THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1936.
CONSTITUTION HILL SENSATION
"I COULD EASILY McMahon's Alleged Remark To Police
A
LETTER written by George Andrew McMahon to Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, the night before the revolver incident on Constitution Hill, was read at Bow-street when McMahon made his second appearance.
The case for the prosecution with his wife in a basement flat at-
Westbourne-terrace, W. against George Andrew Mc- Mahon in connection with the ro volver incident on Constitution Hill on July 10 when the King
"He is in the habit of lunching at the Two Brewers. The barmald there, who will be called, says that on July 15 he came to lunch na usual and, just before leaving, sald to ter with bls, Foot Guards was TC1 am going away. You will never turning to Buckingham Palace see me again." is completed.
McMahon is expected to tell his own story in the witness-box, when the hearing is resumed.
Letters to the King were meniloned and one to Sir John Simon, the Home
Two read. Secretary, was charges were brought against accused man.
Sir Donald Somervell, Attorney-General, announced
"She said she was sorry, and he said, 'Something dreadful has hap- I would like to tell you, but pened. I cannot. You will see it all in the papers to-day That was ifteenth.
on tho
Dealing wth events on the follow- newing day, when the King was with his troops in Hyde Park, Sir Donald and the that a police constable wat on the rondway on Constitution II on patrol duty.
the that
"He stopped his horse in front of charges had now been preferred the place where the prisoner happen
ed to be standing, and the prisoner against McMahon under the Trenson enlled out to him, Take your damned Act, 1842, Section 2 of the Act, un-horse away, I want to see the pro-
were pre- cession." der which the charger ferred, did not deal with high trea- son, but covered other statutory mals-will be demeanours.
"The first, with which this man
Attorney said the is einarged, General, is with presenting near to the person of His Majesty a revolver with intent to break the public peace. The second, produc- ing a revolver near the person of his Majesty with Intent to alarm his Majesty."
Sir
Previously McMahon had been charged with an offence under the Firearms Act--that he unlawfully had in his possession, on July 16 n revolver with intent to endanger life.
A crowded court listened to Donald Somervell as he recalled how, after a revolver with four cartridges in it had been picked up, MeMalion was arrested. McMahon, he stated, said, "The King was not hurt in any way, was he? I did not want to hurt him in any way. I only did it as a protest."
When remanded McMahon said, "I shall be dead before then... wanted to shoot myself in front of the King, but I lost my head."
"Some conversation ensued which given in evidence. The officer did not move hia horse until his Majesty came through the arch, Then the officer turned his horse to face the approaching procession.
"The prisoner had a newspaper in write his hand and he seemed to
was later something upon it. It picked up and found to have wrillen on it what was apparently a message to his wife, the words being. 'May, I love you.' He was also seen to be looking at a pleture postcard of his Majesty."
Dick
The Attorney-General told how us the King passed through the Welling- lon Arch, a special constable, named with something in his hand. Dick, saw McMahon raise his arin knocked the man's arm, but the ob- jeet left his hand and travelled into or near the middle of the road, The object was a revolver,
mounted.
HAVE SHOT
MCMAHON
you before witnesses
HIM"
The Detailed Story
A
Of The Outrage
MAN standing among the thousands who waited to choor the l King as ho rodo back to Buckingham Palace from Hyde Park :
on July 16 pushed his way to the front of the crowd a few yards
Ho uttered not a word. from the Wellington Arch.
Short, thick-sot, bespectacled, wearing a shabby brown suit, he roughly elbowed past a woman in the front row, nearly knocking her off her foot, moved along before the line of spectators:
All eyes were on him-
The King, on his horse, was approaching,
except the eyes of the woman whom the man had brushed aside,
Ehe turned to expostulate with him. The words died on her lips: a woman in a while raincoat was grappling with the intruder, so waNa man, In special constable's uniform, who gripped him by the neck. She saw a gleaming revolver go spinning through the air, fall just behind the. King's horse.
She screamed. Her cries were drowned by the cheering all around her. But a mounted man had seen the scuffle. Polcie Constablo Allop swung his horse round, teaped from its back, dived for the revolver.
It was the special constable, Mr. A. G. Dick, thirty-six-year-old Wood Green commercial traveller, who hnd knocked the weapon flying. Mr. Dick, standing nearby had struck blindly at the arm holding it, had
cloned with the owner of the arm.
There was a muffled shout, "Don't strangle me!" There were kicks, scratches.
