ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SHOOT HER MAJESTY.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 34, 25 November 1842, Page 2

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SHOOT HER MAJESTY.

(From the Cornwall Chronicle)

Scarcely had her Majesty, Victoria, escaped from the murderous attempt at her destruction by Francis, when a hump-hacked vagabond, named Oxman, was detected in a similar act. Her Majesty was on her way to attend divine worship at St. James’ Chapel Royal, when the miscreant Oxman, who had sought the opportunity, drew a pistol from his pocket, levelled, and pulled the trigger. Providentially it missed fire. The fellow was secured. He had been heard to praise the conduct of Francis, and express a determination to take the life of the Queen. He was errand-boy at an Apothecary’s shop. ADDITIONAL'PAIITiCULARS. The prisoner’s name is Bean, not Oxman, as in the above account. The latter individual was arrested from his extraordinary similitude to Bean. When they were compared together at the police station-house of the A division, Gardiner’s-lane, the resemblance to each other was so striking as to excite the surprise of all present. The father of the lad Bean is a jeweller, in a small way of business, residing in Clerkenwell. It appears that he has six sons and daughters, besides the prisoner, who was always of a sullen disposition, and disliked his father’s business. The prisoner joined a temperance society about eighteen months ago, and obtained a medal for sobriety. He was always of a studious and peculiar turn of mind; and so long ago as 1535, he, being then but eleven years of age, wrote the following lines in a pocketbook that was given him : “ This book belongs to Jack Bean, As deep a boy as eve was seen; If you were to say, Go forward, Jack, And shut your eyes, he’d walk straight back.” Bean has since been committed, and the witnesses bound over to prosecute at the Central Criminal Court.