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TILE GLASGOW POISONING CASE.

THIRD DAY.-THURSDAY.

The trial of Madeleine Hamilton Smith for the murder
of Pierre Emile L'Angelier was resumed at the High Court
of Justiciary, Edinburgh, this morning at 10 o'clock. The
prisoner still looked fresh and animated, but in the course
of the day became a little more restless and excited than
she had been previously, and particularly when her former
school companion, Miss Buchanan, and the gentleman to
whom she was latterly engaged, Mr. Minnoch, were in the
box.

Charles O'Neill deposed to the accuracy of a plan of the
house, 7, Blythswood-square, which he had drawn. It
showed that Mr. Smith, father of the prisoner, occupied a
house consisting of a street floor and sunk floor, Mr. Min-
noch and Mr. Douglas residing in the floors above. The
house was situated in the corner of Blythswood-square and
Main-street, into which several of the windows looked, and
among others the bedroom windows of Miss Smith in the
lower and partially sunk floor. Any person putting his
arm through the grating could tap at Miss Smith's win-
dow there, and if anything was let fall it would fall about
the level of the sill of the window, and any person inside
could easily take it in.
The declaration of the prisoner was then read. It was
as follows :
"My name is Madeleine Smith. I am a native of Glas-
gow, 21 years of age, and I reside with my father, James
Smith, architect, at No. 7, Blythswood-square, Glasgow.
For about the last two years I have been acquainted with P.
Emile L'Angelier, who was in the employment of W. B.
Huggins and Co., in Bothwell-street, and who lodged at 11,
Franklyn-place. Ho recently paid his addresses to me, and
I have met with him on a variety of occasions. I learned
about his death on the afternoon of Monday, the 23d of
March current, from mamma. to whom it had been men-
tioned by a lady named Miss Perry, a friend of M. L'Ange-
lier. I had not seen M. L'Angelier for about three weeks
before his death, and the last time I saw him was on a
night about half-past 10 o'clock. On that occasion he
tapped at my bedroom window, which is on theground floor,
and fronts Main-street. I talked to him from the window,
which is stanchioned outside. and I did not go out to him,
nor did he come in to me. This occasion which, as already
said, was about three weeks before his death, was the last
time I saw him. He was in the habit of writing notes to
me, and I was in the habit of replying to him by notes.
The last note I wrote to him was on the Friday before his
death—viz., Friday, the 20th of March current. I now see
and identify that note and the relative envelope, and they
are each marked No. I. In consequence of that note I '
expected him to visit me on Saturday night, the 21st cur-
rent, at my bedroom window as formerly mentioned, but
ho did not come and sent no notice. There was no tapping
at my window on said Saturday night or the following
night, being Sunday. I went to bed on Sunday night
about 11 o'clock, and remained in bed till the usual time of
getting up next morning, being 8 or 9 o'clock. In the
course of my meetings with M. L'Angelier he and I had
arranged to get married, and we had at one time proposed
September last as the time the marriage was to take place,
and subsequently the present month of March was spoken
of. It was proposed that we should reside in furnished
lodgings, but we had not made any definite arrangement
as to time or otherwise. He was very unwell for some
time, and had gone to the Bridge of Allan for his health,
and he complained of sickness ; but I have no idea what
was the cause of it. I remember giving him some cocoa
from my window one night some time ago, but I cannot
specify the time particularly. He took the cup in his hand
and barely tasted the contents, and I gave him no bread
with it. I was taking some cocoa myself at the time,
and had prepared it myself. It was between 10 and 11
p.m. when I gave it to him. I am now shown a note or
letter and envelope which are marked respectively No. 2,
and I recognize them as a note and euvelope which I wrote
to M.L'Angelier and sent to the post. As I had attributed
his sicknessto want of food, I proposed, as stated in the note,
to give him a loaf of bread ; but I said that merely in a joke,
and, in point of fact, I never gave him any bread. I have
bought arsenic on various occasions. The last I bought was
a sixpencoworth, which I bought in Currie the apothecary's,
iu Sauchiehall-street ; and prior to that I bought other two
quantities of arsenic, for which I paid 6d. each—one of
