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

THE GLASGOW POISONING CASE.

TRIAL OP

SIXTH DAY.
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE.
EDINBURGH, Momper.
To-day the court wu crowded es usual ea soon as
the doom were opened, and large numbers of people filled
the miners daring the whole of the day. The excitement
doss not man to hare abated one whit. Oreat numbers ran
after the cab which calmed the prisoner f, the court to
the poi, daring every danger from opposing vehicles in their
anxiety to get a sight of Miss Smith.
The prisoner seemed more lively to-day than she
did on Saturday, and smiled occasionally during the
recited of the evidence which allowed that L'Angehes
had been in the habit of giving arsenic to homes and of using
it himself.

The judges decided to reject the evidence of the decametre
ieworendam book, and no farther evidence of importance

was offered for the crown.
The Lord Advocate said there was a letter which It had
been omitted to read on Saturday, and which he was &Amu
alaruld be read now. - -- -

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The Clerk then read No. 79—postmark Olssgow—date not
legible. It was se follows
" If P. and N. go, will you not, sweet love, come to your
owls Muni? Do you think I would oak you if I saw danger
in the home f No, love, I would not, Iw al let you In, lad
no ono con see you. I will make it ate—twelve jf
you please, I am so laming to me you, my own
beloved. Sweet, dear Emile, I as. your sweet Nola
I hear you my you will mato to see your Mimi—clav ler
to your bveam, sad cell bee your own pet—your wife. EaDs
wiH not refuse mt ; I know you will not. • • • 1 mai
not wish you a merry Christmas, but I shall wish we say
spend the next together, and then be happy."
Thirty-one witnesses were examined for the defence.

Robak Baker resided with deceased in Edinburgh in 1851,
whoa he wee very low-spirited about a disappointment la
love, sad once threatened to throw himself out of the win.
dow, and another time spoke of throwing himeelf off the

Boma winsome from Dundee stated that on one ocrsaios,
ea hewing sf the marriage of a lady he had been in lon
witk, ha teak up a large hails from the counter and threat-
ened to stab Mass f; th►t ho amend times threatened ce
spoke of self-deotrumket by different means; that be hal
onto spoken of giving some horns anionic while in Francs,
to give them wind for their journey, and, when asked if ha
we not afraid to do so, mid, " So far hum that, I have tam
it myself." He said he took it to relieve pain. He had miss
hash seen to take poppy seed in considerable quantities.
To one witness be had apoken of using arsenic rental,.

To Alexander Millar, ofOlaagow, he had once said the
he thought it no gin fur a person to take his own life sad
thus get out of this world if he oonld not be happy in lt.
Wawa said deceased had frequently severe bowel oom•
plaint&
Janet Christie had heard demand, and Agnes mlime
had hoard prisoner speak of using meek fur the complexions
and several drugging deposed to having leen on occasions
asked for it for that purpose.

William Roberts sad Charles Baird spoke to occasions on
which deceased had been taken very auddealy and severely
ill with vomiting and purging.
Several witnesses deposed to deceased being somewhat tut,
truthful as well as boastful.

Charles Adam, druggist, of Costbridge, deposed to • per.
son of appearance like deceased purchasing laudanum at lais
shop on a Sunday afternoon, about the end of March.
James Dickson, druggist, of Baillieston, on the way Gas
Coatbridgr to Glasgow, spoke of a person extremely like the
photograph of deceased corning in on a Sunday about ths
same time, complaining of bowel complaint, and getting
laudanum.

