A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeline Smith : for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier / Revised and corrected, with an introductory chapter, by John Morison ... With a correct portrait taken in the court.

Madeleine Smith

Date:: 1857

Credit: A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeline Smith : for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier / Revised and corrected, with an introductory chapter, by John Morison ... With a correct portrait taken in the court. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$warelioixse was packing-clerk. I am not aware what money lie had when he v\^ent to Bridge of Allan or to Edinburgh. I saw the first medical report made by Dr Thomson. It was made upon Tuesday the 24th. [Shewn seven medical reports, and asked to find it.] The Judge—Yon had better shew it to him. The Dean—It is not there ; that is the point. Witness—Need I look for it then ? The Dean—No ; but you saw a report ? Witness—Yes ; it was on a small slip of paper. There is a I'eport here by Dr Steven and Dr Thomson, dated 28th March. The report I speak of was made on the 24th March. It was given to me, and I gave it to Mr Young, the Fiscal. I don't think I have seen it since. [Shewn No. 1 of second inventory for prisoner—a portmonnaie.] This was got, I think, in the vest he vfore when he came from the Bridge of Allan. There were three rings in it, v/hicli I have already spoken to as having been found on him. I did not give this up to the Fiscal with the other things. It was found on the Monday that he died ; it was locked up in one of his draAvers. It was not taken out till all the articles of dress were packed up a considerable time afterwards ; it was then packed up in one of the portmanteaus. I have no note of when it was given u[), but I recollect giving some articles out of the portmanteau to Mr Miller and Mr Forbes, agents for the prisoner. T am not sure whether .this was one of them. I don't know whether it was got out of his lodgings or out of the trunk it was sent in here. [Shewn two letters, 1 and 2 of the first inventory for the prisoner.] These are in the handv/riting of L'Angelier. By the LoED Justice-Clerk—I was several times precognosced. At the time of the first 2:)recognition I understood there was a criminal charge against some one on accoimt of the death of L'Angelier; and it was known I was the first person who had seen any of the articles in his repositories. I have not the date of the first precognition. I think it was after giving up the articles to Murray on the 30th. On none of these occasions am I aware that the Sherifi was present during my pre- cognition. I understood at the time that it was known and understood who the letters in the first handwriting were from, and I knew that the charge was murder. The party was in custody at that time. ]\Iurray is an officer belonging to the Fiscal. I did not see the Sherifi or the Fiscal at the desk or repositories while I was there. The letters were put into a bag by me, a,nd no inventory made. Everything was given up. The box contoining the letters found in Huggins' ofiice was sealed up. I am not av/are whether the bag was sealed up. The letters found in the lodgings were put into a brown-paper parcel. I am not aware whether it was sealed. There was another oflicer with Murray. The LoKD Justioe-Clerk—You seem to have done all that you thought necessary, and with much propriet_y, in the way of making memoranda, though not in the way that the Fiscal would have done it. But dviring any of your precognitions, were you asked to go over the letters, and put any marks on them to enable you to say where they were found 1 Witness—Not when they were delivered up. Afterwards I was re- quested to put my initials on some of them. Tlie Lord Justice-Clerk—I think it right to say, that I know of no duty so urgent, so impressive, and so imperative as that of the Sheriff$