The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-01
IMYLIUS GUILTY
OF LIbELLINC
KING GEORGE
Prisoner Indifferent on Re-
ceiving Sentence of Years
Imprisonment
Offence Consisted Of Reviv-
ing Story of English Rul-
er's Morganatic Marriage
fsnecial from united Press,


London, Feb. Edward f. Myths
was today found guilty in the Kings
Bench Court on the three charges OF
criminal libel against King George,
and was sentenced to one years i'm
iprieonment-
Following the sentencing Of Mylius,
Attorney General Isaacs read this let
ter to the court:
IT am authorized by the King to
state publicly that he was never mar
ried to anyone except the present
Queen The King would have attend
ed the trial to testify to this effect If
the law officers had not advised that
! tutional-''
Isaacs' authority for this letter was
signed by the King himself.
My.ius' offense consisted in reviving
| in the Liberator, an Anarchistic news
;,aer In Paris. of which he was the
London correspondent a story of the
Kings morEanatic marriage in Malta
in 1890 to a daughter of Admiral SIR
: Michael Culme Seymour.
King George did not appear at the
trial Attorney General Sir Rufus
Isaacs explained the Kings non-ap-
| pearance by stating that his capacity
10 be a witness was not merely a
waivable privilege out a constitutional
prohibition which he was unable TO
. disregard. however much he may have
wished TO.
The whole foundation of the Oft
told story Of the morganatic marriage
was swept away by the testimony OF
Admiral Seymour himself. He testi-
fed that he was assigned to the COM
rnand of the Malta fleet in June 1893.
and left England to assume command
on July g. 1893 the same day on which
the King was married to Princess Vic
toria Mary. the present Queen. He
denied that he or his family were in
Malta at the time of the alleged mar
riage.
The Admiral testified that he re-
. manned in Malta three years and that
his wife and daughters visited him
there each winter. the younger daugh-
ter dying there in 1895.
.'A1l this time my daughters saw the
King. who was then the Duke of
York. only once. and then at a gar
den party." Seymour said. 81 am
sure that neither of my daughters
, ever addressed the King
Then Mrs. Mary Napier. the eldest
daughter of Seymour. took the stand
and corroborated her fathers testi-
. mony She swore that she was never
married but once. and then to Captain
Napier
Il knew all my sisters movements %
Mrs Napier said. Neither of us ever
left our home at Roland Slope while
my father was at Malta. My sister
could not have married without our
knowing Of it."
Captain Michael Seymour. Captain
John Seymour and Charles Seymour,
sons of the Admiral. also corroborated
the Admfrars testimony. They said
they were always in Malta when the
fleet was there and neither ever met
the King.
The Crown advocate then produced
hn vria roc fGtQ 1899
to 1897 which showed only one entry
of the name of Seymour. This was
a man. He declared that every entry
in the register was properly made out
and could be accounted for. preclud-
ing the possibility of a morganatic
marriage
Sir Arthur Bigge. the Kings private
secretary. testified perfunctorily that
he was a witness OF the marriage Of
the King and the Queen. His testi-
mony completed the Crowns case.
Mylius refused to avail himself of The
opportunity to cross-exarnine the wit
nesses. There were no witnesses Of
his own and the testimony of Bigge