The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-27
K|NC GEORGE NOT 4.
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CANARO TO EFFECT HE mA1RJ. ED ADMlRAl'S DAUGHTER
 IS EXPLODED.

LONDON. Feb. 1. The report oft-repeatcd that King George while a cadet in the royal navy made a morganatic alliance with the daugh- ter Cf Sir Michael Culme- Seymour was given complete official denial in the highest court of England to- day. Edward F. Mylius. the local agent and distributor of The Liber- ator, a republican paper published in Paris. which revived the tale last November, was tried on charge of seditious libel. promptly convict cd and given a maximum penalty of 12 months imprisonment.
 In pronounCing sentence. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone said that he punishment was inadequate for ne who had chosen a weapon for personal attack upon his majesty from the use of which every hon orable man would recoil.
 Story of the Romance.
 The story of the now exploded romance had been current for Ing time. but it became specially irritating to British sensibilities fol lowing King Georges accession. As nublished by Edward H. James. ed tfor of the LiberatOr, ii set forth that during the lifetime of the duke of Clarence his eldest brother, and before George became heir to the 'hrone. the future king visited Nal ia, where he fell in love with and married Mary Elizabeth Culme-Sey- mOur. eldest daughter of the admiral who was then stationed at Malta as commandcr-in-Chief of the Mediter. ranean squadron.
 This was supposed to be in 1890: but the admiralty records showed that the king did not hold an ap- ointment on any ship that visit ed Malta between the fall of 1888, md the summer of 1893.
 The marriage records of the island If Malta were produced to prove that no such marriage had been recorded
 Admiral and Dauuhter on Stand.
 Admiral Culme- Seymour swOre hat his two daughters one of whom had since died. never had had an op- portunity 10 meet his majesty. The admirals three sons gave similar tes- 'imony, and finally the daughter in fncstion. who is now the wife of Captain N Napier. entered the wit ness box and declared that she had secn the king but three times in her life.
 On the first occasion she was ' ears old. She saw him again at Portsmouth whcn he called upon her f1thcr in 1898. eight years after he alleged marriage, and once again at a garden party in 1903 on which occasion she did not have chance to address him.
 Mylius offered no testimony and lid not examine the crowns witness es. He confined his defense, which he conducted himself. to technicali- 'ies. asserting that he could not be legally tried in the absence of his accuser.
 Sir Rufus Isaacs, the attorney gen orai who led the prosecution, in his closing speech, denounced the defendant as the circulator of base libel The attorney general concluded his appeal to the jury bE saving that it was not the throne which required defense, but that his majesty had sought the protec- ion Cf the court as man. husband and father.
 King George Makes Denial.
 The proceeding came to a dramatic close when, after sentence had been pronounced, Sir Rufus read a let ter from King George in which the writer set forth that only the ad- vice of the officers Cf the crown that such a course would be unconstitu- tiOnal had prevented him from ap- bearing personally in the court room and publicly branding as untrue the allegation that he had ever enter d into any moreanatic alliance other than that contracted with Queen Mary.
 + has been many years since prisoner has been tried in this coun- try under the statute invoked in the present case. In olden times the offense was punishable with brand ing and the pillory. In todays trial the government invited the freest publicity and the court room was