The crowd wayed, bulged into the roadway. Allsop snatched up the revolver. It had fallen almost at the hooves of the King's horse. Many thought it had struck the animal.
The King had coolly turned his hend, had glanced at the shining weapon on the ground, then at the welter of police and crowd, wild with excite- ment, who formed a struggling ring round the man in the shabby brown Bult.
"IT IS LOADED"
Without checking his horse, he had ridden on, unperturbed, his escort closing up to the right and left of him. All had happened in less than half a minute.
Major Sir John Aird, the King's equerry, riding immediately behind him, Lurned his horse, rodo back to the apot. Sir John asked Police Constable Allsop a question. "The revolver le loaded, sir," said the police man in reply. The major returned to his place in the procession, bearing the news to the King, Meanwhile the crowd had gone
mad. man
Blows were rained on the
FRENZY
.
Six uniformed policemen arrested
In the shabby suli. He fell, a dishevelled, wild-eyed figure-or His spectacles were torn from his rather, rescued him from the clut- ches of the crowd. They raised him face, trampled underfoot.
Don't let him aloft by their united efforts, half- Cries of "Get him! go!" punctuated the clatter of the carried, half-dragged him over the horses hooven and the cheers down heads of the awaying crowd of fren- the ill of people who did not know zled men and women into the police
Idepot in Wellington Arch. of the King's peril.
Treason Act Charge Of
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Alarming The King"
REVOLVER THROWN
said, 'You will see it all in the from where you were standing?—It was about level with w-no further papers"
One of the eye-witnesses of the away than you are, from me, 10 or scene on Constitution Hill was then 12 feet. called-John William Remes, night Hotel Metropole, porter at the Brighton. He sald he was standing at the top of Constitution Hill as the are King returned from Hyde Park.
Sir Donald Somervell: Tell us in the your own words what you saw and
heard just
know, taken by the
police.
It was picked up by a constable, who found one of its five that is all that is necessary for me chambers empty and four loaded. to tell Mr. Churchill, a gun expert, would called." say that loaded as it was, although one chamber was empty, the pulling one of the cartridges.
Marie Blencowe, barmald at
What happened then?-The object dropped to the ground and the horse's hooves threw it out to the right.
Yeoman..
"I could see it was a revalver and of the trigger would have discharged Two Brewers, the first witness, bore as west before. the prisoner was. I asked a policeman at the side of me ; one," added Mrs. Chief Inspector Sands had stated
out the Attorney-General's statement] Mr. Remes: The first thing I heard if it was a toy
"An In evidence at the previous hearing
Mr. Kersteln (cross-examining): When McMahon was arrested, two of her conversation with McMahon was someone-I think it was my wife,
but I am not Bure-saying. that when he took the prisoner into
Insult to the King." I pushed my The revolver was thrown?-Yes, in custody he was handed a five-cham-further cartridges were found in his on July 15.
was loaded pocket. bered revolver which
Mr. Alfred Kerstein, for McMahon, way through the crowd and saw the an underhand manner.
You said that when he forced his with ball ammunition in four of the
What On the way to the police station he cross-examining: chamber
did Mr-prisoner in the arms of a policeman. chambers, but not in the top
"You swine" and struck him. which gave immediate access to the said: "It is all the fault of Sir John Mahon have to drink?-One glass of As they turned him round I said, way next to you he held his arms up,
handed two Simon. I wrote to him last night light ale.
something bright? Yes, barrel. He was also
an and 'phoned him this morning." "At rounds
of live ammunition.
What did you drink with him? to you had punched McMahon, /ärul in one of his hands you EnW envelope which contained a postcard Connon-row Police station he made portrait of the King, and later, a the statement: I only did it na copy of The Daily Telegraph upon protest," which was pencilled, "May, I love."
WOB
"I ONLY THREW IT"
I did not drink it, but I had a brown ale.
VISIT FROM POLICE
I put it to you that the defendant.
After
us what happened? I went for him again.
Might that have been, something white? No, it was shiny.
Well then, you know you were
You saw no newspaper, I suppose? arrested and taken to the police stat-Only when he first spoke to arrested
mounted man.
ion and subsequently sut free? Yes.
Mr. Kerstein, cross-examining:
What happened to your camera?-
My friend has still got the camera.
tho
SHADOW OF RAISED. ARM
Green, retired Samuel Edward
It was not damaged in any way?-journalist of Sidcup, Kent, stated that No, not much, sirt damaged?--When he was standing on Constitution Hill
How did It FOL
und saw McMahon in the front row of the crowd of spectators. Several fell to the ground.
