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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.

"He is in the habit of lunching at the Two Brewer. The bormald there, who will be called, says that on July 15 he came to lunch as usual and, just before leaving, sald to her

om going away.

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 re- volver incident on Constitution HI on July 16 when the King with his Foot Guards was re- turning to Buckingham Palace is completed,

McMahon is expected to tell his in the witness-box, own story when the bearing is resumed.

Letters to the King were mentioned and one to Sir Jolin Simon, the Home

Two rend. Secretary, WITH charges were brought against accused man.

Sir Donald Somervell, Attorney-General, announced

see me again."

You will never

"She said she was sorry, and he nald, Something dreadful has hop- pened.. I would like to tell you, but I cannot. You will see it all in the on the papers to-day. That was dricenth.

1.

Dealing with events on the follow- newing day, when the King was with his troops in Ilyde Park, Sir Donald said the that a police constable was on the rondway on Constitution Hill on patrol duty.

the that 1

"He stopped his horse in front of the place where the prisoner happen-

charges had now been preferred ed to be standing, and the prisoner against McMahon under the Treason called out to him, Tuke your damned Act, 1942. Section 2 of the Act, un-horse away. I want to see the pro-

were charges

pre- ceision.' der which the ferred, did not deal with high trea- son, but covered other statutory mla

demeanours.

"Some conversation ensued which evidence. The will be given in nicer did not move la horse until bla Majesty came through the arch. Then the officer turned his horse to face the approaching procession,

"The Aral, with which this man Is charged."

the Attorney. satd General, "Is with presenting near

"The prisoner had a newspaper in to the person of his Majesty a

write revolver with intent to break the his hand and he seemed to public pence. The second, prodtic-something upon it. It was later ing a revolver near the person of picked up and found to have written his Majesty with intent to alarm on it what was apparently a message his Majesty."

to his wife, the words being, 'Muy, I love you. He was also seen to be looking at a picture posteurd of his Majesty."

Previously McMalion had been charged with an offence under the unlawfully Firearms Act-that be had in his possession on July 16 a; revolver with intent to endanger life. A crowded court listened lo Sir Donald Somervell as he recailed how, after a revolver with four cartridges in it had been picked up, McMalion McMahon, he stated, was arrested. snid, "The King was not hurt in any way, was he? I did not want to hurt him in say way. I only did it as a protest."

When reminded McMahon said, "I shall be dead before then... I wanted to shoot myself in front of the King, but i lost my head."

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The Attorney-General told how as the King passed through the Welling- ton Arch, a special constable, named Dick, saw McMahon raise his with something in his hand. Dick knocked the man's arm, but the ob- ject teft his hand and travelled into or near the middle of the road. The object was a revolver.

It was picked up by a mounted

chambers empty and four loaded.

HAVE SHOT HIM" The Detailed Story

MCMAHON

Of The Outrage

MAN standing among the thousands who waited to choor the

A King as he rode back to Buckingham Palace from Hyde Park on July 16 pushed his way to the front of the crowd a few yards from the Wellington Arch. He uttered not a word,

Short, thick-not, bespectacled, wearing a shabby brown suit, be roughly elbowed pant a woman in the front row, nearly knocking her off her feet, moved along before the line of spectators.

The King, on his horse, was approaching.. All eyes were on him except the eyes of the woman whom the man had brushed aside,

She turned to expostulate with film. The words died on her lips: a woman in a white raincoat was grappling with the intruder, so was a man, in special constable's uniform, who gripped him by the neck. She aaw 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. Polcle Constable Alkop swung his horse round, leaped 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 had knocked the weapon flying. Mr. Dick, standing nearby had struck blindly at the arm holding it, hnd

closed with the owner of the arm,

There

scratches.

was a muffled about, "Don't strangle, me!" There were kicks,

The crowd swayed, bulged into the roadway. Allsop, snatched up the Many revolver. It had fallen almost at the hooves of the King's horse. thought it had struck the animal.

The King had coolly turned his head, had glanced at the shining weRDON 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 ault.

