The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-27 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY.

The trig! of the prisoners charged with being concerned
in the above robbery was resumed this morning, shortly
after ten o'clock.

The first %vitness called was Henry Solomons, the ap-
prover, who was brought up in custody. Having been
sworn, he was examined by Mr. CLARKSCN.—Witness is a
goldsmith r and -efiner, at 58, in' the Strand; he has also
another shop in Coventry- street.

Mr. Robinson re-examined.
The Learned JUDGE admitted the objection taken to the
line of argument pursued yesterday,
The notes produced he receivea on the 14th April ; he
gave them up. I7th May, to Moss. at the New Inn, Old
Bailey ; none of the prisoners were present. They are the
same he received ; the I 0 U was amongst them. He
was in his own house when these things came into his
possession ; Moss was present. The notes and the I 0 U
wero all delivered at ore time, and by one party.
Henry Solomon recalled.—Has known tile prisoner
Emanuel Moses for eight or nine years, and the prisoner
Alice Abrahams for some few years. \Vas at his shop in
the Strand on Easter Tuesday la!t. Has a son named
Isaac, and a daughter Mary. On that day the prisoner
I Moses came to his house, and said he wanted to speak to
witness. After some few minutes he intimated a wish to be
private, and walked to the end of the shop. Witness then
went up stairs into his sitting room, accompanied by Moses.
\Vitness's daughter Mary was in the room, when they
caine in she walked out ; prisoner _ then asked witness if
he would purchase some gold dust, and what be would
give per oz. for it? Witness sail he would give from 31.
to 31. 15s. per cz. Moses then said he had a quantity of it.
Witness refused to take more than 30 cr. until he had
trizd it. Witness agreed to give 3/. per oz. for it; prisoner
said Very well, I will send my daughter Ailsey with it is
half-an-hour; before he went away he said, Remember, I
don't know you, nor you don't know me. He then went
away ; about half-an-hour after his daughter, the prisoner
Abrahams, came into the shop, and said, I have brought
what my father spoke to you about. His workshop is at
the back of the front shop ; he there keeps the materials
for melting ; she wsiken towards the workshop, and he
followed her 1 there are furnaCes there ;
he put a crucible
in the fire, and she produces some lumps of gold
from her bosom and from her porker.; witness put them
into the crucible as she gave them to hits , witness told her
she had brought more than he bad told her
ther to send,
and made some observations when she produce. a bunch
1 ..
of keys, and said there was nothing to fear ;
it ssas all
locked up safe, and ought to be all melted that day ; as. et'
it was melted, witness poured it off into two skillets, and
took it into the front shop; she followed him, and he
weighed it there; it weighed 110 oz. to the best of his
recollection ; he said that he found it much more than he
had anticipated, and was very much alarmed about it. She
took hold of his hand and swore a Hebrew oath that she
would never divulge witness had melted it. After this
had passed, witness gave her a memorandum of the weight
and price 603. per oz., the amount it came to, and the
monies paid over to her ; he then paid her 330/. in notes
and sovereigns. She went away with an understanding
to bring more. She returned in about half an hour, bring-
ing some more gold dust. Witness melted that also, in
the same way, weighed it and gave a memorandum for it
on the same paper as the former one. Witness did net
pay her, but told her he must send into the City for monel9
and she said she might as well go and fetch some more.
She went away. During her absence lie re-melted some
of the gold with sonic silver gilt-lace, and made a bar of it,
and gave it to his son Isaac, and gave him directions to
take it to Cook and Johnson's, the refiners, in Hatton-garden'
Whilst his son was gone, Mrs. Abrahams came back with
some more gold. Witness melted it, and gave her all
account of its weight in the same way as before, and on
the same paper. She came five or six times with
gold.
She waited for the return of witness's son in the drawing'
room, up stairs. Whilst she was waiting for him there her,
mother, Mrs. Moses, came up stairs, and said her husband
had sent her to see why Ailsey stopped, and that he was
uneasy. Witness said he had sent into the city for money,
and she seemed satisfied and went away. Witness's son
brought 400/. in bank notes and sovereigns, and ie the
presence of Mrs. Abrahams said he had got a check Peril
Messrs. Johnson, on Williams, Deacons and Labouchefe,
the bankers, and that he had got from them a 3001. note,
and a 100/. note, and that he went to the Bank of Eng-
land and changed them for small notes and sovereigns.
Witness gave the money to Mrs. Abrahams, as he 1)10_
re-
ceived them from his son, and put down the amount upon t""
memorandum. There appeared upon the memorandum the
state of the account between them, which left witness debtor
to them between 2,000/. and 3,0001. Witness gave her an
I 0 U, which was afterwards returned to him, and btl
gave her another, which, when he had given, be destroyed
the first. There was a portion of the gold which did
not not come into the account. There were some small bits of
gold which Mrs. Abrahams produced from a small bag hi
her pocket ; she gave that to witness's servant, Dean, to
melt, and said he was not to say anything to her father
about it. Dean melted it and witness weighed it it
weighed between 4 and 5 ez., and he paid her 13/. for it,
which was not put down in the account. Said she got that
out of the shaking out of the bag. The next morning he
re-melted it; Dean assisted him; he put some Russian cop-
per coin with it, but he had previously re-melted one of the
bars with about 70 oz. of silver. He did this to disguise
it and to prevent detection. He sent two of those bars to
Messrs. Bolt, in Cheapside, by his son Selim. On Se-
lirn's return he gave witness eleven 100/. notes and 100
sovereigns. Mrs. Abrahams came in soon after Selim's
return. Witness gave her six 100/. notes and 100 sovS. ;
siut the payment down upon the memorandum—that re-
duced his debt to 1.800/. cs,d some He then
destroyed the first I 0 U, and gave her the paper now
produced—(this was the paper referred to by Moss and
Robinson ; it was, " I 0 U 1,8071.-11. S.") His son
Selim was present to the best of his recollec-
tion ; he was about to destroy the memorandum whet
she begged him not to do so, as her father would be angry,
and he returned it to her. A portion of it got torn off ; there
was a balance due to latn from Bult which he has notlet
received. Has had dealings with Bales house for some
y ears. He had previously sent the same, Irish and Scotch
:
notes, and some foreign coin to the amount of 1401. or 1501•
He was endeavouring to get money at that time for the
purpose of raying Mrs. Abrahams. Messrs. Bult in the
course of the day made him some communication on the
subject. After having settled with Mrs. Abrahams, be
was not in a condition to return Butt's money. Bel, 5
bought at the rate of 31. 17s. 9d. per standard oz. W't•
ness made a good profit on it. Mrs. Abrahams did not
call for some days after, when she said her father was very
anxious for more money ; when he said that there was 3
great stir made about it, and he could not part with alitY
more money or sell another ounce of gold at prese fn.qt
and desired her not to call there for some time, as be
very uneasy about it. Witness also received a communi-
cation on the subject from Cook and Johnson. He gent
his young man Dean, to them on the Friday. Witness
was after this summoned to give an account of this :he
mat-
ter, at Lambeth-street ; he attended there on
6th, with his attorney Mr. Plumptre. He was CPI",
tioned by Mr. Clarkson, and after giving some answers,
witness declined to answer any further 9
the Magistrate let him go. Before he went to the Mngge
trates ha sent his son Isaac to the prisoner Mosee. :nd
brought back a message. He gave his son Sella ence
Dean some directions about the money. In conseq
of these directions he brought back six of the 1001. notes,
of
and 701. in Si. notes—the self-same notes. He got rut
them as well es he could. On Easter Tuesday he sent of
for money to various places. He sent among others
oie
itestior!
Woolf, in Regent-street. His servant brought him 12 id
in notes and sovereigns, after being sent there. He pad
some of these notes to Mrs. Abrahams. Ott the follesvieg
Wednesday he returned,by the check produced, the tnoeY
he had borrowed of Woolf.
Cross-examined by Mr, Sergeant BourAs.--He was
present in the other Court about six months ago,
some stolen plate ; he was told then that he ought to have
been in the dock. Witness said he would explain the cir-
cumstances. about