these in Currie's and the other in Murdoch the apothe-
cary's shop, in Sauchiehall-street. I used it all as a cosme-
tic, and I applied it to my face, neck, and arms, diluted
with water. The arsenic I got in Currie'a shop I got there
, on Wednesday, the 18th current, and I used it all on one
I occasion, having put it all in the basin where I was to wa-,h
myself. I had been advised to the use of the arsenic in the
way I have mentioned by a young lady, the daughter of an
actress, and I had also seen the use of it recommended in
the newspapers. The young lady's name was Jubilee (Giu-
bilei), and I had met her at school at Clapton, near Lon-
-1
don. I did not wish any of my father's family to be aware
that I was using the arsenic, and therefore never men-
tioned it to any of them, and don't suppose they or any
of the servants ever noticed any of it in the basin. W hen
I bought the arsenic in Murdoch's, I am not sure whether
I was asked or not what it was for, but I think I said it was
for a gardener to kill rats or destroy vermin about flowers,
and I only said this because I did not wish them to know
that I was going to use it as a cosmetic. I don't remember
whether I was asked as to the use I was going to make of
the arsenic on the other two occasions, but I likely made
the same statement about it as I had done in Murdoch's,
and on all the three occasions, as required in the shops, I
signed my name to a book in which the sales were entered.
On the first occasion I was accompanied by Mary, a daugh-
ter of Dr. Buchanan, of Dumbarton. For several years past
Mr. Minnoch, of the firm of Wm. Houldsworth and Co.,
has been coming a good deal about my father's house; and
about a month ago Mr. Minnoch made a proposal of mar-
riage to me, and I gave him my hand in token of accept.
ance, but no time for the marriage has yet been fixed ; and
my object in writing the note No. 1, beforementioned,
was to have a meeting with M. L'Angelier, to tell him that
I was engaged in marriage to Mr. Minnoch. I am now
shown two notes and an envelope bearing the Glasgow
postmark of January 28, which are respectively marked
No. 3, and I recognise these as in my handwriting, and
they were written and sent by me to M. L'Angelier. On
the occasion that I gave M. L'Angelier the cocoa, as for-
maamnitleyl,paisece the
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merly mentioned, I think that when I used it it must have
been known to the servants and members of my father's
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except myself, as they did not seem to like it. The water
which I used I got hot from the servants. On the night
I of the 18th, when I used the arsenic last, I was going to a
dinner party at Mr. Minnoch's house. I never adminis-
tered, or caused to be administered, to M. L'Angelier ar-
senic or anything injurious. And this I declare to be
truth.
" MADELEINE SMITH."
Mary Jane Buchanan—l reside with my father, Dr.
Buchanan, at Dumbarton. I am acquainted with Miss
Smith. I was with her on the 6th March in Sauchiehall-
street, when she went to Currie the druggist's shop. She
asked for arsenic. She was told she must sign her name.
The shopman did not ask what she was to do with it, but
I asked her. She said it was to kill rats. She got the ar-
genie—l think sixpennyworth. The shopman suggested
phosphor paste to kill rats, but she said it had been tried
before, and it was unsuccessful. She said they were going
to the Bridge of Allan, and that there was no danger of
leaving arsenic in the cellars while the family were absent.
I think she asked how much would be a dose for the rats,
and he said the quantity she named would kill a great
many. She said she only wished it for that purpose.
We had no more conversation about it, but I laughed at
the idea of a young lady buying arsenic. Miss Smith said
witlime. I was at school with
, near London. We were a year
Mies Smith
ibout asthec laughediapton
there together, and I have been acquainted with her
since. I am familiar with her handwriting. I examined
a number of letters in the Procurator-Fiscal's-office, which
I came to the conclusion were in her handwriting. I
think I first became acquainted with Miss Smith in 1852
or 1853. During last spring she wrote me, saying she was
engaged to be married. This was in the end of February
last. The gentleman was Mr. Minnoch. She spoke to
me also on the subject on the 6th and again OA the 30th

of March. On the last occasion she spoko of the mar-
riage as beim-, to take place in June. She spoke of no
doubt or difficulty about it.
