boat had g gone ne very far the unhappy bride was obliged to write write her lawyer in Paris as follows I have to bring to your notice very grave incidents Forthe For the thc last three days daysI I am a prisoner on board Iam I 1 am absolutely unable to g get t out lIe He has forbid forbid- forbidden den me to leave my room I have on my arms the marks of my husbands husband's gentleness Fearing this may be maybe prolonged I 1 ask you to send here ono one or two persons who will have this condi condl- condition tion established so a as to make make use of it Things became even worse when whon the newlyweds returned to Paris where their fated ill fated romance had begun only a few months montha before It was said they Were so mutually jealous ls that they slept with revolvers under their pillows The other guests at at at the fashionable hotel where they occupied the most expensive suite were often alarmed several times in II a night by their noisy quarrels One dav day in Paris a according to Mar Mar- Marguerite Marguerite Fahmy's rahmy's testimony her hor husband threatened her with a horsewhip She Sh 3 z k s r da y w ya v L 4 k ky fl y i t s ry j rf t t pk i Z 4 Af y b 2 r G 4 a if yN q 1 n M Mii 8 X v r ii iJ Princess Fahmy Bey in the veiled costume prescribed by the f Moslem faith which she embraced when she married I Ithe the rich Egyptian and andon on the right the Princess as r she looks in one of her Paris gowns was saved from rom a beating only by the unexpected arrival of her sister who pOinted a n revolver at the Prince and made him desist The Prince Princea a ivas as continually threaten threaten- threatening mg ing his wife with harm at the hands of some of the black servants he kept spy spy- spying mg ing on her her herThe The servant most frequently mentIoned in these threats was a fero ferocious cious looking fellow named Costa Prince rahmy Boy Bay said Costa owed his life and liberty to his master and would obey any order or ler the Prince gave Unless you do as I say the Prince threatened his wife I Bill aill III have Costa bathe your face in sulphuric acid and dISfigure you for life And in m the Princes Prince's absence Costa is is said many times to have repeated thIs and other ether diabolical threats to the torn terri terrified fied fled bride Like the sheik he was vas Prince Fahmy Boys Deys theory was that the spirited beauty be hat bad ha married must be tamed made at any cost coat absolutely subservient to his will If he had relied only on hImself to accomplish this the English jury probably probably ably would have felt that the law should avenge his death But the idea of his using his black retainers to carry earry out his jealous whims and his making them invade the privacy of his wife's dressing and sleeping sleeping- rooms was so repugnant to them that they could do nothing PrIncess 1 Fahmy Bey go free Many believe that If it the whole truth were told it would prove prow r that the tho if not Princess was almost r not quite grate as insanely Jeal- Jeal Jealous jealous ous of f her much younger Y husband as he of jer ier But her able counsel SIr Edward Marshall Hall Hall thought best to let hei het p D testimony bring out noth noth- nothing nothing ing of this Not a word word was said at her trial of the magic crystal crystal globe whose whose frag fragments ments meats were found scattered about the room rOO where here the shooting and which is believed to have played an Important part in the final quarrel According to the gossip of friends and servants of the Princess this crystal was given her by Prince Fahmy Bey on their wedding day He told her it itis ia said that a as longan longas long as he loved only her ber she would see bee only her own image in m the magic globe but t w when en his heart had passed into the pos of another t then en the face of this other woman would be seen there It Is Known that this crystal exerted a strong influence over the Princess ce s She carried it with her wherever she went and every day wo would ld sit g gazing zing r for r a along along along long time into Its shimmering depths And it has bas always been suspected that what she saw or what her overwrought over nerves nerve made her Ima imagine ine she saw there played a dominant part in the quarrel M K y P Py 1 A a iX 4 that ended in in the tho death of the Prince It was however the stones of the black spies whom her husband nd ur sur surrounded ur rounded her and w who who 10 earned carried out his wIshes that won Princess Fahmy her Be Bey her ber freedom Now she she Is in Paris recovering rm from fromn the etY effects effects of the pain pain- painful ful ordeal she has been been through and un- un un un to establish her to to the tho she believes should her the estate of oC the husband he e killed lulled Whether she gets any an e of hIs wealth ill la-a la isa doubt doubts Her attorney MaItre A o ard admits admi s t that lt the Egyptian co courts av the fhe light right to ignore entirely the verdict verdict orthe of the aI c in the settlement estate S |