ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

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

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

1 Another attempt to terrify her Majesty, or rather to obtain a disreputable notoriety, had been made by a young man named John Oxman, while she was on her way to attend divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James’s. He was observed to draw a pistol from his breast pocket, present and snap it, but missed, when a young lad caught hold of him, wrested the pistol from his grasp and accused him to two

policemen successively, neither of whom thought proper to notice the charge, hut on a crowd collecting another policeman interfered and took the accuser in charge, who on being conducted to the station house, told the circumstances, which were corrobated by several witnesses, who minute.lv desciibcd the person of the attempting assassin so minutely that his arrest was the speedy consequence. He is a young deformed man, errand-boy to a druggist; at New Hoad, and had been frequently heard to praise the conduct of Francis, and express his own intention of emulating it. His examination was conducted with the strictest secrecy, and the particulars have not been allowed to transpire. The pistol was found loaded with powder, paper, and a piece of a tobacco pipe stem.