Miss Kirk, daughter of a druggist in Gallowgete, Gr.
gow, deposed to giving medicine on Sunday evening to s
person strikingly like the photograph, but did not ruler,
what It wu. It was not arsenic.
Witnesses deposed to the wide circulation of en article it
Chambers' lownsist, Blackwood's Nagwziro, ise., in which the
use of arsenic as a oosneetic is spoken of.
The following lettere were then read by the Derr d
Faculty
"Dated September, 1855.
"Beloved Emile, 1 havejust received your note. I sloll
meet you. Ido not care though I bringdisgraceon mpg'
• • You are young, it you, who ought to debt
life, wanting to end it. Dear Emile, for the sake of nose
own loving Minnie, you should desire to live. Every me
will meet with dimppointment, you know."
A letter dated Oct. 19, 1855. In this letter the prior
urges the deceased not to be vexed at her parents' dislike is
her engagement with him. If they knew anything abed
' him, she says they would have no objection. She adds that
before long she will acknowledge him as her husband.
A letter, dated Tuesday, refers to a conversation she
had had with the deceased, and tells him the don
not believe she ever heard any young lady at school, all the
time she was there, err of the thing Le mentioned. Mb
did not think they were so bed.
Doctor Paterson, of Leith, had attended item run cl
suicide by um* in which the suicides, except one, who
confessed after recovery, denied to the last having tales
poison.
Two storekeepers of manuferturing obsenists spoke to the
extensive use of snare in their premises, and the pondalej
of its abstraction.
Janet Smith—l am a sister of Madeleine Smith. lon
thirteen years old. I was living in my father's bean b
the lot week in spring, in Blythawood-square. I
dept in the manse room and bed with Madder
I generally went to bed before her. On Sundays le
both went at the same time. In general it war 111
same thing every Sunday. I remember Sunday, 231
March. 1 and nip sister went to bed at the same time thl
night. Imn quite sore of that. It would be about halfiel
tea o'clock, or alter ft a little. We went don aster tor
then hem the dining-seen I don't recollect who el
la bed test. We wen both undreseing at the sul
Hew We balk got Into bed warty at the same time. Ift
take about MN= hose waft to nudism We wrens
pentlesbr loon 7 undroning that Bight. My *lf
was la bed with the blurs I was asleep. Sho wee •
her algbt.dethss w red. I don't know Ur
of r fell Wisp bd. I don't think it was vet
keg after noon to bed that 1 went to sleep. I don't re
collect papa nuking • pram* of a necklace to my silt
lately. I recollect him doing so noon then a year ago.
By the Lord Advocate—l hers seen my cuter nit
tenth I never saw her make ft In her rota
es
bpi a packet of it in her room. There wee a dye in if
mom. We went to bed on the 22nd same time as rad it
Sundays. I remember the morning Madeleine went aver
I don't know whether she was in bed. She was sway w
I awoke.
By the Dean—l raw my sinter taking her cocoa in
dining-roomi. I don't know about her being recomrneri
to take bee • good thing for her. There was no math
that I know of in the how* who took It. Madeleine al
to keep it in her own room, and take it in the dining row
On the Monday moaning, after Sunday 22nd. I found le
in bed in the morning when I awoke at eight o'clock. Ift
up era.
Dr. James Laurie, of Glasgow, was next erred
and stated that he had made experiments en
Cunth's arsenic by washing his hands and ewe en
it, and the only proutirde etfeet produced was • searnB
the skin. Bo olio stated that he would not earidor the 01
ed it in this mew as dangerous; and would set Willie
roesnothel Is writer Tornio on the skin.
De. Mayo. et
is
_she nimbi& sod
that the ononot of or
Mewing in add worth the
small that he did sat elik it weal berth gliedy; sod dee
that the ed owls ,ate
sad is dir
colas slid often ovoid bath the dad • d
ingenriog Its }slams Abets. He 611
that jaundice. that& sonotion obseevable, woe Candy•
secondary effect of arsenical poisoning. In hie error
miostion ho said the absorption of the colonels' 0808
by the blood was the cause of the appearance of the ejn
Mr. Hugh Hart, a druggist, hem Glasgow. err list
the distance from the Raids,. of Allan to Stirling was br
two to three miles. The distance from Costbridge bln
Great Western road was eight mitre or so.
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to be addressed by the conned.

TOE SUPPOSED MURDER AT CARDIFF.-1
foreign captain is not, as was at first supposed, deed. it
trite that he leaked some very severe stabs and was throe
overboard by Davis, the amencen mate; but it appeemdel
the circumstance was observed by the crow of another es.
who fortunately rescued him and put him whore oe
dock, when he crawled away to his vessel, and wss coax
to his hod until Saturtlay. afternoon, when be weld M O
dl
station-house, and save information of the outrage S
superintendent of police.
11115-PROOF Lubles' DREsses.—Within t Wry
short time two young ladies have been burnt to &elk, Ogg
to their light muslin dresses catching arc from a brit
match—one In London, the other et Cokbester. It 0140°
be gwareelly knoem that all ladle. light Mesas may Wei
fireproof at • MOM scentual met. by stesTing d
lines or cotton used in making thorn, in • dilu:des'J':
elo
chloride of lino. We have sees the very finest ambit
bit in the Same of a candle, and charred le aIA
=li the least Same; and we have been feinted. to
slate Clara Webster wee burnt to death. from her der,_
catebieg ire cm the stage, the muslin dresses el ill le
dancers at the beet theatres are made fireproof. 01: air
isormere Amid Mks the hint.—Mediesi 21sers.