THE PLOT TO KILL MR. LLOYD GEORGE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3025, 12 March 1917, Page 5

THE PLOT TO KILL MR. LLOYD GEORGE

THREE CONSPIRATORS FOUND GUILTY HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED (Kcc. March 11, 11.5 p.m.) London, March 11. Tho trial of the four conspirators— Mrs. Alice Wheeldon and her two daughters, Harriet Wheeldon and Mrs. Winifred Mason (all suffragottes), and Mrs. Mason's husband, Alfred Mason, a conscientious objector—charged with conspiring to murder Mr. Lloyd Georgo and Mr. Arthur Henderson, has concluded. Harriet Wheeldon was acquitted, and tho other three found guilty. Mrs, Wheeldon was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, Alfred Mason to 7 years, and Winifred Mason to 5 years. —Router. [At tho trial, Sir ]?. E. Smith (At-tornoy-Goncnil) submitted that the prisonors were a desperate body of people, who were bitterly hostile to this country, and who sheltered fugitives from tho army. They had done i their best to injure Great Britain in j tho war crisis. Discussing the raotivo ' which had led people of the middlo • class, of good education, to such moral' degeneracy, he said the jury would : probably infer, firstly, the prisoners' j intense and unreasoning hatred of their i country, which was shocking; secondly, I their hatred of tho. measures necessi- j tated by the war, and their profound I dislike of compulsion; and, thirdly, thoir hatred of statesmen whose duty I it was to recommend such measures.] \