Glasgow Courier. — 1857-04-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE SUSPECTED CASE OF POISONING AT GLASGOW.  It may be stated that evidence of great importance for the defence of Miss Smith,the young lady now in custody, has been obtained in Dundee, and as the charge against her has attracted so much attention, and the facts in favour of her innocence are Oct generally known, it is only proper that we should mention that NI. L'Angellier resided in Dundee for nine months in 1852, and was consequently well known to many parties in the town with whom he woven terms of intimacy, and who heard with reg!et of his sudden and untimely end. According to the statement of those who were acquainted with him here, he was born and bred in Jersey, and was therefore not a Frenchman, as has been stated; but he was of French extraction, his father having fled from France at the period of the first French revolution, and settled in Jersey as a nurseryman. His father dying early, the business was carried on for the benefit of his mother, and young L'Angellier was sent to Edinburgh with the view of gaining the necessary experience as a nurseryman to enable him to conduct the business successfully in Jersey. He obtained a situation in the establishment of Messrs. Dickson & Co., seedsmen, which he held for upwards of six years. He then went to Fresco, where lie spent about two years; and he was in _Paris at the time of the revolution in 1818. He subsequently returned to Edinburgh, but was not successful in obtaining a situation on this his second visit, and indeed it is believed he did not seek very anxiously, as he was then somewhat gay in his habits, and by no means remarkable for his devotion to business. He had contracted an attachment with a young lady belonging to Fife, and residing at the time in Edinburgh; but from some cause or other—it is believed owing to the lady's want if faith in his ability to undertake the responsibilities of married the course of true love' was interrupted, and L'Angellier left Edinburgh in dannary, 1852, for Dundee, where he obtained a situation with Mr. Laird, nurseryman, Nether. gate. with whom he lodged during his nine months' residence here. M. L'Angellier had not been long in Dundee when news arrived of the marriage of his sweetheart, which filled hint with grief, and for some time he was uncommonly melancholy, declaring that he was miserable and wretched on account of his blighted hopes. Indeed, so much did he feel the disappointment, that he at one time threatened, in the hearing of more than one person, to commit suicide —even threatening to stab himself with a knife— a fact which is considered of great importance in connection with the present case, as it shows that it was by no means an incredible thing that is young man of such excitable temperament might, while smarting under a love disappointment, actually conimit the rash act which under similar circnntstances in Dundee he had threatened to do. It is also reported—although we have not been able to verify the statement—that in another instance, when not on successful in a love affair as he desired, he threatened to drown himself. Indeed, he is represented by all who knew him a being of a romantic, excitable, thoroughly Galilean temperament; either greatly elevated or dejected, exceedingly happy or exceedingly miserable; lively, frolicsome, and ambitious to rnake conquests nmongst theladies in a station far above his own. He was very proud of his family descent, and fond of talking of the counts, marquises, and dukes of the old French nobility to whom he was related, but when in Dundee he was so poor that those to whom he spoke of his high connections used to joke with him, and say it was a pity his aristocratic friends did not remember him. He was not in a position to move in society when here, but as a smart, plea. sant young fellow had numerous acquaintances, with whom, however, he did not, after leaving the town, keep up any correspondence, and many of them heard of hint for the first time since his departure when they read the account of his unfortunate end in the public prints. From this statement it will be seen that there is ample reason for the public suspending their judgment until the rase comes to trial. The parties here most intimately acquainted with the youth at once wrote to the lady's father on learning front the papers the nature of the charge against her, and a legal gentleman from Glasgow has already visited Dundee, and collected such evidence as is considered material for the defence.— Dundee Advertiser.  ~.ve been