1. Edward Frederick Mylius was a Belgian-born journalist jailed in England in 1911 for criminal libel after publishing a report that King George V of the United Kingdom was a bigamist.
14 Facts About Edward Mylius
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Edward Mylius's father was born in England, his mother in Italy.
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That year, he visited France, where he met Edward Mylius Holton James, an American-born socialist living in Paris.
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Edward Mylius, representing himself, essentially did not mount a defence and asserted that he had been denied the right to face his accuser.
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Edward Mylius was convicted in a one-day trial on 1 February 1911 and sentenced to a year in prison.
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Edward Mylius had testified at the trial that she had not seen the prince between 1879 and 1898.
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In New York City, Edward Mylius associated with activists around Greenwich Village, including Max Eastman, Hippolyte Havel, and Margaret Sanger.
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On his draft registration card of 1918, Edward Mylius listed Sanger as his nearest relative and gave his occupation as "manager and organiser" for The Liberator.
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At some point, Edward Mylius was the lover of anarchist Christine Ell, whom Eugene O'Neill modeled the title character of Anna Christie on.
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In December 1921, it came to light that Edward Mylius had "borrowed" $4,000 from The Liberator and lost it on stock market speculation.
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Eastman, the editor of the publication, received partial repayment, but after being authorized to collect an additional $1,000 from one of Edward Mylius's accounts, found that Edward Mylius had already withdrawn those funds from the bank.
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At the time of his April 1942 draft registration, Edward Mylius was unemployed and living in Brooklyn.
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Genealogical research by Anthony J Camp finds that Mylius married Lena Boskin, 20 years his junior, in New York City on 3 July 1944.
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Edward Mylius died in Kings County Hospital on 24 January 1947 of prostate cancer.