The Coconino sun., 1901-03-09
JAcKsoN's LIFE MENAcED:
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 On March, 90, 1895, Gen. Jaclson was attending the funeral of Warren R. Davis, amember of congress from South Carolina, at the capitol, and while walking in procession to take a carriage on the east front of the capitol he was approached by . man named Richard Lawrence, who pre- sented a pistol within a few feet of him. The cap exploded, but did not ignite the charge. Lawrence threw the pistol away and drew another, which also missed fire. Gen. Jackson was on the arm of MT. Woodbury, sec retary of the treasury, but pursued the assassin with raised cane. Lieut.. Gedney, of the navy, knocked Law renee down and the friends of the president tried to restrain him, but he said: Let me go, gentlemen; am not afraid. They can't kill me. I can protect myself"
 Lawrence was arrested, says the Washington Post, and arraigned be- fore Judge Cranch, and committed. At the trial he behaved pretty much as Guiteau did, interrupting the pro- ceedings and talking all the time, until the judge ordered him to be re moved from the courtroom. A com mission was appointed to examine into his condition of mind, and Dr Causin and Dr. Sewell reported him of unsound mindt He was committed to an insane asylum, where he lived for many years. There was an at- tempt made to involve some political adversaries of Gen. Jackson in this attempt on his life, but the examin- ation and trial revealed nothing but that it was the act of a madman.
 Gen. Jackson's escape from death was providential. The pistols were loaded very heavily, and after the ar . rest of Lawrence were fired, the caps exploding and igniting the powder readily in the pistol and sending the balls through several inches of plank It was stated that Gen. Jackson said at the time that he knew where the attempt orlglnateQ.
 In May. 1883, when Jackson was on his way to Fredericksburg to lay the corner stone of the monument to the mother of Washington, he was seated in the cabin of the steamboat behind a table with Mrs. Thurston, the wife of Judge Thurston, his private sec. retary, Maj. Donaldson and Capt Broome, of the marine corps. The general was reading and smoking his favOrite pipe.
 When the boat reached Alexandria 8 large number of citizens came aboard to pay their respects to the president, and with them was Ran. dolph, who had been an officer in the navy, from which, for some reason, he had been dismissed and was seeking restoration. ai .s s. -.,.4...
 He advanced toward the presiden, as if to address him, when he sud denly put out his hand toward the face of the president as though he in tended shaping him in the face Capt. Broome siezed him and drew him away, when Randolph's friends hurried him out of the cabin. The president was 90 confined in the seat behind the table that he could no, rise. When it became known on the boat that an attempt had been made to pull the presidents nose, for that was the intention of Randolph, tn, excitement was intense, and many oI the crowd started in pursuit of Ran dolph. He was caught some distance from the boat, but was rescued hii friends. Randolph had made threat, against the president, and the olt gentleman said that he had knowr it was Randolph he would have beer