The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-THISDAY.

OLD COURT.

;Before Lord Chief Justice Campbell and Mr. Justice
Crowder.)

THE DOUBLE MURDER IN WARREN-STREET,

This morning, upon their lordahips taking their seats,
Emanuel Barthelemy, 32, engineer, was placed in the
dock, charged upon two separate indictments, with the
wilful murders of Charles Collard and George Moore.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and applied to be
tried by a jury composed of half foreigners and half
Englishmen.
Mr. Collier, Q.C., applied upon the behalf of the ac-
cused to have the trial fixed for to morrow morning.
Lord Campbell said that although the facts seemed
very simple, the charge was a very serious one, as far
as the prisoner was concerned, and granted the appli.
cation.

Richard R. Nunn, a respectable-looking man, carrying
on business as jeweller, in Goswell-street, Clerkenwell,
was indicted fur having feloniously transposed a certain
mark of the Goldsmiths' Company, to wit, the hall
mark.

The prisoner, who had been out upon heavy bail, sur.
rendered in court this morning.

Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Coxon appeared to support the
prosecution, which was preferred by the Goldsmiths'
Company.

Mr. Montagu Chambers and Mr. Sleigh were for the
prisoner.

The facts giving rise to the prosecution, the investi-
gation of which will occupy the Court all day, were
these:—Some time during the past year, a Mr. Thomas
William Austen went to the prisoner, and gave him an
order for a gold ring, to weigh eight pennyweights, and to
be made of standard gold of 11 carats. He called whilst
the ring was being made, and tried it on, and upon that
occasion the prisoner said it was then about being sent to
the Hall to be halt marked. After the witness Austen
had received thcriag.y.he had).lo weighed and found that
it was rather heavier than the English pennyweight, and
looked large for its 'Weight. In December last .ra.r.
.4..usten took the ring to Mr Cox, a pawnbroker, at
Islington, and from what he there heard he took the
ring to the Goldsmiths'-hall, and there learnt that the
hall mark was an old one of the reign of William IV.,
which had been cut out of some article of gold so marked
during the particular year of that reign, and transferred
to the ring in question, which was not gold of the value
the hall mark would pronounce it.
The witness in cross-examination said he had been a
Government officer since 1932, and was last superin-
tendent of the convicts in Van Diemen's Land pre-
viously to that. He had been warden at the Model
Prison to at him for his duties in Van Diemen's
Land. He left Van Diemen's Land in 1845, and
from that period until 1847 received half-pay. He had
been charged at the Thinners Police-court with attempt-
ing to obtain, from Messrs. Soamos, the shipbuilders,
11., by false pretences. Re had made the solicitation
upon the behalf of a Mrs. Murray. At the conclu-
sion of the evidence given by the witness Austen, the
jury stopped the case, and the prisoner was discharged.

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NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Gurney.)
TVilliam Vereer, a news-agent, who was convicted
at the last sessions of wilful perjury committed at the
Greenwich Police-court was brought up.
The case was a most remarkable one. The prisoner
had, without any apparent motive, charged a police-
constable of the R diviiion, on duty between Green-
wich and Woolwich, with having robbed a drunken
man.

The prisoner was sentenced to four years' penal servi-
tude.

(Before the It:carder.)
Robert Ashley, 18, labourer, was convicted in stealing
an ass, the property of James Granter.
He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.