The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-12 00:00:00

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.

On Saturday evening, at half-past six o'clock, a
Jury of the inhabitants of Knightsbridge and Ken-
sington were empannelled before Mr. Higgs, Deputy
Coroner for Westminster, at the Half-way House
inn, on the Kensington-road, to inquire into the
death of Mr. George Colebatch, jun., silk broker in
the City, residing at No. 1, Upper Kensington-gore,
who was found in bed in a dying state, with a pistol.
shot wound in the head, on the morning ()I:Friday last.
The Jury having viewed the body, which was lying
at the residence of the deceased's filther, the following
evidence was adduced :

Mr. Edgar Barker deposed that he NVIIS a surgeon,
and was in partnership with Mr. Loader, in the Edg-
ware-road. Mr. Loader was a relative of the de-
ceased, and had attended the family for years.
Mr. Loader, who was at present out of town, had
attended the deceased about six months ago for an at-
tack of insanity. It was an attack of delirium tremens,
a particular form of insanity, under which the unfortu-
nate patients are subject tofurious paroxysms. Witness
saw deceased when he was in a state of convalescence
about four months ago. Deceased, during the attack,
required personal restraint. Prom that attack the
defendant got apparently quite free, and resumed his
ordinary occupation in the City, and had not been
under medical treatment since that period, although
he believed deceased had since laboured under some
singularities of !hind. On the morning of Friday last
the mother of the deceased came to witness's house in
a fly, about half-past nine o'clock, and told him'that
she had found the deceased that morning lying in
pistol lying by his
immediately got into a fly to
side,bed coveredan dthat isheth bhlac
do d wit
apprise him of it. Witness instantly returned with
her, and reached the house in about three-quarters of
an hour after the discovery. On entering the bed-
room witness found the deceased in the state that
had been described to him by Mrs. Colebatch. He
was covered with blood,
and was sensible, but inco-
herent. Ile was about to examine the source of the
bleeding, when he found a small pistol-shot wound (as
it appeared to him to be) at the deceased's right
ear.---(The pistol was produced—a very small pocket
pistol, not above four inches long.) Witness believes
it to be the same that he saw lying on the bed. The
hammer was down, and it appeared as if recently
discharged. Witness asked the deceased how it had,
nappened, but deceased was too incoherent to give
any account. Witness, finding that to be the case
sent to Dr. Phelps's Lunatic Asylum at Kensington
for one of the keepers, who had attended deceased
before, who came, and witness, having done every-
thing for the deceased to make him as comfortable as
his condition would allow, left the deceased with his
mother. No one was in the house when deceased
was first found but his mother and the female servants.
By the Foreman--Did not seek to trace the ball,
and had no doubt but that it was in deceased's skull
at that moment. Two hours after witness left de-
ceased a fresh attack of heemorrhage occurred, and he
rapidly sunk until he died. Witness's opinion was,
that it was the deceased's own act, and that at the
time he was in a state of insanity. He thought the
ball had penetrated to the centre of the skull.
Some of the Jury said, in their opinion, in a case
of such emergency, a medical man residing close to
the spot ought to have been fetched, instead of wait-
ing to send such a distance.

Elizabeth Markham deposed that she lived in the
service of the father .of the deceased, who resided at
No. 1, Upper Kensington-gore. She had known the
deceased, who was twenty-five years of age, from his
childhood. He Was a silk broker. During the last
tbhereene
to
or
thei four days
on theyshehadday previous to his death,looked moodily. He had
and dined with his mother alone. He was then
moody, and scarcely spoke. He went to bed that
night about ten o'clock, his usual hour. On Friday
morning, about half-past eight o'clock, his mother,
not hearing the deceased up, went to his room. She,
however, immediately returned down stairs, and told
witness to go up with her. Witness did so, and found
deceased as has been described. Witness stayed with
deceased while Mrs. Colebatch got the fly and went
for the doctor. While she was gone, witness had great
difficulty in keeping the deceased in bed. He wanted
to ge.: up and go to town.
By the CORONER—Deceased was always sober in
his habits, and generally took nothing but water. He
died about three o'clock the same afternoon. Mr.
Barker came but once before deceased died. Mr. Cole-
batch, sen., was in town on Thursday. He did not re-
turn home at night. He was not fetched on Friday
until after deceased was dead. He had no conversation
.with the deceased as to his shooting himself.
The CORONER here put it to the Jury whether they
considered it necessary
to harass the feelings of Mrs.
Colebatch by examining her.
The Jury considered they had had sufficient evi-
dence before them to warrant them in returning a ver•-
diet of—lnsanity. 1
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, - ----_- ,
STATE OF THE DISTRICTDISTRICT.—.Thereere is little change
in the state of affairs in Manchester with reference to
the turn-out. A few weavers hare returned to work in
different establishments ; but they have been so much
assaulted and annoyed by the turn-outs, that their num-
bers
On Thursday last,
have increased very slowly, and the great bulk of the
hands remain out. At Stalybridge, however, we are
he
glade
di i
st
po ust acy
a, , r the h
extremely
appearances
the hands (both spinners and weavers) employed by
Metsrs. ILuTison and Sons, returned to theiremployment;
and their example was followed by portions of those
favourable.
em-
ployed in other establishments. The number of these was
considerably increased yesterday morning ; and there was
every probability that the whole, or nearly the whole, of
the factories would have been at work, had not the town
been invaded by a number of turn-outs from Ashton-
under-Lyne, who entered Stalybridge for the purpose of
driving out the hands who had returned to their employ-
ment. To some extent, we believe, this purpose was
answered ; for, though none were forcibly driven from
their employment, a considerable number left the mills
through a fear of ill-treatment, and many others were de-
terred from going in. In consequence of the irruption of the
Ashton men, the military and special constables were
called out, and the intruders were speedily driven from
the town, which remained quiet during the rest of the
day ; but to what extent those who had been frightened
from their work afterwards returned to it, we are not
sufficiently informed. The genera! opinion, howi-ver,
seems to be, that the endurance of the turn-outs is at
length exhausted ; and that, unless something very un-
foreseen should occur, the whole of the mills at Staly-
bridge, where this unparalleled turn out commenced, will
be in full work on Monday next ; and that, we imagine,
will decide the struggle in all other places.-11/Unchester
Guardian.

