Deposition of Colonel Wylde

30 May 1842

Bound manuscript paper | 1 document (1 page) (whole object) | RA VIC/MAIN/M/67/11

An account of Colonel Wylde's experience of the attempt on Queen Victoria's life by a man with a pistol. He describes being in attendance on horseback and seeing the prisoner lowering his hand after hearing the report of a pistol. Also includes a note regarding the prisoner being remanded before the Council at Whitehall.