The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

.listoNsilata..—We-yesterday mentioned the cir-
`cutlisiance of a young Gentleman attempting to
Shoot himself and a young Lady, who was with
him, in a hackney-coach,- in Belvidere-place. - The
t-:zrillettati is a son of Mr. Eliston, of Belvidere-
.Vlac:, and the young Lady a Miss Colson, a respat-
'able young woman, whose friends reside in the Bo-
rough. Several persons who had some knowledge
of the transaetion were examined yesterday before
the Magistrates at Union-hall.
HlliStotl, driver of, the hackney-coach, No.
278, stated that he was called off the stand in the
Minories, on Monday night, about 11 o'clock, by a
gehtleman and two ladies; he was desired to drive
to Crooked-lane, where the ladies got out ; one of
them however returned, and again got into the
coach with the gentleman, who desired him to drive
to Belvidere-place, St. George's-Fields ; when he
art ived within two or three doors of the house where
he was ordered to set them down,
_he was alarmed
by the report of a pistol in the coach, and imme-
diately after of a second, and heard the gentleman-
exclaim, " Oh, can you forgive me in your dying
moments ?" the lady answered " Yes, yes, yes ;"
he stopped his horses, and getting off his box, ran to
look for a watchman ; on his return he found his
coach empty, and a person informed him that the
lady and gentleman were in the house, and that no
harm was done; in searching among the straw of
his coach afterwards, he found a pair of pistol bags.
Mr. John Taylor lives at No. 42, Belvidere-place;
was sitting with his family, a little belofe 12 o'clock,
on Monday evening, when he was alarmed by the
r.zport of two pistols; he ran out to see what was
the matter, when he perceived a coach standing near
the dour, without any person on the box ; he went
up to the coach and opened the door, when, by the
light of a candle, he perceived Mr. Eiliston and Miss
Colson, the latter apparently fainting ; he shot too
the door again, and going to the horses, drew the
coach close up to Mr. Eiistoo's door; the 'unify
were by this uurc alarmed, and he assisted in getting
them out of the coach; Mr. Eliston was begging to
be forgiven, saving he had no intention to hurt her;
she answered—Yes, yes; she forgave him. Mr;
Taylor went for tLe surgeon, and on his return, on
searching the coach, he found a pistol-bullet in the
back part of the seat, he saw no appearance of blood;
but ,aw the mark of the powder on the woman's
dresS.

.M WAGSTAFV, a Sargeon, said 'he was called
on 'Monday night about • twelve o'clock, to go to
Mr: Elliston's house to examine two persons • who
were supposed to be seriously hurt ; he went and
found Miss Cod-on sitting .oti the bed partly unc.ress-
ed ; on exaniining het Verson, he found she ha,i re-
ceived a contused wound on the right side, which
was very much inflamed and, swelled ; her cloatlis
%vete perforated in several places,' and from their ap-
pearance, and from the appearance of the wound,
he had no doubt it • *as inflicted with some sort of
fire-artns. After' having dressed her wound, he 4'23
desired to attend Mr. Elliston ; he found him lying
on the bed; he had a wound inflicted by a bail in
his right. side ; the ball had struck- upon his ribs,
lust below the breast; and gone oil slanting, with-
.
otit having penetrated the abdomen. The wound
was very much inflamed and swelled, but the wit-
ness did not apprehend any'itnniediate danger; from
some expressions which fell from Mr. Elliston,
however, the witness was fearful he had taken some-
thing of a poisonous,nature , and after being repeat-
edly pre.sed on the subject, he acknowledged that,
finding the ball had not taken effect, lie had con-
trived, unobserved, to swallow a quantity of
Mr. Wagstaff had questioned Miss Cnlsort reiped-
ing the firing of the pistol ; she said that Mr. Elision
had desired her to look out at the window to 'see if the
coachman was not gone past the house; whilst her
head was out of the window, she heard the report of
the pistol, bit did not at first know she was wound 1;
nor was she much alarmed, till she heard. the second
report, and saw the flash in the coach, when she
screamed out. The Witness did not consider either
of the parties to be in immediate daiiger. The pistols
were delivered to Mr. Wagstaff ou Tuesday morn-
ins, by a younger brother of Mr._Eliston.

Bow STR E ET.—Y esterday Rithard Hemming was
examined before J. I\I,IES, .Esq. the sitting Magis-
trate, in a charge of bigamy. The prisoner, from
his age and personal appearance, does not seem at all
calculated to engage female affettion ; notwithstand-
ing which, it seems he has contrived to ensnare three
women at once into the chains of matrimony. Two
of them came forward, yesterday, and it appeared
there is a prior marriage to either of these, of which
the wife is alive. The Prosecutrix, in the present
case, is a very decent, good-looking young woman,
who stated that she was married to the prisoner, by
banns, at the parish-church of Cheltenham, Glouces-
tershire, on the Ist of August, 1808. The other
marriage as proved to have taken place at St. An-
drew, Holborn, in the year 1794. The wife in this
case comp:ained of the Prisoner's plundering her of
every thing, and leaving her much distressed with
several children.—The prisoner was fully committed
for trial.

A young man, employed as a Letter Carrier at the
Two-penny Post Office, Paddington, was charged
with secreting a letter, containing t‘‘ o Bank notes
of live pounds each. The most distressing circum-
stance in this case, was a sister of the prisoner's
b.eirig obliged to be a witness against him, he having
cmploykd her to nego'iate one of the notes taken
out of the letter. He was committed tor further ex-
amination, and bail taken for the appearance .of the
sister to give evidence.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Walter Smith was
charged by Eleanor 'Whyte with defraudiq her of
2s. Bd. The Prosecutrix stated that she kept the
Barley Mow Eating-house, in Salisbury - square,
Fleet-street. The Prisoner dined there yesterday,
and his dinner, &c. amounted to 2s. Bd. ; but he
endeavoured to escape without paying. On being
deteCied, he said he prOposed paying this reckoning
as he had done others—by making his escape.
Leadbeater, one of the Marshal's men, stated,
that within these few days the prisoner had been
brought before Lord Mayor, charged by Mr.
Ross, of the Aberciemby Cotiee-house, Lombard-

street, with eating a plafe tiVe
pints of beer, and then endeavouring to escape-with-
out paying. It appeared that the Prisoner :was a
persop given to such practices, and that he was a
pauper boarded by his parish in the country, who
occasionally took this method of living agreeably to
his own pleasure. - . •
The Sitting Alderman ordered the prisoner to be
committed; till sent tor by the Officers of the parish
to which he belonged.