The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

THE GLASOoW POISONING CASE.

TILE LAST DAY OF TILE TRIAL.
[The dose of the summing up and the verdict in the above
awe were made known to OUT readers yesterday by our tele-
graphic despatch ]

EDINBCROII, TIIUIOII.Y.

The court opened this morning at ten o'clock. The
intense and unparalleled interest taken in this trial during
the previous eight day., was, if 'menhir, greater still
this morning. The rush fur adeniesion excited any-
thing before *litigated, while the immense crowds
outside rendered acmes to the court all but bopue-
sibk, even for those whom peceenee wee nreventiry.
As early as 'even o'clock Perliammit-equre W. 1.1 densely
crowded, and us the hour of opening the court approached,
the crowd increased to ouch an extent that it was dill cult to
reach the top of the Iligh-street. No scene like that which
wee exhihited both within and without the walls of the court,
wee ever before witnceed in this city.
Fur seem time previous to ten o'clt k, that portion of the
court not appropriated to the public presented au extraordi-
nary appearance. The jury entered the court shortly before
ten, and upon their lerdehipe' arrival the primmer wee placed
in the dock. lice appearanee woe teach the name IN it wee
at the commencement of the trial. There woo, however, at
lima, a Might .Lade of mineral in her exprewien, but no
trace of that anxiety and deep mental muttering to Le ex-
pected in a woman charged with such a dremifil crime, aLd
with her life in such imminent danger.
The Lord Justice Clerk, in rooming his charge, cum-
' tomcod with rending Mre. CI irk's evidence. The evidence
alKenneely, the enehier in Iluggina and Co.'., win nest
mad; after which Lie lordship said it was a mutat kale fact
that net one of L'Angelier's letters was found in the pri-
moner's room, although elle evidently had them all in her
pmeemion up to the 11th of February, when ehe told him
that, if he brought her letters on the Thursday, she would
return his along with his photograph. Pawing next to
M`Laehlate's evidence, hie lordehip again commented upon
the irregularities conneled with the collection of the lettere
However, lie did nut think that much difficulty or inconve-
nience had .risen tram this neglect. Whether some of thee
passionate letters 44 ben, espreeeiug with love for hem,
etetairly in meet licentious term', were written at one date
or another, war of little importance in tide raw. In regard
to the evidence relating to the opportunitim given to the
agents of the prisoner for conducting the defence, his lord-
ship said that eopioa of ell the letters in print bad Leen deli-
vered to them before the indictment was served, se that this
prisoner bad received facilities for conducting the defence,
which he believed no other party ever did. Christina Raj:-
gait was a moat important witness. The theory to be de-
duced from her statements wee that there was unquestion-
ably tan interview between the parties in the home; but that
interview teak place without the knowledge of her pen-este,
or any one but them whom the mind Mel herself told about
it. Witness heard footsteps coming in by the beckdoor;
ohs net the panel going towards the beekdoer, end
was desired by her not to come into her route fur moue time,
but to go into the kitchen. She awl the cook continued
there for mace than half en hour' end did not go into their
own nom until they heard the panel's bedroom door abut.
Ali that was exceedingly important, as it gave a key to a
good sunny statenieute in the lettere, whisk could only be
read as reterting to ape menet interview. It was extremely
iniportant, also, as coupled with the feet that Abe did leave
the home on the Thureelay morning erter L'Angelier'e
death **beet anyone knowing that she had gene. She
told him in one of her letters he could Male in lay the back
door, and go up the elide without her father or mother
hewing him. Ilia lordship thought that the only
conclusion to which the jury could come keen all
this was, that the panel had ample facilities for
admitting L'Angelier to the house if she wiehol
it; and decedent if there was evidence otherwise, no
practical difilmity lay in the way of his having an
interview with her in the house eat that Sunday evening—
certainly there am nothing in the form or arrangement of
the home to exelude his being there. That, however, would
not supply the wont of evidence of the fret, end if
they did fled then evidence, the mere failte,r evoe',l
peeve nothing. The Wattle:. never Pew any cultist 'ng matter
an the water in the IItIPOUPT.P twain. Really be did not think
there waft much In that. The jury might take another view
of it, but ha was disposed to look en it all ear false pretemee
—an exeme gut up to recount for her poweecion at the
eugenic. Mile en, the cook, corroborated liPtieuzie's state-
ment, but there woo notliog the "t her es idenee. In reit r-
ears to Duncan M'ltenaie'm etatement that lie had received
note, after having one L'Angelier at the I uctimierect hotter,signed M. Smith, amt explaining that the pen.. ho had
met vase a friend of Moe, and not of C. Ilaggert, his lord-
'kip raid tine WO.. just one of the mieerable ',hate to which
PIIO was reduced in order to meet her lover. James Oath,-
way mot L'Angelier wing toe:anis Main-street about nine
ark en the evening of the 2.!nd. Margaret Tweedie PAW
him at twenty minutia past nine at a certain terrace. That
tenwee said hie lerdstaip, was down nearer the river than the
house to Blvthstroclanuere, and in order to reech it, L'An-
'mime wloilla Ins obliged to pl. the pond's house; but the
dietanee was only five manatee walk fnau theme, and nit he
sweet to be too soon, there would It plenty of time for hint
to go lock awl meet the primmer. The paieenmn, however,
