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Show THE FOlO GUILTY OF PREMIER PLOT Mrs. Wheeldon Sentenced for Conspiracy to Murder Mur-der Lloyd George. L-OXDOX, March 10. Mrs. Ali'-o Wlicildon, ho.r datilitnr, Mrs. Winifred Mason, and th latter 's husband, Alfred George Mason, were found guilty tort:iy of conspiracy to murder Premier Lloyd George and Arthur Ilcndorson, member of tho war council. Miss Harriet Ann Whecddon, another daughter of Mrs. Wheeldon, who also was triod on tho same charge, was acquit ted. Mrs. Whooldon was HC.nrencpd to ten years' penal horvituilo. A sMpiu'c of ffven years was impound upon AltV-d M ;i so n , while his v.- i iV vv ;t.a g i v o n fa' v e y- r.rs ' penal vr-;-vitiidf. I n an o i -j 'j 1 1 1 1 1 L a rid d morons ?pee-h today in Mi mining up tii: rrt--- d' inn four prifoii'.'Ts H. It. K'r.n, the Muhain-niedan Muhain-niedan lawwr. vho in W'Tlli-j attorney for xhc defendants, -tartu d tin? co'i't-rouni co'i't-rouni by Mi'i-i-stin a trial by or. teal. n-fern-d to r ho medieval form of judicial trial in whi'-h in pi'1''"1:: of cvidfiie supernatural super-natural aid in invoked, as in a test by tire, water, poison or other agencies. A tt orney Pi za had been endeavoring to im;u-e-s the jury with the alleged .-in in tor sigaificaui.-e of tlie failure of the crnwn tn prjduce a certain wit n'-ss a'fain4-r the four d-fr-nda:its, Mrs. Ali-e W'li'-eldon. her two daughters and Alfred (Icfir.'i! Mason. huband of one of the daughter?. This person, he sail, was a ''man vho should have been its principal princi-pal witness, namely, the mysterious secret government agent known as Gordon, Gor-don, ' ' The attorney declared Gordon was a police Roy who had started the whole plot, 'who had lured the defendants on and then, when he had got them well within his net, had handed them over to another acrent named Booth so that hi? own connection with the case would not lie so flagrantly apparent. "Why wasn't it possible for Gordon to conic into court and face the jury?'' asked the lawyer. "Eeoause from him," ho continued, "the jury would have drawn a very different version of the ca-e. The case rests wholly on the evi dence of Booth, who. moreover, was allowed al-lowed to read tiie whole of his evidence, in the nhene of this mysterious Gordon Gor-don this trial is not a if ?). i "Before the utv coi'ri;;? the oVfen-Idrtnt oVfen-Idrtnt it should insist on the production of i Gordon in the interests of the public land the safety of the country.'' 1 Then a'Ter a long and impressive nause Attorney Tar.a suddenly said: 'In the absence of Gordon I would sucraest that the defendants should have a trial bv ordeal. ' ' The indge was puzzled and said: "T fear thnt would oe impossible. It has been abolhed. Po on seriously snfsst the ladies should walk over hot nloughshHres in order to prove their in-nc-pnee ? ' ' Piza: "T do.' The .iii dee: "It is no use suhmittinr such a u "ration. You are not spoons." P'za: "T do seriou?lv suggest it."' ?.Trs. Kmmeline Pankhur?t. s-i'fra-ette leader, bv nprmisston of Jude Txw. went to the witness box to controvert the ptatetT-Tit fi!!eg;ed to have been made by Mrs. WheeHnn to the eTect tht suffra-trists suffra-trists had spent SflO nnunds .pterlintr In an attempt to poison Premier T.loyd Geortre bv- driving a poisoned nail into' his hoot. Mrs. Pankh'jrst declared that such a statement was absolutely false in every particular. a.ddinE:: 'The Women's Social and Political T'nion recards the premier's life as of the greatest value in the present grave erisis. and its wouhl. if necessary. t;ike ?reat risks themselves to protect it from danger." |