A poor fellow was shot dead by the guard of the Exeter coach, on suspicion of his being a highwayman; but, on examination, they could find no fire-arms, or powder or ball, about him, nor any money in his pocket. He had only a pair of gloves, an apple, and a watch, in his pockets. His horse had saddle-bags, in which they found only two clean shirts, and one dirty one, three neckcloths, and three pair of stockings, one of silk,. and five or six bundles of hair, which appeared to have been just cut from different people's heads, as it was unsorted and uncurled.
Before the coroner's inquest it appeared, that he was an hair-dresser in King-street, Westminster; and it is said, that being much in liquor, and having first got entangled among the coach-horses, he afterwards rode round the coach, calling out to the driver to stop; upon which, the guard, without attending properly to his condition, too hastily and unfortunately fired.
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