REVOLVER FLOURISHED.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 7

REVOLVER FLOURISHED.

CASE OF GEORGE McMAHON. TO LEAVE PRISON NEXT WEEK. TO RECEIVE POLICE PROTECTION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, August 1. 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 he is released from Wandsworth Prison on August 13. Fearing 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. He 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 bed.” 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 he should do espionage work and that he' should sho'ot 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 Ids intention of saving the King—had he not staged it, he said, foreigners might themselves have made an attempt on His Majesly.