, 1884-10-21
cleveland IN DANGER.
A Crank Assails The Governor
in the Streets
And Tries to Paralyze Him
With a Cobblestone.
Immense Excitement Follows
the Arrest in Albany.
Governor Cleveland Assaulted.

Governor Cleveland Assaulted.
ALBANY, October 20.-The city was
Z thrown into excitement this morning by
the report that Governor Cleveland had
been assaulted while on his way from the
3 Executive Mansion to the Capitol. Some
reports had it that he had been fatally
wounded. Reports spread with marvellous
rapidity and soon hundreds thronged the
Capitol and sought out the Governors
room to inquire as to the foundation for
the rumor and the condition of the Gov
ernor.
As is usually the case there was a slight
foundation for the rumor upon which a
sup%erstructure of fiction had been built in
passing from mouth to mouth.
Stripped of all embellishments the
facts are substantially as follows.
II ASSAULT.
As Governor Cleveland was going from
the Executive mansion to the Capitol
about 9 this morning, he was assaulted in
front of the Medical College by Samuel
Boone, of Elmira, who struck at the
Governor with his right hand. The blow
was warded off. The man repeated the
blows several times without hitting the
Governors foce. He then darted towards
a pile of cobble stones, but was intercepted
by DIR. Houghton before he obtained a
mis- sile. Boone returned to the attack on
the Governor when Houghton seized and
held him and the Governor deliberately
resumed his walk.
BOONE ARRESTED.
Boone was released and went quickly
to his boarding house in Lancaster street,
where he was arrested shortly afterwards.
DIR. Houghton overlook the Governor and
conversed briefly with him about The
assault.
The Governor proceeded to The Capitol
and went to work, abiding only casually
to the matter to the attaches of the office.
At the Police Court Boone pleaded not
guilty, and asked two days to prepare his
case, as he wanted to telegraph Judge
D~--l-a- o~r.l - a--n--
to defend him. The case was put down
for Wednesday afternoon.
CAUSE oF-THE ASSAULT.
Boone has been seeking pardon for his
brother-in-law, Byron B. Fairbanks,
sentenced to two years at Auburn for
shooting into a crowd assembled near his
house on Halloween and seriously wound
ing a boy. Boone and wife called on the
~ II.... I,.. l1a rnaanf
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 mentioned the matter to
District Attorney Stanchfeld, who ex-
pressed himself as strongly opposed to
granting the pardon, as he did not think
there were any grounds for clemeucy.
A woMAN's MYSTERIES.
About a week or ten days after Cleve-
lands return he (Boone) turned up. The
Governor said he had not reached the
case yet. Boone made some threatening
remarks and retired. Boone followed the
Governor back and forth to the Executive
Mansion that day and declared he would
not leave until he got 4 pardon. Finally
he disappeared.
Last Monday Boone r%eappeared with
his wife. Mrs. Boone went into the
Executive Chamber while her husband re
manned in the ante room. She became
excited and violent in her language and
the Governors attendants say she sud
denly struck at Cleveland, who seized her
arm before the blow reached nm and re-
quested the woman to be seated and be
calm. He rose and she sat down and
then screaming fell to the floor in violent
Mysteries. Two orderlies then removed
her across the street to a house where she
was treated. She has been hysterical
most Of the time since.
BooNE's STORY.
Boone states that when he heard his
wife's screams he rushed into the Execu-
/. tive Chamber and found the Governor
just letting go of her. He was put aside
! by the orderlies who removed the woman
He claims the treatment OF his wife was
so severe that she is in a dying condition
and overcome by this feeling he attacked