Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-03-04
THE QUEENS AssAILANT.
How News of the Queens Safety was Re
ceived by the People.
A Meagre Description of the Wouid.be.
Assassin.
Loxpox. March ,.

LONDON. March ,.
On arriving at the Castle. Thursday. the
Queen dispatched the following telegram
to the Prince of Wales, At the Marlboro
House:
I'm case that exaggerated reports should
reach YOU, telegraph to say that as drove
from the station here man shot at the car
rage, but fortunately hurt no one. He was
instantly seized, and am none the worse
The Prince of Wales. accompanied by
numerous suite, witnessed the performance
of 1.-The Manager" at the Court Theatre in
the evening. On Mr.. Clavtons reading to
the audience the news of the attack upon the
Queen and her safety, the whole audience
rose and remained standing until the Prince
had bowed his acknow Judgement. and the ma
tional anthem was PLAYED amid the loudest
demonstrations of approval An adjourned
meeting of representative Irish men from all
parts of the metropolis. held in London to
arrange for great national demonstration
on ST. Patrick's day. passed a resolution re-
pudiating and deDloring the attempted assas-
-ination. There was much excitement IN
Irish circles in London. The outrage is
universally condemned in the most emphatic
manner. 4
The Times saws If no more coIld be said
for Mclean. the would assassin of the
Queen. than could be said for Guiteau. the
assassin OF President Garfield, or LEROY, the
murderer of Mr.. Gold, he can as little hope
TO escape punishment.
L. s Minister Lowell rendered to the
Queen, the congratulations of America. Tel
egrams expressing similar sentiments were
arriving at Windsor throughout the entire
night.
The Queen passed a good night, and is in
no way affected by the attempt on her life.
Mclean passed a restless night He will be
brought up AT special sitting of the borough
Justices this afternoon, at Windsor. 9
From later accounts it appears that Me-
Lean fired the shot after the carriage was in
motion. Princess 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 chambers con-
tanned only blank cartridges. Mclean had
walked from Portsmouth to London week
ago. Upon his person was found a purse
containing penny and three tarthings, and
a pocket book containing the fol-
lowing entries: Fourth Path, novel by
Mclean, and Reccinold's newspaper gives as
correct an idea of the inside difference that
divides the people of England as any news
paper in the world. venerate the free and
and out spoken principles of an unbiased
thinker.
MCLEAN was at Tue pOilcc
18th shooting at the Queen with the intent to
do her grievous bodily harm. He asked if
anyone was hurt, but the police refused to
give him any information.
After searching the yards at the railway
station this forenoon, the police found small
bullet imbedded in the ground. 1t bore the
marks of having first struck some other OBJ
Ject. 1t was right in the direction of the spot
over which the Queens carriage was passing,
having probably passed over the horses
heads. The Queen and Princess Beatrice
walked on the castle terrace As usual, early
this forenoon.
= L. M.-An eye witness of the shooting
states that Mclean was observed fumbling in
his pocket while the Queen was being helped
into the carriage, but the pressure of the
crowd prevented him from raising his arm
until the carriage was in motion. The same
cause made him aim very wildly. The bullet
was found in the station yard. 1t weighs about
one-t third of an ounce. On being compared
with others found on Mclean, it was found
to correspond with them exactly. Before
the revolver was seized, the prisoner had
brought another loaded chamber opposite the
hammer
Minister Lowelfs telegram to General Sir
Fred Ponsonby says: Il beg YOU to convey
tn Her Majesty my heartfelt congratulations
on her escape
McLean's antecedents show he is eccentric
and addicted to drink. 1t appears that Me
Lean roughly endeavored to force his way
through the Eton College scholars who were at
the station to get good position to await the
passage of the Queen, and the consequent
hustling prevented his having an opportunity
to fire when he might have done so with worse
result. There are various accounts as to
whether his arm was struck while firing or
after he had fired.
At an examination of Mclean, two letters
written by the prisoner were read. In the
| first, which was written before the shooting
| he said that he was compelled to commit a
| crime against the ''boated aristocracv'' be-
cause of the insufficient relief offered him.
In the second letter, written after his arrest.
he said his only object was to cause public
| alarm and get his pecuniary grievances re-
dressed, and that he did not mean to hit the
| Queen. but only fired at the wheels of the
carriage.