The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
By Associated Press

New York, March lo.--1ne Princess Fatima, Sultana of Ka- bout in Afghanistan. forsaken by her lawyer, bereft of her t< karat diamond and denied further shell ter by her unpaid landlady, stop ped into a taxicab today to drive to the steamer City of Lahore and embark with her three young princelings for a voyage to Bonn bay in B suite furnished by tho British government-but she never reached the pier.
 Tonight, she was secluded somewhere, and those who knew how her fortune of few months ago had ebbed away doubted if her purse held the cost of bed and board. It was said she had decided to stay and try to recover her big diamond held by Uncle Sam.
 The City of Lahore was out on tho Atlantic tonight. The Brit ish consul general was assuring those who inquired that he and the empire he represents have no further interest In the doings of the once wealthy woman who dazzied Broadway last summer with her nose jewel, and q little later visited the White House to be ushered into tho presence of the President of the United States with all the dignity due royal guest.
 U. s. Holds sparklor
 The United States government was holding tight tonight to the A carat diamond that tho prin- cess paiveiy brought into Amert- ca without paying duty and then tried to sell. Paul Kotch, the lawyer who talked for the prin- cess and fought for her when those whose bills she had not paid went to the courtroom, announc- ed that he was through. Mrs. Ida M. Willie. in whose lodgings the princess has remained since last November, saio she too nao reached the end of her patience and that Fatima could never again lay her head upon her oed or eat a meal at her unpreten- tious table. For while the prin- cess paid her bills at tho board in.r house, and then for many weeks she overlooked that prac- tjce. the landlady said. Three weeks ago the British consul gen eral took up the burden and con tinued 1t until after breakfast this morning.
 Secures Release of Luggage
 Yesterday afternoon MT. kotch went around to the Waldorf AS toria where the princess lived Tn fine style her first thrilling weeks in the metropolis, and persuaded inc management that inasmuch as tho princess had meant well and was going to get out of the coun- try today it would be gracious gesture to relieve her luggage. The heart of the management softened and the luggage was re- leased, although the princess still owes the hotel money. MT. Kotch called at the Narragansett hotel where the princess also had her abode for a time without any par ticular impression being left up- on her pocketbook and that place also released what luggage it had retained.
 John Bull does not know where the trunks went after they left the Waldorf. Uncle Sam does not know. MT. Kotch does not know. Mrs. Wyliie does not know. But Mrs. Wyllie does know what hap pened to the bags the. Narragan- sett released. Mrs. Willie has them. Mrs. Wyllie is going to keep them, because she says the princess owes her board and room for four persons for Tore weeks than you can count on the fin- gers of one hand. These were the cold, winter weeks that passed between the time the princess stopped paying her own way and the afternoon the British govern ment began paying It for her.
 Escort In Trouble
 stephen Weinberg. who took off his morning frock and put on a naval uniform the. day he went to the White House and told President Harding he was the of- ficial escort for Princess Fatima also was in trouble today. He was put under s5,000 ball in Brook lyn on. an indictment charging him with having impersonated an officer of the United States navy. Then another $1.000 was loaded on his bail because Washington authorities started removal pro- ceedings to take him to the capi- tai to face a similar indictment ethere. Weinberg was the man who persuaded pr. Adolf Lorenz he was just the surgeon needed for a secretary. In his time Weln- berg has fooled a lot of other prominent people, the authorities say.
 But that Is another story. The deeper troubles tonight are those of Princess Fatima. The prin- cess became & bit bored with Afghanistan last summer and de- cided to visit America. She gath cred her three sons around her, put on her most vivid oriental costume, drew her S13.oo0 fortune out of the bank stuck jewelin her nose, secretsd the l4 karat