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The Glasgow Poisoning Case. Anothek Of T...
nrith ( This -witness ' s evidence showed that there had bSn ^ onS rlble irregularity on the part of the prosecutor in the means taken for the attestation of the do-^ Sr ^ Hagh Thomson said he had attended L'Angelier on various ^ ccasions , and in particular * " &* J ^ ££ S ^ a ^ h ^ ^ ^ raSacTS ^ S uSSSbS deceased ' s last illness , and corroborated some of the former evidence . ' ¦ j * i
___ . _ . . _ . ^ W Professor Penny , of Glasgow , had esamined the stomach of deceased ; and found it contained about eightysight grains of arsenic . He had also found arsenic in some otner organs of the body . Except one bottle , containing aconite , no poison was found to have been in possession rf the deceased , and , if the bottle had been full , it would not have been sufficient to destroy life . He considered it very dangerous to use arsenic as a cosmetic . In 2 ross-examination , Professor Penny said a greater portion of the arsenic would be vomited if administered Ln a solid than if in a liquid form . A large dose would necessarily exclude many vehicles through which it might be administered . He could not recal any case where so large a dose had been taken involuntarily .
Professor Christison , of Edinburgh , had examined some white powder g iven him by Professor Penny , it having been found in the stomach of the deceased . He Found it to be oxide ' of arsenic . The symptoms of L'Angelier ' s case as described by him were just what he should have expected in a case of poisoning by arsenic . Amedee Thuot deposed to being with L'Angelier on one occasion when he tapped at a window near Blythswood-square to hand in a letter . He afterwards pointed out the window to a policeman . He understood him to have secret correspondence with a lady . .
Augusts Vanvente de Meau , Chancellor to the French Consul in Glasgow , knew of L'Angelier ' s intimacy with Miss Smith . Some weeks before his death , witness told L'Angelier of a report that she was to be married to some one else . L'Angelier said that must be false , but that he had documents in his possession which -would at least forbid the banns . He saw Miss Smith shortly after L'Angelier ' s death , when she denied having seen L'Angelier on the Sunday evening He questioned her about the letter received by the deceased at the Bridge of Allan , on account of which he
had come home , and asked her how she could explain it , she being engaged to another man , . She said she liad made the appointment for Saturday evening , wbi' -fc lie did not k § ep , and ^ her purpose in »; r / uug to him wa ^ to try to get back uer lexers In cross-examination witness stated that deceased bad once become suddenly sick after taking a long walk with him at Helensburgh ; that he had spoken of having had cholera ; that he was in the habit of taking laudanum , and had once had a conversation with witness as to the probability of taking arsenic without dangerous results .
The evidence for the prosecution was resumed on Thursday , when the prisoner ' s declaration was read . In this she denied having seen L'Angelier on the Sunday night , but said she had made an appointment with him for Saturday , when he did not come . She had been in the habit of purchasing arsenic and using it in hashing aa a cosmetic , which she had been recommended to do when at school near London . She did not suppose tho servants knew of it . She had told the apothecaries she wanted it to kill rats . —Evidence was then received in confirmation of this .
William Harper Minnock , the gentleman who occupied the position of L'Angelier ' s rival , was then examined . He said he had made proposals of marriage , to tho prisoner last January , which she accepted on the 12 th of March . They fixed the marriage for tho ISth of June . On Thursday , the 2 Gth of March , she was missing from her father ' s house , and witness , with her brother , traced her on the way to her father ' s country house , at Row , on the Clyde , and got her to return . In cross-examination , this witness said that Miss Smith was « t the Opora with him on the 19 th of February , returning about eleven oclock . The reason she gave for her ( light on the 20 th of March waa that her parents had discovered her conduct m a former love affair , and that she felt distressed on that account . Ho afterwards understood this to refer to L ' Angolier .
Mr . T . F . Kennedy spoko to L'Angolier having becu much excited by a demand from Mias Smith to return uer letters , which ho refused to do , and threatened to show thorn to her father . John Murray said ho had searohod all tho druggists ' registers in Glasgow , but found no trace of arsenic having been purchased by L'Angellor . Tb . e trial was then adjourned to tho next day .
