McMAHON RELEASED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 9

McMAHON RELEASED.

REVOLVER INCIDENT RECALLED.

MET BY HIS WIFE. LONDON, Aug. 13. George Andrew McMahon, who was imprisoned for attempting to injure King Edward VIII, was freed last night. His wife was waiting as he emerged from the prison gates. He earned the normal month’s remission for good conduct. PRISONER SEEKS PROTECTION. George Andrew McMahon, the man who was convicted last September of producing a revolver near the person of King Edward VIII., is expected to receive police protection when be is released from Wandsworth Prison on August 13 (wrote a correspondent on July 25). hearing a demonstration, McMahon, has asked the Governor to allow him a closed car inside the prison and to keep the hour of his departure secret. lie said to a Sunday Chronicle representative: “When I get out I mean to go to bed and sleep the clock round. I’m thinking of nothing but the luxurious comfort of a real McMahon was found guilty at the Old Bailey on September 14 of wilfully producing a pistol near the King, with intent to alarm him. He told a story of a request from a foreign Power that ho should do espionage work and that he should shoot the King. • . He claimed to have given the War Office the numbers of notes paid to him by the foreign Power, which was not publicly 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 might themselves have made an attempt oil His Majesty.