The Sun. — 1841-10-12 (London, England)

HATTON-GARD.E2V. Yesterday Charles Forrester, a portly-looking man, aged 34, whose manners and ttppearanee indicated derangement of intellect, and. who was described in the police sheet as a chenlist, residing at No. 2, Wilhelmstreet, Chalk-road, Islington, was placed at the bat, before Mr. Gnr.r...woon, charged by Fincombe, No. 111, N having wilfully fixed off a loaded pinto} at him, '..bilst drunk, with intention to murder him. Y 7.. Flower, the solicitor of Hatton-gardea, was rerained by the friends of the prisoner to condat the defence.  ~r ~\~  • Fincombe, 111 N, having been. sworn, stated thnt on Saturday evening list, abouehalf-lust five o'clock, he was on duty in the Chalk-road, Islington, when his attention was, attracted by a disturbance near the Sutton .Arms public-house, and he observed the prisoner and another man in contact with each other, the prisoner having 11 tight hold of the man. Witness proceeded to thseipos, and told the prisoner to let the man go, or he (witness) would take him to • the station-house. The -prisoner would not let him go, and he said he would neither do so nor go to the station-house ; on which witness- laid bold of the prisoner's collar and separated them. He pulled the prisoner along a short distance, when he let lip- gu, and walked along, speaking mildly to him, and he walked with witness as ter as William-street, but he refused to tell where ho lived. A man came up and asked Witness why he was ill-using the prlnner, au& told hies to leave him- alone. Witness. said he shot* nut. The prisoner was a greet deal the worse for liquor. Whilst the man was -speaking to witness the prisoner dragged himself away 'from witness, and pulling a pistol from his right-hind-pocket, be, exclaimed, ‘• 1.),-n your eyes, .1 will give it to you," when he heard him cock the pistol, and as the prisoner was proceeding backwards ho raised the pistol to present 'tibial, when the witness rushed upon him and struck him on the breast 'and knocked him down, and as he .was failin,T he pulled the trigger, and .the 'pistol went of but the contents missed witness, and passed nears man who was a- short distance from the spot., who hid a narrow escape with his life. The pistol went off very loud. The prisoner, after he had fired, get up fruits. the groat:id, 'and he Said to witness, " You would hare •Isid eats enough had you not knocked sue down." He thsupoi Isis hand into his left-hand pocket., when witopss •cuthssi upon him, and held him until assistance arrived, and 4.011 searching his left-hand pocket smother pistol, now produced, was found, which, on examinatiou,_ weediscovered to be loaded with two balls. Sergeant Scott. N division, sworn, stated' -that ;two pistols were brought to the station-house; and on* of them contained two balls. Thu prisoner said, (meaning Fincombe) had liad'the contents of the pistol, it would have served him out," • Mr. FLOWER said that the prisoner and his friends were highly respectable ; but he (the prisoner) was or unsound mind, and he had a certificate to that effect, which he now produced to the bench. Dr. M'Crea, a medical gentleman, said that he did not consider the prisoner to be of sound mind. He was dangerous to himself and to others. He had been in the habit of carrying prussic acid about his person. -Mr. GREENWOOD said he would eventually commit the prisoner 'to take his trial, but he would now remandhim, in order that the officers might produce further necessary evidence on the day of the next examination. The prisoner was. then taken from the bar in an excited state, and directions were given that a strict watch should be kept upon him, and in the course of the day be was conveyed to prison.