McMAHON FREE
RELEASE FROM PRISON. REVOLVER NEAR THE KING. FEAR OF A DEMONSTRATION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 13. George Andrew McMahon, the man who .was imprisoned last September for producing a revolver near the person of King Edward VIII-., was liberated from prison last night. His wife awaited him as he emerged from the prison gates. McMahon had earned the normal remission of sentence for good conduct. It was reported recently that McMahon, fearing a demonstration when
he was released, asked the governor of the prison 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 1 gst 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 King Edward VIII. 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 shoot the King. According to McMahon, 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 on His Majesty.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 7
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