ARMISTICE DAY INCIDENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 16 November 1937, Page 2

ARMISTICE DAY INCIDENT

MAN AGAIN CERTIFIED ! I United Press Association -H.v Electric j ! Teleerapli-Couvriehtl 1 LONDON, 14th November.' j Stanley Storey, the man who interi rupted the two minutes’ silence at the ! Cenotaph on Armistice Day has been again certified as a lunatic. The silence had just started when Storey, a middle-aged man, fair, hatless, and wearing a raincoat, hurled himself shoulder first through the police into the backs of the naVal guard, lurched through the guard into the open space, and began running towards the King, his arm raised, and gesticulating and shouting, “Why all this hypocrisy? You're deliberately preparing for war.” By the time police had flung him down the man was six yards from the King and three yards from the Prime Minister and members of Cabinet. The man continued to shout from the ground, and after a terrific struggle the police silenced him. He was an inmate of Cane Hill Asylum, Surrey, from February till September, when he escaped. He had been at large sufficiently long to be considered to have been discharged by operation of the law.