The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-11 00:00:00

TIIE MURDER IN WARREN-STREET,
FITZROY-SQUARE.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
A twofold murder of the most atrocious and deter-
mined :character took place on Friday night, about a
quarter before nine o'clock, in Warren-street, Fitzroy-
square. The victims are--first, Mr. George Moore,
soda-water manufacturer, of No. 73, Warren•street ;
and secondly, Mr. Charles Collard, green-grocer, of No.
74, in the same street, who, upon hearing a cry of
" Murder !" in the adjoining house, ran out, and in an
attempt to arrest the assassin was shot through the
body.
The circumstances under which this most diabolical
tragedy took place aro as follow : —About a quarter past
eight o clock on Friday night an engineer, named Bar-
thelemy, who has been occasionally employed by Mr.
Moore in his business as soda-water maitufacturer,

called upon him in Warren street. H• WAR accompanied
by a young woman, and both were received by Mr.
Moore as friends, and conducted into the back parlour.
where, according to the statement of Mr. Moore's female

servant, they remained together for about 20 minutes,
without anything having occurred to excite her observa-

At the expirati,Tri of that time her attention was
arrested by a sound of something like a scuffle. She
listened for a moment—the noise increased, and a cry of
"Murdei" followed. She ascended the kitchen stairs,
and as she came in view of the back parlour door, she
saw her master and the engineer, Barthelemy, come out
and engage in what appeared to her to be a deadly
struggle in the passage. Before she could recover herself
she heard a pistol go off, and the next moment her master
fell a lifeless corpse. Barthelemy instantly left the
house by the front door, but as speedily returned, en
being met by the unfortunate man Collard, who opposed
his escape. The assassin then returned into the house,
shutting the doer after him, and instantly retreated
by the garden entrance, which, it will be remem-
bored, in all the houses on the north side of War-
ren-street, opens into the New-road. Poor Collard, on
finding his intention of arresting the murderer in War-
ren-street defeated, had immediately hastened into the
New-road, anticipating that the assassin might endea-
vour to escape by that route. He was right, ; but his
judgment and admirable presence of mind have cost him,
it is feared, his life. Collard has a family of young chil-
dren, with a widowed mother. ltarthelemy was in the
act of scaling the garden wall and jumping on to the
pavement in the New-road, when Collard seised him.
The murderer instantly drew a pistol from his pocket,
and, taking a sure aim, shot the courageous fellow in the
abdomen. The ball took full effect, and Collard fell
helpless on the ground, the assassin rushing off, and, for
a moment, seeming to escape. But, providentially, this
second murder had been witnessed by another person,
who followed the wretch and speedily made him pri-
soner. A crowd soon collected round poor Collard, who
was carried off to the University College Hospital—the
assassin being consigned to the custody of the police and
conveyed to the station-house in George-street, St. Giles's.
Mr. Superintendent Fexall, with Inspector Checkley,
of this division, were soon upon the spat, investigating
the matter, and, from what they discovered, no doubt
seems to exist that the murder of Mr. Moore was one of
the most cold-blooded and determined crimes ever per-
petrated. The back parlour of the murdered man's
house presents all the appearance of a most deadly strug-
gle having taken place. The walls are spotted with
blood in several places, and the furniture, including a
strong and substantial mahogany chair, broken to pieces.
Upon the floor of the room was found a piece of broken
cane, heavily loaded at one end with lead. There are
marks upon the deceased's person which show that he
must have been struck with this weapon in the first in-
stance, and the force with which it was used may be
judged from the fact that the piece of cane which formed
the handle to the bludgeon has been broken into pieces.
One of the earliest inquiries to which Inspector Check-
ley directed himself was to ascertain the identity of the
woman who had accompanied Barthelemy to Mr. Moore's
house, and as to where she had gone subsequently to the
tragedy. All inquiries on this head failed to elicit any-
thing of a satisfactory nature.
The murderer has maintained a rigid silence from the
moment of his arrest, and has not even acknowledged
his name to be Barthelemy.
Superintendent Foxall, with Inspector Checkley, went
to the University College Hospital as early as possible
after information of the tragedy had reached them.
From Mr. Henry Kiallmark, house-surgeon to that in-
stitution, they at once ascertained that Collard was in a
most dangerous condition, and that under scarcely any
circumstances whatever could his life be saved. The poor
fellow was suffering great pain, and exhibiting all those
dangerous symptoms which generally precede dissolution
in similar cases. A brief consultationsatisfied th•officers
that the proper course would be at once to take the dying
man's deposition, and for this purpose the prisoner was
sent for, Mr. Cheekley meantime taking dow❑ the dying
man's statement. At a quarter to one o'clock the pri-
soner was brought into the ward where his ♦ictim lay
surrounded by his weeping relatives. The prisoner is a
remarkably fine-looking young man, about the middle
stature, and with a foreign expression of countenance.
On being brought to the bedside of the dying man, Mr.
Checkley having asked Collard whether the maw he saw
before him was the individual who shot hire, Collard re-
plied distinctly, " Oh, yes; that is the man ;" and then,
addressing the murderer, added, "Oh, you cruel man !"
Mr. Checkley then read Collard's statement, as fol
lows :
"I, Charles Collard, of No. 74, 'Warren-street, say
that about a quarter to nine o'clock p.m. this day' heard
the report of a pistol and the cry of Murder,' in No.
73, Warren•street. I went there and found a man at-
tempting to escape. I prevented him. He thee re-entered
the house and fastened the door in Warren-street, and
got out at the back. I ran into the New-read, and
caught hold of him as he was getting ever the garden
wall, when he pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot
me through, and I fell. The man ran away. Another
man was standing near me at the time, who tried to hold
him, but he got away. The man I now see is him who
shot sue. I ate certain of that. I have made this state-
ment believing that I am dying. his
" CHABLIS COLLARD,
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" Witnesses—
" R. Checkley, Inspector of Police.
"Henry Liallmark, House Surgeon, University
College Hospital."
A. rumour of jealousy having been the cause of the
tragedy was current, but could not be traced to any in-
telligible source ; on the contrary, the deoeased.'s gold
watch was stated to be rai.lsing, which leads to a pre-
sumption that robbery must kayo instigated the murder.

