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

Lv

sew, the evidence of this witness doer unque.tionably refute
two different illneeseri, each following the receipt ut claim/Weer
of cocoa from the panel. Now, gentlemen, you are to judge,
therefore what weight you au to give to these statements
made by 'the deeeiteed to this Indy in conversation. Miss
Perry evidently did not encourage Lim to entertain his sue-
Odom ; on the contrary, she maned tow 'eh to ley to banish
the thought from bin mind. But milt it Was avid. id camter,
and she tells you, en bee oath, thee she thought he enter-
tained a euepicion that the panel heel pest:Dud him, but not
a serious suspicion. Then he came to the part of Mi. e
Perry's evidence relating to her visit to Mr. Steel's home
after L'Angelier's death, his lordehip dim.ted attention to
the quation put to Mies I'erry by Muis Smith, "Is them
anything wrung e" as ■ very impurimat piece of evidence.
Why should Mica Smith reelect that there wee anything
wrung I' Slur had not seen Mice Perry fora time, and them
was nothing in the fact of lees eallieg to suggest moll a
question. lu referee, to Mi. Perry's statement as to ter
recollect lug the date of the abless after the clerk or ananuen•
eie had t,td bee the date, his lonleLip said—A more improver
iuterferenee with the examination of u w items I never heard;
and the whole eireunetaervis attending the preagnition show
with what impropriety three exiuninatiene have been can-
ducted. T Lie tidy is embarrassed with siwetecogniticate by
the Fined, at not one of which the elite iff Wad present, when
an intelligent man might have got the whole wformatien
we have here in the retiree of a quarter of en beer. A. to
Miss l'u rye ft 211611.8 for recollecting the dote of the Maeda
on the letb, bid lordship thought the had Meted in her
evidence very fair grounds foe the re-collation of that
date. It id true, he coutinued, that Das lady
is exposed to the observation that rho had
enconeaged • chinch Mate eorreepondence end engegement
with those prelim, had allowed the peal to visit tor, and
lead written ; and mainly that woe very strange coeduct in
a person of her station, teepee Leidy tonne:led, and at her
that of life, as elle was not a young girl. But eonietimeeyon
have seen that ladies of that ie.o of life hove a good deal of
interest in such written, and this lady seems to have Wu', a
sort of pleseure in being a confident in HIM attar. lier conduct
may be ezpleined in that sort of way; and, although it eer-
natty expose her to some oheervetion, I do not tbeiek you
can doubt that she was a wale.vs who eptke the truth.
There was nothing in her muner that coed load you to
detract icon. the weight of her I, 'simony as to L'AngeHer'e
talk Mout these two illneerice. But you are to consider the
Teatime—Does that amount to more than geeing rise to
strong, grave euepoion 1 Will it waerent you in coming
to the conclueion that she did give him mann? No doubt
he says to Mrs. Tower., a person emelt more acquainted
with society then her ranter, Mire l'crry, that he thougl t
he did get poison on thew ereasione ; while, on the
other hand, he distinctly state' to Miss Petty that he thinks
he got it from the paid. But you must remember that,
although he wee ill twat these ocessions, and seems to have
ascribed leis attic..a to the cocoa and cufla he get from the
pined, there is no proof that Lis ilniees wine really mused by
arsenic up.n either of these 012r84i01111. The re eiptens core
Impend to the effect, of armeical peisoe;ng, but
then so do many of the symptoms with bilious attack.
It hart not been shoe a that the panel was pauessed of arsenic
before the 19th. Any Iwamots substrata.", however, would
be roteprebended in the charge. Amense Mee did buy on
the 21st of February, before that second Ilatus, and there-
fore that feet of her pOilliC6Bloll of arsenic before the second
occasion, of source giver much greater strength and jwint to
reniark, that he did r' owe something from
Ire which mode him ill upon the 22nd of February.
Nis lordsbip then went over all the pestle es ',deuce lea the
defence. He world leave the jury to judge %Luther there
was anything oriole, in the talk of L' Angetier as to staide,
or whether it wan not merely the empty vepuering of a vain
man. The quem ion war, whether there wta an)teing in
his whele character which looked like a pawn who was
in any dearer of committing suicide; or whether be was net
a man of for too much levity to du so. From all they knew
of him, he believed he was not the man to du P 4. There mead
to be no reason for any depression of spirits on bre
part, so far as his worldly chruuletaneter were concerned.
Ho had a salary of 1001. a-year—woe better of than he
had ever been in Lb/ life before, and had every lemon to
ennerratulate himmlf, instead of being mat down or dermal.
His lordellip thought that it was not unlikely that L'On-
gelier had talked to the panel about the use of areerao
as a cosmetic, and tbie easy have led her to ass it;
or it may, on the other hand, Lave sue:petal
this excuse to her. The jury Juliet murder
the point in both point, of view, Dr. Ginned, Falkirk,
deposed to having been applied to by several partial tor arsenic
to use as a cosmetic, after an article had appeared in
Chambers's el 01011 a/ on the subject. That many a"iy women,
after Meillg thing, talked about in the newepepere, may have
hied whether anemic would improve their complereeoe might
be true enough; but be did not think that would satisfy
them that that wee the object of the primmer in puntesing it.
la reference to the evidence of the two perti. connected
with chemical manufactories in Glare ow, where lunatic
was kept loose and in open vessels, no attempt had
been made to connect L'Angeher at y way with
these woke, and there was not the *lightest ground
for supposing that Do heel got the anomie (rune them.
Ills Lordehip then went over the eorreepondence, reading
copious manatee from the more chameteristie passages.
