Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-21
AN ASSAULT ON CLEVELAND.

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 A Man Attempts To Strike Him While On His Way to the CapitOl-PrOba- ply the Act of a Crank.
 ALBANY, Oct. 2O-The city was thrown | into great excitement this morning by the
 report that Governor Cleveland had been as- l saulted while on his way from the executive l mansion to the Capitol. Some reports had 1 it that he had been assassinated and others ! that he had been fatally wounded. Reports spread with marvellous rapidity and soon hundreds thronged to the Capitol and sought
 out the Governors room to inquire as to the
 foundation for the rumors and the condition of the Governor. Stripped of all embellish- ments the facts are substantially as follows: A crank named Samuel Boone, of Elmira, who has been unsuccessfully soliciting par don for his brother-in-law, who is confined in Auburn prison for shooting a man in Chemung county year ago, met the Gov
 arnor as he was walking over Eagle street from the executive mansion to the Capitol, about o'clock this morning, and struck at him, at the same time uttering an oath
 Governor Cleveland threw up his arm and Warded of the blow, and several persons near by who saw the affair ran after the man and captured him. Governor Cleveland at once proceeded to the executive chamber.
 Boone came here about two weeks ago to press the application and the Governor then said to him that he would take ap the papers at his earliest convenience, and would decide it as soon as possible. His impression was that the prosecuting officials of the county were unfavorable to the pardon, and if so he said he could not grant it unless they saw fit, from further reflection, to modify their statements, as no pardons were grant ed in opposition to local authorities Boone at this demanded an immediate an- swer, Yes or No, and said to Governor Cleveland that if the district attorney had reported against the pardon he would slap his face, and if not he would come back and slap the Governors face. In few days Boone telegraphed the Governor that the district attorney had saved him face-slap- ping by acknowledging that Governor Cleve- lands statement was true Last week Boone and his wife appeared at the executive cham Der, and the Governor granted them an au- dience. The woman was in a state of great nervous excitement, and attempted to strike the Governor. The latter caught her by the wrist and said to her: My dear woman, you are beside yourself. Sit down and let us talk this matter over req sonably." At that she threw herself on the floor and screamed and shouted until she was removed from the building The couple have remained here ever since, and Boone has followed the Governor back and forth from his house to the Capitol He has ut tered all manner of threats to shoot Cleve land, etc., and was regarded as crank. His wife has had several fits of hysteria, and the attending physician has urged Boone to take her home, but he has refused. Boone is in jail, and will be examined as to his sanity on Wednesday.
 On being taken to the jail he was placed in room with another man and two boys, and threw himself on a bed. He was very willing to talk of the matter. He spoke of sermon preached by Rev. Mir. Lindsay the case, stated that his wife was dying and that the Governor had not done right in not granting the pardon. He seems extremely nervous. The Governor says he was rather surprised at the assault and could have cas- fly overpowered the man, but only wanted to keep off his blows. He had no fear about the matter in any way except sorrow that Mrs. Boone was so troubled and sick over her brothers imprisonment. Upon that matter he had acted in the same manner as with all applications brought before him. It is thought that Boone will be examined by physicians as to his sanity, and if mentally unsound will be sent to an asylum.
 AUBURN, N. Y, Oct. 20.-S.T. Boone, the man who assaulted Governor Cleveland to- day, was in Auburn on September 30. He made no secret of his mission, which was to see his brother-in-law, but talked freely of it. Among other things he said he had been promised pardon, and that either Glove land or Fairfield, the district attorney of Chemung county, had lied to him and that if it was Cleveland he would shoot him.