The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE.

The Dean of Faculty said that reference would
nccessaiily be made to affairs of a delicate nature in
which the deceased had been engaged at an earlier
period of his life, and he was anxious to avoid
names being mentioned unneczasarry ; and ho 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 tar 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
wtis 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 far a quiet sort of a

person, but be 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 ho get .up in the night, and opened
the window. I got up and asked him what he 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
oftPn 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
matte-, but he did not mention it to me. It was
my uncle who told me of it. I have heard him talk

al;out it to others. It was same lady in• Fife. He was
distressed he had no situation, and that be could not
keep his engagement with her. We were in the habit
of taking morning walks together. We occasionally
walked to Leith-pier. He one morning said be had a
good mind tothrow himself over, as be 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.
courage.

Cross-exarnined by the Lord Advocate—L'Ange-
lier was a Jersey man, and I had met him there
some time about 1846.

Ile-examined and shown No. 1, first inventory
for prisoner—That is a letter from him to me,
written in Dundee. (In that letter he says, after
saying he had just landed in DendeP, and bad got
a situation in which he was working for board and
only, and with almost no salary :—" I
lodging
never was so unhappy in my life. I wish I had
courage to blow my brains out:")
William Pringle Laird, nurseryman, of Dundee
him when in the service of Dickson and Co.
n
_I vas acquainted with the late Emile L'Angelier.
I k
I took him into my own
employmentemployment
Edinburgh,
in
1843.
Hansel Monday of 1852 (26th Jan.) He remained
till the end of August or tha Ist Sept. He was a
'kiribdis and obliging, but ex-
citablechangeablean in
temperament—some-
times very melancholy, and- sometimes very blyth-
some. He was very dull and unwell when he first
very sober
andy oung m
cameto me. He did not tell me the cause at fitst,
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-
o her, because (as I understood .him to .say) she
was pledged to bim. He told me Nth° she was. I
believe she was in the m'cldle station of life. After
this I saw the lady's marriage in the newspapers.