1936-08-19 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1936.

Crowds Struggled To See McMahon In Court: He Told Police- 'I DID NOT WANT TO HURT HIM'

CLUBFOOT MAN

MR. ANTHONY DICK'S STORY

"The King Rode Towards Us: I Saw a Man With a Revolver: I Struck

Blindly At It: It Went Sailing Into The Air

66 THE KING RODE TOWARDS US; I SAW A MAN WITH a gleaming REVOLVER IN HIS HAND. I STRUCK BLINDLY AT IT. IT WENT SAILING IN THE AIR. GOT HIM ROUND THE NECK AND HE SHRIEKED 'GOOD HEAVENS, DON'T STRANGLE ME!'"

THIS WAS THE VIVID SCENE, AS DESCRIBED TO THE LONDON "DAILY MAIL" AT THE OUTRAGE AGAINST THE KING IN CONSTITUTION-HILL, DESCRIBED BY MR. ANTHONY DICK, OF CHARTER-ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, A SPECIAL CONSTABLE, IN AN EXCLUSIVE

TALK.

The outrage occurred while his Majesty was riding at the head of his troops on the way back from reviewing the Guards in Hyde Park. He proceeded, imperturbably as if nothing had happened, to take the salute at Buckingham Palace, where Queen Mary was the first to congratula- te him.

At Bow-street Police Court George Andrew McMahon, of Westbourne-terrace, Paddington. W., was remanded, charged with being in possession of a revolver with intent to endanger life. A revolver produced was stated by a Scotland Yard officer to be loaded in four chambers. The prisoner was alleged to have said: “I did not want to hurt the King,'

Mr. Anthony Gordon Dick, the special constable who achieved, fame in a few seconds by knock- ing the revolver from the hand of the King's alleged assailant, la 96 and in private life a com- mercial traveller employed by Mesara. F. T. Morrell and Co., "french polish makers, of Old-

street, E. C.

All Mr. Dick told his wife when he returned to his Woodford Green home from Hyde Park was: "Some silly idiot had a revolver, and I knocked out of his hand,"

What a rowing the 'missus' gave the me for being Jute home after 'do," exclaimed Mr. Dieks when 1 talked with him in a little inn neari Old-street just after the outrage, says the Daily Mail correspondent. Formerly a stoker In the. Navy he

ho is the strongly bullt, smiling-eyed type of ex-Service man who is always seen at his best in an emergency.

Royal

* only did what any other 'special' would have done, But I thanked my lucky stars for my Navy training, he said. "That gave me just that extra quickness which is so needful! on such occasions.

"I was standing with my back to the crowd near the Wellington Arch. As the

rode towards is his presence toolt my full attention, but even so there was within me 'the feeling that he passed by me I was responsible for his safety. I was ready for anything.

"The crowd swayed and billowed behind me. That was to be expected. Loud were the cheers. I felt ke cheering myself,

"I looked half left, then hall right, and there quite near me was a man with a gleaming revolver

but

in his hand. My heart was still, my legs were not. I lunged for- ward and truck blindly at the weapon. It went salling in the air. "I closed with the man, I got him round the neck. I held him as tight as I could and he shrieked, 'Good heavens! Don't strangle me!"

"I was jolnod in an instant by other officers, but not before I had a sharp tusale. Zool..

(Mr. Dick pulled up a leg of his and showed bruises on his

trousers

shla

"And look here ..." His right arer had been facerated by sharp Anger-nails.

"We took the man to Hyde Park Police Station, and I had to make a statement to Scotland Yard. By the time I had done that the afternoon was getting on, and I knew my wife would be worrying. I bought paper and drove to my home in Woodford.

ด

"DIDN'T BELIEVE ME" "When I got there my wife wanted

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MCMAHON ARRESTED

Photo, exclusive' in Hongkong" to the "Telegraph"-showing- the arrest of McMahon shortly after the incident. McMahon pushed through the crowd and watchers pe reeived that he had a revolver in his hand. It was taken from him before he could use it. He said. afterwards, that he intended to kill himself.

"STOPPED" WEDDING

HELD YEAR LATER

AN interrupted wedding last summer had an uninterrupted wedding as a sequel at Hornsea (Yorkshire) Congregational Church early this month.

A

LIMPED TO DOCK

By LINDON LAING.

MAN with a club foot, his face bruised and flushed, his collar and tie torn so that his chost Ho was exposed, limped into Bow-street dock. had been arrested, rescued from an infuriated mob, nearly four hours earlier.

His name was not mentioned in court. Neither was the offence with which he was charged-that of being in possession of a firearm with intent to endan- ger life. Twenty minutes later he was remanded in

custody, taken to Brixton Prison.

His name and address jacket pocket the white linen hand- kerchief, unwrapped it to reven) were later given as George the weapon-"which was loaded with ball ammunition ini dour of the aged

chamber, which gave immediate ac- Andrew McMahon,

thirty-two, of Westbourne-cors to the barrel."

He laid the gleaming revolver on

terrace, W.

the ledge in front of him, and drew A special constable named from his pocket, an envelope, then Dick, of J Division (Hackney)he continued: will be the principal witness

In the case when it comes up again.

Before McMahon appeared in court Mr. Norman Kendal, Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Crime, held a conference at Scotland-yard, in which the Yard authorities were in consultation with the law officers of the Crown in regard to the for- mnintion of the charge.