A NEW MODE OF RAISING TIIE WIND.—The fol.•
lowing humorous and extraordinary anecdote, illustra-
tive of the degrading extent to which even Lords and
M.P.'s will sometimes go to achieve pecuniary ends, is
daily furnishing conversational food for the gossips at
the \Vest-end :—Some short time since a scion of nobi-
lity, who recently acquired some notoriety in Paris, being
desperately pushed for a " cool" couple of hundred
pounds, and having ineffectually tried every probable
source to obtain it, at last, as a Bernier resort, applied to
his Noble parent (a Gallant Marquis) for the &filing ac-
commodation; trifling, however, as the sum may appear,
the heroic M.P. is reported to have met with a plump,
end not very courteous negative to his application. Dis-
appointed and enraged at the refusal, and the peremptory
tone in which it was conveyed, he, as a brave son of Nep-
tu le, hit upon, and, Proteas-like, carried into execution,
the following eccentric stratagem to effect Isis purpose:—
It happened that at a crossing opposite the window of the
room in which slept the Noble Marquis, his father, a men-
dicant sweeper was in the habit of taking his stand in pursuit
of his daily avocation. To this " knight of the broom"
the hero repaired, and for
a small sum bought him off his
`.•) lffehold," or crossing for a da_.
; and, on the following
morning, about the hour the Marquis usually rose, the
distinguished scion, disguised as a beggar, with a bran-
new broom, was seen industriously
ing clouds of dust towards the Gallant Marquis's window.
On looking out, the Noble Marquis,
employed in sweep-
to his utter asto-
nishment, beheld a fresh and ill-conducted sweeper, and
manner in which he was carrying
on his operations, dispatched a servant to know the cause.
tu
The servant having, in i_
incensed at the rude e
person of the mendacious
sweeper, discovered Lord .._., returned in breathless
haste to his master, and informed him that it was his
own son who was thus Occupied in kicking up such a
said the noble and brave vete-
ran," that is done to raise the wind, (writing) here, take
dust ! " Oh, hang him," said
this to him—a cheque—ten him to be off and change
his rags—his morals he never can." The command was
no sooner given than obeyed and the beggar quitted his
post of honour end retreated' in double quick time, highly
gratified, however, with his new mode of " raising the
wind."—Set:duy Paper.
A letter from Galatz, in Moldavia, which we find
in the C'earrier Francais, i •es the following narrative :
—" The Count de L.,',801n1 ing
Dantile, took up his residence -in this town at an hotel
kept by a species of Bard oyfrom Russia by the
,named Ventura. The
Count had just baffled an attempt by the Russian Cabi-
net
to complete an important negotiation with one of the
Indian Governments. In the evening of July 2 he was
assailed in the house itself by about twenty men armed
with sticks and stares. He made a bold and obstinate
resistance, but,
Ill'ving no other means of defence than
a slight cane, he was overcome by numbers, and cruelly
maltreated. At last he got clear of his assailants, and
made his way to the house
of the Austrian Consul, M.
Hubert, where he was confined twenty days by the in-
juries he bad received. A complaint was laid before the
French Consul at Galatz, who transmitted it to the
Consul at Yassy. At lengthan order came from the
Moldavian Government to the Governor at Galatz to ad-
minister due punishment to the offenders ; but he con-
fined himself to giving seven lashes with a whip to only
though all were equally guilty of the base
and cowardly attack,
one of them,
Which might have ended in murder.
The Count, dissatisfied with this inadequate satisfaction,
has removed to Constantinople, to
13; require the interference
of the Baron de Bourquene-y, who, it is to be hoped, will
act on this occasion as the Ambassador did in the
case of Mr. Churchill," British