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THE GLASGOW POISONING CASE.

EDINBURGH, JULY 6.
MONDAY--SIXTH DAY.

The High Court met this morning at 10 o'clock
to proceed with the trial of Miss Madeleine Smith
for murder.

The Judges first gave their opinion as to the re-
ception of the deceased's diiry or memorandum-
book, the entries in which were made opposite the
dates February 11 to March 14, and one or two of
which were offered in proof of the first and second
charges of the indictment. Its admissibility raised
a question entirely new, and their lordships differed
in opinion. The Lord Justice Clerk and Lord
Flandyside were of opinion that it would be highly
dangerous to receive as evidence a writing which
might have been idle and purposeless, or might
have' been a record of unfounded suspicions and
malicious charges, which was only meant for the
eye of the writer, and was subject to no test by
which the seriousness or truth of the statements
therein made could be ascertained. Lord Ivory, on
the other hand, considered that the evidence should
be admitted quantum valeat. The evidence was re-
jected in accordance with the opinion of the majo-
rity of the Court.
The following letter, No. 79 of inventory for the
Crown, was put in as evidence by the Lord Advo-
cate : •

" Monday.

" If • P. and M. go, will you not, sweet love, cone to
your Mimi ? Do you think I would ask you if I saw
danger in the house ? No, love, I would not. I shall let
you in ; no one shall see you. We can make it late-12,
if you please. You have no bog walk. No, my own
beloved. My sweet dear Emile. Emile, I see yoar sweet
dear smile. I hear you say you will come and see your
Mimi, clasp her to your bosom, and kiss her, call her
your own pet, your wife. Emile will not refuse me.
. . . I need not wish you a merry Christmas, but
I shall wish tbat we may spend the next together, and
that we shall then be happy."
Mrs. Janet Anderson was examined to provethat
at a party at Mrs. Wilkie's on Feb. 5 the prisoner
denied that the necklace she had on was given her
by Mr. Minnocb, and said it was given her by her
papa.
This closed the evidence for the Crown.
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE.

The Dean of Faculty said that reference would
nccessai ily be made to affairs of a delicate naurein
which the deceased had been engaged at an earlier
period of his life, and he was anxious to avoid
names being mentioned unnecessarily ; and he had
no doubt his learned friend on the other side would
assist him in doing so.
Robert Baker, grocer, St. Heliers, Jersey—l
lived at Edinburgh in 1851-2, and acted as waiter
in the Rainbow Tavern. When there I was ac-
quainted with L'Angelier. He lived in the Rain-
bow between six and nine months, so far as I can
recollect. He lived there until the time he went to
Dundee. We slept together. The tavern was then
kept by Mr. G. Baker, an uncle of mine. L'Angelier
was then in a very destitute state, living in fact
on my uncle's bounty. He was waiting till he could
hear of a situation. I took him for a quiet sort of a
person, but he was very easily excited. He was at
times subject to low spirits. Latterly he told me,
on more than one occasion, he was tired of his
existence, and he sometimes spoke of suicide. On
one occasion he got up in the night, and opened
the window. 1 got up and asked him what hs was
doing, and he said, if I had not disturbed him he
would have thrown himself out. The windows are
about six stories from the ground. He was very
often in the habit of getting up during the night,
walking about the room, and weeping. I was
aware he had met with disappointment in a love
matter, but he did not mention it to me. It was
my uncle who told me of it. I have heard him talk
about it to others. It wassome lady in Fife. He was
distressed he had no situation, and that he could not
keep his engagement with her. We were in the habit
of taking morning walks together. We occasionally
walked to Leith-p'er. He one morning said he had a
good mind to throw himself over, as he was quite tired
of his existence. I have heard him read of news-
paper cases of suicide, and he would say this person
had done what he should do if he had the same
c iurage.

Cross-examined by the Lord Advocate—L'Ange-
lier was a Jersey man, and I had met him there
some time about 1846.
Re-examined and shown No. 1, first inventory
for prisoner—That is a letter from himto me,
written in Dundee. (In that letter he says, alter
saying he had just landed in Dundee, and had got
a situation in which he was working for board and
lodging only, and with almost no salary :—"
Dever was so unhappy in my life. I wish I bad
courage to blow my brains out.")
William Pringle Laird, nurseryman, of Dundee
—I was acquainted with the late Emile L'Angelier.
I knew him when in the service of Dickson and Co.
in Edinburgh,
~ in 1843. I took him into my own
employment in 1852. He had been in France for
some time in the interval. He came to me on Old
Hansel Monday of 1852 (26th Jan.) He remained
till the end of August or the IFt Sept. He was a
very sober young man, kind and obliging, but ex-
citable and changeablein his temperament—some-
times very melancholy, and sometimes very blyth-
some. He was very aull and unwell when he first
came to me. He did not tell me the cause at first,
but he shortly afterwards told me of a cross in love
he had got. He told me it was reported the lady
was to be married to another, but that he scarcely
believed it, as he did not think she could.take an-
other, because (as I understood him to say) she
was pledged to him. He told me who she was. I
believe she was in the middle station of life. After
this I saw the lady's marriage in the newspapers.