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L'Angelier saw the notice of the marriage. William
Pringle, my cousin, was mrppren.tice at the time.
Be, or some other one, told me of something
'L'Angelier had done, which led me to 'speak to
him. I . told. him I was sorry to see him so sad,
and was still more sorry to hear he bad taken up
a knife to stab himself; • He said very little.
I said what I could to soothe him ; but he said
he was truly 'miserable, and he wished he was out
of this world, or somethi* to that effect. He was
in a very melancholy stale after this. He 'was
.gloomy and moody, and sever spoke to .any one.
I had frequent con veraations with him. He attended
church regularly and was a. very moral lad, but be
did not Sho-w anything particularly religious about
him. He sometimes went to church with me, and
sometimes to the English chapel. He often told me
of being in France, and of being in . Paris during
the Revolution of 1848. He told me he was engaged
in it.' He told me he was a member of the National
Guard. He was rather a win man. He came to me
as an extra hand. He offered to come for bed and
board, and Bs. or Ms. a week, and he got that.
Wm._ Pringle, nephew t) .last wanes., and for
some time his apprentice—l slept with the deceased
• and had frequent conversations with him. I told
him I had heard of a marriage being in the news-
papers—that such a lady bad been married. He
seemed much agitated, ant ran once or twice be-
hind the counter, and than he took hold of the
counter knife and held it as if to stab himself. I
stepped forward and he put it down again. I don't
remember what he said. He was particularly
melancholy after this, and I telt a little afraid he
might do himself some mischief. - •
Aed. ew Watson Smith—l am an upholsterer in
Dundee, and was acquainted with L'Angelier. I
was then living at Newport, opposite the Tay. He
was in the habit of com.ng to este me there. We
slept together when he came. I thought him a very.
-excitable sort of character ; he was often in very
high spirits and often in very low. Be told me of a
disappointment in love he bad, had—that he bad
been engaged to a lady for a number of years, that
the match had been broken off, and that he fre-
quently felt inclined to destroy himself. He showed
nab a ring be had got from the lady. I. think her
name was engraved on it. He sometimes spoke
about drowning himself, and said that he couldnever
be happy again. I have a faint remembrance that he
said he had once gone to the Dean-bridge, in Edin-
burgh, to throw himself over, becaase this lady had
jilted him. He did not say what tad hindered him.
Self-destruction was a very frequent subject
of conversation with him. lie appeared to
be serious when he spoke of it, lut I did not seri-
ously apprehend that he would To it. I did not
think he had the courage. It was in his low moods
he spoke about suicide. He toldrne about having
been in France at the time of the Revolution, and
that be had felt very nervous after leaving there,
which he attributed to the exciteuent. He said he
thought he frequently heard a noise behind him as
of a• number of rats running along. When he spoke
about the lady who had jilted him he was always
very excited, and once I remember his crying, as if
in great grief. When he talked of destroying him-
self, it was by means of drowning that he threatened
to do so.