Cross-examined—l live at Dumbarton. I was visiting
Glasgow on the 6th March. I had visited at Mr. Smith's
house at Row when they lived there, and I also visited at
Blythswood-square when I was in Glasgow. Miss Smith
was not in when I called on the 6th March, but she came
in while I was there. We went out together. She said she
wished to talk with me about her marriage, but I had no
time to wait. She said she would walk so far on the way
with me. There was a school premise between us that
whichever of us was first married should have the other as
bridesmaid. We went from Blythswood-square to Sanebie-
hall-street, and along it. This was the way I was going.
On coming to Currie's she said, " Oh, just stop a minute ;
I want to go into this shop." There were two young men
behind tho counter. We both went fcrward to it. She
asked for arsenic. The man said she must sign the book.
Sho said she would sign anything they liked, and signed
"M. Smith," and asked if that would do, and the man
said, " Yes." Miss Smith first -asked the young man,
" How do you sell arsenic ? Weald sixpence worth be a
largo quantity ?" I did not sig❑ the book. Everything
was done very openly. When we were at school together
at Clapton I remember something about arsenic. I remem-
ber either at lesson or in our evening reading of our reading
an account of the Styrian peasants taking arsenic to give
them breath in climbing steep mountains, and about their
having a peculiar plumpness and rosiness of appearance.
I remember Miss• Giubilei, who was a pupil-teacher in
the school. She was at the reading at the time, I think.
We were always obliged to be at the evening reading, and
I should think that Miss Smith would be there.

By the Court—l met Miss Smith by appointment on the
Gth March. She knew I was coming, and she wrote me,
making the appointment at half-past 1. I saw her on the
30th. I think I was with her from 3to half-past 4. I saw
her then in her own house. I had been visiting Glasgow,
for a week or two. Nothing particular passed between us
on the 30th. I asked her about her marriage, and we spoke

of it together.
Mrs. Walcot (formerly Auguista Giubilei) —I was a pupil-
teacher in a school at Clapton in the year 1852. I never

1
advised the prisoner to use arsenic as a cosmetic, or to ap
ply it to her face and arms diluted with water; nor, indeed•
to use it in any way. I never had any conversation with
her about the use of arsenic, that I recollect of. I believe
I never had any conversation with her at all about the use
of cosmetics. I recollect a fact occurring on our reading,
of mountaineers taking small quantities of arsenic to im-
prove their breath, and that those who so took it were re-
markable for their plumpness. I believe I never had any
conversation with the prisoners about this passage.
William Murray, lately page to, and residing with, Mr.
Smith.—l went to Mr. Smith's service in November last.
I slept in the room as you go in at the low front door, on
the left hand side. Miss Madeleine Smith slept on the right
hand side beyond the kitchen—a room which has twowin-
dews to Main-street. There was also a cook and house-
maid in the house, named Christina Haggart and Charlotte
M`Lean. They slept in the room at the other end of the
passage, on the left. Miss Madeleine once sent me to an
apothecary about four months ago. I recollect her being
missed from home one morning. It was al out six weeks or
two months before that I was at the apothecary's. I went
for prussic acid. She gave me a line, with the words, "a
small phial of wussic acid." I took it to an apothecary's,
Dr. Yeaman's' in Sauchiehall-street, but they would not
give it me. I went back to Miss Smith, and told her so.
She said, " "Very well; never mind." She said she wanted
it for her hands. I did not know M. le`Angelier by sight
or otherwise. I have posted letters for Miss Smith. I
have observed some with something like that name, but I
never could make out what it was. It was my business
to lock the area gate, but I sometimes forgot. I went to
bed about 10 on Sunday, the 22,1 of March. 1 sleep very
B 01111,". I heard no noise before the morning. Miss Smith
bad not gone to her room when I went to bed. It was on
the Thursday after the Sunday Miss Smith was found
missing. Mrs. Smith told me about 10 o'clock she was
missing. She came back at night. I recollect Christina
Haggart being unwell that Sunday. She kept her bed till
about 6 o'clock. After coming; down from worship on
Sunday night I went to bed.
