The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF
QUEEN VICTORIA.

LONDON, March 2.
Late this afternoon, the Queen, with
| Princess Beatrice, vas entering her carriage al
| the Windsor railway station, to drive to the
castle, she was fred at By man in the crowd,
happily without harmful result. The station
was crowded W tn Eton boys and townspeo-
| pie, who, with their hats raised, were heartily
| cheering her as she crossed the crimsoq-ear-
| peted platform to the royal carriage She had
/ just entered the carriage, and the aged John
/ Brown had taken his seat beside the coach
men, who started the horses. While the air
was still resounding with the cheers, a
shabby, ill-loo,Iing man, about thirty
| five forty years old, standing at
the entrance Of the statioa-yarI among
/ the other spectators, about thirty PAGES
/ from the carriage, deliberately raised
! a PISTOL and fred at the Queen lie
seemed about to shoot again when the re-
volyer was struck from his hand by James
Burnside, photographer OF Windsor. Others
| seized him, an the police rushed in and took
him into custo iy. Meantime the Queens
coaehman drove on as though nothing had
/ happened, and reached the castle in safety
| The crowd attempted to take the man from
/ the police. The Eton boys cried Lynch
/ him Lynch him ~ aud rush was made to-
ward the spot where handful OF police pro-
| te ted the would-be-assassin, but cab was
sent for, an the man WAS got safely away,
| though severely hustled.
| The prisoner who to all appearances is q
thorough crank gave his name as Roder-
lex MacLean, aged thirty-two. He stated
that he was clerk, out of employment. He
was native of London, AMI was born in Ok
| ford street.
The weapon used was six -chambered Colts
revolver, Of American make. MacLean said
he 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 No bullet
marks were found on the Queens carriage.
MARCH g.
From later accounts it appears that Mac
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
fred Two Of the four loaded chambers of
the revolver contained only blank cartridges.
After searching the yard at the railway sta
ton for an hour this morning. the police
found a small bullet imbedded in the ground.
It bore the marks of having first struck some
other object. 1t was right in the direction OF
the spot over which the Queens carriage was
passing, having probably passed over the
horses heads
The prisoner who fired at the Queen was
driven to the town-hall in an open fly at half
past one, in charge of Superintendent Hayes.
He has n wretched look, and is a man very
much of the Guiteau type. He was unclea-
ard unshaven. He has slight mustache. he
was Immediately taken before the Magistrates
the Mayor of Windsor presiding. Mr.. Stet-,n-
son, Solicitor for the Treasury, prosecuted in
reply to the Mayor, the prisoner said, in ghe
most off-hand manner and firm voice, that mis-
name was MacLean-R MacLe -" "
Superintendent Hayes then swore to the facts
of the shooting, and also testified to the
letter found on the prisoner. The letter was
read. It said that the prisoner would not
have done the crime had ten shillngs been
given him instead of the insuItingly small
sum of six shillings. He was compelled to
commit the crime against the "bOated aris-
tocracy,' he added, by "that old lady Mrs
Vic.' The witness further said that this
morning the prisoner wished to make a writ
ten statement, saying: 9 ] have complete
answer to the charge" He then wrote letter.
In it the prisoner said he was not guilty of
shooting at the Quee with the intention Of
doing her grievous bodily harm. His object
was only to cause public alarm, with the OBJ
ject of having his grievances redressed. His
pecuniary straits and circumstances tended to
prove the truth of this statement. Had he
cared to have injured the Queen, he would
have fired st her when she was getting out Of
the carriage As it was, he shot at the
wheels, but the pistol kicked aud the bullet
might have hit the carriage-door. The prls-
oner was reFnanded.
All the London morning papers have lead
ing articles on the attempt on the life Of the
Ouepn The Times saws:
"The intention we prefer to think was no
more than desire to create alarm and gain
notoriety at whatever cost. There is a kind
of infamous notoriety much coveted by some
disordered minds, which can be easily and Ger.
tain earned by such deeds as that of Mac
Lean Yesterday To have fired a pistol at a
woman, and that won the Queen of En-
gland, confers the culprit the most unen-
viable distinction, but distinction none the
less. But the cost has yet to be considered
We are glad to learn no harm has been suf-
fered by her Majesty, but the case might cas-
lily have been otherwise. We trust, however,
that the cost of MacLean's nOtoriety will be
borne only by himself. 1t may chance to be
q somewhat heavy one If all other re-
strlints fail, and II there are men with
whom decency and manliness count for moth
ing. some strong deterrent must be brought
to bear If MacLean proves to be a mailman,
there is no more TO be done than to have good
care taken that he shall play no more mad
mans pranks of the same kind as yesterday.
But there must be some good evidence that be
is mad before such plea can be admitted.
The mere fact that he has been guilty Of mo-
tiveless crime may be enough In the opinion
of professional experts in insanity, but 1t will
satisfy nobody else. If no more can be said
for MacLean than could be said for Guteau
or LEROY, he can as little expect to escape the
punishment he has brought upon himself"
FORMER ATTEMPTS.
The first attempt upon the life Of tha