Show I i Jf g THE ATTEMPT to kill President Gar aeld has revived the account of the h I F moo effort to shoot President Jack n ii l son on January 30th 1835 Very 1 low persona rem6mber the occurrence I I it I i and it made comparatively little sen nation at the time though this was I 1 I due largely to the slow methods in 1 existence for distributing the new I l 3a many parts of the country knowledge know-ledge of the event was not obtained I r i i 8fer weeks after the assault On the 1 f 1 I day mentioned the two houses of Jon I 11 Mesa convened for the obsequies of I t I Ssnreaentative W B Davis of South i I I Carolina then lately deceased The I Ci I President and members of the cabinet i I j were in attendance L < After a discourse by the Chaplain of the House a funeral procession was I formed in which the Pre3ident walked + arm in arm with the secretary of the treasury Levi Woodbury The pro ceision left the hall of tbe House of Representatives and was passing through t Shfr rotunda on the way to the eastern I portico when Lawrence as he perceived Y the President approach stepped forward 1 rom the crowd advanced to within a 1ew feet of him drew a pistol aimed itt I + it-t the President and pulled the trigger r 4 t Tha cap missed fire Secretary Wood nary and others sprang to arrest him he however had time to draw another pistol r but this second attempt to shoot was I I oqually unsuccessful He was thrown r down disarmed and secured In taking I aim he stood EO near the President i l R ahat the latter instinctively started forward s I d 1 ward to strike the pistol aside with his sane so that had not the caps failed I Ira 1 I-ra is every probability that a danger 1 i sus probably a fatal wound would have + peen given The trial of Lawrence was 4 postponed until April apparently to I I allow time for searching his antecedents l and investgating his mental condition Both the evidence and Lawrences de r H aaeanor in the courtroom satisfied the I1 4 t public at the time that the shooting was 1 she act of a lunatic He had for sometime some-time believed himself to be King of the 1 United States and Jackson to be an intruder 1 in-truder and usurper In the courtroom it his behavior was EO wild and disorderly hat his counsel begged that he might be removed and the trial proceed without + iim No wonder for when the district attorney commenced speaking Lawrence started up wildly eiclaimin What e means this personal indignity Is it decreed de-creed that I am to be brought here And > i for what I desire to know if I who j claim the crown of the United States 1i i likewise the crown of Great Britain and tl who am superior to this court am to be e lI I treated thus And the proceedings r were frequently brcken by like intersup r 1 + lions As the jury agreed with the med j cal men that he was an irresponsible I i i i monomaniac he was committed to anj I d11 asylum f 1 i oJ 1 C C 1 I i f c |