were known to have purchased was relatively small. On 7 January 1914 Chesterton acted for the defence in the mock-trial of John Jasper for the murder of Edwin Drood in Covent Garden. G.K. Chesterton was Judge and Cecil's future wife played Princess Puffer. George Bernard Shaw was foreman of the jury. In 1916 he married journalist Ada Elizabeth Jones, later known as a writer, after a long courtship. He joined the Highland Light Infantry as a private soldier. His brother Gilbert took over the paper, with Ada as Secretary and Business Manager. Eventually in 1925 Gilbert, with great reluctance, allowed it to be renamed G. K.'s Weekly because his name was very well-known and likely to attract interest. He was three times wounded fighting in France, and died there in a hospital of nephritis on 6 December 1918. His wife Ada had rushed to his bedside and she arrived just before he died. She was his only relative at his funeral, when he was buried at the Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille. Although sick, he had refused to leave his post until the Armistice. On 13 December, G. K. Chesterton would report his death in the New Witness, noting that "He lived long enough to march to the victory which was for him a supreme vision of liberty and the light." Works Gladstonian Ghosts. London: S.C. Brown Langham & Co., 1905. G.K. Chesterton: a Criticism. London: Alston Rivers, 1908. The People's Drink. London: The New Age Press, 1909. Party and People: A Criticism of the Recent Elections and Their Consequences. London: Alston Rivers, Limited, 1910. The Party System, with Hilaire Belloc. London: Stephen Swift, 1911. Nell Gwyn. London: T.N. Foulis, 1912 (1st Pub. 1911). The Prussian hath said in his Heart. London: Chapman and Hall, 1914. Debate between George Sylvester Viereck and Cecil Chesterton. New York: The Fatherland Corporation, 1915. The Perils of Peace. London: T.W. Laurie, Ltd., 1916. A History of the United States. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1919. Articles "Democracy and the Great State." In: Socialism and the Great State. New York and London: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1912. "The Barbarians." In: Alfred Bingham (ed.), Handbook of the European War. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1914. "The Art of Controversy: Macaulay, Huxley and Newman," The Catholic World, Vol. CV, April/September 1917. Other Hubert Bland, Essays, with an Introduction by Cecil Chesterton. London: Max Goschen, Ltd., 1914. References