W. Anderson—l had a nursery and seed shop in
Dundee in 1852. I became acquainted with Emile
L'Angelier while he was. in Mr. Laird's shop. I
had occasional conversations with him. He seemed
of a sanguine and excitable disposition, and his
about were
Once t
tml andiuemcehs.thheemi
ins tai bun ildye ebtoooalfvs
boasted
do nhovofeursse hisa,t isouwnchcheeesus s pwotiiktihee
conversation was that of a vain person. When
conversation turned that way, he told me he was
very intimate with
the ladies in Dundee, and that
it seemed to him his attachment was returned,
that
they were very beautiful girls, and wortha consider-
able sum of money. I understoodlaim to mean, not
that anything improper hadoccurred—that he loved
them, and they loved him :n return. I did not take
this to be bragging merely; he seemed in earnest.
I remember he said he did not know very well what
he would do if he was jilted by any lady, but he
would have revenge upon her in one shape or
another. He was occasionally irritable in his dis-
position. He had more of a French, Spanish, or
'Wiwi than an English temperament.
William Ogilvie, assistant teller in Dundee Bank.
—ln 1852'1 was secretary to the Floral and Horti-
cultural'Society in Dundee, and the meetings were
sometimes held in Mr. Laird's back shop.. In this
way I became acquainted with L'Augalier. He was-
very variable in his spirits, remarkably so. His
conversation was generally about ladies. He some-
times seemed vain of hit success with them. He
talked about the ladies looking at him as he passed
along the street, and bowled of considerable success
in obtaining the acquaistance of ladies. On one
occasion in Mr. Laird's drop, while speaking of his
sweethearts, he said, if he got a disappointment, he
would (taking up a long knife) think nothing of
putting that into him. He was not speaking of any
real case, but generally. The idea seemed some.;
what to excite him. He has spoken to me about
travelling in France. Ho led me to understand he
bad been travelling in that country at one time
with some persons of distnction, and had charge of
all their baggage, carriages, horses, &c. He men-
tioned that the horses woe very much knocked up
with some long journeys and that he had given
them arsenic to recruit dem. At that time I was
not acquainted with the efcects of arsenic in thatway,
and I asked what effect it had ? Retold me he had
given it in order to enable them to accomplish the
journey better. He sa'd it made them long-winded,
and thus he was enabled to accomplish a feat. I
asked, was he not afraid of poisoning the horses
And in reply to that he said, "So far from
that, I have taken it myself." I told hina
should not like to follow the same example, but
he used some expression Lo the effect that there was
no danger. He said another effect of it was that
it improved the compleiion. I inferred that he
took it himself for thw,parpose,,but he did not say
so in so many words. lie also said he sometimes
complained of pain in his. back and had difficulty in
breathing, and that he had taken it, and it had a
good effect in relieving him. I think he once
showed me something wlite in 9, paper, and said it
was arsenic. He either showed it to me or, said he
had it. I have seen him several times taking poppy
seeds in pretty large quantities. I expressed on
one of these occasions my surprise, as I understood
they were poisonous ; and he said, so far from that
be could take them in large. quantities, and that
they were better than filberts or nuts. He said he
had taken these poppy seeds in great quantities,
till he had become quite giddy., He said he had
done so when he was at Dickson s, in Edinburgh.
Cross-examined—l became acquainted with him
in 1852. He never told me he had been jilted. I
did hear of that, but not from him. We had just one
convershtion about arsenic. Se did not say in what
ehapreor quantity he took it. The reason that I
thought poppy seeds dangerous was that opium is
extracted from them. I _

By the Court—l cannot say whether he gave the
horses arsenic on one occasion, or throughout the
journey, but I think it was on one occasion. I knew
he was a foreigner, but he spoke remarkably good
English. I only once heard bun speak French. I
am quite certain it was arsenic he spoke of giving
the horses. He spoke in English.
David am a market gardener in Dundee,
and was in Mr. Laird's employment in 1852. t I re-
collect one day finding a small parcel in a wood
north of Dundee, which I thought was arsenic.
I brought it to Dundce, and was told it was arsenic.
This was before L'Angelier came to Dundee, but I
told him of the circumstance afterwards, and he
said, " Oh, that was nothing strange, as he used it
regularly." He did not tell me for what purpose
he used it. I have been trying to remember, but I
cannot now do so.
Cross-examined—l have been trying to remember
since I have been asked about this affair. I told it
first to Mr. Laird, my late master, and Capt. Mil-
ler of Glasgow came to me. Ile was the superinten-
dentll'7: withWe me when I spoke to
were passing along the
of police at Glasgow, and is now a messenger-
aLt'llnugesi ierb Naooounte this.
top of Union-street. No opeheal d what passed
.be-
tween us. He said he used regularly. I did not
inquire, and he did 'not say in what way.
Edward Mackie—l a m a merchant in Dublin. I
Edinburgh in the course
visited the Rainbow.
I got acquainted with,
L Angeit
of
my s
business. the habit f visiting
occasionally
er there. I was inti-
mately acquainted with Mr. Baker, who kept the
tavern. I first became acquainted with L'Angelit.r.
in 1846 ; and I continued to see him at the Rain-
bow until a day or soprevious to his going to Dundee.
I had several conversations with him. I saw quite
enough of him to enable m e to form an opinion of
his character and disposition. I formed anything
but a good opinion of him. [ considered him a vain,
lying fellow. He was very boastful of his per-
sonal appearance, and of parties admiring him
—ladies particularly. He boasted of his high
acquaintances repeatedly, and the high society he
had moved in ; that was when he returned from the
continent, when ho became more or less of a man ;
he was quite a lad when I first saw him. He men-
tioned several titled peopled whom he had known,
but, not believing anything he was IS aybag at the