McMahon produced a mourning you, the camera whch you were hold-
Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell, the Later, according to the Attorney- chief magistrate, heard the case. With General, McMahon said: "I wish I the Attorney-General Mr. had done the job properly." He also told you that he had been given Eustace Fulton, scalor Treasury said: "I could casily have shot him, netice to quit his office on July 16, Counsel. Behind them sat Mr. Vin-but I only threw it."
and that he was going away and cent Evans, of the Director of Public
"Then again he said: 'I wrote to would not be seeing you again?-He Prosecutions department,
the Home Secretary last night and never mentioned his office. telephoned again this morning. It would have been better if I had shot When did you first make a state-ing in your hand was knocked to the from it a coloured photograph of the myself."
ment to the police?-I think it was ground? Yes.
Were you going to take a photo- "When remanded last week he said the Saturday morning-two days!
graph of MicMahon?--No, sir. I had already taken my photograph of the to Inspector King, when told he was later.
King remanded until July 24, 'I shall be dead before then. I wanted to make
you first
McMahon, wearing a dark brown sult, limped into court accompanied by an officer-coming through a side door which lends into the private part of the building and down Into the cells below. "You can elt down if you like," Sir Rollo told him.
'COULD HAVE BEEN FIRED" Opening the case for the Crown, Sir Donald Somervell said that Me Mahon was a married man who lived
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Did they come to see you?--Yes.
Questioned as to what McMahon
When the policeman got hold of clope from his pocket und took
When
·
did
Coronation postcard in King-a robes.
Green was banded a large white envelope with a black cross on the back,
and Sir Donald Somervell asked
inside. groph
Sir Donald: Is that the photo- the graph,
Green? No. I do not think it was that.
sec
the
my protest. I wanted to shoot myse was alleged to have said to her, Mis revolver?—I saw it first at the pollen to examine it, as well as a photo-
in front of the King, but I lost my head.'
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court.
Did you see anything in prisoner's hand?-No.
Did you see anything go hurtling through the air?-No, sir.
You are sure of that?--Positive. McMahon, who smiled during a discussion with the witness on police- men's helmets, made many notes, which were passed to Mr. Kerstein.
OBJECT STRUCK KING'S HORSE: WOMAN'S STORY Mrs. Lily Yeoman, a middle-aged woman, of Leytonstone, told how, while she was standing near Welling ton Arch, a man pushed himself for- ward, by spreading his arms as the King came by.
MF.
Fulton: What happened then? The prisoner held his arms above his head, and I saw something in his right hand.
Was the envelope like that?- Exactly. It was a similar postcard to best of my recollection now, but the King had no Crown on.
What did you see the prisoner.do police?-- before he was taken by the As his Majesty came
me round the angle of a policeman's horse's head, I saw a shadow cross my vision of a bacic- hand throw. I saw the pistol drop between the hind feet of the King's horse, and I saw a mounted constable dismount and pick it up.
WORDS ON NEWSPAPER When you had seen this revolver go, could you estimate how far his Majesty's horse was from where you and the prisoner were standing?--I should say about 50 feet.
What sort of thing was it?--It was bright,
but I could not see what it was. I did not associate it with that revolver.
it
the Was his Majesty's horse in middle of the road?-1 could not say. Did you see the prisoner had n What happened then?-I looked in newspaper in his hand?-1 picked front of me to look at the King. Prhe Clerk: And that glanced round again and the prison- er was then in a stooping position, newspaper the prisoner had? Yes, sideways,
"What happened nex
next?" asked
counsel.
L
Was the
It was The Daily Telegraph..
The newspaper was handed Mr. Green and Sir Donald asked him
"I thought," Mrs. Yeoman replied, what was written on it. Mr. Green "that it must be a bomb being studied the paper, and after finding
e writing, read: "May, I love you.
thrown. That was my first thought. newspaper was handed to the
to the. left
The
Then someone rushed hand side of the prisoner. and got magistrate and Sir Rollo Graham- holt of his loft arm.
Campbell studied the writing for a "Then I saw the object leaying his few seconds.
Mr. Kerslein (cross-examining): right hand and I followed it with my eyes. I saw it touch the horse." Did you see that being written7--No,
Whose horse? His Majesty's horse, I did not see him write it. Whereabout did it strike the horse? -Towards the loft foreleg, and I then saw it drop to the ground.
How for was the King's horse
You did not actually see the prisoner throw the gun?--No.
The clerk was about to take this
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