Cross-examined—l went to Dr. Yeaman's as the nearest
shop. Miss Smith did not tell me to go to any particular
shop. She was in the bedroom, and called me from the
kitchen quite loudly when she sent me on the message.
The other servants could hear her if they had been lis-
tening. She said she wanted a small phial of prussic acid,
and I take care of it, for it was poison. The shopman
asked who it was for, and I told him. He said he could
not get itlwithout a physician's line, font was a very rank
poison. The family last winter were Mr. and Mrs. Smith,
Mr. John Smith, and Misses!Madeleine,
Bessie, and Janet
Smith. Miss Madeleine is the eldest, Bessie the second,
and Janet the youngest. I think Miss Janet will be about
12 or 13. She always slept with Miss Madeleine in the
same room and bed. I had no charge of the back door—
only the front area gate and upper front door. It was ge-
nerally the cook who locked the back door, also the front
area door. I remember all the servants and family were
at prayers the night of Sunday, the 22d. The usual hour
is nine o'clock. When I came down, I first went into the
kitchen, and stopped about five minutes, and then went
to bed. I was waiting at breakfast next morning. Miss
Smith was there just as usual. There was a young man
named Mackenzie who visited Christina Haggart at this
time. She is married to him now. Miss Smith and Janet
sometimes got hot water in a jug from the kitchen before
going to bed. I did not see Mackenzie that Sunday night.
Re-examined--I heard nobody go ont or come in on the
night of the 223. There are two keys to the area gate.
One of them is generally kept in the kitchen, hanging on
a nail. The keys of the front door are generally left in the
inside of the doors.
Re-cross-examined—The entrance to the back area is not
a gate, but a door. It is too high for me to climb. There
is broken glass on the top.
George Yeaman, physician, Sauchiehallestreet, Glasgow
—I recollect a paper presented to me by my Assistant, on
which was written " half an ounce of prussic acid." This
was four to eight weeks previously to Glasgow election,
which was on the 31st of March. When the line was
brought to me I went into the shop and saw a boy. lie
told me ho came from Miss Smith, Blythswood-square. I
asked whether he knew what he wanted. He answered
that he thought it was poison. I then said if Miss Smith
would call herself I would see whether or not she could
have it. Miss Smith did not come, that I saw or heard of.
George Murdoch, druggist, Sanchiehall-street —Shown
185 of the inventory, being his register of all arsenic he
sold in retail. There is an entry there, dated " Feb. 21.
Miss Smith, 7, Blythswood-square, sixpence worth of
arsenic for garden in country-house. (Signed) H. H.
Smith." Miss Smith came alone for it, as far as I remem-
ber. I was in ono of the back rooms when my assistant
called my attention to a lady wishing to purchase arsenic,
and I Came forward and recognised Miss Smith. I named
to her the form we must keep. sho said it was for her
country house. I was aware Miss Smith had a house in
the country. I signed the register, as also my assistant.
It was common white arsenic mixed with soot, in the pro-
Portion required by the act. I saw Miss Smith again on the
subject, when she called and inquired if arsenic should not
be white. I said it required to be sold coloured. She did
not then purchase any more. Jas. llickie delivered to Dr.
Penney afterwards a similar quantity of arsenic to that
given to Miss Smith, and from the same bottle.
Cross-examined—My shop is three or four minutes' walk
from Blythswood-square. The family were in the habit of
dealing with me. One and a half ounce is the quantity
usually sold for 63. The arsenic was not, I think, paid for,
but charged to Mr. Smith's account, along with some soda-
water got the same day.
James Dickie, assistant to 3lr. Murdoch, corroborated
his evidence. The arsenic was entered as unpaid in our
book, and put to Mr. Smith's account.