"IT IS LOADED"

Without checking his horse, he had ridden on, unperturbed, bis escort clusing 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, turnes his horse, rode back to the spot. Sir John asked Folles Constable Allsop a question. "The revolver is loaded, sir," suld 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.

Blows were rained on the mian in the shabby suit. He fell 11s spectacles were torn from his face, trampled underfoot.

Cries of "Get him! Don't let him gol" punctuated the clatter of the horses' hooves and the cheers down the Hill of people who did not know of the King's peril.

FRENZY

Six uniformed policemen arrested dishevelled, wild-eyed figure-or, rather, rescued him from the clut ches of the crowd. They raised him aloft by their united efforts, half- carried, half-dragged him over heads of the swaying crowd of fren- zled men and women into the police depot in Wellington Arch.

the

Treason Act Charge Of "Alarming The King"

said, "You will see it all in the from where you were standing?-It was about level with us no further papers'"

One of the eye-witnesses of the away than you are, from me, 10 or scene on Constution Hill was then 12 feet, called John William Hemes, night Metropole, porter at the Hotel Brighton. He said he was standing

constable, who found one of its five that is all that is necessary for me at the top of Constitution Hill as the

to tell you before witnesses

Mr. Churchill, a gun expert, would called." say that loaded as it was, although one chamber was empty, the pulling the trigger would have discharged Jone of the cartridges.

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REVOLVER THROWN

"I could see it was a revolver and asked a policeman at the side of me it was a toy one," added Mrs.

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What happened then?-The object S dropped to the ground and

the hurse's hooves threw it out to the King returned from Hyde Park.

in right. Sir Donald Somervell: Tell us Marie Blencowe, barmaid at the your own words what you saw andį

heard

Just before the prisoner was, I Chief Inspector Sunds had stated

Two Brewers, the first witness, bore as we know, token by the police. out the Attorney-General's statement Mr. Remes: The first thing I heard In evidence at the previous hearing

was my wire, that when he took the prisoner Into When McMahon was arrested, two of her conversation with McMahon was someone--I think

Mr. Kerstein (cross-examining): but I am not sure saying: "An custody he was handed a five-chum further cartridges were found in his on July 15.

insult to the Kingd

pushed

my The revolver was thrown?-Yes, In bered-revolver-which was loaded pocket.

Mr. Alfred Kerstein, for McMahon, way through the crowd-and-saw the an underbond manner, with ball ammunition in four of the

a policeman. On the way to the police station he cross-examining: chamber

What did Mc-prisoner in the arms of a chambers, but not in the top which gave Immediate access to the

to the wald: "It is all the fault of Sir John Mahon have to drink?-One glass of As they turned him round 1 sald,

swine" and struck him. "You barrel. He was also handed two Simon. I wrote to him last night ale.

ammunition. en and phoned him this morning."

After

had punched McMahon, of live

you envelope which contained a postcurd Cannon-row Police-station he made

What did you drinks with him? tell us what happened? I went for

him again. portrait of the King, and later, a the statement; I only did it as ย 1 did not drink it, but I had a brown

Well then, you know you were

You say no newspaper, I suppose? copy of The Daily Telegraph upon protest."

arrested and taken to the police stat-Only when he first spoke to the lon and subsequently set free?--Yes.

mounted man. Mr. Kerstein,

cross-examining: what happened to your camera?

rounds

which was pencilled, "May, I love."

Al

"I ONLY THREW :IT" Later, according to the Attorney-

"I wish I

ale.

VISIT FROM POLICE

Mr.

You said that when he forced his

way next to you he held his arms up,

You 3nW

und in one of his hands

Might that have been something something bright? Yes. white? No, It was shiny,

Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell. the

SHADOW OF RAISED ARM chief magistrate, heard the care. With General, McMahon said:

I put it to you that the defendant

Green, retired the Attorney-Generul Vis Mr. had done the job properly." He also told you that he had been given My friend hus still got the camera.

