RELEASE OF McMAHON
Produced Revolver Near tlie Ex-King LONDON, July 25. George Andrew McMahon, the inan who was convieted last Septembw of nroducing a revolver near th© person »f King Edwnrd VIII., is expcctcd to
receive police protection wbcn he is released frtiin Wandsworth Prison on August 13. Fearing a deinoustration, McMahon has asked the Govcrnor to allow liim a closed car inside the prison and to keep the hour of his departure secret. He said to a Sunday Chroriicle representative: "When I get out 1 noa" to go to bed and sleep the clock round. I'm thinking of nothing hut the luxurious comfort of a real bed." McMahon was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Septcmber 14 of vrilfully
producing a pistol near the King, with intent to alarm Ijim. He told a story of a request from a foreign Power that he should do espionage work and that he should shoot the King. He claimed to have given tlie War Office the number of notes paid to him by the foreign Power, whieli » puhliely named. According to the prisoner; the revolver incident was. inspired by his intention of saving the King — had he not staged it, he said, foreigners n.ight themselves have made the nttempt on His Majest> -1
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 14
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