Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-02-05
DOMESTIC.

WAsurxcrox, Feb. 2.-s;incc the publication of our
paper OF Saturday last lnioation, which has reached
from various quarters, leaves doubt of the
~ Of Lawrence the unhappy individual who attempted
70 discharge two pistols at the President Of the United
States, in the portico OF the Capitol, Friday The
persons who know hun are MT surprised at the
renee and would hardly have been surpscdat any thing
he had done attempted. lie h,s, it appears ianced
himself 10 be other person than hinsclf have
mistaken his own identity; at least to have nsundcr
stood his relations with the of the world When
being conducted fran the Capitol to the Marshals OF
nee he answered to the questions To his motive that
he had intended to XII General Jackson. bccaus,. Gen
Jackson had killed his father When asked again. koc
Gen Jackson killed his father, c would nothing
His father, we hear, died natural DEATH in this District
some ten or twelve years ago. The answer was OF
course the effect of tho hallucinaton under the iniu
ence OF which he attempted the outrage upon person
oil the President
We have had the curiosity ask whether he was any
thing of politician thinking that he perhaps might be
politically insane as persons sometimes rcyiousy
SD We were informed that he never known 10 have
talked or thought about politics. His acquain.ances
seem TO think that he thought himself entitled TO be King
or Governor OF this country, something of that sort
and broodcd over the notion that Cen jackson stood in
mas way. It's certain that he inquired the evening be-
tore OF soe one, whether the Prcsden would be at the
funeral and answered in the affirmative Ills being
at the Capitol armed, was, therefore, almost certainly
tile work of generalization
Aftcr committing the above paper we rsorc politely
favored with the following authentic statement made
BY highly intelligent Magistrate of this city, who has
OF Lawrence $ sanity:
WAsnISerox, 3lst JAM 1885
nave hauc All inc inquiries could, to-day regard
TO the unhappy man lawrencc) who made the attempt
yesterday upon the life OF Gen. Jackson and the result
solute insanity ..,hTg ~ -
went first to the house where Z. I'd He had
not been there long, but one of said he had
been some tune convinced that he Of sane mind
und that ne had previously mentioned it, He boarded at
AIR. Stclds near the Unitarian Church but did not keep
hs clothes or any thing else there. Nothing was known
there of his having had pistols
3D. went To MIR. r.. in the West end of the city
who married sister of Lawrcnce's Both he and his
wiic told me that they had doubt of Lawrence mind
being more less unsettled for eighteen months
They gave as evidence of it, first, that about that time
he had left here, with the avowed intention of going to
England and had proceeded to New York where he re-
manned some time, and then rcturned saying that the
shipowners had all entered into combination against
nm and had refused to give him passage to England
mat they knew he had large fortune there that their
OBJECT was to prevent his getting away that they might
possess themselves of it.
some time ago Lawrence attempted 10 kill his sister
lNirs t) and her husband had him arrested and con-
hned Tor while IN Jail lie did reside with them
and indeed had harborcd such resentment against Mr.
X, thai he did not speak with him. They did not know
= y4.tos OF late, but Mrs. r. says he former