LIBELLING THE KING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 14 January 1913, Page 6

LIBELLING THE KING.

‘ ’ \ THE CASE OF MYLIUS

(Received 12.10 p.m.) New York, January 13,

Mr James, editor of the ‘Liberator,’ interviewed, said ho was not an Anarchist, but a Republican. They sent Mylius to the United States as he was unable to obtain employment in England. It was absurd to convict Mylars of criminal libel, as the King was above the law. The authorities might have convicted him of treason or of sedition.

Newspapers indicate that Mr. Nagel (Secretary of Commerce) will reopen the whole case, practically amounting to a re-trial.

On February 3rd, 1911, Edward F. Mylius was convicted before the Lord Chief Justice of having published a criminal libel concerning the King, and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. The libel, which appeared in a Republican leaflet called “The Liberator,” printed in Paris, was to the effect that in 1890, when at the Island of Malta, his Majesty, then Prince George of Wales, had entered into wedlock with a daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Cnlme-Sey-mour, and that he had afterwards abandoned her in order to marry the present Queen. An application that the King should be called as a witness on prisoner’s behalf was refused, but after sentence had been passed, the Attorney-General read a denial of the allegations from a document given under his Majesty’s hand. On December 24th Mylius was ordered to be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, on his arrival at Ellis Island. His conviction was the eole ground of the United States’ objection to his landing.