EXAMINATION OF THE MURDERER AT
MARLBOROUGH-STREET POLICE-COURT.

On Saturday morning the neighbourhood of Great
Marlborough-street was in a state of the greatest excite-
ment, in consequence of its having been rumoured that
a foreigner was in custody fur the diabolical crime of
double murder, which, unfortunately, is likely to prove
too true. About ten o'clock a cab was driven to the
front entrance of the court, followed by an immense
crowd, .who were yelling as they ran by the side of the
vehicle, and the cab stopping, there was a violent effort
made by the crowd in general to get a glimpse of the
prisoner, and it called forth the greatest possible exertion
of Welsh, the gaoler, assisted by Inspector Checkley and
several constables, to keep back the crowd, so as to per-
mit the prisoner to pass unmolested.
At about eleven o'clock the prisoner was placed in the
dock, before Messrs. Hardwick and Bingham, and was
charged with the wilful murder of George Moore, soda-
water manufacturer, 73, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square,
by shooting him with a pistol. The prisoner was further
charged with shooting at and wounding Charles Collard,
with intent to murder him.

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through Mr. Albert, the interpreter (the prisoner being
a Frenchman), asked him to give his name, whereupon
the prisoner, who had previously refused to give his
name, stated that his name was Emanuel Barthelemy,
and by trade an engineer, but he declined to give any
cello to his address. Immediately upon the prisoner
being placed at the bar he was recognised as being the
same person who, it will be remembered, fought a duel
at Egham, with a man of the name of Courmet, whom
he killed in the encounter. He was subsequently tried
on the charge of manslaughter, and sentenced to two
months' imprisoement. The first witness called was
Charlotte Bennett, who said—l am cot married. lam
servant to Mr. Charles Meer., 73, Warren-street, Fitz-
roy-sguare, soda-water manufacturer. On Friday night,
at half-past eight there was a knock at the door, which
I answered, when .1 saw the prisoner. He asked if Mr.
Moore was at home. A. woman was with him at the
time. I said he was, and showed them into the parlour.
I then went up stairs. About tea minutes afterwards
I heard a scuffle in the parlour, when I immediately ran
down stairs to open the street door ; they—that is, Mr.
Moore, the prisoner, and the woman—all followed ma
to the door. I tried to make an alarm. I opened the
street door, when I heard and saw the prisoner lot a
pistol off, but did not see it in his hand. He then tried
term out of the street door, but the crowd prevented
him. The prisoner ran back and bolted the door,
leaving me outside in the street. Some time after-
wards I saw Mr. Moore in the passage. The female
went out of the parlour with the prisoner. I saw 3k.
Moore in the parlour with the woman and the prisoner. I
showed them in, but did not go in myself. I then went up
stairs directly, and heard the noise of the smelling about
ten minutes afterwards. All was quiet till I heard the
scuffling. I heard no words pass between them. I came
down stairs directly I heard the soiflling, when I saw
them all going out of the parlour. I first saw the pri-
soner, who was walking towards the door. The woman
was close behind him, and Mr. Moore next to her ;
at
least I think so ; indeed lam quite sure. Mr. Moore
was close to the prisoner when he went out of the door,
and I saw Mr. Moore pushing the prisoner. The pri-
soner's face was towards the door, and Mr. Moore was
pushing him behind. The woman was near to them. I
do not know whether the prisoner bad anything in his
hand at the time ; I was too much frightened to notice.
When Mr. Moore was pushing, the prisoner turned
round, and I heard the pistol let off. Directly he fired
I saw the pistol in his hand, but do not know in which
hand, that I could see. Whcn the pistol went off
they were shoving each other. I did not hear Mr.
Moore say anything to the prisoner. About one hour
after I saw Mr. Moore lying in the passage.
Mr. Richard Slaughter Carter said—l am a surgeon, of
No. 7, Upper Fitzroy-street. I was called to see a per-
son who had been shot, in a house in Warren street,
last night, about half-past eight. I found a man lying
in the passage on his back, quite dead. A large (pan-
tity of blood was round about his head as he lay (n
the floor. I first saw a wound just above the eye-brow,
about half an inch from the root of the nose I fors 1
that the wound reached into the brain, and re ne brain
was oozing out of the wound, On further examination
I discovered two jagged wounds on the top of the head,