That account has
not been rendered. Miss Smith took the arsenic away her-
self.
Cross-examined—l have been with Mr. Murdoch for six
years. Mr. Smith had an account standing in onr books.
I put the entry of the arsenic first in the scroll-book, and
it was afterwards entered up in the ledger, charged to Mr.
' Smith. This satisfies me it was not paid for by Miss Smith.
Some sodawater is entered the same day as the arsenic.
Sauchiehall-etreete—Mr. Currie keeps a registry-book of the
sale of poisons. It is the registr
• y published by Fisher for
George Haliburtoo, assistant to John Currie, druggist,
the use of chemists and druggists. I see an entry on March
6. It is "March 6, Miss Smith, one ounce arsenic, to kill
rats." My signature and her signature follow. Miss Smith
said the rats were in the house in Blythswood-square. I
recommended phosphorus paste, but she said she had tried
that and it had failed. She said the family wore going
away that day to Bridge of Allan, and she would take care
to put it down herself. She got the arsenic and paid for
it. Our arsenic is mixed with indigo to colour it. I find
another entry on the 18th of March, exactly the same as
before. She then came in and asked for another sixpence
worth. She said she had come back for it because the
first was so effectual, she having found seven or eight large
rats lying dead. Mr. Currie was in at the time, and he
made some objection to her getting it. I told him she had
got it before, and he allowed me to get it. A young lady,
whom I took to be her sister, was with her. I never
heard of arsenic such as I gave Miss Smith being used as a
cosmetic, but a preparation of arsenic is used as a depila-
tory for taking hairs off the face. That is the yellow sul-
phurato of arsenic.
Cross-examined—Both purchases were made quiteopenly.
Miss Smith was accompanied by a young Seely on the first
occasion whom I did not know. The young laSl.v said she
always thought that arsenic was white, but I tali. Jeer we
were obliged to colour it by act of Parliament.
By the Court—Arsenic is used as a depilatory, because it
so affects the skin that it takes out the roots of the hair.
That is not the usual quality of a cosmetic.
John Currie, druggist, corroborated Haliburton's evi-
dence as to the sale of arsenic to Miss Smith on the 18th
of March. He further deponed —I recommended her to
take some other preparation to kill rats, and she said she
did not insist upon it, but she would prefer having arsenic,
as it had answered so well before. I told her she must
sign the book, which she readily agreed to do; and from
her affability and frankness I had no suspicion, and I de-
sired the young man to give it to her. She paid for it. I
did not know the young lady with her.
Wm. Campsio, gardener at Mr. Smith's house at Rowa-
ieyn, parish of ltw,V.-.4 never got any arsenic from Miss
Smith to kill rats, and do not recollect over having any
conversation with her on the subject. never used arsenic
there for that purpose.
Cross-examined.— We wore very much troubled with
rats, but had not used arsenic to destroy them. We had
used phosphor paste, and found it to be effectual. We
partly got quit of them by it.
Li
Robert Oliphant, stationer, Argyll-place, Helensburgh,
—I know the prisoner. She used to deal with our shop
for envelopes and note-paper. I have seen her handwrite
ing. 1 was shown a variety of letters by the Procurato*
Fiscal, and recognised them as Miss Smith's handwriting ;
and I recognised some of the envelopes as having come
from our shop. They were stamped with the initials
" M. H. S." specially for her.
William Harper Minnoch, examined by the Solicitor-
General—l am a merchant in Glasgow, and a partner of
the firm of John Houldsworth and Co. I live in Main-
street, above the house of Mr. James Smith. I have been
intimately acquainted with his family for upwards of four
years. In the course of last winter I paid my addresses
to Miss Smith, and I made proposals of marriage to her.
