The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

RAMSGATE PETTY SESSIONS

POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.--REFUSAL TO ADMIT RE
PORTERS.—On Wednesday afternoon, Joseph Ruddick
son of the postmistress of Ramsgate, was brought be
fore the Magistrates, when an examination was pri
rately gone into relative to the abstraction of the halve
of two ten-pound notes, supposed to have been de-
spatched to London on Sunday night in two letters.
On the Monday morning the letters reached their desti-
nation without their enclosures.
Mr. Ramsay, from the General Post-office, London,
attended at the inquiry, which lasted about two hours,
when it was adjourned to Thursday morning at ten
o'clock, when Sir William Curtis, Bart., Sir Thomas
Grey, Joseph Canham, E q., and James Trecothick-i
Esq., met to go into the case, but refused the admission
of reporters.
The two notes in question were intended by Miss
Pearce, of Ramsgate, for Mr. Jenkins, of London. lot-
merly policeman in Ramsgate.
Mr. Ramsay, the gentleman despatched from the
London Post-effice, compared the wax found at the
Ramsgate Post-office, with that with which the letters had
been resealed. He also compared the impression made
upon the letters with a small weight found in the office.
Miss Pearce stated that while she was preparing her
letters for post, with the halves of the two 101. notes in
them, she left her room for a minute or two, and the
letters uubesilcd upon the table, while two persons ward
remaining in tie room for an auswer 'respecting the
taking of lodgings. After an inquiry of two hours, the
ease was adjourned to Saturn sy.

LANDSDOWN FAIR.—Mr. Walters, the Trea.
surer of " the Bath Loid's Day Observance Society" has
called our attention to the opinion given by Colonel
Bailey, the Chairman of the Sessions, when the charge
against a publican for opening his booth on the Sandi)
previous to the fair was dismissed, We gave the decision
of the Bench without reference to individual opinions, and
in that decision we entirely coneuired, for the best possible
reasons, the fair had not been abolished, and Mr. Wal-
ters' own witness proved that there was no disorder in the
.booth nor any disturbance on the Downs. Colonel Bailey,
it appears, dissented from his brother Magistrates.
1:151E MURDER OF MR. HARVEY COMBK'S
KEEPER AT COBEIAIS,-.-It will be recollected that in the
month of December, 1838. Thomas Chipps, an assistant,
keeper to Mr. Harvey Combe, et his estate-Cobham Park,
Surrey, was brutally. murdered by four men, . named
Sakers, Allen, White, and Bird, alias " Burdy.” White
was taken into custody and admitted as a witness for the
Crown, and Sakers and Allen were convicted of the offence
of manslaughter, and sentenced to b transported for life.
Of the man " Burdy" no trace could be abpined for up-
wards of eighteen months, and it was suppoised that hp had
gone to sea. A short time ago, however, two persona*
who gave the names of longs and Johnson, were taken
into custody for ahurgiary at A(.aWun, and the former was
soon afterwards identified as the iaug missing Burdy.
The prisoners were tried for the burglary AO were
sentenced to be transported for life, but as from thP
evideace of the approver White, and other circumstane
it was beliefed 'that Purdy, who had been a
complete terror to gle OFT of Kingston and
the neighbourhood. for a Lang togi).,.kii.ng the original pro-
poser of the poaching expedition whi,e3? i.ett thin death of
the unfortunate man Chipps, and its thew) was ati.ong
reason 40 lellietvir that it was his hand that inflicted the genr
tal injury upon ,the bead of the
.deceased, Mr. Harvey
Collate ani his legal actstioent were induced to cons:der the
propriety of Wing him tried cfor.43 murder. The result
has been, ant ,titliing into eona;cler4tl9,7 the fact of the
jury having Warped arerdi4ts a manslaughter againit the
prisoner's compotoks, it was it likely that if Burdy
acre
to be put on his trial, any edger YAr.411.4 Would be yetoraed,
and as that would only involve theism( image!,
Lary, it was thought hatter that no further proeequiphim,,
reference to the murder abould be taken against ,
Burdy has since been removed to Portsmouth, preparatory
to his being sent out of the country for the remainder of
his life.