The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-10-03

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MY Scotland, but England, the United
States, and the continent, awaited thu
verdict breathlessly during ten days o.
pent-up feeling. The trial, which began
In the High Court Of Judiciary, Edin'
burgh, on the SSth Of June, 1857, dis
closed the TACT that, unknown to heI
friends, the prisoner had for some time
carried on elandestine relations with q
young Frenchman, Piere Emile L'Ange-
Tier by name, who was beneath her In
social position. That LAngeliers death
was due to arsenical poisoning there was
no question. Madeline Smith was placed
ut the bar charged with having admin
istered arsenic to her lover on three occa-
sions within little over q mouth. For
the prosecution Il was shown that she had
bought Arsenie and kept 1t In her posses
sIon' and that LAngelier was seen going
10 the direction Of her house-presumably
Tor stolen interview-on the night when
the poison was alleged to have been adj
ministered. Then came the question Of
motive. Madelaine was about to throw
Cd her inconvenient French haneer-On.
and to contract marriage with . gentle
man Of position. For the defense, the
dean Of faculty made q powerful harangue
TO the jury, fully equal In ingenuity and
lore 70 the speech BY Sergeant shee In
Palners case the year before. He dwelt
on the pecuiiarities Of the case; the "air
Of romance and mystery surrounding II
from beginning to end" and In an elO-
quent passage which moved every one
present In crowded court, he said to the
jury; You are invited and encouraged
BY the prosecution TO snap the thread Of
that young life, and to consign TO an ig-
nominous death on the scafold one who.
within few shert months, was known
only . gentle, conhding and ahectionate
girl, the ornament and pride Of her happy
home" A majority Of the jury returned
verdict Of Not proven" and Madeleine
smith was a free woman II was upon
the verdict In this cause celebre that Mr..
Wilkie Collins founded his well known
story OF The Law and the Lady,"
SIX years prior to Madeline Smiths
ease-in March, ISOl-Susan Gresham,
"a woman Of masculine proportions"
was tried at Chelmsford for poisoning.
Here as usual, 1t was the same well worn
story Of arsenic; and It illustrated the
proverb that The pitcher can go once
700 oiten 70 the well. The specific crime
Ter which Chesham was indicted was the
murder Of her husband but the evidence
leit little doubt that she was a wholesale
Polsoner' In 1877 she bad been tried at
the same place Tor poisoning child, and
acquitted. The next year she was again
lound mot guilty" on q charge or muir
deT'ng Two Of her own children, and,
strange 70 relate, a third time escaped the
moose. But In 1883 female acconiplice,
herseh under sentence Of death for pois-
oning' split on Mrs. Chesham, who in
due course was found guilty and executed.
she heard her doom without the slight
CO.. enO''On
AnO'ner Wholesale Polsoner was Cath.
sI'n e6 SilsS constance wilson convicted
N ,oOz on 'he MURDER OF Mrs. soames, Of
BEDFORD square. her motive was avarice.
Inc crimes Of this monster were epito-
Rel, !. o i P,.S'nS Iuus0 slI' JUSTIFY
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