The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-06 00:00:00

• urn. He spoke much of his complaints and seemed
fond of talking about himself. I thought him a
vain person. He said he bad always taken coffee,
but he was not surprised the cocoa had disagreed
With him as he was not in the habit of taking it.
-.Mary A. Perry—l live at 144, Renfrew-street,
Glasgow. I knew the late Mr. L'Angelier. I be-
came acquainted with him in 1853. We both at-
tended the chapel of St. Jude's. About the spring
of 1855 I came to know him more intimately. In
the summer of 1855 he was engaged to a lady named
Miss M. Smith, and I was made aware afterwards
of the progress of his at'achment and correipond-
ence. In August, 1855, he brought her to ca!l on
me. I after that received several letters from her.
[Shown and identified Nos. 11. 10, 20, and 27, as
letters from the pris2ner.] No. 27 is signed "Mini."

It is a pet name, and the name which M. L'Angelier
called her. [Also shown and identified, 29, 45, and
83, also letters from Miss Smith written at intervals.
Shown 141.] That is a letter from M. L'Angelter to
me. It is dated the 20th of March, and says—" I
should have come and seen some one last night, but
the letter came too late, so that we are 13.,th disap-
pointed. L'Angelier frequently visited at my house.
He had general good health, but latterly was not
so well as formerly. I think he told me in Feb
he had heard of another eeetleman paying his ad-
dresses to Miss Smith. He said at one time she
bad denied it, and that at an ether time she evaded
the question. He dined with me on the 17th of
February. He told me then that he expect .d to
see Miss Smith on the Thursday following. I did
not see him again till the 2:1 of March. He was
then looking extremely ill. We had some conversa-
tion about his illness He said, " I never expected
to have seen you again, I have been so ill." He
did not tell me he had seen Miss Smith on the 19th
of February. He told me he bad had a cup of
chocolate, which had made him ill. It was on the
9th of March he told me this, when he took tea
wilt me. On the 2d he said he could not attribute
it to any cause ; but on the 9th he said, "I can't
think why I was so unwell after getting that coffee
and chocolate from her." I understood him to refer
to two occasions. He was talking of Miss Smith
when he slid " her." He did not say if the illness
he bad on getting the chocolate was the same illness
of which he had spoken on the 2d of March, but I
did not know of his having any other illness. On
the 9th of March he was talking of his extreme
attachment to Mie=s Smith. He said, "Itis a per-
fect infatuation I have for her ; if she were to poi-
son me I would forgive her." I sail, " You ought
not to allow such thoughts to pass throuah your
mind. What motive could she have to do you any
harm ?" He said, " I don't know that ; perhaps
she might not be sort yto get rid of me." All this
was said in earnest. I interpreted the expression to
mean to get rid of her engagement. There seemed
to be some suspicion on his mind as to what Miss
Smith had given hurt, but it was not a serious sus-
picion. I never saw :iina again alive. He said to me
that he had once offered to Miss Smith to discontinue
the engagement, but she objected to it then. She
wished afterwards that their photographs should he
returned to each other. He had offered to return her
letters to her father. I received a message on
the 23d March, about 10 o'clocir, that M. L'Ange-
lier was very ill. I went about midday and found
him dead. I called on Mrs. SmitO, and intimated
the death to her. I saw the prisoner, but did not
intimate it to her. She recognised me and shook
hands, asking me to walk into the drawing-room.
I asked to see Mrs. Smith privately, and said that
Miss Smith would become acquainted with the ob-
ject of my message. I never h:d seen Mrs. Smith
before. I had a warm friendship for M. L'Angelier,
and thought him a strictly moral, inf feed a religions
man. He was very regular in attendance at church.
I was very much agitated and startled to find him
dead.

Cross-examined—l was not acquainted with Mr.
Smith's family. L'Angelier told me when the en-
gagement was first fixed ho wished to inform her
father, but she objected to that. He asked her to
speak to him herself, which she also refused. This
was a source of much distress to him at the time.
M. L'Angelier was acquainted with Miss Smith's
sister, but not with her father or ninther. Tee
envagement had only existed a few weeks when Miss
Smith was introduced to me. L'Ang-Tier told me
he had met Miss Smith first at Mrs. Baird's. I was
aware that the intimacy was disapproved by the
family, and that the engagement was broken off at
one time. I never knew whether the father and
mother had abated in their dislike to the intimacy.
I wrote on one occasion to Mi-s &fifth advi-ing her
to mention the matter to her parents, and I advised
L'Angelier not to renew the engagement after it
was broken off. The engagement was renewed pro-
visionally, Miss Smith having promised, on a pro-
per opportunity, to tell her parents. I knew that
they met clandestinely. I corresponded with both
of them. (Shown No. 11 of the third invent ,ry for
the prisoner.) The postmark of that letter is the
7th Feb. The letter said :