time, I did-not store up any of their titles,. Shortly
before be went to Dundee I met him, one evening
in Prindes'-street Garden 6, Edinburgh. He was
sitting in the garden; I came on him accidentally ;
he bad his head in his cambric pocket handkerchief,
and. I put my hand on him and said, " L'Ange-
her." He held up his head, and I perceived he
had been crying; his eyes had the appearance of
much weeping: He mentioned that a lady in
Fifeskire had slighted him ; but I made light of
the matter. He miide a long complaint about her
family ;he was much excited. He said ladies arl-
mired him very often. I remember on one (ie.:a-
sion particularly, he came in when I was reading the
papers in the Rainbow ; be told me he met a lady in
Princes'-striet with another lady, and she bad re-
marked what r reity little felt be had. I said he was
a rather pretty litt'e person, and I had no doubt
he bad gone out and concocted the story that she
had said she admired his feet, they were so pretty.
I never believed anything he said afterward?. It
was a common thing for him to speak of ladies ad-
miring him in the street.
. _ _

Cross-examined—l live in Dublin. I have a
country house in Dublin, at the Lower Quay. To
a certain extent I believed the story about the Fife
lady. I believe I there was a lady there, and that be
was after her, for I had seen him
,weep about her.
Miss Janet Christie—Some years ago I was ac-
qusinted with Mrs. Craig, St. George s-roa T, Glas-
gow. She had a son in Huggins and Co-'s. , 1
oc:asioually met L'Angelier at her home. I recol-
lect hearing him say that the French ladies used
arsenic to improve their complexion. This might
be about four years ago.
Cross- exatained-,-Icannot
,recollect where this
conversation occurred, or who was present at the
time.

By the CJurt—l thought him rather a forward
and pretentious young man.
Alexander Millar—l am in the employment of
Huggins and Co., and knew L'Angelier. I remem-
ber his telling me he was going to be married. He
told me first nine months before his death. He
fixed different dates. These dates passed ; but in
Feb. he told me he was really to be married. I
gave it little credit. He gave me to understand he
would be married in about two months. He told
me on that occasion who the lady was. He was
very sensitive : easily depressed, and as easily up-
, lifted. On one occasion he said he wished he was
dead. lie has spoken to me about people taking
their lives. He sa'd he did not consider there was
any sin in a person taking away his life to get out
of the world when tired of it, and having lost all
happiness in it. I objected to this, and said. our life
was not our own; but he did not acknowleJge hav-
ing abandoned his opinion. When he said he
wished be was dead I was going to remonstrate with
him, but some one came in. I had begun to tell
him he was talking nonsense. He seemed•serious
in his conversation. He complained several times
of having had diarrhoea, and about the middle
of February he complained of having had pain in
the bowels. He had on several occasions complained
of diarrhoea before that. Almost since I knew him
he complained of it, but latterly he complained
more frequently. He appeared to receive a great
many letters. He had several other female corres-
pondents besides Miss Smith.
Cross-examined—We bad the impression in the
office that lie was a young man of regular habits
and a worthy young man.
Agnes M‘Millan—l was at one time in Mr.
Smith's service as table-maid. I was there about
a week. It is three years last May since I left.
Miss Smith was at home at that time.- Miss Eliza-
beth left home to go to school near London. I re-
member on one occasion Miss Smith said something
about arsenic—that she believed. it was used for the
complexion, or that it was good for it. Ido not
remember anything else.
James Girdwood—l am a surgeon in Falkirk,
and have been in practice about 40 years. ,;I have
been frequently asked by ladies as to the safety of
using arsenic as a cosmetic, since the publication of
an article in Ch,am,bers's Journal about two years