She accepted these proposals. The time of our marriaee
I was fixed between us. Previously to that, I first asked
her generally, without reference to any time. That was
) on the 28th of January. My attentions to her, I under-
`stood, had beau such As as to make her quite aware that I

was paying my addresses to her. She accepted me on the
28th of January, and wo atranged more particularly on
the 12th of March. From the 28th of January to the end
tmhyat she of March these was nothing which suggested any doubt to
mind as
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aware of no attachment or peculiar intimacy between her
and any otker man. The marriage was fixed to be on the
18th of June. Last season I made Miss Smith a present
of a necklace; it was some time in January, before the
28th. She went along with her family to the Bridge of
Allan on the 6th of Match; she remained there till the
17th. I visited the family while they were there. After
leaving rreceived a letter flora Miss Smith (No. 133) ;
that is the letter; its is dated "Monday" merely. After
she came homo from- Bridge of Allan she dined in my
house with her father and mother; that was on Mon-
day, the 19th of March. I met her at dinner again at
Mr. Middleton's on the 25th of March. I was not
aware of anything wrong at that time. I called on
Thursday morning, the 26th, at her father's house. She
was not in the house. I was informed she hal loft
the house. I went to Rowaleyn in company with her
brother, Mr. John Smith, to look for her. We went by
train to Greenock, and then on board the steamer, and we
found her on board. It was going to Helensburgh, and
then to Row. It called at.Roseneath, and then returned
to Greenock. We found her in the steamer a little after
2 o'clock. She said she was going to Rowaleyn. I went
on to Rowaleyn with her and her brother ; and then we
ordered a carriage and drove up to Glasgow to her father's
house. On reaching Glasgow I had no conversation with
Miss Smith. lea w her again on the Saturday following.
I had heard a rumonr that something was wrong. She
told me on the Saturday that she had written a letter to
M. L'Angelier, the object of which was to get back some
letters which she had written to him previously. She
made no further statement at that time. I saw her again
on the Sunday. Thera was no conversation on the subject
then. I saw her on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday
morning she alluded to the report that L'Angelier had
been poisoned, and she remarked that she had been in the
habit of buying arsenic, as she had heard at Clapton school
that it was good for the complexion. I had braid a ru-
mour that he had been poisoned. She said nothing, and
that was the last time I saw her. Before she made these
statements to me Iwas not aware that she was acquainted
with L'Angelier. I was not acquainted with him myself.
Cross-examined.---I was at the Opera with Miss Smith
and my sister on the evening of the 10th February. We
went to the Opera about half-past 7 o'clock. We got home
about 11 o'clock. Miss Smith returned with us. She had
been with us all the evening. The cab stopped at her door
and she went into her house. On the 26th of March I
suggested the probability of Miss Smith having gone to
Row, her father having a house there in which a seivant
was living at the time. In consequence I and her brother
went down. When we met her in the steamer I asked her
why she had left her home, leaving her friends distressed
about her ; but I requested her not to reply then, as there
were too many people present. I renewed the inquiry at
Rowaleyn, and she said she felt distressed that her papa
and mamma should be so much annoyed at what she had
done. Mr. Smith told me that she had left the house that
morning, and I asked him the reason, and lie said it had
been for some old love affair. I understood her to refer to
that in the answer she made to me. She gave us no further
explanation. She told me not to press her and she would
tell me all. We were only about three-quarters of an
hour at Row. We took her back to her father's
house and left her there. On the 31st of March it
was she who introduced the subject of L'Angelier's death,
referring to the report of his having been poisoned ;
that was about half-past nine in the morning. I bad
called to inquire for Mrs. Smith, having heard she
was unwell. My meeting with Miss Smith that morn-
ing was so far accidental. I have mentioned all that
passed on the occasion. On the 29th I reminded her of
the promise she made to me at Row that she would tell me
by and by. I had not then heard anything of L'Angelier.
She had not then mentioned his name to me, but she said
he was a Frenchman. On the 25th I called before going
to Mr. Middleton's. I called for Mr. Smith, but I did not
see him. He was unwell and in bed. I took Miss Smith to
Mr. Middleton's. He is the Minister of the United Presby-
terian Church, which they attend.
The evidence for the prosecution was further adjourned
till Friday morning at ten.