The Sun. — 1857-07-08 (London, England)

EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE.  The Dean of Faculty said that reference would nccessai ily be made to affairs of a delicate naurein which the deceased had been engaged at an earlier period of his life, and he was anxious to avoid names being mentioned unnecessarily ; and he 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 acquainted with L'Angelier. He lived in the Rainbow between six and nine months, so far 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 was 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 for a quiet sort of a person, but he 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 he got up in the night, and opened the window. 1 got up and asked him what hs 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 often 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 matter, but he did not mention it to me. It was my uncle who told me of it. I have heard him talk about it to others. It wassome lady in Fife. He was distressed he had no situation, and that he could not keep his engagement with her. We were in the habit of taking morning walks together. We occasionally walked to Leith-p'er. He one morning said he had a good mind to throw himself over, as he was quite tired of his existence. I have heard him read of newspaper cases of suicide, and he would say this person had done what he should do if he had the same c iurage.  Cross-examined by the Lord Advocate—L'Angelier was a Jersey man, and I had met him there some time about 1846. Re-examined and shown No. 1, first inventory for prisoner—That is a letter from himto me, written in Dundee. (In that letter he says, alter saying he had just landed in Dundee, and had got a situation in which he was working for board and lodging only, and with almost no salary :—" Dever was so unhappy in my life. I wish I bad courage to blow my brains out.") William Pringle Laird, nurseryman, of Dundee —I was acquainted with the late Emile L'Angelier. I knew him when in the service of Dickson and Co. in Edinburgh, ~ in 1843. I took him into my own employment in 1852. He had been in France for some time in the interval. He came to me on Old Hansel Monday of 1852 (26th Jan.) He remained till the end of August or the IFt Sept. He was a very sober young man, kind and obliging, but excitable and changeablein his temperament—sometimes very melancholy, and sometimes very blythsome. He was very aull and unwell when he first came to me. He did not tell me the cause at first, 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 another, because (as I understood him to say) she was pledged to him. He told me who she was. I believe she was in the middle station of life. After this I saw the lady's marriage in the newspapers.