Word: herbalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fleet Street has not forgotten how heavy fines running up to $2,500 each were exacted from some of London's principal newspapers for their reporting of the incident in which figured an herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved...
...Herbalist Jerome Bannigan (alias George Andrew McMahon) was arraigned as "McMahon" last week under the Treason Act of 1842, enacted after shots had been fired in the general direction of Queen Victoria. He faces seven years' imprisonment if convicted of having "willfully presented near to the person of the King a firearm "with intent" to break the public peace...
...arraignment, the herbalist claimed he had only been trying to shoot himself, and the official London police account recorded that he was heard shouting when overpowered, "I wanted to shoot myself in front of the King." It appeared from the herbalist's papers that whatever he meant to do was intended as a protest against the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who in the House of Commons last week was called a "liar" by four...
...Street Police Court Herbalist McMahon kept repeating dully that he never meant to shoot, that his gesture was merely a "protest." On the blotter he was charged with "unlawfully having in his possession a loaded Chicago Arms Co. revolver with intent to endanger life and property...
...which makes it a crime punishable by flogging and 20 years imprisonment to aim a gun at the Sovereign. It dates from the last of five attempts (in 1882) to assassinate Good Queen Victoria, has never been enforced. Wiseacres wagered that there would be no trial, that Herbalist McMahon would be slipped quietly into an asylum...