The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-28
UNCLE SANS ROYAL
GUEST IN SECLUS|ON
AFGHAN PRINCESS DOES NOT
EMBARK FOR BOMBAY, AS
HAD BEEN ARRANGED.
FAILS TO ARRIVEAT PIER
Sultana Enters Taxi Presumably to
Make Trip to Steamer, But Disap-
pears. U. S. Still Has Grip On
Her Big Diamond.

Her Big Diamond.
NEW YORK, N. Y-The Princess
Fatima, sultana of Kaboul in Afghan
istan, forsaken by her lawyer, bereft
of her 44-karat diamond and denied
further shelter by her unpaid land
lord, stepped into taxicab today to
drive to the steamer City of Lahore
and embark with her three young
princelings for voyage to Bombay
in suite furnished by the British gov
ernment-but she never reached the
pier.
Tonight she was secluded some
where and those who knew how her
fortune of a few months ago had ebb-
| ed away doubted if her purse held the
cost OF bed and board. 1t was said
she had decided to stay and try to
recover her big diamond held by I'm
Gle Sam
The City of Lahore was out on the
Atlantic tonight The British consul
general was assuring those who in
CURED that he had no further inter
est in her doings of the once wealthy
lady who dazzled Broadway last sum-
mer with her nose jewel and a little
later visited the white house to be usE1-
cred into the presence of the president
of the United States with all the dig
nifty due a royal guest
u. S. Holding Diamond.
The. United States government was
holding tight tonight to the 44-karat
diamond that the princess naVely
brought into America without paying
duty on and then tried to sell. Paul
Kotch, the lawyer who fought Tor her
when those whose bills she had not
paid went to the court room, announc-
ed he was through. Mrs. Ida M. Wyl-
lie, in whose lodgings the princess mas
remained since asst November, sald
lsshe, too, had reached the end OF her
patience For while the princess PAID
her bills at the boarding house ana
then for many weeks she overlooked
them practically, the landlady SAID:
Three weeks ago the British consul
general took up the burden and con-
tinued it until after breakfast this
morning.
Yesterday Mr.. Kotch went around
to the Waldorf Astoria, where the
princess lived in fine style in her first
thrilling weeks in the metropolis, and
/ persuaded the management that mas
much as the princess had meant well
| and was going to get out of the courl-
! try today it would be gracious act
to release her luggage. The heart OF
the management softened and the lug
gage was released, although the prltl-
cess still owes the hotel money
Holding Bags for Debt.
John Bull doesn't know where the
trunks went after they left the Wal
| dorf. Uncle Sam doesn't know. Mr..
Kotch doesn't know, Mrs. Wyllie
doesn't know But Mrs. Wyllie does
know what happened to the bags that
the Narragansett released. Mrs. Wyl-
lie has them. Mrs. Wyllie is gong to
keep them because she said the prin-
cess owes her board and room tor
| four. persons for more weeks than you
can count on the fingers OF one hand
| Stephen Weinberg, who took OFT his
morning frock and put on naval uni
| form the day he went to the white
house and told President Harding he
was the official escort for Princess
I Fatima, also was in trouble today. he
was put under $4,000 bail in Brooklyn
on an Indictment charging him with
having impersonated an officer IN the
| United States navy Then another
$4,000 was loaded on his bail because
/ Washington authorities started remov-
! al proceedings to take him to the cap
itai to- face a similar Indictment there.
:, The princess became a bit bored
with Afghanistan last summer and de-
cided to visit America. She gathered
| her three sons around her, put ON her
most vivid oriental costume, drew her
$4,000 fortune out of the bank, stuck
jewel in her nose, secreted the a.
karat stone under her clothing and
stepped aboard ship bound Tor san
Francisco. There her nose jewel at
tracted much attention, but no one
saw the big dazzler. Customs officials
have never suspected she had it.
Finds Cost of Living High.
And so the princess came to New
York, not knowing how little $4,000
amounts to along the gay white way.
After she found out something OF the
cost of living in the United States she
limited one day to Mayor Hyland that
she might be willing to part with
large diamond for S500,000. His honor
smiled, but offered no further eneour-
agement. Then the princess went to
w dSllliS anu WITCH oliS NetAAAS 49,
she was just about broke. Weinberg
contracted to sell the stone for not
less than $350,000, and the princess
dreamed OF buying an American es-
tate.
For some reason jewelers. never be-
came enthusiastic over the uncut stone,
and the most any offered for it was
$4,000.
After a while someone suggested
that Afghanistan was British pro-
tectorate, Britain should assume re-
sponsibility. Britain did, to the extent
OF putting the family III a two-room
and-bath apartment and having the
princess contract to accept ocean pas
sage today as the guest of the British
government.
A few days ago the American Gus
toms officers and federal attorney sue
ceeded in taking the 44-karat stone
away from the sheriff Yesterday the
princess convinced them that she had
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