The Sun. — 1833-11-20 (London, England)

MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—Wednesday evening Richard Gripton, one of the gamekeepers of the E irl of Bradford, and an assistant, were inspecting one of his Lordship's covers, called Brockhurst coppice, near Ivetsea bank, when they separated. Soon after the keeper was seen pursuing a man down a field of wheat adjoining the cover, and bad got very near him as they approached the gate. At that instant the flash and report of a gun were seen and heard in that direction by a young woman passing along a footpath in the field, as well as by the assistant, who happened unfortunately to be at a considerable distance, but immediately hastened to the spot from whence the flash and report of the gun had proceeded. The body of the unfortunate keeper was found near the gate lifeless. Upon a post mortem examination, the surgeon discovered a gun-shot wound in the chest, under the cartilage of the ribs, and a number of leaden shots in the cavity of the chest, by which the heart had been so lacerated that instant death must have ensued. From the small size of the exterior wound, and of the bole made in the unfortunate keeper's waistcoat, which was also smeared with the discharge of the gun, there can be no doubt that the muzzle of it was placed close to the keeper's breast when fired off. The perpetrator of this act has for the present eluded justice. An inquest was held on the body on Friday, when, after a minute investigation, a verdict was found of " Wilful murder against some person unknown to the jurors." A considerable reward will be offered for the discovery of the murderer. The Earl of Bradford and his brothers attended the inquest, and manifested the deepest interest during the whole ino:Ary.— Staffordshire Advertiser. THE 'ATTEMPTED MURDFn. AT KlNOaToN.—James Gardner, who on Wednesday last, at Kingston fair, was stabbed in his left side below the heirt, by William Smith, alias Cobbler Bill, a member of the thimble-rig gang, left Kingston oa Sunday night. He walked over the bridge to the Middlesex side, where a cart was waiting for him, by which he went off, and has not since been heard of. The extraordinary circumstance of his departure, which has given rise to a variety of surmises, and which was undertaken in the most sudden manner, appears to have been agreed upon between both parties, in consequence of an intimation being given by Mr. Marshall, the surgeon who attended Gardner, that be would the next day, Monday, state to the magistrate that Gardner was so far convalescent as to be able to appear as principal witness against the prisoner. When it became known, Smith appeared on Monday before Mr. Shrubsole, the magistrate, having been brought from Kingston Gaol, and as there was no evidence against him he was discharged. Gardner, it appears, bears not so good a character as was at first supposed, he being well known to some of the police of that neighbourhood. FLIGHT OF BlRDS.—During the late gales, immense flocks of birds, chiefly thrushes, have been fluttering about the light houses on the coast. At the Is'e of May they were sorely preyed upon by the owl, and at Girdleness the lightkeepers caught till they were tired, having collected no less than ten dozen of thrushes.— Greenock Advertiser.