ago.
Cross-examined—l was asked on the subject by
a good many of my friends. The opinion I gave
them was that it would be highly injurious.
John Roberton—l am a druggist in Queen-street,
Glasgow. I remember an application being made
in my shop for arsenic by a mats servant. This was
in the beginning of last May. The young man was
from 17 to 19 years of age, and he asked for a 6d..
or is. worth of arsenic. I asked him for what pur-
pose it was to be used. He said it was for a lady
who was waiting outside, and that she was going to
use it for the complexion. I did not give it. I did
not ask the servant's name. I did not see any lady
waiting outside.
Peter Guthrie—l am the manager of Fraser and
Grieve's shop in Sauchiehall-street. We sell ar-
senic. I remember a lady coming in the be-
ginning of last year and asking me about
arsenic. She produced a number of Blackwood's
Magazine, containing an article about the use of
arsenic for the complexion. She asked me for some
of it, but I refused it. She expressed a strong de-
sire to have it, but I would not give it to her.
Cross-examined—l did not know the lady, but I
had seen her before.
William Roberts, merchant, Glasgow—l became
acquainted with the deceased about 1853. He
dined with me on Christmas-day of 1853. It was
on a Saturday. After dinner he became very ill.
When the ladies retired he got up to leave the
room. I showed him the water-closet and returned
to the dining-room. I sat a considerable time and
wondered what had kept him. I opened the dining-
room door and heard groaning and vomiting. I
went to the closet and found him vomiting and
purging. I sent upstairs for cholera mixture, and
I think he got a good deal of it. Cholera had been
lately in town, and we got very much frightened.
After this he remained in the water-closet a con-
siderable time, and he was afterwards taken home
in a cab. He appeared to get better, for lie called
on me next day, or the one following, to apologise
for having become ill. I think he was fully an
hour absent before I went out to seek for him.
Cross-examined—At that time I thought him a
nice little fellow. He sat in chapel with me for
three years. I had occasion to change my opinion
of him, but not from anything within my own
knowledge.
Charles Baird—l am a son of Robert Baird, mer-
chant, Glasgow. I have an uncle in Huggins and
Co.'s warehouse, and through him became acquainted
with L'Angelier about two years ago. I frequently
met him after that, and sometimes went to his
lodgings. I remember on one occasion finding him
very unwell in his lodgings in Franklin-place. It
might be the last fortnight of September or first
fortnight of October, 1856. He had just come in
from the office, when he became suddenly ill. He
put his hands on his stomach, doubling himself up,
and went to the sofa, complaining of great pain.
He afterwards went to bed. I advised him to
send for a medical man, which I believe lie did. I
saw him next day and asked him how he was.
He said he had had a very bad night of it,
and he said he had sent for a medical man. I
think he said Dr. Steven, of Great Western-
road. He has been in our house, but never met
Miss Smith there, to my knowledge. Our family
know the prisoner.
Cross-examined—Mrs. Jenkins was at home
when L'Angelier was so badly. I could not say
she was present when he told me he had sent for
Dr. Steven.
Robert Baird—l am the brother of the last
witness, and was acquainted with L'Angelier. It
is not less than two years since I became acquainted
with him. I remember his asking me to introduce
him to Miss Smith. He asked me several times to
do so. He seemed very anxious about it. I in-
troduced him to her on one occasion. I asked a
gentleman to introduce them, but he declined.
This was an uncle of mine. I think I asked my
mother to ask Miss Smith some evening and I
would ask L'Augelier, and so introduce them, but
she declined. They never met in my mother's
house to my knowledge. I introduced them in the
street. He did not ask to be introduced to Miss
Smith's father, but he expressed an anxiety or de-
termination to be introduced to him. She was not
alone. Her sister was with her. I am 19 years
of age.
Cross-examined—L'Angelier once asked me to
go to Row. I understood he was wishing to see
Miss Smith. He repeatedly expressed a desire to
be introduced to her father. I have been in her
father's house. Glasgow.
Elizabeth Wallace—l keep lodgings in
M. L'Angelier lodged with me when he first came
to Glasgow, about the end of July, 1853. He re-
mained till the month of Dec., 1853. He alluded
to his having been in the navy, and that he had
been a lieutenant at one time. He did not say
whether it was the French or British navy ; but 1
understood it was the British. He just said he had
left the navy. He said nothing about his having
sold his commission lie spoke of living in Edin-
burgh before he came to me. He said he had been
long out of a situation. He made no allusion to
Dundee ; but he told me he had been frequently at
Fife, and of his being acquainted with families

there. do not remember what families he spoke
of or if he said anything of the Balcarres family.
of
was a well-conducted you/1g
man when with me. He. never mentioned name,
but he said one day he had met with an old sweet-.
heart on her marriage jaunt. He had a great aver-
sion to .meclicin:e,-. and .never took any. He wa3
cheerful, and played
,at night on the guitar oc-
casionally. .
Colonel Frlser—l reside at Portobello. I was
not acquainted with the late M. L'Angelier. He
wa3 never in my house, and never dined with me.
At _the time of his 'death I received a note from
Mr. George Wean mentioning his death. He
mentioned his death as if I was a friend. I was
very much surprised. There is no other Colonel
Fraser in Portobello, but there is a , Captain
Flaaf r.

