From the Richmond Examiner, 2/5/1866, p. 3, c. 4

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE. – On Friday night, a young man named Lucian Polk, who for a time was in the employ of Messrs. Corkery & Millward, in the capacity of superintendent of the Spotswood Billiard Saloon, walked into the hotel, and, accosting Mr. Millward in the bar room, applied an insulting epithet to him at the same time drawing and presenting a cocked pistol at his head. A gentleman, with whom Mr. Millward was engaged in conversation at the moment of the appearance of Polk, threw forward his hand between the nipple and hammer of the weapon, and the trigger being pulled at the same moment, the gentleman’s hand was badly cut. The movement doubtless saved Mr. Millward’s life. Great confusion at once ensued, and some of Polk’s friends managed to smuggle him out through the rear of the hotel, and before the police could be called he had escaped.

Previous to this affair Polk was engaged in a personal difficulty with Mr. Mowbray, a “sport,” and the latter received some pretty severe injuries about the head. Polk had not been arrested at last accounts.

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