In reality, he wasn't surrounded.
He was wounded, however, as he tried to rob a train on this day but couldn't bring himself to rob the passengers, soldiers returning from World War One. In the course of that, a young man pointed a pistol at him and he knocked it away. It discharged in the process and wounded his hand.
Elsewhere, the Prince of Wales was back in uniform and touring the United States. Today he was in New York City.
