THREATENING TO SHOOT THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2137, 30 December 1880, Page 3

THREATENING TO SHOOT THE PRINCE OF WALES.

A man giving the name of Qoc r»e Brown, and his age at thirty-five, having neither home nor occupation, Bays a home paper, was charged with being a person of unsound mind, not under proper control, at the Molyneuz street police station. The prisoner was in a very excited state, and had to be repeatedly told not to interrupt the witnesses. A police inspector stated that he was at Molyneux street police station when the prisoner came in in a very excited state, and said he wanted a warrant at once against the Prince of Wales for murdering his sister. The prisoner, interrupting—“ So 1 do, and I want it at once. He killed her ; he shot her.” The inspector. continuing, said the prisoner told him the Prince of Wales shot her on Sunday in Tottenham Court road. The prisoner again interrupting—“l went down to the house of the Prince of Wales, and the soldiers turned me back.” The inspector, in continuation, said the prisoner walked about the station in a very threatening manner, and witness asked him his name, which he said was Charles James Tomlinson. He would not have wanted a warrant, he said, had not a revolver been taken from him by his mother. It was his intention, he said, to shoot the Prince of Wales with the revolver, and ho wanted the Prince arrested. In answer fco another question as to where he lived, ha said he resided at Buckingham Gate, and that he slept with the Prince of Wales on the preceding night. Witness searched him and found a knife on him. The prisoner—- “ What I say is right. Ho (the Prince of Wales) did do it. I have witnesses to prove it, and they stole my money. I would not tell you a story.” The inspector stated that the divisional surgeon was called and the prisoner was charged, when he gave the name of George Brown. The surgeon said he had examined the prisoner at the station during the afternoon, and found that he w as evidently in an unsound state of mind. The prisoner said he had had plenty of money, but they had robbed him of it, and the Prince of Wales had taken his sister away and the money as well. Tbo Prince took all he could get. The Magistrate remanded the prisoner to the workhouse.