The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-10 00:00:00

THAMES OFFICE.

Yesterday Captain Thomas Armstrong, the master of
the ship Undaunted, was summoned before Mr. BRODE-
RIP under the new Act respecting merchant seamen, for
the sum of 71.155., the balance of wages claimed by Richard
Gordon, for his service on board, as an ordinary seaman,
on a voyage from Sydney to London.
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The articles were put in, and it appeared the complain.
ant had signed for 2/. a month. The objection stated b 3
the Captain was, " that Gordon was deficient in respect of
duty."
After hearing evidence,

Mr. BRODERIP thought the Captain was running the
man too hard. He admitted him to be a. good steersman,
which was a great thing on board ship, and that he was
sober and willing. It was really sailing too near the wind
for so small a sum as ss. a month. He hoped the objec-
tion would be waived.

The Captain reluctantly consented, and the wages (2/. a
month) ordered, with costs.

THE BURGLARY AT CREPSTEAD,
NEAR REIGATE.

APPREHENSION AND COMMITMENT OF THE
WOUNDED BURGLAR.
Early on the morning following this extraordinarily
daring burglary, information of the circumstances was given
by Captain Rankin to Lord Monson, who, is a Magistrate
of the county, and resides at Chepstead. By the advice
of his Lordship every possible particular of the dress and
features of the burglars was written dow n and transmitted
to Mr, Hart, the clerk to ,the Magistrat es acting for the
Reigate division of the county. Chepstead is scarcely more
distant from Croydon than Reigate, and :yet, from some in-
advertent omission, which it is to be fearcd there is-reason
for regretting, a similar communication was not made to the
Croydon Magistrates., The Reigate Ma g,istrates imme-
diately put a few trusty constables on the :look-out, and in
the course, of Saturday last, one of them., named Miller,
was induced, from information he obtained., to go over to
Sevenoaks, and at the King and Queen 7oeer-shop on Se-
yen-oaks-hill, he apprehended a man of neotorious character
named James This man was evidently, from his ex-
ternal appearance, labouring under a severe bodily hurt,
and, on examining his person, there was f )und a gun-shot
wound on the right breast, which had been clearly recently
received and poulticed. Miller conveyed this man over to
Reigate, and placed him under the care of ' Mr. Sargeant, a
surgeon of that place, by whom severall shots were ex-
tracted, and the prisoner was placed in a secure building,
where he received every attention till a ...Bench could be
summoned to investigate the serious charge against him.
On Monday morning a full bench of :Magistrates was
formed at the White Hart, Reigate.
The prisoner was then introduced, and In 3 appeared very
weak, and was allowed a chair. He is a naan twenty-five
years of age, about five feet eight inches high, with a deter-
mined countenance, and sinewy but not fleshy frame. His
hair, which is dark-brown, was worn unusually long behind.
He had on, a dirty half-washed shooting jacket, dark waist-
coat, and dingy canvas trowsers. None off his clothes had
any gun-shot perforations or stains of bloo d. In the course
of the examination, which lasted some iii ne, he repeatedly
complained of faintness, and at his request had water several
times given him to drink, and once was all towed, at his ear-
nest solicitation, to go into the garden for the advantage of
the fresh air. Some weak wine and water was given him
at the time, and seemed to revive him con isiderably.
John Mills, the constable, was examine d, and proved the
circumstances under which he apprehended the prisoner,
and the
,wound he discovered on examining his person.
On getting him to Reigate, he called on XII-. Sargent to
attend him. •
Mr. Sargent, surgeon, of Reigate, deposed to being re-
quested on the Saturday to attend the prisoner. He ex-
tracted eight of the shot, which he produ.eed, and it was
his opinion the great bulk of the shot s till remained in
his body.
The shot were produced, and declared b y Captain Ran-
kin to be of the same size as he chargeM his gun with.
It was his strong opinion that the prison er was the man
with whom he had a conflict at the window of Mrs. Lloyd's
room, whence he forced him to retreat, and that 'it was
him he discharged his gun into when attempting to get
through the smashed panel of the door.
Mrs. Lloyd and Mrs. Long gave decisive evidence of
the prisoner being the man who made the attempt to enter
by the window.
Rosetta Cooper, a female of loose character, and now co-
habiting with a man named Edmund Bundi e, at a little
cottage near the Angel, at Sutton. On the night of Wed-
nesday last, about eleven o'clock, after she hild gone to
bed, heard a knocking at the shutters, and cm coming down
found the prisoner at the door. He cause quite unex-
pected, and she was frightened at the sight of him. He had
nothing but his shirt, trowsers, and shoes on, and his shirt
was covered with blood. She was slightly acquainted with
him, having seen and conversed with him at Croydon and
other fairs. He begged her to let him sit down in the house
during the night, and she let him in, not know ring what to
do. The prisoner remained in the house durb 1g the night,
and left in the morning with no other article of dress than
when he entered.
Richard Coleman, an active constable of Cr oydon, knew
the prisoner well ; he was at the time of Mr. :Richardson's
murder apprehended on suspicion, and was detained in cus-
tody for three weeks. Curiously enough he was appre-
hended then, as now, at the beer-shop on, Seven-oaks-hill.
The Magistrates, after consulting toget her, ordered the
prisoner to be fully committed for the bur glary, and bound
over the witnesses to appear and give evio fence at the Old
Bailey Central Court. Edmund Bun, Ile and Rosetta
Cooper were each held to bail in a sum of 301. for their
appearance.
The village of Chepstead is a very sr :eluded one, and
only about three miles from Banstead, rhere the horrid
murder of Mr. Richardson was perpetrate id in the spring
of last year. The interest excited is inter !se, and is mixed'
with a pretty wide feelinc, of personal in, security. From
some circumstances that have transpired th ere is reason to
suspect some of the present gang were concerned, directly,
or indirectly, in the murder of Mr. Richardson), and it is
hoped the inquiry may lead to a clearing-up cof the mystery
in which that murder is shrouded:

.`•'. A son of Mrs: tio7v in Bos ton, and it is
added, that he will probably go through a couriv of studies in
one of the New England Colleges.