The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-10-22
Cleveland Assaulted.

ALBANY, Oct. 2O.-The city was
thrown into excitement this morn
ing by the report that Governor
Cleveland had bsen assaulted while
on his way from the executive man.
sion to the capitol. Some reports
had it that he bad been assassinated
and Others that he had been fatally
wounded. The reports spread with
marvellous rapidity and soon bum
dreds thrOnKed the capitol and
sought out the Governors room to
inquire az to the foundation of the
rui,ors and the condition of the Gov
ernor. As Is usually the case there
wa. a slight foundation for the
rumor upon which the superstructuie
of fiction had been BULL. in passing
from mouth to mouth Stripped of
all embellishments the facts are sui
stantially as, follows:
As Governor Cleveland was going
from the executive mansion to the
capitol about 8 o'clock this morning
ne was assaulted ia front OF the Men
zeal college by Samuel Boone. of FL
mira. who struck at the Governor
with his right hand. The blow
was warded off and the man repeated
the blows several times without
hit ing the Governors face. He
then darted towards a pile of cobbie
stones. but was intercepted by DR..
Houghton before he obtained a mis-
siIe. Bone returned 10 the attack on
the Governor, when Honghton seized
and held him and the Governor de-
libt rately resumed his walk.
Boone was released and went
quickly to his boarding house, on
Lancaster street, where he was ar
rested shortly afterwards. DR..
HoughtoD overlook the Governor and
conversed briefly with him about the
assault. The Governor proceeded to
the capitol and went to work, allud-.
ing only casually to the mater to
attaches of the office. In the police
court Boone pleaded not guilty and
asked two days to prepare his case as
he wanted to telegraph for Judge
B0ardman Smith, of the supreme
court, to defend him. The case was
put down for Wednesday afternoon.
Boone has been seeking q pardon for
his brother-in-law, Byron B. Fair
banks, sentenced to two years at
Auborn for shooting into a crowd
assembled near his house on Hal
lowen and seriously wounding a boy.
Boone and wife called on
the Governor at Elmira during a re-
cent visit to the State fair, and asked
for the pardon of Fairbanks. The
Governor said he would look it over.
When he returned to Albany he men-
toned the matter to District Attor-
ney Stanchield, who expressed him
self as strongly opposed to granting
we're any grounds for clemency.
About a week or ten days after Cleve-
lands return, he (Boone) turned up.
The Governor said he had not
reached the cas- yet. Boone made
some threatening remarks and re-
tired. Boone followed the Governor
back and forth to the executive man.
8 on that day and declared he would
not leave until he got q pardon.
Finally he disappeared. Last Mon
day Boone reappeared with his wife.
Mrs. Boone went into the executive
while her husband re-
manned in the ante-r0Om. She be-
came violent in her language, and,
the Governors attendants say, sud-
denly struck at Cleveland, who
seized her arm before the blow
came, and requested the woman
to be seated and be calm. He rose |
and she sat down, and then scream
Ing, fell to the floor in violent hys-
[erics. Two oderlies then removed
her across the street to q house where |
he wa: treated. She has been hys-
terical most of the time since. Boone
states that when he heard his wife I
he rushed into the executive
and found the Governor
ust letting go of her. He was put
lside by the ord erlies, who removed
woman. He claims the treat
nent of his wife was so severe that
he is in a dying condition, and over
;ome by his feelings he attacked the
Governor.
A reporter of the Albany Journal,
Who called at the house where Mrs.
Boone is, saw her, and the bruises on
Ter, where 1t is alleged the Governor;
lied her, were shown him. The
said she was in q comatOse
and apparently dying.
ALBANY, Oct. 2O.-This evening
be excitement over the assault on
Governor Cleveland bad largely
bated. The condition of Mrs. Boone.
1fering from hysteria since. h.r
Interview with the Governor, week
60 to-day, is not dangerous. The
tatement that she was injured by the
Governor during the interview is
ntrue. When he told her he could
OF pardon her brother without in
estlgation, and that the case must
AXE its turn, she dew at him and
tempted to scratch his f.ce. He
el1ed her by the wrist and said:
Why you poor, foolish woman, why 1
ont you behave yourself!" Mrs. /!
'oone was then led out into the
nte room, where she fell upon the
cor in q fit. She is not in-
lred further than sustaining
me bruises during her struggles. J
airbanks, for whom Boone sought {
pardon, appears also to be q crank. +
ne Governor to-day received q dis
atch franz the warden of the Au-
i'm prison stating Fairbanks had
zen pronounced insane by medical +
Eperts and transferred to the insane {
apartment. =