The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

ILITILAOB tALVARY C4Bl'.

For ll.c last few days the public of Glasgow have
been deftly moved by the report that • gentleman had hem
poisueed by hi. sweetheart, the daughter of a highly reepects
able family which moves in the better classes of society.
Three rumours obtained embodiment and confirmation whin
it became known that the young lady had actually been
apprehended at the inntame of the Public Prosecutor, and
that she is at this moment in the prison of Glasgow on the
charge of suxerected puieming. At, there is no public core-
nee's inquest in Scotland, the real feels connected with •
cash of this kind are difficult to be had ; but it is believed
Gaye the Rowe) that the following recital is authentic no far
era tt goes:—lt appease that on Moutley, the 23e1 of March
last, a young I reach protestant gentleman, named IL.
Pierre Emile L'Angclier, who is tunneled with the
home of Messrs. W. 11. Huggins, extensive foreign 1111-
' chants in Glasgow, died suddenly in his lodgings in the eily.
From circumstances which came to their knew ledge, the firm
we have named, on their own reeponsibility, requested Dr.
Steven, who heel been in attendance upon the deemed before
his death, and Dr. Thomson, to make a pot modem exami-
nation. This woo done, but nothing palpably extraordinary
was discovered. The stomach and its contentte however,
were secured and retained by the medical gentlemen. The
ewer having been reported to the sheriff's ilecals, alter in-
quiring into the eurumstianee of the case, they trace-
witted the soneich and its contents to one of our most
eminent limed ..hymiste for rhynticul anitlyeix. The
result of the analysis was the dircovery in the stomach
and viscera of a considerable quantity of irritant poison.
As there was nothing to lead to the inference that /iL
L'Angelier had himself them violently teneinated his ex-
istence, an inquiry eta ecarching character was inetituted.
it awaits that the deceased had been on a Abort visit to the
Brief Allan (a fashionable watering place, about 35
miles from Glasgow), from which he returned rather un-
expectedly on the night of Sunday, the 22nd ult., and,
leaving his ludginse about eight o'clock, be took the key
with him, elating he would be some of later than laugh
lie did return nixes two o'clock on Monday morning, and
wee then suffering great pain, in C001601Ue1112,0 of which a me-
dical gentleman (Dr. Steven) was called in, 'the prescribed
fur him without having the most distrait nutit that he wee
suffering from the effects of acrid poison. During the night
we learn that the young man was from time to time at-
tended by his landlady, and was often eonruleed with
agony. He became more quiet towards the morning, and
was left undisturbed; but when the doctor again called ma
the letterman of Monday it was found that bat patient watt
no more. That he was proved to have died from the effects
of poison has been already nutted. In the couree of the in-
vestigation which followed it came out, from oral testimony
as well as from the presence of a vast number of lettere.
that L'Aegelier was on terms of dose intimacy with Mies
Madeline Smith, tbe daughter of a highly respectable
architect residing in Blythwood-square, and there is resent
to believe that he left the Bridge of Allan in ronrequerice
of a latter addressed to him by the hay expressing • very
strong desire to meet him. Whether er nut the parties
really did or did not meet on that Sunday night is net
yet publicly known; but, in resorting to the extreme
step of apprehending Miss Smith, the authorities no doubt
acted on the fact, which is not disputed, that on more than
one 013111610/1., the lady, who ist only 21 years of age, procured
arsenic during the month of March at the shops of more than
one of the Glasgow West-end chemists. 'I Le 11014K).1011 of
this pooaon, however, is compatible w ith entire innocence,
for it is known that arsenic is occasionally used by young
ladies as • cosmetic. The thought that a highly and
virtuotsly bred young lady could destroy her lover is too
appalling fur belief; but the public voice supplies a rex-
ion in the circumstance that a gentleman in a much moss
promising and prominent poeition in life than that occupied
by L'Angelier had become a suitor for the young lady's
hand, and that he had been accepted by her and her patents.
This we set down as the tumour of the day. Meanwhile,
though the young lady be in the hand. of Justice, there is
nothing in her Pryseehngs, so far as known, incompatible
with =moire. She was judicially examirwd at great length.
on 1 uesday last, before committal to prison, and comported
hermit throughout with perfect calmness. The pritioaer
granddliter of the late Mr. David Hamilton, the cele-
brated atrliitect of Glasgow Exchange and Hamilton Palace.