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Chicory pon Coppkic —Mr . Goorgo Fonder , a grocer m Ur aaiey-terraco , Waiubworth-roud , has boon lined 25 / . oy / uo Lftmboth magistrates for soiling a mixture of eweory ana coffee when pure coffee was asked and paid mw . ° 7 i J « ia . lousy . —A ehoomnker , named William S !!!' i ? i tomptod t 0 murdor M « T A" » o In wood . Mann had known tho girl a wiuMorablo time , ana had
asked her to marry him . She felt at first disposed to accept his offer ; but , her suspicions having been aroused from something that occurred , she rejected his addresses and kept out of his sight as much aa possible . However , one evening , as she was leaving the house of a tradesman in the Kingsland-road , for whom she worked , she suddenly encountered Mann in the street . He was very excited , and told her that , unless she consented to marry him , she would bring the blood both of herself and him upon her own head , as he had determined to kill her r and af terwards to commit suicide . He then walked away , and she saw nothing more of him until the following evening , when she was told by her loyer that Mann was about to leave the country ,
emp and that he wished to see her before he went . She therefore left the workroom and went into another , where she understood he was , when he advanced towards her , took her affectionately by the hand , and told her that he was going far away , where she would not be likely to see him any more , and that he could not bear to part with her upon unfriendly terms . The young woman shook hands with her former lover ; but , at the same time , the man threw his left arm round her neck , and , with a shoemaker ' s knife which he held in his hand , inflicted a severe wound just above the
jugular vein . A violent struggle then ensued , but the screams of the young woman soon brought her employer into the room . With great foresight , he had stationed himself near the door , and had kept a close watch , as he suspected the man of an evil design . Mann was at once secured and the knife taken from him , when a policeman was sent for , and he was given into custody . The police surgeon stated that the wound which the woman had received was of a very serious nature , and he believed that it would certainly have proved fatal if the knife had not broken . Mann was examined last Saturday before' the Worship-street magistrate , and was
remanded . The Case of Alleged Assault in Noktox-street . On this case coming on , on remand , before the Marlborough-street magistrate , the prisoners surrendered to their recognizances , but the complainant did not appear ., The accused were therefore discharged . A solicitor in court stated that the parish authorities of Marylebone had determined on prosecuting the persons who keep the house in Norton-street . Wholesale Theft . —Charles Harrison was charged at Guildhall on Tuesday with robbing his employers of goods to a very large amount , and two wholesale grocers , named Roger andTtyder Duranr , were charged with receiving the stolen property with a ern ' * " - "" - ledge . Harrison held a re »~~ -- * ' - \ -J ~ now-, c -Kg . — . ..... o » uie situation in the
em-. .. . ^ casrs . Cooper , wholesale grocers in Monumentyard ; and it was his duty to draw orders upon the sugar refiners for the delivery of titlers , or loaves of refined sugar , for tho purpose of supplying deficiencies , arising from the ordinary course of trade , in the stock in the warehouse . Harrison , however , abused the trust reposed in him , and drew orders for a great number of titlers at various times , which he had afterwards disposed of on his own account without passing them through his masters' warehouse or entering the transaction in their books . Several of these were traced to the Messrs .
Durants shop . All the prisoners were committed for trial . Dehuium Tkemess . —Charles White , a labourer , who appeared to be suffering from delirium / re » ie ? js , was brought before the Southwark magistrate , on Tuesday , on a charge of unmercifully beating his wife . It appeared he was in the habit of doing so when drunk . He was sentenced to two months' hard labour . A Strange Case ov Theft . —John Newman , a j-oung man of good connexions , who holds a situation as clerk to one of the leading parish officials of St . George ' s , Southwark , robbed a gentleman of his watch on Sunday night at the London Bridge Tavern . The theft was instuutly discovered , and Newman ran out , hotly pursued . Ho was soon caught by a policomnn , who found the watch on his person . After some consultation with his luwyer , ou being brought before tho Southwark magistrate , he pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to six months' hard labour .
BunaLAity . —John Mncdonnld , a hawker , has appeared at tho Southwark police-office under some suspicious circumstances . A policeman was on duty in the Borough-road about one o ' clock in the morning , when ho heard a cry of " Stop thief ! " Directly afterwards , he saw Mncdonald running towards him in tho contrary direction to tho one in which ho was going . He culled on him to stop , and the man then threw a pistol into the rouil and attempted to escape down another stroct , but the policeman instantly seized and held him until the arrival of another constable , when , after a hard struggle , Muodunnld was ultimately overpowered and taken to tho station-house . The magistrate remanded him for a wook , to give the police time to make inquiries respecting him .
A Kcn- 'iANLY IlvanANO . —John Leary , a labouring man , has boon brought boforo tho Worship-street magistrate- on a charge of committing a violent assault on his wife , and otherwiso ill-using hor . The man enmo homo one evening from hid work , when hid wife got him his tea , for which aho had provklod a herring . ' Not having tasted moat for throo days , tho woinnn took a small piece for horsolf , whon her husband swore violently at her , snatched a hammer , anil struck hor a heavy blow with it Ott tho back of hor bond , which , almost stunned
her . She had scarcely recovered her consciousness when she was again repeatedly beaten about the head by the ruffian , and was at last compelled to leave the house and take refuge in that of a neighbour , in order to obtain protection from her husband ' s violence . The fellow had often beaten his wife before , and sometimes kept her with a very scanty supply of food for days together . She was very Avilling , however , to forgive him if he would promise to behave better to her in future . He was sentenced to six . months' hard labour .
