Word: mcmahon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court Prosecutor Vernon Ferguson of Los Angeles, assisted by Prosecutor John J. McMahon of San Francisco, set forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School...
...lower court McMahon related that in 1935 "a member of a political body in England'' introduced him to agents of a foreign government who offered him employment as a spy and later took him to "a certain baron" whose name the prisoner wrote on a piece of paper and passed to the judge. This baron was a member of the Embassy staff of the foreign power in London, and McMahon offered to describe in detail the room in which they met. Upshot was an offer to McMahon, so he said, of $750 to shoot King Edward. Snapped horrified...
...fact only slithered his revolver under the hoofs of the King's horse, asked the jury to have him imprisoned for a long term as only in jail would he be safe from vengeance by the foreign agents he had betrayed. In ten minutes the jury found McMahon guilty of "unlawfully and willfully presenting near the person of the King a pistol with intent to alarm His Majesty," and the judge sentenced him to one year in jail...
Said Lawyer Kerstein: "Our appeal will probably be based on the ground that the judge misdirected the jury." Indicating that in his opinion Hon. Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord had charged in such a way that the jury thought McMahon had suddenly made up and told in court for the first time a fantastic story, Lawyer Kerstein declared, "McMahon had 'told the same story to the War Office and to the police months ago. . . . Military intelligence officers had details of the main part of the plot and verified many of McMahon's statements. . . . The foreign power concerned is Germany...
...Since many Germans presume Edward VIII to be pro-German, this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death...