Evening star., 1936-07-24

to hare knocked the iDeGpon from
the mans hand TWo constables
also Uere credited With the act
Mcmahon, arrested and hustled
of to jail, insisted his act ,Ods only
protest and that he meant no
harm to the King.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 24-George Andrew
Mcmahon, bald Briton who drew a
revolver at King Edwards military
parade. was remanded to jail for a
week today after hearing on charge
of producing a weapon with intent
to alarm his majesty"
The decision to grant a remand
pending continuance of the hearing
next Friday was made after Alfred
Kerstein, counsel for the prisoner, had
announced Mcmahon wished to tes-
tify himself and to call witnesses.
Sitting in the grimy Bow street
police station court room in the heart
of Covent Garden Market, the sharp
nosed Mcmahon heard Special Con-
stable Anthony Csfdon Dick tell how
he smashed at the prisoners pistol
hand when King Edward rode by on
Constitution Hill eight days ago.
Reads Letter to Sir John.
Kerstein, after the constable had
testified, read to the court letter
which Mcmahon had written to Sir
John Simon, the home secretary. 1t
read:
For some years I have been the
victim of organized persecution by
your hirelings. AS this perse-
cution. despite repeated appeals to the
highest authority, yourself included,
continued I deem it my bounden duty
as supposed subject of the King to
demand justice"
"Intolerable persecution the letter
continued, had prevented Mcmahon
from obtaining employment and had
wrested employment from him when
ever he had it.
AS previous appeals 20 the King
have been unsuccessful, the writer
added, Il now demand full satisfac-
tion within IA hours. ="
Failing satisfaction from Sir
John, Mcmahon wrote: Il shall ex-
ercise my own prerogative to obtain
the necessary satisfaction, which I,
in my own tortured mind. consider
adequate This is not a silly boast
I demand justice, irrespective of the
consequences"
Threw Gun as Protest"
After he was arrested last week,
the prisoner criticized Sir John and
said he had thrown his revolver into
the street at the feet of the Kings
horse as protest"
Constable Dick, describing how he
leaped at Mcmahon when he saw
him raise his hand, testified the
hand had an object" in it,
Constable Dick, describing how he
leaped at Mcmahon when he saw him
raise his hand, testified the hand had
an object" in it. Il saw the object
leave his hand at the actual moment
I knocked his arm" he added.
Other testimony identified the "ob-
ject" as q loaded pistol, which clat-
tered at the feet of the Kings horse.
Mcmahon was on trial under the
treason act of 1912.
The hearing opened in the musty,
dimly lit little court room Of Bow
street police station.
Mcmahon sat in the iron-railed
dock. His face was flushed crimson,
and he repeatedly passed notes to his
blinking his watery eyes at
the parade of prosecution witnesses.
Discrepancies of opinion over
the revolver actually struck
the Kings horse or whether it landed
In front or behind the animal, whether
It was thrown or knocked from Nc
Mahon's hand appeared from eye
witness accounts.
The woman in gray" credited pre-
viously with striking McMahon's arm,
did not appear Constable Dick, how