New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-25

Edinburgh 10 Dundee and we trace ms hlstory there
at length we find him in Glasgow, in 1853; ard in
1855 as sad before bis acquaintance with the pris
orer commenced. We find him, according to the con-
fessop of all these who observed him then narrowly
vain coDceitod, pretertious, with great opinion OF
bis own persopa attractions, and very silly expecta-
tion Of admiration from the other sex That ne was
TO certain extent successful in concluding such al
uIatioD nsy be the fact but. at all events his own
prevailing ideas seem 10 have been that he was caIcu
lated to be very successful 10 paying attentions to IA
dies and that he was looking to push his fortune by
that means. And accordingly once aud again we lind
him engaged In ATTEMPTS to get married TO women OF
some station at least in society. We have heard OF
one disappointment which he met with in England,
and another with a lady in the County Of Fife and
the manner in which be bore his disappointment on
those two occasions is perhaps the best indication and
light we have to the true character Of the man.
lie was not person Of strong health, and il is ex
tremely probable that this among other thiogs had
very important effect in depressing his spirits render
inc him cbsrgeable and uIcertain-how upliited as
ore of the witnesses said, and now most deeply de-
rressed-of mercurial temperament, as another de-
scribed IT, very variable, never 10 be depended On.
II was argued, from certain passages in the letters,
that the correspondence had been broken of for
time at her suggestion, soon after it was begun 1t
was renewed, however, but was discovered by the
father in September 1885, and for time put stop to-
In the Spring of 1856 the corrupng influence OF the
seducer was successful and the prisoner fell That Is
told in letter bearing the pOstmark OF the th May,
which you have heard read. And how corrupung
that influence must have been! How vile the acts
which he resorted to for accomplishing his nefarous
purpose can be proved well as by looking at
the altered tone and language OF the unhappy
prisoners letters. She had not ost her virtue mercy
but as the Lord Advocate had said her sense Of de-
cency This was biz doing. Think You that, without
temptation without evil teachings poor girl falls
INTO such depths of degradation No. Influence nom
wiihout-mOst corrupting intuence-can aene account
for such fall And yet through the midst Of this
wish to (rOd that Is
could have been concealed from you gentlemen,
and from the world and am sure the Lord Advocate
would have spared il if he had not felt 1t neees-
sary for the ends of ustceI say that even through
the midst of this frightful correspondence there
breathes spirit of devoted affection toward the
man that had destroyed her that strikes me as most
rem ark able The history of the affair is soon told
do not THU it necessary to carry you through all the
deais of their ndence from the Sprug of lSj6
down to the end of that year. 1t is in the neighbor-
hood Of Heensburgh almost entirely that that COR
re dependence took place. In November the faoily OF
the Smiths came back TO Glasgow. And that becomes
an important in the history of the case for that
was the first time at which they came to live in the
house in BythswoOd-square. There were many meet
ipes between them in the other house in 1850; they
met still more frequently at Row; bu. what we are
chiefly concerned in is to know whist meetings took
place betw them in that last White. in ta house IN
Blyihswood-sq uare-how these togk place, mud what
was necessary for them to do n order 70 come TO-
getber; for these things havea n'ost important bearing
OH the question which You are met - hg. now, the
first letter written from Blythswoodsquilo bearS date
November Is, 1856, No. 81. There Is another let
ter also written in November, $3.50, and plainly
out of its place in this series. n IL letter No.
S. ard does not bear the day Of IL month but
must be subsequent to that bearing date the 18th OF
November, as it is written also from Bythswood-
square, and the other letter is shown be the nist
written from that house. In ths secuid letter she
gives her lover son information Of the means by
which bey nay carry their correspondence In the
course Of the Winter. He was to get brown enyel'
opes, and stoop down as if he were tying his shoe,
when be slipped in the letter. That shows by what
mt ans their correspondence carried on by letter.
and the Jury would that by letter chieny II not
rot entirely, was the correspondence carried on IN
that house. The next letter was the 2lst November,
in which The repeats instructions as TO how 10 depot
letters at her window in BlythswoOd square, adding
that she could take him in very well at the 'front.' door,
as she had done in lndla-street II mamma and papa
were from home and that she would not let a chance
pass. Now you see the conditions on when siie uh
derstood itpOssble, ard alone possible, to admit MN
TO the BlyihswoOd square house. That condition
was the absence Of her father and mother from
home-an absence which did not take place
throughout the whole of the period with which
we Lave 10 do. IF NJ. and Il. were from home, l
could take you in at the front door, and won't let
chance pass" But that chance, gentlemen, never
cane. Her father and mother were never absent.
Their absence necessary in order that he might be
ct in in this way. 1t never was The Lord Advo-
cate seemed to say that there were some concerted
signals 10y rapping al the window or on the ralpngs
with a stick in order to attract attention. This you
will find, an entire mistake. l. Angelier did on
ole or two occasions take that course, but the pris
orer Immediately forbade it, aud ordered him not to do
it again. In letter which bears the postmark OF De-
cfmber ). 1856, she says: Darling, do not knock at
the window and again in postscript, Remember
do not knock at the door," earnestly repeating this
caution. About this time is quite obvious that they
bad il in view to accomplish en- elopement. IL was
quite plain that the consent of Miss Smiths parents to
Der union with this young Frenchman was not to be
thought Of any longer That hope was altogether
gone and accordingly there constant references in
the letters about this time TO the arat gements that
were TO be made for carrying her from her fathers
house aud accomplishing marriage either In Glasgow
or Edinburgh
The letters and other evidence was relied upon o,
proving that up to the death Of LAngeler the same
obstacles to interviews continued, aud that in fact,
there proof of any interviews downto the time
If LAngeier's death, though such interviews must
have taken place if the poison was administered by
Der.
The Dean Of Faculty then c0ntended that there was
no proof of any meeting between the parties after the
piisoIers purchases OF the arsenic; and that neither
from the internal evidence of the letters themselves,
nor from their dates could there be any proof that
they had met; that she expected him on Saturday
light, March 81 and she did not expect him on Sum
day. and that it was not reasonable to suppose that,
having failed to keep the appointment for Thursday
ana Saturday, he should come on Sunday, when not
expected He then commented the fact OF person
answering EApgeliers description having got lauda
mum on Sunday, March %. The fact ndisputable to
bring guilt to the prisOner-the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
not only rot proved but all the probabilities were
againstt He then suggested that from the character
Of the nan and other reasons, more was to be
said in favor of the suppostion that be
died by bis own hand than by the pris-
oners But the question for the july was, Is the
murder proved The prisoners object being to escape
her shame through her letters, to murder l. Angelier
would Illustrate that object by throwingthe letters into
other hands, The Dean then referred to the case Of
Eliza Fenwick, who was executed for poisoning by
arsenic and was afterward found to be innocent He
conjured the Jury not to attempt rahy TO rend the