Report of the trial of Madeleine Smith : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, June 30th to July 9th, 1857, for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Émile l'Angelier / by Alexander Forbes Irvine, advocate.

  • Smith, Madeleine, 1835-1928.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Report of the trial of Madeleine Smith : before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, June 30th to July 9th, 1857, for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Émile l'Angelier / by Alexander Forbes Irvine, advocate. 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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    or on one or other of the days of that month, or of January imme- diately preceding, or of March immediately following, within or near the said house situated in or near Blythswood Square afore- said, or situated in or near Blythswood Square, and in or near Mains Street aforesaid, you the said Madeleine Smith or Madeleine Plamilton Smith did, wickedly and feloniously, administer to, [or cause to be taken by,] the said Emile L'Angelier or PieiTe Emile L'Angelier, now deceased, a quantity or quantities of arsenic, or other poison to the prosecutor unknown, in cocoa, or in coffee, or in some other article or articles of food or drink to the prosecutor un- known, or in some other manner to the prosecutor unknown ; and this you did with intent to murder the said Emile L'Angelier or Pierre Emile L'Angelier; and the said Emile L'Angelier or Pierre Emile L'Angelier having accordingly taken the said quantity or quantities of arsenic or other poison, or part thereof, so administered, [or caused to be taken] by you, did, in consequence thereof, and immediately, or soon after taking the same, or part thereof, suffer severe illness : LIKEAS (3.), on the 22d or 23d day of March 1857, (Sunday or Monday,) or on one or other of the days of that month, or of February imme- diately preceding, or of April immediately following, within or near the said house situated in or near Blythswood Square aforesaid, or situated in or near Blythswood Square, and in or near Mains Street aforesaid, you the said Madeleine Smith or JSIadeleine Hamilton Smith did, wickedly and feloniously, administer to, or cause to be taken by, the said Emile L'Angelier or PieiTe Emile L'Angelier, in some article or articles of food or drink to the prosecutor unknown, or in some other manner to the prosecutor unknown, a quantity or quantities of arsenic, or other poison to the prosecutor unknown ; and the said Emile L'Angelier or Pierre Emile L'Angelier having accordingly taken the said quantity or quantities of arsenic or other poison, or part thereof, so administered, or caused to be taken by you, did, in consequence thereof, and immediately, or soon after taking the same, or part thereof, suffer severe illness, and did, on the 23d day of March 1857, or about that time, die in consequence of the said quantity or quantities of arsenic or other poison, or part thereof, having been so taken by him, and was thus murdered by you the said Madeleine Smith or Madeleine Hamilton Smith : And you the said Madeleine Smith or Madeleine Hamilton Smith having been apprehended and taken before Archibald Smith, Esquire, ad- vocate, sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire, did, in his presence at Glasgow, on the 31st day of March 1857,- emit and subscribe a declaration : Which Declaration ; As also the