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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. lam 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. He 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 mybedroom 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 be 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. 1. 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
he 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 1
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. lam now shown a note or .
letter and envelope which are marked respectively No. 2,
and I recognize them as a note and envelope 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 1 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
asixpenceworth, which I bought in Currie the apothecary's,
in Sauchiehall•street ; and prior to that I bought other two
quantities of arsenic, for which I paid Gd. 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's shop I got there
on Wednesday, the 18th current, and I used it all on one
occasion, having put it all in the basin where I was to wash
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 mot her at school at Clapton, near Lon-
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 I don't suppose they or any
of the servants ever noticed any of it in the basin. When
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 dmar-
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
I:i.oostmark of January 28, which are respectively marked
. 3,
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tered, ed, or caused to be administered, to M. L'Angelier ar-
senicter or anything
Mary Jane Buchanan I reside
Buchanan, at Dumbarton. I ameM
injurious. And this I declare to be
iss
Smith. I was with her on the Gth MawAcapi
truth.
acquainted
March
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cbii
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Dia'
ll-
street, when she wesnhtetowCure the druggist's shop. She
saidk l 1 irta twswa
asked for arsenic.
not
ask ash told she must sign her name.
The shopman did
senic —I think. sixpenny
pehdohrepr.astBoht:at she was. to do with it, but
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srsftut to kill
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as d Shethe y gotwer
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going
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before, and it was unsuccessful. Iphaosks
The shopman suggested
but she said it had been tried
I think she asked how much
to the Bridge of Allan, and that
leaving arsenic in the cellarswhile- there was no danger of
and ho said the quantity 1,71.11 d be a dose for the rats,
many. She said she oel s -
We had no more core •Ly j named would kill a great
were absent.
the idea of a , -versation about it, but I laughed at
nathing, but sk,,, ia(ly buying arsenic. Miss Smith said
Miss Smith - wished it for that purpose.
there to'- At Clapton, near London. We were a year
, laughed with me. I was at school with
since.
~ether, and I have been acquainted with her
lam familiar with her handwriting. I examined
I
'der. think I first became acquainted with Miss Smith inndwriting 852
number of letters in the Procurator-Fiscal's-office, which
I came to the conclusion were in her ha•
- ortnium she
or 1853. During last spring she wrote me, saying
was
-Lily also at engaged to be married. This was in the end of February
1 .
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last. Tho gentleman was Mr. Minnoch. She spoke to
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me also on the gubject on the 6th and again on the 30th