Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-04
THE QUEEN.
HEARING OF HER AssA11ANT.
MAULEAN FOUND TO BE A LUNaTIC
lie is Renande d For u Week.

lie is Remande For Week.
Before the beginning of business on the
stock exchange in London, yesterday
morning. all the members in the room
sang "God Save the Queen
MacLean was charged at the police sta
tion 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 information.
The police evidence at the examination,
which the prisoner tried to shake by
cross-examinatiOn, went to prove that he
fired straight at the carriage, and not at
the wheels, as he alleges.
The charge brought against MacLean
before the Windsor magistrate was shoot
ing at the queen with intent to murder.
The prisoner was remanded for week.
Formal evidence was taken concerning the
prisoners arrest and the finding of the
bullet. MacLean closely cross-examined
several witnesses He did not seem to be
impressed with the seriousness of his po-
ton.
At the examination of N1acLean two let
ters written by the prisoner were read. In
the first, which was written before the
shooting, he said he was compelled to com
NIT a crime against blOated aristOcracy
because of the insufficiency of relief offered
him. In the second letter, written after
his arrest, be said that his only object was
to cause public alarm and get his pecu-
mary grievances redressed that he did
not mean to hurt tho queen, but only fired
at the wheels of her carriage. Princess
Beatrice and John Brown saw hin point
the pistol at the carriage. He was ex-
actly thirty PAGES distant when he fired.
A. IL H.
revolver contained only blank cartridges.
MacLean had walked nem Portsmouth to
London a week ago. Upon his person was
found purse containing a penny and
| three farthings, and pocketbook con-
Path, a novel by MacLean - and Grey
of the wide difference that divides the
people of England as any newspaper in
the world. I venerate tho free and out
spoken principles of an unbiased thinker"
| MacLenn u Lunattc.
The police have sscertained that MacLean
was formely in the Wells lunatic asylum,
and was only discharged in September last.
A solicitor has written to the mayor Of
named Roderick MacLean at Maidstone,
| III 1CSf ecu Will ~ uPSCt
Il train.
The Ne,cs says that it may be now pretty
safely concluded that MacLean is insane.
Since his discharge from the Wells asylum
he has been confined in the Weston-super-
Mare asylum. The London police have
received information that he was incarcer.
atea in a Dublin asylum for many months,
Enthusiasm, for the queen.
The Archbishop of Canterbcry has re-
quested the clergy to offer thanks for the
dcliverancc Of the queen in their churches
The queen drove through Windsor yes
terday, and was welcomed with indescri5a
BILE enthusiasm.
A special Thanksgiving service was held
at Windsor, for the escape Of the queer
from the attempt Oh her life.
The Queens Monument to lieacOnsiield.
The queens monument to the late
Lord Beacorstield has just been erected in
Hughenden church. 1t bears the follow
ing inscription
This memorial is placed here by /;
grateful and affecSionate sovereign and
friend.
VICTORIA, Il. l.
Kings love him that speaketh right