Tried To Kill Victoria

Since her Majesty came to the throne she has been the subject of six attacks, but only three of them can be described as attempts on her llfe. The flrst attack on the Queen occurred on Constitution HUI, on June 10, 1840, soon after her marriage, the assailant belng a pot boy named Edward Oxford. Two years laier, on May 39, 1842, John Francia fired at the Queen when withln a few feet of her carriage. This outrage also took place on Constltution Hill. In July of the same year a crack-bralned lad named Bean leveled a loaded pistol at her Majesty, who was driving from Burkingham Castle to the Chapel Royal, St. James, but the weapon missed fire. In May, 1850, Robert Pate, an exlieutenant in the Hussars, as the royal carriage was emerging from the Duke of Cambridge's gate, struck the Queen with a stick, ieaving a mark on her cheek and crushing her bonnet. In Pebruary, 1872, a youth named Arthur O'Connor presented an old and unloaded pistol at her Majesty as she was entering Buckingham Palace, and on March 2, 1882, a man named Roderlck Maclean deliberately flred at the Queen as she was driving from Windsor Station to the castle, but no damage was done.