The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-12
DESERT ROMANCE
 FADES AS SEEKS
 |S TOLD.
Princess Marguerite Fanny Said Husband Enjoyed Fir
 ing Pistol Over Head

LONDON. Sept. 11.-A question which has suggested itself to every reader of desert fiction-what hap pens to marriages with skeiks from the point where the novel ends-has been answered in the trial of Princess Marguerite Fahmy. charged with the murder of her husband the Sybarite sheik, prince Fahmy of Cairo.
 All the mystic atmosphere of the east pervaded the Old Bailey Tues day, when Sir Edward Marshall Hall, opening the defense, described what he termed the eastern cunning" with which Fanny had wooed the French gi~- who became his wife. Fahmy, according to Sir Edward, painted a picture of servants and yachts, jewels and palaces, all of them waiting for the beautiful French girl should she marry him.
 ''r'tt after marr.age all restraint ceased" Sir Edward said as he de- veloped the tale of the Fahmy TO- nance. From a kind of plausible and attentive lover, Fahmy became a ferocious beast. His wife discovered for the first time <nat he not only had a violent temper, but was vile himself. From that day she had to live under conditions that make me shudder."
 Readers who have closed their book on the happy fade-outs of romance in the sandy spaces ~4,eIved further en- lightenment on the un written DOT tions of sheik adventure when the att torney for the Princess alleged that Fahmy had made her practically prironer," guarded day md night by menacing host of black servants in the Princes employ.
 O O O
 Made Wife Submit.
 Fahmy, Sir Edward charged, kicked and bruised his wife into that state of obedience which the black man wants from the woman who becomes his chattel." One of Fahmy's fla itself in the pastime Of siring pistol over his wife's head, the attorney said.
 Marshall Hall told the jury that last January the Egyptian prince had sworn an oath on tnI Koran that he would kill the Princess. This caused the Princess the next day, to visit her lawyer and leave sealed state ment to. be published upon her death. Marshall Hall announced this state fnent would be read later on in the courtroom.
 This romance Of enc east, as un- folded by the Princess attorney. reached another dramatic point fin July, when she received an anony- nous letter warning her against travelling to Egypt with Fahmy. Her informant warned: "A Journey means a possible accident--a poisoned flow era subtitle weapon-Aomething neither seen or heard"
 Night Of Princes Death.
 On the night of the Princes mys- terious death. according to Sir Ed ward, the Princess had asked for money to go to Paris, whereupon Fahmy showed her a huge bundle of notes, and made an "atrocious pro- posal." Then, the attorney charged, Fahmy tried to strangle the Princess. In defence she fired through the win dow, Sir Edward explained, and thens thinking there had been only one shot in the pistol, she turned it on Fanny and pulled the trigger. Thus ended the story of sheilS love--in real life.
 The Princess doctor, E. r. Gordon, testified that he had seen the Prin- cess at the Bow street police station, after the tragedy, with her body bruised and with scratches on her throat. He also said that an opera tion, which the Princess had ar ranged to undergo. had been rem dered necessary by the brutality and abnormality" of her husband.
 
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