LIBELLING THE KING.
THE CASE OF MYLIUS
New York, December 25. Mylius, who was convicted of libelling King George, has been ordered to be deported, as an undesirable'alien, on his arrival at Ellis Island.
His conviction is the solo ground of the United States’ objection to his landing. On February 3rd, 1911, Edward F. Mylius, was convicted before the Lord Chief Justice of having published a criminal libel concerning the King, and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. The libel, which appeared in a Republican leaflet called “The Liberator,” printed in Paris, was to the effect that in 1890, when at the Island of Malta, His Majesty, then Prince George of Wales, had entered into wedlock with a daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, and that he had afterwards abandoned her in order to marry the present "Queen. An application that the King should bo called as a witness on prisoner’s behalf was refused, but after sentence had been passed, the Attor-ney-General read a denial of the allegations from a document given under His Majesty’s hand.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 28 December 1912, Page 3
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