The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-14 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPT TO SHOOT THE QUEEN.

COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER FOR HIGH
TREASON.
Tbe adjourned examination of Robert Maclean, who 11
charged with shooting at Her Majesty, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm, was r. muted on Friday morning at
the Town Hall, Win tem. Toe prisoner was brought about
six o'clock in the morning by rosl from Raiding Gaol.
Maclean still maintains his former camp •eure, and chats
readily about the crime. &nee his arrstit kid Itha improved
somewhat in appearance. Sp cial arrangement. were
made by the loc d colic,. to p .event any mobbing of the
p_riatooma. In coassquence of tate chief sopertutandont, Kr.
Hayes, having had • leiter motto him three/wrung tda
on aocount of his arrest of Maclean, tha Mayor of %Windsor
applied t Sir E. Readeraon for &anaemic The Cale
Commissioner accordingly sant doers • apetial had of
London patios, in order to audit in the Goudhall during
ths ersinioation. Prins.Lupllarrlved • few minutes
before eleven, and was +extols:notated with a seat on the
flinch. Mr. Pollard and Mr. A. K. Stevenson. solicit is
tor Roo Treasury, again c in I octed the frosecution. and Mr.
&booth I Tonna, watched th • procerdiogs on behalf a to.
Priaonee. Ths court.:o in was densely crowded.
On the prison-r entering • h c nat. a few hisses were
raise]. but were quickly sappreasted.
Mr. IE ristatton, Sunderlani, said be saw Her Melesity
arrive, and was about H feet dtstant when the Queen
entered her carriage. Hear I the Eon boys cheering, and
on turning round be saw prig mar Just timid' the barrier.
Ili, arm was extended, at b eat pointing a Maid
towards the carriage. %Vita,* h tart the report, and saw
th, pod of the pistol. Priainer's aina was directed at •
point two or three fest bilow the top of the carriage.
Saw a gentleman close to the butter, who rushed forward
and sets 1 hold of the prison r. (Supt. Hayes stood up,
and Wit,Q#4i recogic as A'so noticed some ono
struggling with the phloem's arm, end be saw It was
Bornside.
_

French 0-chard, • footmen to the sande. of Ho.
Mal sty, wm next called. He stated : I came fr to
Louden on Thureday with Her ILejeety. I ii. • MAlli
pushing t to front, with hie arm out.tretched. He we,
about at. or seven yards from Her 11,jeety, and I •••
the gash of the pistol which he limit He aina.l about six
inch*, above the panel of ths c ernes*. Hyr H de,ty was
on the opposite id, of the vehiele, and Princess Beatrim
was nearest the prisoner. Sew two 'oil bey. strike d ewe
the pris mer • arm with their umbrella&
G. C. Wilson, • eel, alhoy a/ 14,011. said: I was livid*
the barrier. I heard • raput ; the :prisoner was atandint
with • pistol held at arm'. lemxth, old was &boot • port
and a half in front of the c,.iwi. I was st analog about
seven yards from thy mail. Prisoner's aim appeared te be
directed to ohm& the top of the panel. Insprtor Hayes
seised the man, mid I west up sot gave bins ' one" over
the head with my utn`erelia. Toe prisoner in the dock is
Sale man.__ _

—Leslie. Murray Hob via on, another B:on boy, said:
WIN with the last witness. and I. too, beard the report, ,
and saw the prima,' alining at little above the carrier's'
window, and to the right. The pistol was poiotint
upwards and not downward.. After I hoard the report
prisoner kept his arm in an outstretched peslion u,tl he
was shoved from behind. I we, standing with
and also hit the prisoner on the head. I climbed up the
gate and tried to hit him again.
P.C. Benjamin Hot; thton. stationed at the Castle, said
he saw a flash and sm.he front the pistol, but coil I not
see the man who fired. The top of the carnage door is
61t. 100. from the ground, an I from the top of th had
wheel to the top of the rumhle is one foot. Her II gouty
was on the side furthest from the prisoner.
Mr. W. J. McCloskey, of toe Star and G atter Hotel,
Windsor, stated that he warn present and rushed towards
the prisoner .11w the pistol was find. Tried to get hold
of his right hand, but Soperinten lent Hayes said "All
sight, we have got the pistol." Wiwi.. r.c.1,el one of
the umbrella strokes on his hat.
yob. Ga.'s,* Smith, stationmaster. stated that be saw
prisoner in the first-class waiting room about half- anhour
b fire Her Majesty arrived. Witness' said—" What are
you doing barer Be said—" I am waiting foe the next
train front London. What time dose it arrive I" Wein° a
said—" By five; but in any cm you had better wait fa the
other room, and not here." B. bat the room. Saw him
again about three miootes before air Majeety's train
arrived. There Ma • riding inetweina the R iyal waiting.
room full of trucks. N-ar 000, covered with • terpaulin,
there wee found a bullet, which, i it had struck the
w.p.m., would fall just about where it was picas I uts.
The truck was sent to Reading in the ordinary courts of
business on the same night, but was afterwards brought
back to Windsor. It wet on the following night that the
bullet was found.
Charles N ibis, chief inspector of the Gre.t Western
Railway Pollee, said he was with Turner, who picked up
the bullet tram among some loose mud. There was a
white spot on It ea of Faint It fitted the pistol. [The
tarpaulin was bens produced, arid on it was a mark on the
fop pert of a painted In whitsal That mark wee
such as would be made by a bullet stelbjeg sideways_
Underneath this mark there wad an indentation en the
woodwork of the truck about five feet five inches from
the ground. .

Supt. lieges produced a list of articles found in posses-
sion 04th. prism.), when taken to the pelin.-stat OIL They
mein led 11 ball cirtridger, an old p icket.book, • knife.
a eecatie, to hair c 'robe, • pocket lo 1111
in miry, • match b..x, two envelopes, • noway ipvr, and •
letter writt .4 in pima
depodtions were then real over, and when the
Eton boy's phrase. "(Me on the head," was read our, chore
wee considerable laughter, in which the Primmer nneL
The prisoner nee then formally cge4, knit, alter
receiving the coil .oiiiry.centionb he 'laid, in to aim tone.
"I reserve my defence.
The Mayor then Coolo4itte4 the prisoner to the Berkshire
" 440 °Urge of kWh treason. Maclean wee taken
gang to lisergag 1.01 Oval sem **oink la ihe Mai&

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