THREATS TO KING ALLEGED
* Engineer Charged SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS AT PALACE (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—ET ELECTRIC TZLEORArH COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 29, 7.10 p.m.") LONDON, November 29. A man who appeared before a magistrate at Bow street this morning was charged with demanding money bv menaces from his Majesty the King. The "Daily Herald" says the man is a consulting engineer, named Clarence Gay Gordon Haddon, aged 43. He was arrested last night in Islington by officers of the special branch of Scotland Yard, who had spent the whole day searching for him. It was considered advisable at cne period yesterday to put a special guard outside Buckingham Palace, and everybody entering the courtyard, which is usually free of entry, was subjected to a close scrutiny and questioned. Haddon is six feet high, of commanding presence, and was dressed in a smart lounge suit He carried a typewriter with him to Bow street where, the "Daily Herald" says, his fingerprints were taken. He was I placed in a cell.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21026, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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