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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

16, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

1936:

THE STORY OF Forced To Act As Slave To Turkish Husband's Lovers MAY DUGGAN PRACTISED WITH GUN TO KILL HIM

TURK HUSBAND

MADE ME LIKE

HAREM SLAVE

MME. KEMEID, formerly Miss May Duggan, of Ipswich, arrived in England from. France recently. Below she tells the story that led to her trial-and acquittal-forty-eight hours ago for the murder of her Turkish husband.

She admits that she fired the shot that killed him as he lay in bed at their Riviera villa-pleads his years cruelty in extenuation.

She tells the full story of their life together-how she reduced to the level of a harem

of

WOM

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Story Of The Shooting I SHOT HIM IN

MME

[ME. KEMEID, formerly Miss May Duggan, of Ipswich, married Khalli Kemeid, a wealthy Turkish merchant, in England, at the age of eighteen.

At dawn on November 8 last year, Mrs. Kemeld, now fifty-one, was seen to run from her husband's villa at Vence, on the Riviern, with blood streaming from her head. Kemeld, seventy-one, was found shot dend in bed.

The former Miss Duggan was arrested, accused of his murder. Grasse Assize nequitted her.

BED-IT WAS A

BRAINSTORM'

FULL OF LIFE! Healthy childron are happy child- ren full of life and high spirits, and whilst few entirely escape the lis to, which they are exposed in their tender years, the dangers of such is the muzzle to my heart; practised, live without many things I had can be very considerably reduced if promptly checked by correct treat- getting it right over the heart bents formerly regarded as essential.

ment, so that there should be no mistake. prayed every day for long hours,

Among the commoner alimente of WROTE ALL NIGHT

certain that I was going to die, re-childhood are constipation, indiges- I chose the day. I spent the pre-signed to it. vious day looking through our bills. They kept me in jail for nine. tion, colle, colds and croup, worms and teething troubles. A remetty I thought I had reached which

has been used with conspicuous little money to our good. All that the end

with night I wrote letters.

In a queer sort of way I was icy calm. But it was an unreal, dazed state of mind.

charms and demand tha! I serve for a man of his nervous, burning I settled them, and came out with a months of my strength and sanity. | success for the past forty years in

them.

temperament. He lost and thousands.

risked

My life became that of a barem gi e sat all day smoking, altting

A generous man, as most gamblers በቦ gaudy

cushions, are," he became Irritable Intiny cross-legged droped in robes.

things, demanding explanations for He had bells installed throughout all my expenditure, censoring every the house-h every room and bed-little luxury.

demanding room-to ring for me,

All this sounds as If I am bitter- I had to humble myself be- | ns If I hated him. I do not. In my service.

noui,heart now there is only remorse. yond belief. He supped my offered the the glamour of a life in robbed me of all my idents, wore wish only to state my case, to tell down my resistance without mercy. the story that led in my shooting my Erypt.

He persecuted me with a blinding, husband.

He had many fine points. I wi vicious passion.

never forget them. Constant man-down i

slave; how her husband's' perve-twenty years older than 1 was, cation became deeper with the

years.

She tells how he brought hin mistresses to their home, flaunted them in the fare of her and her young daughter.

Married In England At 18

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BY MAY KEMEID

URS was an unnatural marri-

age: that is my only excuse.

I tried to compromise with an Oriental code of living. I tried to impose my English back- ground on a man who was too powerfully of the East.

fle had chor, money, and posi-i

foll reply in love, and, to tion. the horror of my family, promised to marry him,

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His jealousy WAS That Othello; his ambition was to

nn tear

WHY I STAYED

We went to Egypt-lived there down all my Western ideas of for eight years. From the beginners and morals.

a slave. He ning he made me leeled me in the house, swearing violence if I left, even to post a Jotter,

He was blind with jealousy. That I could bear, but gradually he deve- bpent a vieous cruelty against whleh my whole upbringing rebelled. He tranpbed me in every way,

me

But I stayed with him, because he wan my husband, and father of the one thing I loved through it 215, my daughter,

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still alive,

They tell me I was a wreek.

It was decided to put me on trial. Own Tablets.

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my reason,

The trial lasted one day, I said all I had to say. Told them every thing. just how we lived....I told them of my sorrow,

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I sat on... -

made from the finest ingredients, He rang the bell. The gun was

and are guaranteed to be entirely at hits side.

I shot him in his bed.

free from opiates, narcotics or drugs which are liable in any way to cauzo It was a brainstorm. My head was hot. turning, and spinning.

harm to the delicato organs of the I loved him, and he lingered tour

but one I shot again..........I remembered 1

of the young. This is had to kill myself. I

rensons for the great popularity of forgot how days. It is hard to think of, hard

mahny The bullet went into my head, yet to try to shift the blame from mythe tablets with parents in I was

I rushed out for self no matter what the provocation, parts of the world. Pleasant, in inste, children like them, so they are the police. They say the blood was He had his virtuses,

The jury were out

seventeen ensy to give, and accurate dosing is trivial crucities -4t!¢p°n! streaming down my faer, I lold

I should assured by the lozenge form in which The police the whole story-no lles, minutes deciding whether my nerves. Here is one typical

be punished. They set me free.

they are put up. From all chemists. no anbterfuge. ustamer: Svine years ngo we were

I could have said it was a quarrel, I had hoped for it, yet I could not buth ill together with influenza. I

believe it. wanted to die, got up, went out and bought a ther-but

He wna wild with anger, į They took me to prison, locked me inometer,

They put a threw it at me, told me to spend my up with other women. money only on the things we needed, HOLD GREW

lle vices took Su life w went on. stronger and stronger hold of him.