did net tae L'Augelier on that night, although lie had seen
hint about the home on termer occasional. The import-
ance of that evidence is that two witnesses saw
L'Angelier atter he left hie lodgings en the Sunday
night ; and the important feet was that having gone out
well at night, otter he returned from the Bridge
of Allan, he had gone in the direction of the
panel's reeidence. It use plain that he had been too
early at nine aclock. Ile had been too impatient to
wait; end finding he was too early, he went soil endeavoured
to find his •Nittaintonee ISPAtieter. It was naked why
11`Alister had not been celled; but he did not seer any
lecterny for bie being called, became he could only have
epeken to the girl telling hint that his foreign friend had
called, and the evidence of the girl herself was the teat
evidence es to the feet that ho had railed. Then there was
the centime° of the roan who made the photograph for the
panel ; and of Mr. Donald's emend emminietion as to the
peettearke in thin eget...en( which a pool deal of questions
WPM put i 4 iniportanoo about individual lettere. I. pen this
evidence hie lerdeltip said: This I may coy. gentlemen, fiat
—ace the attention of the plot-office was very forcibly railed
to the necessity of them poettnerke being distinct, in u COM-
mittliodiou front Lord Camille IL from the difficulty he felt
in a eviminal roes in mcartaining the postmark., of letters,
end aim in a eontenuakation I mat, fnau the difficulty 1
found in a civil ewe —I trust this will be the teat alatinen
en which the pnatmeeke are so carelessly impressed as they
have been. Non PM the large number of marks which MOO
co illegible that the date cannel be ascertained
in aurae cams the year being illegible, to others
the month, and in others the day of the month.
All this is stone in Glasgow in a meet ran:len and slovenly
manner. It is a very important matter for the cads of vied
and criminal jostler, that the post-meths should be properly
Mantled. Mr. tel`Donald Nays that *trice instructions have
been given on this point, and that new stamps have been
furnished iu teeny inettineee; and I hope the attention of the
pest-Oliee authorities will he still more directed to a metier
Omsk great iinveirtenee. Mrs. Tower., the sneer of Mir
Perry, was an important witness. She .peke to L'Angelier,
telling Inns that be need " Lem given," not that he had taken
cocoa and coffee whit le had dimmed with hits. Ile alto Mal
to her that Le had leen poismed,but he del net ray oche gave
him the patron. Ile said to her that odes did not mutely
disagree with hits, hut the cocoa he wee not accumnaned
to take. Mr. Towne, to inerthent in Clasense mid that
L'Angelier dined with him on a Monday in Portobello, awl
'poke of hie health, nod of hie Lavine twee attack. of Mane
after tekiug cactus end Odfe, " Ile said lie thought himself
poieened after baking the two*. I said who could
pee. bin? lie del not mention any one?' Then
we have 0 mom important wither., alias l'erry, whom
evklenee would revere to be carefully attended to.
lordship preeected to read OS, r Mies ferry's
evidence, commenting upon it tut he proreeded. When
he castle to the letter written by L'Angelier to her, in
whieli he says, " I received a letter too late to enable me
10 POP nine one," lie end that, Of renew, plainly was the
find letter sent to him in his retteenre. Ile did not Mart to
Glasgow on receiving it, became he got it too late to enable
Mot ins keep the appeintment. The letter which actually
brought him to Clemow wee alm too late if it referred to
Saturday night • but it was not surprising that on receiving
thie remind letter, vouched in rusts urgent terms, and im-
plorinit hint to conic PO pamionately, that he might clasp her
to his beam—it wee not ennobling that he should imme-
diately *tart for Glmeow on receiving in, oven although he
ianderetood the appointment to he for Saturday night, met
knew that be was wain bra late. Referring next to that pert if
Mks Fern''. evidence, in whinge ithe spat, m L'Angelier
dining with her on the 22nd Felinetery, saying that he had
expected to me the panel on the 19. h, and that "he had got
nom and chocolate which etude him ill ; " that " he touhl
I not think how he won en nnwell over getting that corona and
eh.,date from her;" his lordship mid:—here is a dietinet
etatement (non this man that upon two graTaPitalP ho had get
urea and decadent, from the panel. I piloted ant to you
I very etrongly that we hive no raven to team that the pad
IR. in the power,'" of arsenic on the 19th, and I pointed
out to you that there ie nn evidence of any meeting on the
lath directly, except whet is drawn from the letter that I
shall refer to afterwards, the deteof which the Lord Advocate
time no the Wedneeelny tater the 19th. Rut here is n Mate-
reent by the deed mein—good evidence. competent eeidenee
—you will judge of the weight of it; first, we have a
Metement of his, made at Portobello, to Mr. end Mrs.
Jones, that he was made ill after getting mace and MOON.
and that he thought he bed been poimned; end again, we
have thin statement made by him to this Mira Perry, " I
cannot think why I was no nnwell ever getting that cones
and chocolate from her." And rho Mated Mee that he raid,
" ile got it upon two different cataions. fie we. talking
of the panel at the time. lie raid on the 9th to me, talking
of his entenee tatetehment for the panel, ' It is quite an in-
fatuation, my attachment fie that girl.' I remonstrated
with him, and asked late what mons, she could have for
giving him anything to hurt him. Ile mid—' I do not know
that; perhaps she might not he Peery to get rid of me.'
There seemed to Ite a suspicion on his mind as to what the
panel had given him, but it ass not a serious suspicion."