The Sun. — 1841-10-13 (London, England)

HATTON-GARDEN.  On Monday Charles Forrester, a portly-looking mit* aged 34, whose manners and appearance indicated derangement of intellect, and who was described in the police sheet as a chemist, residing at No. 2, Williamstreet, Chalk-road, Islington, was placed at the bar, before Mr. GREENWOOD, charged by Fincombe, No. 111, N division, with having wilfully fired off a loaded pistol at him, whilst drunk, with intention to murder him. Mr. Flower, the solicitor of Hatton-garden, was retained by the fricilds of the prisoner to conduct the defence.  Fincombe, 111 N, having been sworn, stated that on Saturday evening last, about half-past 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 a tight hold of the man. Witness proceeded to the spot, and told the prisbuer to let the man go, or he (witness) would take him t6` 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 hold of the prisoner's collar and separated them. He pulled the prisoner along a short distance, when he let him go, and walked along, speaking mildly to him, and he walked with witness as far as William-street, but he refused to tell where he lived. A man came up and asked witness Why he was ill-using the prisoner, and told him to leave him alone. Witness said he should not. The prisoner was a great deal the worse for liquor. Whilst the man was speaking to witness the prisoner dragged kiinself away from witness, and pulling a pistol from his right-hand-pocket, he exclaimed. " I)—n your eyes, I will give it to you," when he heard him cock the pistol, and as the prisoner was proceeding backwards he raised the pistol to present at him, when the witness rushed upon him and struck him on the breast and knocked him down, and as he was falling he pulled the trigger, and the pistol went ofF, but the contents missed witness, and passed near a man who was a short distance from the spot, who had a narrow escape with his life. The pistol went off very loud. The prisoner, after he had fired, got up from the ground, and ::e said to witness, "You would have had it safe enough ham you not knocked me down." He then put his hand into. hi.; left-hand pocket, when witness rushed upon him, and 11..:ra—is;:al until assistance arrived, and on searching his left-band pQCl:et another pistol, now produced, was found, which, on examination, was discovered to be loaded with two balls.  Sergeant Scott. N division, sworn, stated that two pistols were brought to the station-house, and one of them contained two balls. The prisoner said, "If he (meaning Fincombe) had had tho contents of the pistol, it would- have served him out," Mr. nowna said thit the prisoner and his friends were highly respectable.; but he (the prisoner) was of unsound mind, and he had a certificate to that eiFcct, which he now preduded to the bench. Dr. M'Cree, a medical gentleman, said that he did not consider the prisoner to be of sound mind. He was dangerous to himself and to others. le had been in the habit of carrying prusske,acid about his person. Mr. G REENWOOD said lie would eventually commit the prisoner to take his trial, but he would now remand him, in order that the officers might produce further necessary evidence on the day of the next examination. The prisoner vvas'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 he was conveyed to prison.