Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-03-04
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CoagFaeulatlons for the q u0en.

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CesErssalatiens for the q ueen.
LONDON, March 3.-The Times thi
morning says: "If no more can he sai,
for Macl4ean, the would be- assassin o
the Queen, than would be said of Gui
teau, the assassin of President Garfield
or LEROY, the murderer of Mr.. Gold, ht
can as little expect to escape punish
ment.".
| United States Minister Lowell has
rendered to the Queen the congratula.
tions of the American nation. Des.
patches expressing similar sentiments
were arriving 1T Windsor throughout
the night. 1t is officially announced
that the Queen passed . good night,
and that she was In no way affected by
the attempt on her life.
MacLeAn passed restless night.
From later accounts 1t appears that he
fired the shot after the carriage was in
motion. Princess Beatrice and John
Bro wn saw him point the pistol at the
carriage. He was exactly thirty PAGES
distant when he fired. Two of the
four loaded chambers OF the revolver
contained only blank cartridges
Maceen had walked from Portsmouth
to London q week ago, Upon his per.
son WAS found q purse containing a
penny and three farthings and pock-
stbook containing the following
entries: "Fourth Path . novel by
M MAclean;" and "Reynolds's newspaper
gives 10 correct an idea of the wide diff
terence that divides the people as any
newspaper in the world. l vener ate
the free and outspoken principles of an
unb iased thinker"
An eyewitness of the shooting says
that MacLoan was observed fumbling
III his pocket while the Queen was be-
ing helped into the carriage, but the
pressure of the crowd prevented him
from raising his arm until the carriage
was in notion. The same cause made
hun aim very wide. The bullet found
in the station-yard weighs about a third
OF an ounce 1t has been cOnpared
with others found on MacLean, and
was found to correspond with them ex-
actly. Before the revolver was seized
the prisoner had brought another load
ehehamber opposite the hammer.
MacNean's . antecedents show that he Is
ecce4trlc, and is addicted TO drink.
1t appears that MacClean roughly
endeavored to force his way through
the Eton College scholars, who were at
the station, to good position, to await
the passage Of the Queen, and the con.
saqnent hustlinK prevented his having
IA opportunity to fire when he might
have done 50 with worse result. There
are various accounts as to whether his
arm was struck while firing or after he
fired.
Berore the beginning Of business on
the Stock. Exchange this morning all
the members in the room sang "GOd
Save the Queen
Macl.ean was charged at the police
station with shooting at the Queen with
intent to do grievous bodily harm. He
asked whether any one was hurt, but
the police refused to give him any in
formation. After searching the yard at
the railway station for an hour this
llorning the police found q small bullet
embedded in the ground 1t bore marks
of having first struck some other object.
over which the Queens carriage was
passing, having probably passed over
the horses heads.
The police evidence at the examina-
tion, which the prisoner tried to break
by crossexaminatlOn, went to prove
that he fired sttaight at the carriage,
and not at the wheels, AZ he alleged.
The charge brought against Mac Lean
before the Windsor magistrates was
shooting at the Queen with intent to
murder. The prisoner was remanded
for week. Formal evidence was
takel concerning the prisoners arrest
and the finding of the bullet. Mac
Lean closely Cross-examined several
witnesses. He did not seem to be i'm
pressed with the seriousness of his po-
sition.
At the examination of MacLean two
letters written by the prisoner were
read. Iu the first, which was written
before the shooting, he said he was
compelled to commit crime against
"bloated aristocracy" because of the re-
lief offered him. In the second letter,
written after his arrest, he said that his
only object was to cause public alarm
aud get his pecuniary grievances re-
ressed; that he did not mean to hurt
tne Queen, but only fired At the wheels
of her carriage.
LONDON, March 4.-The police have
that MaGLean was formerly
i'll the Wells Lunatic Asylum, and was
only discharged in September last
A solder has written to the Mayor OF
Windsor stating that no defended III an
na ned Roderick Mclean at Maidstone,
in 1874, charged with attempting to up.
set train.
The News says that it may be now
pretty safely concluded that Mac Lean is
Insane. Since his discharge from tho
Wells Asylum he has Deen confined in
Weston shpermare Asylum. The Lon
don police have received information
that he was incarceratsd in a Dublin
asylum for many months.
LONDON, March 4-The Archbishop
of Canterbury has requested the clergy
to offer thanks for the deliverance of the
Queen in their churches tomorrow.
The Queen drove through Win ndsor
yesterday, and Was welcomed with in
descIibable enthusiasm.
A special thanksgiving service was
held at W indsor to-day for the escape
of the Queen from the attempt on her
life