Threatening the Queen and Premier.
London, April 26. A man has been arrested for firing a pistol in St. James's Park at midnight. It was alleged that he was shadowing the Queen and Mr Gladstone. He proved to be a man named William Henry Tovnsend, who had also been firing a pistol in Downing street near the oiheial residence of the Premier. A pocket book was found on him contain ing incoherent entries about shooting MGladstone and about the Home Ilule Bill. He was brought up at Bow Street and remanded.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1893, Page 2
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91Threatening the Queen and Premier. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1893, Page 2
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