Evening star., 1937-11-11
Cry of "Hypocrisy''
Breaks Silence
at CenOtaph.
RUNS THROUGH
SAILORS LINES
Menacing Lunatic
Fails to Move
George vi.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 11.-An escaped
asylum inmate broke through the
Kings Guards today and, with the cry
Hypocrisy" shattered the two min
utes of silent Armistice Day tribute to
Britain'S war dead.
King George, standing rigidly at
attention during the solemn service
before the World War Cenotaph, ig-
nored the disturber, who shouted:
"All this is hypocrisy-you're de-
iiberately preparing for war!"
Queen Mother Mary and Queen
Elizabeth, watching from a Home Of
fee window, looked on aghast.
Hand uplifted, unarmed. and clad
In raincoat, the middle-aged man
dashed through the line of sailor
guards few feet to the right and to
the rear of the Monarch. Shouting,
he appeared to trip.
Thrown TO Pavement.
Guards scuffled him quickly to the
pavement and hands clapped over his
mouth drowned out further outcry
during the period of silence
Apparently unconscious, he was
carried quickly out of the crowd and
taken to st. Stephens Hospital at
Fulham for medical observation. He
was identified as Stanley Storey, who
escaped September 81 from the Cane
Hill Asylum in Surrey.
The incident recalled a similar dis
order at a great state occasion when
Edward, now Duke of Windsor, was
King before his brother.
Edward had been on the throne only
six months when on July 16, 1886, a
journalist, George Andrew Mahon,
slithered pistol across the pavement
in the Kings direction as he rode
down Constitution Hill to Bucking-
ham Palace after presenting colors to
guards regiments at huge review in
Hyde Park. Mafon subsequently was
sentenced to one year at hard labor.
Sir Samuel Hoare, home secretary,
told the House of Commons that Storey
had no intention of attacking the King
or any one else and that he was un-
armed. He said the man was suffering
delusions and that he would not be
prosecuted criminally.
The home secretary added, however,
that Storey, 43 years old, had made a
disturbance in the gallery of the House
of Commons last January 27 and
might be recommitted to an asylum.
King Is Unmoved.
The King, at the gray stone me-
mortal in prayerful salute to the
British Empires million war dead,
stood motionless through the brief dis
turbance. The strident shout and
sounds of the ensuing scuffle were
carried over the radio.
The incident took place almost as
close to the monarch as it was possible
for any one in the dense crowd to
reach.
Several subdued boos from the
crowd added to the disturbance and
when the Horse Guards gun doomed
the end of the 2-minute period there
were cries from the throng-"Kill
him! Kill him!"
Then the national anthem swelled
from the throng, drowning further
disorder.
Additional police rushed up and sur
rounded the disturber and kept the
crowd at a distance.
The thousands massed before the
Cenotaph were impressed by the COM
posure Of the King and his brothers
during the unprecedented outbreak.
Not one Of them gave the slightest
sign they. noticed the disturber, al
though the man. dashing from the
north side of Whitehall, seemed to be
making a direct line for his majesty.
Chamberlain Nearby.
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain and members of his cabinet were
standing with their backs to the dis
turber, only 8 yards away. when police
brought him down. The King, in
army service uniform, was about 7
yards away.
Sailors of the guard were at stony
attention when the man dashed
through their ranks. They did not
see him until he had penetrated their
lines and then two policemen grappled
with him.
The officers threw him to the ground
and tell on top of him. The intruder
went down shouting, but police quickly
clapped their hands to his mouth.
The man was seized near the en-
trance to the home office The officers
held him on the ground there until the
two minutes were up.
His groans and his muffled attempt
to stammer some sort of explanation
were heard by thousands of persons
He appeared almost unconscious when
police half-carried, half-pushed him
INTO Downing street. The angry
(See LONDON, Page A-4.)