The Sun. — 1857-04-16 (London, England)

THE SUSPECTBD CASE OF POISONING  AT GLASGOW.  M. L'Angellier resided in Dundee for nine months in 1852, and was consequently well known to many parties in the town with whom be was on terms of intimacy, and who beard with.regret of his sudden and untimely end. According to .the statement of those who were acquainted with him here, he. was born and bred in Jefsey, and wits 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 revolution, hod Bettis& in Jersey as a nurseryman. His father dying, the business•was carried on fur the benefit of his mother, -and young L'Angellier was sent to Edinburgh with the view- of gaining the necessary experience as a nurseryman tii.enatile him to conduct the business successfuly ireJers!l. He obtained a situation in the establishment of Messrs.. Dickson and Co., seedsmen, which he held for upwards of six years. He then went to France, where he spent about two years ; and he was in Paris at the, time of the revolution in 1848. 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 one very anxiously, as be was then 'somewhat gay in his habits, and by no mean's• remarkable for his devotion to business. He had. contracted an attachment with a young lady belonging to . Fife, an residing at the time in Edinburgh ; but from some cause or other—it is believed owing to the lady's want of faith in his ability to undertake rae responsibilities of married life—" the course of true love" was interrupted, and L'Angellier left Edinburgh in January; 1852, for Dundee, where he obtained' a situation with Mr. Laird, nurseryman, Nethergate, with whom he lodged during his nine tnonth4' .residence liere. M. L'Angellier had not been long in Dundee wh'en news arrived of the marriage of his sweetheart, which fillcd him with grief, and for some time he was uncommonly melancholy, declaring that he .ran aia.serate. a.a wvetnhed on account of 'his bliehted hopes. •• Indeed so. much did he feel this disappointment that he at one time threatened, in the hearing of more than one. person, to- commit suicide—even threatening to stab himself with alcnife—Ta fact which is considered of great importance In connection with the present case, as it showa that it waif by no•meane an incredible thing that a young man of such excitable temperament might, while smarting under a love disappointment, actually commit the rash act which, undersimilar circumstances in Dundee, he bad threatened to do. It is also reported---although we have net been able.to verify the statement—that in another instance, when not so successful in a love affair as he desired, he threatened to drown himself. Indeed he is represented by all who knew him as being of a romantic, excitable, thoroughly Gallican temperament; either greatly-elevated or-dejected, exceedingly happy or exceedingly miserable; lively, frolicsome, and ambitious to make conquests amongst the ladies in a station far above his own. He was very proud of-his family descent, and kind of talking of the connts, marquises, and dukes of the old French nobility to .whom he was related, bat when in Dundee Was so poor- that those to whom be spoke of his high connexions used to joke with him, and say it was a pity his aristocratic friends did not rememher him. The parties here most intimately acquainted with the youth at once wrote to the young lady's father on learning from 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.