Charles Adam—l tan a physician at Coatbridge
and keep a druggist's shop there. I was there on
Sunday afternoon, the 22d March last. I remem-
ber a gentThman came in, and he asked at first for
25 drops of laudanum. He then asked for soda-
water. I said I. had none, but I would give him a
soda powder, which I gave him. This was
about half-past five o'clock. I thought he was
a military' man, He wore a moustache. (Shown
the photograph of M. L'Angelier.) This has a
resemblance, but I am nut quite certain if it is
the person. It is like the person. The shop was
dark at the time, as the shutters were not off. I
think he had on a dark brownish coat and a Bal-
moral bonnet. There was a handkerchief sticking
out of his coat pocket.
Cross-examined.—He seemed to have left off
speaking to some one at the door when he came to
the Thop. I am very seldom in the'shop on Sunday.
By the Co ur t. —The gentleman did not complain
of anything. He swallowed the laudanum. I did
not ask what he wanted it for.

James Dick.on.-4 keep a druggist's• shop at
Baillieston, which is on the road between Coat-
bridge and Glasgow. It is about five miles from
the latter and two-and-a-half from the former. I
remember a gentleman coming into my shop on a
Sunday evening in the month of March last—
about the end of the month, I think. It would be
about ha!f-past 6 o'clock. He appeared to he un-
well. His hands were over his stomach and bowels,
and he was complaining of pain. He wanted laud-
anum. I gave him some at the counter. From
20 to 25 drops 'was the quantity. He said
he had come from Coatbridge, and that be was go-
ing to Glasgow. He was about five feet seven in
height, and wore a moustache. He looked from 25
to 30 years of age. He was not of a dark com-
plexion. His coat was tight buttoned, and he had
on his head a Glengarry or Balmoral bonnet.
(Shown the photograph of L'Ane:elier.) This is ex
tremely like the person. I think he had a white
pocket-handerchief in his coat.
Cross-examined.—I had some visits to make at
a distance, and as there were some Sundays that I
had to stop at home, this enables me to remember
that it was about the end of March. It might have
been in Apil. It could .not have been in the be-
ginning of March. I think his coat was darkish-
ccdoured. I did not notice if there was any per-
son with him. I did not look after him. It struck
me: he spoke with a slightly foreign accent.
Re-examined.—My shop is not on the high road.
It is from 200 to 300 yards off it.
By the Court.—The man required to go out of
his way to come to my shop. He must have left
the main road. He took the laudanum.

Miss Kirk—l am a daughter of Mr. Kirk, who
keeps a druggist's shop in the Gallowgate-street,
Glasgow. It is east of Abercromby-street. I re-
member a gentleman coming into the shop on a
Sunday night and getting something. I think it
was in March, but cannot remember the day. It
was about the end of it. It would be a little after
9. He wanted medicine. Do not remember what
it was. He took it away with him. It was a powder
he got, but I cannot tell what. I served him. He
was a young man, I think about 30. He was not
tall rather to the little side. He was not very thin.
His complexion was fresh, and rather fair. He wore
a moustache. He bad on a Glengarry bonnet, but
cannot say about the rest of his dress. (Shown a
photograph.) This is as good a likeness as I have
ever seen. I was struck with hid appearance at
the time, and noticed it particularly. He paid for
the medicine. He took the money from a little
purse. (Shown a portmonnaie.) This is the purse.
OroAs-examined—l think this happened in March.
The gentleman was alone. He was about 5 minutes
in the shop. • I think the photograph shown to me
is the person. I can't remember what the medicine
was. 1 did not enter the money in a book. We do
not enter the money taken over the counter. There
was nobody else in the shop except a woman. Ido
not know her. I was asked if the gentleman calling
had been buying medicine. I bad not previously
said anything about it.
By Mr. Young—The woman in the shop re-
marked on the appearance of the gentleman. It
was about his dress she spoke, and about the hair
on the lower part of his face.
R. Morrison—l am in the employment of Messrs.
Chambers, Edinburgh. They publish Chambers's
Journal. (Shown four numbers of the journal, the
first in Dec., 1851, and the last in July, 1856.) The
circulation of the journal is about 50,000. There
are articles on the subject of arsenic in these num-
bers of the journal now shown me.
G. Simpson—l am in the employment of Messrs.
Blackwood, publishers, Edinburgh. (Shown the
number for Dec., 1853.) The circulation of the ma-
gazine at that time was about 7,000. The Messrs.
Blackwood are also the publishers of the " Chy-
mistry of Common Life," by Professor Johnston.
It was published in 1845, but it was originally pub-
lished in pamphlets, the circulation of which varied
from 5,000 to 30,000. The circulation of the sepa-
rate volume was about 10,000. There is one chap-
ter entitled the "Poisons we Select," and the first
part is entitled the " Consumption of White Arse-
nic." Of the number containing that article there
were sold at the time 5,000, and the number sold
up to the present time in numbers and volumes is
about 16,000.
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postmark Sept. 18, 1855. It said—
" was a letter in an envelope, with the
" Beloved Emile,--I have just received your note. I
shall meet you. Ido not care though I bring disgrace-
upon myself. To see you I would do anything. Emile,
you shall yet be happy; you deserve it. You are young,
and you, who ought t) desire life, wishing to end it. Ob,
for the sake of your once-loved Mimi, desire to live and
succeed in life. Every one must meet with disappoint-
ments. I have\suffered from disappointment. I long
to see you, sweet Emile."
The next letter bore the postmark Oct. 19,1855,
and was to this effect