BLACK MARIA

**I was handed two other. rounds of light ammunition, an envelope which contained a postcard por. trait of H.M. the King"-here he produced the black-edged envelope and copy of to-day's Daily Telegraph on which is pencilled, *May, I love you.""

The court ent deadly silent as tho four exhibits were produced and laid in turn on the ledge of the wit- nes3 box. Sir Rollo gazed stead fasily down at them, took a quick look at the prisoner before turning again to Inspector Sands,

Crowds gathered round the ap "About 1 p.m." continued the in proaches to Bow-street as news of spector, "I saw the prisoner and the arrest spread through London. told him that we were police officers, Special police had to clear the ap- and that I proposed to remove him proaches to the court. Exeltement to Cannon-row Police Station to in krew intense, and officials had to vestigate an allegation that he was threaten to clear the precincts of in possession of a firearm with in- the court unless order was maintenutioned him, and he made no

endanger Me.

tained.

REMANDED

At 4.25 p.m. a big Black Maria reply drove rapidly through the market stails towards the police station. The doors lending into the courtyard

"With Superintendent Bolton and were swung open by policemen who inspector Kidd I took him by car had been specially detailed for this from Hyde Park to Cannon-row duly. The van swervel in, and Police Station, and again cautioned within twenty seconds the double him on the journey, and he said-- doors were swung back and locked after the caution-It's all the fault In the faces of the crowd. Several of Sir John Simon. I wrote to him people hurled abuse at the man. Last night and phoned him this

From

an upper window in the morning. court bullding I saw the Black Maria stop in the yard behind the court. The driver backed it towards the steps lenting down to the cells, so that when the door was unlocked the prisoner stepped straight into them.

Scores of polles officers, finished duty, had walted for this moment, and now crowded round to catch a glimpse of the prisoner.

Ile was hurried out of night by his chief escort, Detective Inspec- tor John Sands, of Scotland-yard.

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"At Cannon-row Police Station he said, "The King wasn't hurt in any way, was he? I did not want to hurt him in any way. I only did it as a protest."

For the first time the detective's voice lost the dormal precision of the expert witness, and into it there crept a note of anxious inquiry as he repented those alleged words: The King wasn't hurt in any way, was he?"

Doubling his rate of speech, In- spector Sanda concluded: "At 4.16

p.m.

he was charged at Cannon- row Police Station, cautioned, and, Up the stairs into the little court; touch with my solicitor.

in reply, said: I want to get in room on the first floor hurried oficials, headed by Mr. Norman Kendal.

at

"His solicitar was 'phoned, and is

wan-all-the-ovidones. The Metropolitan Magistrate, who and police asked for a remand for eight been waiting in his retiring room, days.

"Any questions?" asked Sir. Rolfo WAS warned of the prisoner'e ar formally.

Sir Rollo Graham Campbell, Chief present in court."

rival.

McMahon leaned forward trom There was a struggling rush to bling, whispered to his dark-haired

enter the court.

There

Crowds warmed in until every solicitor, Mr. Alfred Kerstein. inch of space was taken.

"Only one," said Mr. Kerstein his whispered consultation were four women in court-all the briskly,

over. Turning to Inspector Sands, others were men,

Through 韭 side door marked he asked: "Prisoners Only" limped McMahon.

"You say that the revolver was I take it Ho stared quickly about him as he loaded in four chambers. took the four stops that carried him the gun has not been fired at all?" "No," was the answer. "There is to the dock, and then thumped nerv ously with clenched fists on the rail no evidence that the gun has been

fired for some considerable time." before him.

He

fidgeted from one foot to another, clasped and unclasped

his nicotine-stained fingers. Beads

DENIAL

Mr. Kersteln sat down, Inspector of perspiration stood out on the Sands stopped down from the wit bald part of his head.

His

was

Aircraftman Frank Herbert about a year ago, but just before Cheshire, stationed at Catfoss the ceremony was due to begin an escort from the Royal Air Force Camp, near Hornsea, and Misa arrived and took Cheshire back to

His cheap brown sult was badlyness-box, and Sir Rollo ordered the

eight days remand. Emily Stiles, only daughter of Catfons. The bride, in her wedding crumpled, but his thin hair

Two police officers hustled Mela- Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stiles, of The dress, waited with her bridesmaids. awept back to conceal his baldness. hon from the dock, and as he dis-

stocky little figure the nows that the Esplanade, Hornsea, were the Then came

was appeared from sight through the wedding bridegroom and bride.

not take place. dwarfed by Chief Inspector John door that leads to the cells his could Cheshire was prosecuted a few da Sands, who stepped into the witness solicitor famped to his feet later at Beverley Police Court, and box to give evidence of arrest and said: was fined on a charge of making a ask for a remand. falso declaration to procure a mar ringe certificato by describing him- self as a bachelor.

They were to have been married

to know what I had been up to

I pushed forward the paper and told her that I knocked the revolver out of Die man's hand. She did not believe Cheshire has recently obtained a me at first

divorce from his wife, leaving him "I changed into mufit and drove. free to marry Miss Stiles.

back to business. I told my pals The bride wore the same dress, there, but could not stand too many and the wedding cake had been pre-j of their questions, and so came here." served in an airtight box.

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"Defendant doen deny most em.. phatically any attempt at 888- Bination, or any attempt to fire. must say this at this time because of certain reports which may pre- Judice my client at his trial"... Out in the street hundreds of

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