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Show uu He Did Not Enter Into a! Morganatic. Marriage at Malta London, Fob. 1. After brief proceedings pro-ceedings today, a special Jury before Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, cleared King George of imputations against his personal character by finding Edward F. Mylius guilty of circulating a libel Mylius was sen- , tenced to one year's imprisonment Mylius was charged with distributing1 distribut-ing1 in England copies of the Liberator, Liber-ator, a Paris publication edited by Edward Ed-ward H James, In which it was alleged al-leged that his majesty, who, as Princo of Wales, had contracted a morganatic morgan-atic marriage with the elder daughter daugh-ter of Admiral Michael Seymour at Malta, In 1S90. Tho crown called the admiral as a witness, and he testified testi-fied that the daughter Jn question, now the wife of Capt. Napier of the , British navy, had nevei seen hlB maj- osty until 1S9S, when the king called on the witness at Portsmouth. Hla only other daughter died in 1895 and for three years preceding her death had been with her father at Malta, whore he was commander-in-chief or tho Mediterranean squadron. The King had not visifed Malta while his daughters were there and the younger young-er daughter lilfd never sfoken to him. The prosecution ulconducted- by Sir Pjfuslsaacs!" the-attorney general, j assisted by Sir John A; Simon, solicitor sol-icitor general, nnd Attorneys Roylett and Mulr. Mylius had no counsel looking after his own defense. King Not Present. The defendant sought to have the king summoned as a -witness, but this was refused on constitutional grounds. Then he ' demanded the king's presence In court, asserting that he could not be legally tried in the absence of the accuser. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone again ruled against him, declaring that the defense knew perfectly well that ! under the constitution his majesty , could not be present. . In a dramatic speech, Sir Rufus characterized the story of the morganatic mor-ganatic marriage as -absolutely false, regretting that his majesty was not permitted personally to face his slanderers, slan-derers, and concluded with the declaration dec-laration that the suit had not been brought to protect "the monarchy, but that King George had sought the protection pro-tection of the court as a man, a husband hus-band and a father. King Makes Denial. After sentence had been passed. Sir Rufus read a letter, signed by King George, and authorizing the attorney general to state publicly that the writer writ-er had never been married except to ' Queen Mary, had never gone through a ceremony of marriage except with the queen and that he would have attended at-tended the proceedings to give tes- ' timony to this effect but for the ad- vice of the lawyers of the crown that it would be unconstitutional for him to do so. It Is assumed the government brought the present proceedings, less to punish the author and circulator of statements and opinions offensive to tho crown, than to set at rest, for all time, the story immediately Involving In-volving the person of the king. Tho public was admitted to the court room, but tho police took every precaution to bar suspicious characters. charac-ters. Among the notables present was Home Secretary Winston Church- The crown was represented by Sir John A. Simon, the solicitor general; Sir Rufus Isaacs, the attorney genoral and public prosecutors Roylam and Mulr. The latter conducted the prosecution prose-cution of Dr. Hawley H. Cripppn, I who was convicted of the murder of , his wife. Belle Elmore. Opposing this brilliant arrav of counsel was no one but the defendant defend-ant himself, who elected to conduct his own case. Man Makes His Own Defense. After the formalities of opening the proceedings were concluded, Mvlius demanded tho return of his private letters, which he clnimed had been seized in gross violation of his legal rights. Ho then said: ( "I wish to ask whether the king is . present. I demand his presence, because be-cause every accused person has' the ' right to be confronted by his accus-1 or, nnd, secondly, because In a libel action, tho prosecutor must be 1n ' court in order that the defendant may I see him; nnd. thirdly, becnuse thoro is no proof that the prosecutor is- at present alive " Chlefc Justice Alverstone replied- "That hns alrady been the subject of an application beforo me, and you know perfectly well that the king can not be here." Sir Rufus then opened for tho prosecution. Ho snid the alleged I libel attacked the king's honor and ; was intended to lower him in tho j Continued on Page Sovon.) KING GEORGE EXONERATED (Continued From Pago One.') esteem of right-minded citizens. The libel, he said, was of tho grossest character and charged his majesty with having contracted a shameful marriage in IS'90 with the (laughter ot Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, from which there hud been nn offspring and that his majesty bad "foully abandoned" aban-doned" this lady in order that he might marr the princess. Objectionable Article. Thc chargo had been repeated thrico, first on Nov, 29, nnd last in an article entitled "Sanctified bigamy,' big-amy,' which Bald "Wo wore offered a spectaclo of Immorality In its sickly, beastly mon-Btrocity. mon-Btrocity. Tho king bad committed the crime of bigamy with the complicity of tho prelates of tho Anglican church He has a superfluity of wives, like a Sultan." Raising his voice with a diamatlc gesture, tho attornoy genoral exclaimed, ex-claimed, "I tell you at onco thero Is not tlie faintest vestige of truth In those statements." |