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QUEEN VICTORIA ASSAULTED – A FENIAN OUTRAGE
[Welland Tribune, 7 March 1872]
A man named Arthur O’Connor assaulted the Queen while driving on Constitution Hill, on Thursday afternoon last. When the Carriage stopped at the gate at Buckingham Palace, O’Connor ran to the side and presented a document and pistol at the Queen at the same time, threatening her to sign the former immediately or die. He was instantly arrested by the Queen’s attendants, when it was found that the pistol was not loaded and of so primitive a construction as to be incapable of being fired, if loaded. The document proved to be a pardon for all persons imprisoned as Fenians.
O’Connor is about 20 years of age. His father is an Irishman; his mother an Englishwoman, and he was born in England. His house was searched but nothing tending to criminate anyone with him in the insane plot was discovered. The papers found on him are evidently his own work, and the impression of all who heard them read is that they are the products of a deranged mind. He was committed to stand his trial at eh assizes.
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