Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-03
A SHOT AT THE QUEEN
Attack on Her Majesty at the Windsor
Station.
ARREST OE THE ASSAlLANT.

ARREST OF THE AsSAlLANT
Dark Knmors of q PloI-The Prince at the
Theatre.
Yesterday afternoon as the queen, with
Princess Beatrice, was entering her car
riage at the railway station to drive to the
castle she was fired at by man in the
crowd, happily without harmful result.
The queen had been in London holding a
drawing room.reception and was returning.
The royal train had just arrived and the
station was crowded with Eton boys and
townspeople, who, with their hats raised,
were heartily cheering her s.s she crossed
the crimson carpeted platform to the
royal carriage. She had just entered the
carriage and the aged John Brown had
| taken his seat beside the coachmen, who
started the horses while the air was still
resounding with the cheers.
A shabby, ill ll.looking man, about thirty
five or forty years old, standing at the en-
trance of the station yard among the other
spectators, about thirty pacss from the
carriage, deliberately raised pistol and
fired at the Queen. He seemed about to
shoot again when the revolver was struck
from his hand by James Burnside, pho.
tographer of Windsor. Others seized him
and the police rushed in and took him into
custody. Meantime the Queens coach
men drove on as though nothing had hap
pened, and reached tue castle in safety.
The crowd attempted to take the man
from the police. The Eton boys cried,
"Lynch him lynch him - and a rush
was made toward the spot where hand
full of police protected the would he as
sassin. But cab was sent for, and the
man was got safely away, though severely
hustled. 1t should be stated at once that
the cartridge is believed to have been
blank, though the pistol contained two
loaded ones.
The noise of the shot was very slight and
the queen did not hear the explosion. She
only learned what had happened from her
excited ladies in waiting and the commo-
tion in the crowd. She was perfectly pos.
sesscd, and sent back to the station as
soon as she arrived at the castle to hear il
any one in the crowd was hurt. A few
minutes after the queen dispatched the
following telegram to the Prince of Wales,
at Marlborough house
In case exaggerated reports should reach
you l telegraph to say that as drove
from the station here a man shot at the
carriage, but fortunately hurt no one. He
was instantly seized. | am none the
worse.
The queens dinner party was held as
usual. Her majesty appeared perfectly
composed and possessed of all her habitual
| calm.
On reaching the police station the would
DO assassin was promptly placed in the
dock, while the particulars of the case
were entered against him. The prisoner,
who to all appearances IS a thorough crank,
gave his name as Roderick MacLean, aged
thirty-twO. He stated that he was clerk
out of employment. He was a native OF
London and was born in Oxford street.
He said he recently came from Southsea
and had been in Windsor few days only.
The revolver was small German weapon
| of six chambers, two Of which contained
empty cartridges and two which contained
! loaded ones. One chamber had just been
discharged. Although diligent search has
been made no bullet has yet been dis
covered.
The news Of the attempt occasioned
great excitement in London. The Prince
of Wales was one of the first to hear OF
the outrage. Mr.. Gladstone aud Sir
William V. Harcourt, who were in the
House at the time, received telegram
from Sir Henry Ponsonby giving the par
ticulars of the attempt and stating that
Her Majesty Was in no way suffering from
the shock. The news rapidly spread in
the House and created \ profound sensa-
ton. Tho premier, with Sir Stafford
Northcote, at once sent telegram to Her
Majesty congratulating her on her Provi.
dental escape. Numerous inquiries were
made at Marlborough house late in the
evening and large crowd gathered out
side the gates.
| Later reports state that MacLean has
been pronounced sane by the doctor who
examined him in the cell. The weapon
used was six-chambcrcd Colts revolver
of American make. MacLcan said ho
would not have done what he did had he
not been hungry. 1t appears, however,
that he took a hearty meal at a Windsor
coffee house shortly before the attempt.
The Daily Neacs says there is reason to
believe that there IS more in the matter
than at present appears on the surface,
and tho vile attempt is the outcome of
some plot. 1t has baon rumOrcd that after
the occurrence man was heard to say
"The man in custody has not done it,
But this has not yet been reported to the
police. The culprit is said to have had a
| A"A h"ppASA eSpHS"AfSNSO ollCl( lNSlOS
the police station than On the way tLither.
| The Prince of Wales, accompanied by a
numerous suite, witnessed tho performance
of The Manager" at the Court theatre
il the evening. On Ir. Clayton reading
to the audience the news cf the attack
upon the Queen and Her Majesty's safety
the whole audience rose cnI nasse and
remained standing until the Prince had
bowed his acknowledgment and the ma
tional anthem was played amid the loud
est demonstrations of approval. An
| adjourned meeting of representative
! Irishmen from all parts Of the metropolis,
held in London last evening to arrange for
| great national demonstration on St.
Patrick's Day passed q resolution repudi-
| ating and deploring the ATTEMPTED assass-
| ination as cowardly and cOndomnable
attempt. There is much excitement in
Irish circles in London, The outrage is
| universally condemned in the most EN-
phatic manner.
Previous Assaults OF the Queen.
There have been four previous attempts
upon the life of the Queen. The first was
on June 10, 1910, when a potboy named
Edward Oxford, fired a pistol at the Queen
as she was riding on Constitution Hill
with Prince Albert The carriage horses.
were startled by the shot and ran, and the
Queen exclaimed "How foolish to make
such a noise to frighten the horses!' Ok
ford was said to be of unsound mind, and
to have fired blank cartridges, but it was