It has been said I took to drink, drugs

loose and

living myself, Heaven knows, there is no truth in

She was a beautiful girl in body and spirit, His wickedness some- how never touched her. She lived nague, etherent life, above us all. At all hours of the night he

would i AL seventeen

she asked if demand black roffen, order me to All could go into a convent. his hookah. He would keep

My husband was staggered. that. awake for long periods, serving him, remember him so clearly, standing with his hands on his hips, laugh- ing softly and bitterly, daughter of mine. & nun!" told her to wait, "Make up your mind when you are Lella."

"

Only the birth of my daughter, Leila, saved me from going mad. She is theiy now, a non of the Sacred Heart working in New- easile.

I think I shall follow her-the quiet and prayer of a convent appeal to me as repentaner.

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In those early days I was hy love I shot my husband at our villa at with him. I tolerated everything Nice in the curly hours of the morn-for that and our home, until 1913, ing, turned the revolver on my own when I could bear it no longer.

I left him. came

to England and head, ran bleeding and screaming into the street. For eight months 1 remained away from him all through have suffered the hell of a French, the war,

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we met again at Monte Carin and began to Her to- prison.

gether.

We settled in

Nice and for the drst few months life was happy clearly, my nearly normal. Then he began to be Bagrantly unfaithful.

Ifrat met Khalli Kemeid in Ipswich thirty-two years ago. I was eighteen, just out of school, a normal young English girl, reasonably arcam plishert, with prospects in the district. FASCINATING

Khai came with my brother. He a fascinating, handsome Turk. Wat

him

The one deep consolation I had in

life of wretchedness was my "Adaughter-in the

the Convent of He Sacred Heart, for away from it all.

.. 1 should have left him then,

I should Have run twenty-one.know that now.

before he drove me to mad-

Yet for me he still held Ալ

strange fascination, and, after all, he was

Dark as a

away

He needed me to look after him.

nurse

times.

He was burning himself up living only on his nerves and his passions,

had to

bim ranny le nccepted my service, all day and night at his bedside, with heart- breaking casualness.

pad on my hand, but would not allow me, to rest on the bed. Thiry kupt me walking, out in the yard with the cold hammering down on my wound. It was agony.

wound

For three manths the had to be kept open. A piece of my skull had got fammed.

I mixed with strange women cocotte, who lived by drag- ging money from men. When asked her why she said. "What do you think I am here for? To give to the poor?"

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She shook with drugs. With one I made friends nice woman, The food WOR uneatable. My daughter sent me money.

She Is on angel. Her letters to me were my greatest comfort.

HOUSE SEALED

Every one congratulated me. I was rushed to an hotel with my sister, Mrs. Morgan, who came from Eng-

and to look after me.

Our own house was sealed, and I 1 not get the few things could -needed, so I left with n sultease,

Only repentance is now left to me. I think I would like to go into a convent for a while. Then perhaps I could settle down.

I cannot get away from the night- mare of the past twelve months. 1 am looking for policemen at every

few hours in corner. Only these England have brought me rest and some measure of peace.

I shall go and see Lella: ask her forgiveness....

Leila was a clever girl-a B.A. of Oxford-and I am proud of the life she has made for herself. 1 remem- ber at one time her father started a

The nuns, too, stood behind mu, believing always in my acquitial. they gave me money for my defence, fund for her £6,000-for when she supplied a solicitor, prayed with me anil consoled me.

In all justice to him and God ness. forbid I should blucken him merely that to defend myself-he adored child. She was ke shadow, with deep, liquid blue eyes,

soft, pretty manner.

she In her strange, quiet way returned his adoration. They were close together. Indeed, we all were. It could have been a very wonderful

I was worn down with lack of home-but

My sleep, spread out over years. In the 1920's-hot remember

mind still Jumping herves cracked. I planned to kAI hlm. I could see no other way. facts and dates-he ok to gambling.

It seemed easy: an He had money: He made it in the

end to boil; with Lella happy and safe. 1 asked no question about that. war.

A week beforehand I took up his We were always easy with money.

gun, examined it closely. I pressed for me. their But gambling was too easy an outlet

He would bring his girls to our house. aunt them in front of my daughter. taunt

with

the

.

ONE-CELL JAIL I have given them the property to sell to cover their gifts.

Then I was moved to a one-cell prison. I paid for my food-and it was expensive. Yet it hind a lesson I taught me that I could

Game of age.

She did not need it. So he drew it all, gambled it away.

That in the end. of my life with Khalil Kemeid. It was wrong from the beginning: a deep, natural wrong, and not all my care and patience and devotion could put it right. There is left to me this one tiny consola- tion-I tried.

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