The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Violent Assault.

--An attempt was made yesterday at 11 o'clock to murder Mons. Tabuelle, Secretary of the French Consul at this port.--Mons. Tabuelle was sitting in his office, Shockoe Slip, at the hour indicated, when a Frenchman from New Orleans entered and applied for a certificate as a subject of Louis Napoleon. His answers to the questions put to him left no doubt on the mind of the official that he owed allegiance to the Southern Confederacy, not only by residence but by exercising rights of citizenship. He was refused a certificate. He grew very indignant; said if Tabuelle did not give it to him he would kill him. He finally left, but returned in a few moments, and the door not being opened at his summons, he kicked it open and immediately commenced a murderous attack on Tabuelle with a bludgeon. He was prostrated to the floor and struck repeatedly, the man continually crying out, ‘"I'll kill you."’ Mons. T. received a severe cut over the left hand, one of his fingers also cut, and his face very much bruised. He finally extricated himself and gave the alarm, but his assailant escaped.