" Though you have not told me so, I am in hopes,
dear L'Angelier, that you have been receiving such
kind cheering notes from Mimi that you aro quite com-
fortable and happy, at least a great deal less sad thanyou
were the last evening I saw you. I felt so sorry for you
then, you were so ill and miser' ble, and I feel sorry that
you should be so solitary in Glasgow, with no one to
cheer you. To-day I saw Mimi with her mother, and
Bessie (at least I took it to be her mother). Mimi looked
quite well, and I believe she saw me. Are you suffer-
ing also from your neck ? With kindest wishes for your
happiness and Mimi's. I am, dear L'Angeher, ever your
friend, "M. A. PERRY."
Witness also identified other letters shown as being
from her to L'An felier. We had corresponded at
intervals f.r the last two years. He us-d to address
me as "Dear Mary," or "My dear Mary," but
never "Dzarest Mary." I was introclu'_:e,t to him
by a lady earned Miss Philpot, who is now in Eng- I
land. I believe his mother lived in Jersey. I never
inquired her cccupation. He had two sisters, als
a brother, who died. I remembered the date of
L'Angelier's first illness, after my first precognition.
It was mentioned in my presence then thtt the first
illness was on the 19th, but I also remember it
from other circumstances. When the 19th was
spoken of, one of the clerks said that is the date he
mentions of his first i'lness in his pocket-book. I
took notes of my precoguitiin afterwards. I was
advised to do so by a friend, that I might be clear
and distinct. Down to the time thel9di was men-
tioned by the clerk I hat not retneinbere I the date
of his illness. I was preermnised on the 6th of
April, 7th of April, 23d of April,' 4th of June, sth
of June, and 23c1 ~f June, in all six times.

By the Court—l never Eaw the Sheriff at any of
these times.

By the Dean—On the 2d of March he said that
on his first illness he fell on,' the floor, and was un-
able to can assistance. At last he crept on his
hands and knees and knocked on the wall, when
the landlady came. He said he never had any-
thing like it before. His second illness he called
jaundice, or a bilious attack. It was sometima
prior to March that he told me of the proposals to
discontinue the engagement. He imagined she
seemed to be getting cool, and said if she wished
to break it off he would accede to her wishes. At
that time she did not wish to discontinue it. He
spoke of this having happened some time bef‘,re.
It was after that she proposed a return of her
letters, and when he offered to return the letters to
herfather I understood this to be a consent on his
part to give up the engagement. Miss ,Smith would
not accede to the proposal to give her le tern to her
father, and the engagement remained unbroken, as
'I
-understood, at Miss Smith's desire.

A lengthened discussion then took place as to
the admissibilityof the letters, which were objected
to by the defendant's counsel, on account of the
careless and irregular manner in which they had
beeu recovered, and because they had no proof teat
all the documents had actually been recovered. It
was replied that no objections had been taken suffi-
cient to exclude the document, and that any ob-
jections that were of any weight were ma ters for
the jury. The Court decided that, whatever ob-
servation as to the mode of recovering and attest-
ing these documents might be made on behalf of
the prisoner, no ground had been stated sufficient
to exclude them as evidence.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock ti 1 Saturday
morning._

SATURDAY, JULY 4. FIFTH DAY.
The evidence for the pi-osec iion was resumed.
Dr. Christison, recalled andl dtrted—l think it
would be very unsafe indeed t )
ting an ounce info water and washing, byput-
should expect inflammation of the eyesin' in
it.nos-
trils, and probably cf the mouth, to result from
and, once taking hold of the skin, arsenic brs:ag it,
insoluble solid, it would not be easily got riedinof an
never heard of arsenic being so used. A l
prepara-
tion of arsenic is used as a depilatory. It is a sull-
- of arsenic and a sublimate of lime, but it is
only used for removing hair.
Cros-examined—Arsenic is not absolutely inso-
luble in cold water. If put into cold water origi-
nally, a 500th part is all that would probably be
dissolved, but if the water ha I been first boiled and
then cooled, a 32:1 part would be dissolved. It is
only the finer powder of it that would be sus-
-11(led hi the water. If an ounce were put into a
Basin of Water, not much of it would be suspended
in it without 'n.,7;tl.tien. I cannot absolutely say
whether washing .
in it might not he productive of
dangerous butresulte
imprudent
it myself. I thing.cannot
5-.-.„ should not like to do
might remain stiveadyedc"v long the finer powder
I
should Pay that in
three or four minutes scarcely'
woLild remain in suspension, of the arsenic
, out I am speaking
without authority.
Dr.
Otrrrray as to
I3y the Court--Ther e i 3 a coll
whether` arsenic has any taste. D
bettzr authority than I am, maintains —a, a much
that it has