MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 577, 1 June 1925, Page 2

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

A I'll ES ENT DAY Oil AM I’JON. C.LA-IMS TO SETTEE LONG DISPUTE. f 13 j Electric C.'ahte—Copy rig) itl. (Außt/snU N.Z. Association) F.undon. M;iy 28. I ho quosl ion of Lh<‘ guilt ol Alary Ouoon ol Souls, which has intrigued historians for con Luries, is now claimed to be definitely cleared uj> by means of impartial scientific 'investigations carried out by Mr Ainsworth Mitchell, editor of the newspaper Analyst, assisted by Homo Ofl'ieo experts. Air Mitchell, in describing his hives ligations in the- ctiiTcut^u-nihsr

of the newspaper Discovery, says ho spent several years collecting, examining and photographing original records, docmneiftsw'ink, parchment, .seals and handwriting,’, -which he scientifically examined exactly as though Alary wore-now under trial, lie declares that the result definitely proves that Alary could not have written llm Jettons, upon which, her guilt el dally depended. The real guilty party was ; William Maitland, lien secretary and betrayer. Evidence now found would undoubtedly in tiio present day have, cleared Alary and convicted Alaitland.