Typed indictment of Maude Edwards for slashing a portrait of King George V in the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1914 (National Records of Scotland reference: SC39/66/81 p.177)

Transcript:

Sh[eriff] & Jury 1st Diet 23rd June 1914 2nd Diet 3rd July 1914

MAUDE EDWARDS, 27 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, you are indicted at the instance of the Right Honourable Robert Munro,His Majesty's Advocate, and the charge against you is that on 23rd May 1914, in the Royal Scottish Academy Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, you did wilfully and maliciously strike and cut with a hatchet and damage a Portrait of His Majesty King George the Fifth, by John Lavery R. S. A. 
By Authority of His Majesty's Advocate,
[signed] Henry H Brown
Procurator Fiscal

LIST OF PRODUCTIONS
1. Declaration of accused.
2/3. Two photographs.
Label. 1. A hatchet. 
[signed] Henry H Brown P.F.