Mr. BOMPAS—Oh ! certainly.
A dealer named Robins, well known in the trade, came
to his shop one morning, and produced some plate ; he
asked witness 9s. 6d. per oz. ; he offered 9s. per oz. ; be
would not take it, and he was going away. He sent for
him back and offered him 9s. 3d. for it. He would not
take that ; and being some articles which he wanted, he
gave him the 9s. 6d. per oz. Some days after a young
man told him that the plate had been stolen by a young
man a traveller of Mr. Lias. The parties he had bought
it of immediately sent information to Robins ; he went to
Lias and told him that he had bought it, and sold it to
Solomons. •
Cross-examination continued—He was giving evidence
in the other Court, and was told by the judge he was a
lucky one not to be placed in the dock. He did not, to
the best of his recollection, ask the Judge for the plate—
he asked to whom it was to be given up. The Judge had
previously said in that cause there was no imputation upon
him. It was in the midst of confusion that the observation
reflecting on him fell from the Judge, and it was the general
impression that the observations were not intended to
apply to him. After that, Mr. Lawrence paid him back
the amount at the rate of 9s. 6d. per oz. He was in the
witness box when the Judge made the observation. It e
about a quarter before twelve, when Mrs. Abraham
on the 2d of April. He was alarmed because boldf uhna t
he had get into it, and suspected this was the g t
was lost. She went away to bring more after this,
but he
did not desire her to bring him any more. She did net
take an oath from him that he would not divulge it. He
believed it was gold that was stolen, and still went on
receiving it. He has not been out of a state of agitation

Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS--WhY
since.
did you not give her
back the gold when you suspected it was stolen ? The
gold shone too brilliantly, perhaps? Witness-4 found I
was in it.
The trial was proceeding when we Went to press.