Atter the way in which the primmer 'poke in them
ktters out sweet laver and fond clubroom --clam proof of
how eh regulated her peeeions wire—it wan not
much wonder thet cri 3333 nal intercourse should soon
have foll.•wed. They had heard a good deal from
the Peon about the character of the panel but
they had no evidence on the& point exeept what was Me rded
by the letters; and certainly he t say that these
letters showed as extraordinary frame of mind and
pamion as perhaps ever appalled in a court of juetioe.
In her declaration, the prisoner Led said that her object in
writing to L' Angelier wee to appoint on interview at
which she was to tell him that she was engaged
to Minnoch ; but aturly, had that Lean the ease
she would never have wished to a limped to the
heart," as elle expreeeed it in her letter,
of a man whom she had to inform that she was
engaged to another, end that alt relit i.•ne must be broken
oft between them. That that letter brought him to
town there could, ho thought, not be a momened doubt.
Now, then, gentlemen, continual hit herelehip, let us look at
the three charges in the indictment. The it.. charge is—
that she adminietered poison on the 19th or 20th February.
Probably you may be of opinion, trine the etatemetits of
Mi. Perry and other evidence, that the deceased del see the
prisoner on that occasion. But then rho is Cot proved Is
have bad any arsenic. or say other poiermouseubstence is her
remeasiou ou the 10th; and what I think of very great Oa-
' perfume Is, that there is no medical testimony, or any =Dyke
of the matter vomited, that that illness did proceed
from the administration of poison. If the dater had exa-
mined the matter vomited, and said "There certaiely is
weenie here," that would Mend very strong ground
against the prisoner. But, then, if you are not seeded
that it hail been proved that the Blame amse from the
edcuinistmtion of nay poiwnoue matter, that she Dad
arsenic or any matter of a pre nous nattier, even
oxalic acid, so frequent en arti In of domestic use,
In the Lowe, and when regard wan pad to tkt;
evidence in the deceased's variety+ Mamma at Mayunce' at
Mr. Miller'e, M Itobertoon's, rued et the time when the
Beards sew him—then you will not return a verdict of con-
viction tin this charge. The second cheep/ stands in a ,
somewhat different position in regard to the h
in no reapeet, it a similar to tbefirat ewe, for it nittread
that the illness areas from the ailininietratiou of arsenic,
or say deleterious subatanee. But, then, the way
In which you connect the primmer with a
meeting on that occasion is strange. Still, if you should
think vou can acquit bee of the fine charge, and there to tee
much doubt to find the second proven, then you will olr
serve how much that weakens the case tint has been raised
byte prosecution on the enrolees for renege, on the
change in the tone of the lettere, and the desire to
allure him again to her charms and fascination, which
could nut be accounted for. except of the Nur
proeion of some such murderous design; then. to that 'I",
the foundation of the mat in very limn shaken, and • blow
levelled et the preimmption that she entertained the per
pow of murder. Thee, as to the charge for ntunier, tbe
question fur you to consider I. a simple one. No
matter hew surrounded the prieouer In with grave sus-
picione, and with many eircumetences that MOM tO
, against the notion of innocence upon any theory that hr 4
ham pn•pounded, still, are yon rearmed to say that you
I find that the interview upon the Veil Merril has been
proved ageing bier She had arsenic before the inners on the
22nd February; and I think you will consider the elates
about merge arsenic rut it MAlM:tit' of the same stoop as
that told to the apothecary afoul killer,: of rat'
with it. She bought sere awe-Me on Ohio Gth March, and
again on the leth ; and it was certainly somewhat et-
tnionlinery Ant she ehottld buy it the day after she caw
bock to Oleagow. It inlay caste le great heel 14 relec-
lance in your maid to take any other view of the natter this
that she seas guilty of adrniniatering it some time before—the
where you may not tied out, or the exert
trerview ; bur, on the other bend, you neat keep is vire
' that this emsnie could only be aelniimetered by her if tee
Interview took place with L'Angelier ; suit thet intenre
enough it to
be Hie exult
of inference that
waty satiety you morally that it did take place, Oil
It rata upon inference alone, and on that infer-
, roe must be grounded your verdict of guilty se ths
mat% You will see, therefore, the Demeeity of red
elution and josiouey in dealing with any intercom you 1.81
draw from the evidence. You mese be perfectly eatirfied that
L'AngeliiT did liot commit suicide ; end the pn,bAirdy
you will be *WOW be did not, when yllowing
ou teak
fur a moment on the chance of his
Mali
about 200 grins of ereenie, after going out to Fee her,
when he hied not seen her at all, and without Mooring
what was to pore if they had not. Pmbably, I we. Ye 4
may divard that notion from your niindi ; And if To
come to the conelueion that he did not swallow ermuie, esa
must renierober that that will not of iteelf establirh the pi-
wrier's guilt. The molter may remain nowt mystenom
and unexplained ; you may not be able to account fort ousel
other supposition ; but still that eupreition or inference
sue
not be ground on which you .an softly or eatisfecterily
• verdict against the prisoner. .k greet and soluble
oar, I have elrewly told yen, may be node°l
inference and suepice.n ; but I viieh you to keep in view ewsin
e
neoesanry.it is for you to separtite as fairly and clearly
possible, in your own minds, suopieirm from evidence
80 . e_te
you have not rotiefactory eviden. eof this meeting, T:
the peison mum have been administeral at the lime IA D.
meeting. whatever may be yew wepieions, however Weil%
ing may Inc the probability against her, you nowt etnagr.
gep.t...ddutylueslin
the eel
aretagesabliehnoted tyhein epov Wirt era.
I.l.o,mebumtbeiarpuyipout
of
fact
FradjuuthpourYe'n'utbyuatbn'edinPagiwratrluit.uin:gny'outi4dir.coi°ll:l'ton ftr‘a'flinildr°44eb:p:mll:l:—A
onl