The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-04

I Ear, Empires of Austria, and Empero
William, of Germany, te!egisphed me-
sagAs of sympathy.
The Queen held her dinner party Las
night as usual.
No political significance is attached i
any quarter to the outrage.
MacleAn is tWenty-seven years oid
He states that he lie grocer's s-si tsnt
Doctors pronounce him sane. The re
volver is x-cham bered Colts, Ameri
can mske. Two chambers were foun,
loaded and two recently discharged
Fourteen bail cartridges were found Of
the prisoner. Maclean says hunger actu
ated the crime.
The cabinet sent dispatch to Wind
sor, expressing qualification a. the fuilur
of the attempt at assassination.
The Times says IF DO more cen b
said for Maelean, the would be-asaassil
of the Queen, than could be said 70
Guiteau, the assassin of President Gar
field or LEROY, the murderer of Gold
he can as little expect to escape punish
ment."
United States Minister Lowell has ten
dered to ths Queen the congrAtulaliop
of the American nation at her escape
kilograms expressing similar sentim entt
were arriving a. Windsor throughout
the night. 1t is officially announced
that the Queen passed good night, and
was in no way affected by the attempt
on her life. Macean passed a restless
night. He will be brought up st the
special sitting of Windsor Borough
Justices this afternoon.
From later &C cunts it appears that
Maclean fred the shot after the carriage
was in motion. Princegs Beatrice and
John Brown, saw him point the pistol
at the carriage. he was exactly thirty
PAGES distant when he fired. Two Of the
four loaded cham bers of the revolver
contained only blank cartridges. MeClean
walked from Portsmouth to London =
week ago. Upon his person was found
. purse containing a penny and three
farthings, and a pocketb4Ok containing
the following entries: Fourth Path, 8
novel, by Msclean and Reynolds NelCS-
paper, gives IS correct an idea of the
wide difference that divides the people OF
England as any newspaper in the world.
l venerate free snd outSpoken principles
and an unbiased thinker
Msclean was charged at the polics sss.
ton with shooting at the Queen with in
tent to do grievous bodily harm. He
asked whether any one was hurt, but the
police refused to give him any informa-
railway station for an hour this morning,
the police found small bullet en- b9dded
in the ground. It bore marks Of having
first struck some other object. 1t was
right IN the direction of the spot over
which the Queens carriage Wss passing,
having probably pssse1 over the horses
heads. TIE Queen and Princess Beatrice
walked on the castle terrace as usual
early this morning.
Hsrcourt, home secretary viii 20 TO
Windsor, odsy.
An eye witness to the shooting states
that Meclean was observed fumbling in
his pocket while the Queen was being
helped into the carrisge, but the pressure
of the crowd prevented him from raising
his arm until the carriage was in mo-
ton. 1ae same cause made his aim very
wide. he bullet found in the station
yard weighs about a third of an ounce.
Compare red With others four on Maclean
it CORES ponds with them exactly. Be-
fore the revolver was seized the prisoner
had brought another loaded cham Der OPP
posite the hammer.
Minister Lowell's telegram to General
Ponsonhy, says: 81 beg you 10 convey
to her mSjesty my heartfelt congratuls-
tions on her escape.
Maelean's antecedents show he Is &C.
centric and addicted to drink.
Before beginning business at the stock
exchange this morning, all mem bers
81 II
1t appears Maclean roughly endeaV-
ored to force his way through Elton Col
lege schols rs, who were at the station IN
a good position to await the passage of
the Queen, and the consequent hustling
prevented his having an opportunity
when he might have done so with worse
results,
Special Thanksgiving services was held
At Windsor to-day for the escape of the
Queen from sn attempt on her life.
Maclean is now under examination
before Windsor magistrates. He WAS
booted at by a crowd on his way to the
.own hall.
: New York, 3.-Speak:ng of the at
sempts on the life of Victoria, 'Dono
van Rosa told reporter last night " l
don't think the Fenisns had anything to
10 with it. The Fenians in this country
would certainly not approve of it. We
are ready to attack the Englieh flag
everywhere so long as England NAL
,reats ireland, but we would not retail
ste IN that manner"
The HeTGLd'S cable says OF the shoot
ng at the Queen: It should Do stated at
once that the cartridge Is believed to
have been a blank, though The pistol
contained two loaded ones. The noise of
he shot was very slight, and the Queen
lid not hear the explosion. She only
learned what had happened from her ex-
cited ladies-in- waiting and the commo-
ion in the crowd. She was perfectly
and sent back to the station as
soon as she arrived at the castle 10 hear
f any one in the crowd was hurt. A
few minutes after the Queen dispatched
the folio ~ing telegram to the Prince of
w -les, st Msrlb rough House: In
case exaggerated reports should reach
you, tel.graph to say that as 1 drove
froE the statiro here, q man shot at the
carnage al fortunately, hurt no one.
he wa irs-s,lly seized. l am mona the