AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3922, 25 July 1881, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, July 3. Telegrams from Washington convey.,, the shocking intelligence' that'pfotfably7a_ successful attempt had .beea made to assassinate the Presidents Yesterday, ;a| A 930 am-, while waiting for ; tqet .traioiat 11 the Baltimore and Potomac railway depot, A-w Mt Garfield was shot r at twice by one Charles Guiten, a disappointedr seeker, who is presumably- •daraetate'd3."'"' One ball passed through an arm,thej&h"el^ \ r took effect in the back and'adj'ptft^ffjf rttjtj^; ' kidneys. At first accounts the President ;'' was gradually sinking, and his.physician^ r . expressed but little hope of his req6ve£sf«' ;,' The occurrence has profouadiy/moyed'.tlf^d. ..- nation. Men of all nations; iioite 'in '■"'"' denouncing the atrocious deed," 1 and in tendering their sympathy to the-illustrioua victim. :!,,,:/ Th 6 latest, dated Washington, 3rd July, 10 a.m., says the result of the consultation of physicians is that the symptoms are more favburabhr'tlranrat — any time since the shooting—pulse J. 16., . No attempt has been made 'tor-get acithe.. y bullet, .as the physicians thinjf,, it vr ~ lodged where it will, not .necessarily " interfere with the ultimate .'igQpjregjr of the President. The New York Herald's Lon^QnspejMßt ; gives the following particulars of the i murder on the Londorr and Brighton Railway, referred to elsewhere r^'yhe;' act was committed on one of the mostfrequented roads leading out of the Metro- o;F polis, and excites the keenest interesteverywhere. Lefroy is the suspected party, and told a strange story to the railroad officials, how, after - leaving Croyden, he heard a shot fired and felt a blow on his head, opon which he became ! insensible, and only recovered consciousness on reaching Preston Park. He • said he fouud himself the only occupant; of the compartment, with a pool of blood at his feet. He could not tell who fired '•;. the shot. Lefroy was taken to the police station at Brighton, where he gave the ' above particulars, and had his wounds dressedat the County hospital, when he was permitted to leave for home. His r 'v real name is Henry Mapleton, and be n claims to be the author of the play named ', 'Pins and Needles,' now being performed . in the United States, and also the author of several burlesques and operas bouffe now being played, in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. The murdered man, Gould, was in the habit of travelling on the train in question! Some articles were ;sl " found on the .person of Lefroy, and also" beside the murdered man, which ife ig thought will implicate the former."