" Beloved E:nile,—Your kind letter I received this
morning. Emile, you are wrong in thinking that I loved
you for your appearance. I did and do admire you, but
it was for yourself alone I love you. I can give you no
other reason, for I have got no other. If you had been
a young man of a Glasgow family I have no doubt ther e
would be no objection, but because you are unknown to
him (Papa) he has objected to you. Emile can you ex-
plain this sentence in your note—' Before long I shall
rid you and 'all the world of my presence.' God forbid
you ever do. My last letter was not filled with rash
promises. No ; these promises given by me in my lest
letter shall be kept, and must be kept. Not a moment
passes but I think of you."
The third letter was taken up with the prisoner
defending the young ladies in boarding school,, and
at least herself, from some injurious remarks which
deceased had made regarding them.
Mr. Robert Paterson—l am a physician in Leith,
and have been iu practice there for several years.
I have seen seven cases of suicidal poisoning by
arsenic. They were chiefly cases of young women
about the chymical works. In some of the cases
they had got the arsenic about the works ; in others
they had purchased it. They all died with one ex-
ception. I used all the remedies I could think of.
In all these cases the patient s submitted to medical
treatment. Not one of them disclosed before death
that they had taken poison.. I inquired dot several
of them if they had taken poison or arsenic, but
they all denied it. In the case of the recovery the
young woman did not admit she had taken it until
rfcer her recovering from the secondary effects of
the poison. In tie previous part of her illness she
was sullen and morose. Arsenic is greatly used in
the e chymical works, and the people employed in
them have great facilities for taking it away.
By the Lord Advocate—The cases occurred in
the space of 18 years. They had all the usual symp-
toms of poisoning by arsenic. The symptoms de-
pended on what they had taken. They were all
cases of known suicide. The time the symptoms
came on after taking arsenic were various ; but
none of them exceeded 30 hours.
By the Court—ln cases of suicide the earlier
symptoms are generally concealed.
Jein Fleming—l am storekeeper to Messrs. Tod
and Higginbotham, printers and dyers, Glasgow;
It is my duty to take charge of the dyeing sub-
stances used there. Arsenic is one of them. We
get from 3cwt. to 4cwt. of it at a time. We get it
from Charles Tennant and Co. in its pure white
state. It is used in making colour. It is got in
kande. The Arsenio Dane; is put ia.to the dor°

