The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-12
REAL HEIR TO
THRONE WOULD
Dust EDWARD
Ex-coP MAKING CAMPAIGN
IN REAL EARNEST; Ex-
PEcTs TO HAVE FOLLOW.
ING OF MORE THAN $4,000
By ROGER D. GREENE
(Ry Associates PresnA

l AONDOts, oCks t6s--f4 more or
less royal proclamation, signed by
Britain's throneIess "King An
thony the First" has restored the
Iong-lost American "coIonies'' to
English sovereignty.
"It was all a mistake about
George the Third" explained
King Anthony, otherwise An
thony Hall, a former police in
spector in the Shropshire con-
stabulary, in a recent interview
here.
''He had no right to the throne.
His name was just plain George
Guelph. Therefore, 1, Anthony,
legitimate successor to the crown
won by my ancestor, Henry VIII,
! at the battle of Bosworth, hereby
| nullify George Guelph's actions in
losing the American colonies.
"If my ancestors had been on
the throne at the time of the Am
erican revolution, there would
never have been any trouble. The
colonies would still be living hap
PLY under the flag Of the Mother
Country"
Says Sovereignty Hoax
The 38-year-oid King Anthony,
who lived for several years in San
Francisco, Calf, claims that the
whole system OF English sover-
eighty has been based on a hoax
ever since the death of Queen
Elizabeth in 1908.
1.-THE real King James vi of
Scotland, SON OF Mary Stuart,
Queen of Scots, died in infancy"
says anthony, land a changeling,
James Erskine, was placed in the
dead kings cradle and brought up
and foisted on the British people
as James vi OF Scotland and
James 1 of England.
''In 1880, a coffin containing
the bones of the real King James
was discovered in the walls of
Edinburgh castle, but the bankers
hushed the matter up.
SIN view of this fact, it is quite
clear that the Victims, or Wind
SIS as they began to cal them
selves during the World war, are
not of the royal blood of England.
Consequently. the throne should
should go back to the Tudor line,
of which | am the ninth in the
direct male line of descent"
Seeks Early Restoration
The self styled king Anthony
the First" who gets into trouble
with the police only occasionally,
having been arrested twice and
| summoned five times, is engaged
in a feverish campaign to bring
about the restoration" before
next May, when Edward VII will
be crowned.
He addressed street meetings
thrice daily, seven days a week.
speaking to large and grinning
crowds alongside the statue of
Henry Irving, near the age-old
Garrick theater.
By Coronation day, he expects
to have $4,000 followers and
stage a counter-demonstration.
Now that King Anthony I has
restored the American colonies,
he doesn't quite know what to do
with them.
s'I'm too busy now to think
much about it." he said. "Still, l
understand Americans would like
to have a king, and I'll have to
give the matter my attention i'm
mediately after the restoration"
IF he can't get around to it per-
sonally, he added, he might have
one of his three brothers act as
assistant king" for the United
States. Two of them live in San
Francisco, he said.
Laughs At Jibes
WeL-dressed. with keen bright
eyes and a cultivated accent, An
tthony was the youngest police in
i spector in England before he took
up his restoration campaign. He
surprised his senior Iofficers by
writing books on police methods
end fingerprints, and W. ]. Max