PRINCE ALFRED SHOT BY A FENIAN.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 109, 28 March 1868, Page 1 (Supplement)

PRINCE ALFRED SHOT BY A FENIAN.

THE ASSASSIN NEARLY TORN TO PIECES BY THE PEOPLE 1 v [By Electric Telegraph.] .V (From our Own Correspondent.) 1 *%le> t heim, March 23, 1 p.m. An Extra issued by the Colonist this morning, reports that the John Penn, the new steamer for the "West Coast Cattle Trade, had arrived in Nelson. She left Melbourne wharf at 6*45 on the evening of March 12. The purser had then heard a report that the Duke of Edinburgh-,had been shot at a grand Picnic at Sydney that day. When at Williamstown, the pilot, emigration officer, and Customs officer,' came off at 9'50 same night, and confirmed the rumor, stating that the Sydney telegrams were posted up at both the Argus and Age offices, and that there was great consternation and intense indignation at Melbourne.

It is said there were two or three shots fired, and that the first shot which like the second was fired at the Prince’s back, took effect, and in the second or third (query, if there were only one or two,) one of the slugs or bullets had penetrated the lungs. On the second shot taking effect, the Prince threw up his hands, and the assassin was seized. The shots were fired by a supposed Fenian, who was almost torn to pieces by the people, and was with difficulty rescued by the police.