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works. I should not miss a few ounces at a time.
Robt. Townsend—l am manager to my brother,
Mr.•-Townsend, manufacturing chemist, Glasgow.
We have large quantities of arsenic in our premises
at a time—from one to two tons. It is kept in- a
private office. It stands in casks, one cask being
open for use. We employ 100 to 140 people. I 'have
no doubt-, if so inclined, any of them might manage
-t5 take some away. I have never known it taken
away.
Janet Smith, sister of the prisoner, 13, years of
ag-, a sweet-looking girl, whose appearanle occa-
sioned much in-Vrest, was next examined. • She
bore a considerable resemblance to the prisoner,
hii`. was paler is complexion. She gave her evi-
dence with much corirp--)sure. She depwer3--4 was
living in my father's house in Blythswood-square
last winter and spring. I slept with Madeleine in
the same room and bed. I generally went to bed
before her. We generally both went to be lat the
same time on the Sunday evenings. I remember -
Sunday the 22d of March. We went to bed to-
gether that night about half-past 10, or afturwarcig.
We went down stairs together from the dining-
room. We were both undre ;sing at the same time,
and we both got into bed nearly about the same
time. We might take about half-an-hour to un-
dress. We were in no hurry that night in undress-
ing. My sister was in bed with me betore I was
asleep, and she was undressed as usual, in her night-
clothes. Ido not know which slept first. We fell
asleep not long af,er going to bed. I don't re-
member papa giving my sister a ne:rklace lately,
but he gave her one about a year ago.
Cross-ekimined—l have seen my sister take
cocoa. She never made it in her room, but she kept
the packet there. We had a fire in our bedroom.
We went to bed that night the same time es usual.
I remember the morning Madeleine went away. I
suppose she came to bed that night, but I was
asleep that night before it was her time to come. I
missed her in the morning on awaking. • . • -
Re-examined—l have seen my sister taking her
cocoa in the dining-room. I do not know if she had
been recommended to take it. No etheribody inthe
house took it but her. I found my sister in bed
when I awoke on the Monday morning, about eight
o'clock.

Dr. Lawrie, physician in Glasgow—l have bad
my attention recently directed to the effect which
arsenic: has,on the skin in washing. I have tried
± to 4 an ounce of Currie's arsenic in water, and
washed my hands freely with it. I have alsa taken
e oz., and washed my face with it freely, and felt
no bad effects. I used cold water after it. I tried
the last experiment on Saturday. The effect on the
hands seemed to be that they were softened, as if
I had med a ball of soap with sand in it. Tho effect
was not great, but if at all beneficial. Ido not
think a greater quantity of arsenic would make
much difference, owing to its insolubility. I took
an ordinary hand basin with the usual quantity of
water.

Dr. Douglas MacLagan, physician in Edinburgh
—I have had some experience in cases of poisoning
by arsenic, and have &voted a good deal of atten-
tion to the subject. In washing with water with
arsenic in it, so little of it would be dissolved that
I do not think there would be any danger in so
using it. It would not dies )lve above per cent.
with cold water. If a person merely washed the
face and hands in water in which arsenic had been
placed, I think it would have very little effect in-
deed. In hot water there would be a little more
dissolved. Tho quantity dissolved by pouring hot
water on arsenic is not groat. In order to make
water a sufficient solvent of arsenic it must be boil-
ed in it for some time. In cases of slight quantities
of arsenic being taken, the symptoms very often re-
semble those of bilious or British choleraic attacks.
In every case of arsenical poisoning, terminating
fatally, there is a very remarkable resemblance to
persons labouring under malignant or Asiatic
cholera.

Cross-examined—Though a very small quantity
only of arsenic is held in solution by cold water, I
do not say the same thing of its being held in sus-
penqon. A considerable quantity of it would be
suspended in water, at least if agitated. Though
I think it mightbe safely done, I would not recom-
mend washing with arsenic in the water ; unless
the mouth and eyes were shuts it might produce
most injurious results.

Hugh Hart, Glasgow, deposed that Bridge of
Allan is between two and.threfi miles from Stirling,
and that from Alloa to Stirling is seven or eight
miles; also that from Coatbridge to Glasgow is
eight miles._

This concluded the evidence for the defence, and
the Court, at 5 o'clock, adjourned till next morning
at 10.

EDINBURGH, TUESDAY.
The Lord Advocate addressed the jury in a very
eloquent and elaborate speech of about live hours,
analysing with great minuteness the details of this
painful case. lie said, while expressing the grati-
fication he should feel if the jury could give a ver-
dict of acquittal consistently with their oath, that
the case he presented was such that, as he believed,
every link iu the evidence wg,:s complete, and every
loophole stopped by which the unhappy prisoner
could escape. _ _

The Dea-n of Faculty replies for the prisoner on
Wednesday (this day). It is not now expected the
Lord Justice-Clerk will address the jury before
Thursday.