Samuel Edward Eustace Fulton, senior

Treasury said: "I could easily have shut him, notice to quit his office on July 15, It was not damaged in any way—

Journalist of Sidcup, Kent, stated that Counsel. Behind them sat Mr. Vin-but I only threw it."

and that he was going away and No, not much, sir. cent Evans, of the Director of Publie

How did it get damaged? When he was standing on Constitution Hall and saw McMahon in the front row Prosecutions department,

"Then again he sald; I wrote to would not be seeing you again?-He it fell to the ground.

of the crowd of spectators. Several the Home Secretory last night and never mentioned his office.

When the policeman got hold of times McMahon produced a mourning telephoned again this morning. 1

yuta, the camera which you were hold-envelope from his pocket and took would have been better if I had shot; When did you first make a state-ing in your hand was knocked to the from if a coloured photograph of the myself."

Coronation ment to the police?--I think it was ground?—Yes.

postcard in | King-a Were you going to take a photo-

robes. "When remanded last week he said the Saturday morning-two days

I had of McMohon?—No, sir. graph

Green was handed a large white to Inspector King, when told he was later.

already taken my photograph of, the envelope with a black cross on the remanded until July 24, 'I shall be

King dead before then, I wanted to make my protest. I wanted to shoot myself

McMahon, wearing a dark brown suit, limped into court, accompanied by an officer-coming through a side door which leads to the private part of the building nind down Into the cella below. "You can sit down If you like," Sir Rollo told him,

'COULD HAVE BEEN FIRED'

Opening the case for the Crown, in front of the King, but I lost my Sir Donald Somervell said that Me-head." Mahon was a married man who lived

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Blencowe said "His words to me were

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back, and Sir Donald Somervelt asked thehim to examine it, as well as a photo-

Did you see anything go hurtling through the air?--No, sir.

Did they come to see you?Yes,

When Questioned as to what McMahon was alleged to have said to her, Miss revolver?-I saw it first at the police graphs inside.

court

Donald: Is that the photo- Sir Did you see anything in the graph, Green?-No. I do not think "I think," concluded Sir Donald, that it had happened. He simply prisoner's hand?-No.

it was that.

Was

the

like that? envelope Exactly. It was a similar postcard You are sure of that?-Positive. to the best of my recollection now, McMahon, who emiled during a but the King had 110 Crown on. discussion with the witness on police-{ men's helmets, made

many noles, which were passed to Mr: Kerstcin. OBJECT STRUCK KINC'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- wurd, by spreading his arms as the King came by.

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What did you see the prisoner 'do before he was taken by the pollec?... As his Majesty came round the angle of a policeman's horse's, head, I SEW a shadow cross my vision of a back- hand throw. I saw the pistol drop between the hind feel 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 Mr. Fulton: What happened then? go, could you estimate how far his The prisoner held his arms above Majesty's horse was from where you his head, and I saw something in his and the prisoner were standing?-1 right hand.

should say about 50 feet.

the What sort of thing was it?-It was Was his Majesty's horse. in bright, but I could not see what it middle of the road?-I could not say was. I did not associate it with a that, revolver.

Did you see the prisoner had a What happened thea?--I looked in newspaper in his hand? I picked it front of me to look at the King. I up. glanced round again and the prison

The Clerk: And that

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er was then in a stooping position, newspaper the prisoner had?—Yes, sideways.

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it was The Daily Telegraph. "What happened next?" naked The newspaper was handed Mr. Green and Sir Donald asked him counse

thought," Mrs. Yeoman replied, what was written on it. Mr. Green "that it must be B bomb being studied the paper, and after finding thrown.

That was my Orst thought the writing, read: "May, I love you." Then someone rushed to the left- The newspaper was handed to the hand side of the prisoner and got magistrate and Sir Rollo Graham- hold of his left arm.

Campbell studied the writing for a "Then I saw the object leaving his few seconds. right hand and I followed it, with my eyes.

I saw it touch the horse." Did you see that being written?-No, Whose horse?-His Majesty's horse. I did not aco hlm write it.

You did not actually see Whereabout did it strike the horse?

Mr. Kersteln (cross-examining):

the

Towards the loft foreleg, and I then prisoner throw the gun?--No. saw it drop to the ground..

The clerk was about to take this

(Continued on Page, 5.).

-- How. für -was the King's horse

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