The Murder . at Chingford Hatch . —An adjourned inquest was held on Monday on the body of Mary White ; the woman murdered on the 21 st ult . The coroner said that , as the medical man had not made a sufficient examination of the body , he should again adjourn the inquest for that purpose ; and he gave an order for the exhumation of the remains . Notices have been circulated , offering a Government reward of 100 ? . for the apprehension of Jonathan Geydon , who is charged with the murder . He was discharged from Springfield Gaol on the 16 th ult . ; and it appears that he has not , as we stated last week , been already arrested on the present charge . Harriet
" The Murder at Rivexhall , Essex . — Freeborn , the young woman whose throat was cut by a man named Finch , about a month since , died at her brother ' s house , at Kelvedon , on Friday week . An inquest was held last Saturday ; the deposition of the deceased was read over ; and a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against Charles Finch . Verbal Sharpers . —Two sharpers have been committed for trial by tbe Westminster magistrate for stealing a gold watch and chain from a commercial traveller . The latter had been enticed into a public-house , and induced to bet upon the proper meaning of a word . Having lost , his watch , which he had previously deposited with an umpire , Who was one of the confederates , wds taken away , and he speedily saw no more of the gentlemen of literary tastes . The trick is ingenious , but not neir .
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' GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . An amusing scene took place in the Court of Queen's Bench last Saturday . A Mr . Thomas , a City merchant , brought an action against a Mr . Reynolds for infringing a patent for iir . proVcmciiia in tuc mowing "l ^/ J ^ , wnich have recently come into use . The ?«— _ _ question went hi- ; * - " " ... o machines in . --. ^ £ , . 11 , into court , where the one produced some beautiful specimens of ornamental and other needlework , while the other , which was worked by a young woman , made the front of an ornamental boot . The plaintiff's son haa made several improvements in his father ' s machine , which is now able to make one thousand stitche 3 in one -minute . Mr . Thomas stated that every article of clothing which he had on , with the single exception of the soles of his boots , was made by his sewing machines . Thirty different kinds of clothing made by his machinery were exhibited to the jury , till at length the court was as crowded with articles of dress as a ready-made clothier ' s . This excited much merriment , which rose to its height when Lord Campbell handed to the jurymen , for their inspection , a large reversible Cnlifornian coat , and , looking intently on some Jinely worked linen fronts , inquired their price , together with the studs . Both machines were American inventions ; and the real defendants were Messrs . Grover , liaker , ami Co ., machine makers of New York , who , Lord Campbell observed , did not appear to advantage ia the proceedings . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff , with forty shillings damages ; and Lord Campbell said he would give all tho necessary certiiicates to entitle the plaintiff to costs . —In the course of the trial it was stated that , in some departments of trade , Mr . Thomas ' s machine had completely superseded hand labour , but that , instead of its being prejudicial to the interests of the persons employed , it had actually had tho effect of raising their wages , and the poor needlewoman who formerly earned only 7 s . 6 d . a week , could now earn from 17 a . to 20 s . It would appear that more hands are employed ; and , from tho diminished cost , an immense boneQt to the public is the result . A Mrs . Sohwondler has brought an action in tho Court of Excliequor against n Mr . Smith , to recover a full-length portrait of a Indy , valued at 50 / . Tho plaintiff , who was examined through the intervention of an interpreter , described herself as a dealer in pioturcs on commission , and stated that tho picture in question was handed over by her in January , 1850 , to Smith , who kept a public-housoiu Wiiuhnill-stroot , llaymarkot , nnd that ho promised to take caro of it for nothing . When , however , aho applied for it , she was told that hIio must pay 5 / . for tho warehousing . Mrs . Schwondlor admitted that she had passed under the name o £ Madamo Colbert ; that she hud formerly Hvod in N <» vman-atroet ; that who had pleaded guilty of keeping a house of ill fame , although aho did ao only bocnuso aho had not money to dofond herself ; mid that she had passed through tho Insolvent Court . Smith , did not claim tho picture , but said ho received it from n Mr . Uynnm , and know nothing of Mrs . . Schwondlor , Mr Augustus " Bynam , who provioua to 186 < t kept on exhibition called the Industrious Fleas , and who on that account is known by tho name of ' tho Flon , ' swore that ho aaelatvd . tho irtnlntlfl" « w Interpreter >» tho proceeding *
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Leader (1850-1860), July 4, 1857, page 633, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_04071857/page/9/
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