PLOT TO KILL MR. LLOYD GEORGE
THE POISONED DARTS FURTHER EVIDENCE AT THE i TRIAL 3 i (Hoc. February 6, 6.40 p.m.) London, February 5. At the hearing of tlio charges against Mrs. Alico Wheeldon, her daughters Harriet and Mrs. Winifred Mason, and the latter's husband, Alfred 1 Mason, of conspiring against Mr. Llo.vd 1 George's life, witnesses confirmed the I previous statement by the Attornoy- • General. , Booth said that -Mrs. Wheeldon volunteered the information that the poison had been stolen by a young man employed at Guy's' Hospital, and added that tlio phial given to Km contained enough poison to kill live Kindred. If he (Booth) required microbes ho must, he was told, ask Mrs. Wheeldon. Ho asked: "How do you propose to carry out this scheme?" Mrs. [ Wheeldon said that thoir best oppor- ; tuuity was to catch' Mr. Lloyd George while golfing" at Walton Heath, and firo a poisoned arrow from an air-gun. It , w,ns also proposed to send Mr. M'Kenna , a skull with a poisoned needle protruding from it. The hearing was adjourned.—'Aus."f.Z. Cablo Assn. .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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178PLOT TO KILL MR. LLOYD GEORGE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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