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The Trial and Acquittal at Edinburgh, Scotland, of Mrs Madeleine Smith for Murder. From the London Times, July 10. Madeleine Smith has, after nine days’ trial, been acquitted, and goes forth free again into the world. On the first charge, of attempt to poison, she has been found ‘Not Guilty,’ while the second charge, to the same effect, and the actual murder, having been declared “Not Proven.” The dead mal, L’Angelier, is not one whose fate there is any need to commiserate. It appears that the prisoner left Clapton Board ing-school in 1853, when she was only 17 years old, and that within two years of that time she met the deceased, said to be a native of Jersey, and at that time in the employment of a Glas gow warehouseman, at a salary of Ss..or 10s. a week, with his board and lodging. L’angelier paid his addresses, which were well received by the young lady, but forbidden by the pa rents. Madeleine slept on the ground floor, and used to receive the visits of her lover first at the widow and then in the room itself. In the spring of 1856, we find, from her letters, that she had been seduced by L’Angelier, and from that time to the close of the year she writes to him almost daily, A Mr Minnock proposed in all innocnce to her, and in spite of stolen interviews and boarding-school heroics, she thought it better to have a solid Glasgow man of business than a French clerk on £ 30 a year, who boasted to everybody of his successes with women in gen eral, and herself in particular. But L’Angelier had no notion of giving her up. She seems desireous to get L’Angelier away, 80 that her marriage might take place before he could prevent it. 1? Angelier, how ever, remains, and persists in his threats. The prisoner for some reason or other feigns a renewal of her attachment for L’Angelier. She wishes to bring him back to her; the prose cution say that she may poison him—she says that she might coax him to give back the letters. On February 17 he dines with Miss Perry. He tells her that he is to see Miss Smith on the 19th. We know not if he did see her on that day, but we know from the testimony of his lady that on that night he was seized with a sudden illness—as men are ill from arsenic. That the prisoner administered poison on the 19th of February is the first charge at which she was found “not guilty.” Every Glasgow chym ist’s book was searched, and no purchase of ar senic was proved prior to the 19th, so that with respect to this first day there was sufficient doubt to justify a verdict of full acquittal. But on the Qlet Madeline purchases arsenic at the shop of Mr. Murdoch, on the 22d of March L’Angelier goes out a little before 9 o'clock. The question is, did they meet? The prisoner says, no, that the interview was for Saturday, not Sunday. The prosecution asserts that they did. At all events L’Angelier is found, four hours afterwards, in agonies at his own door. He is doubled up, speechless, and has not strength to turn the latch-key. He dies, and dies of arsenic. The prosecution over that he is poisoned by the prisoner; she declares her inno cence, and suggests that he must have done it himself in a fit of jealousy. Evidence is ad duced that he was vain, foolish, and extravagant, always talking of love affairs, and threatening suicide when he was disappointed. Was L’Angelier likely to commit self-mur der, and in such a manner as wilfully to bring on Madeleine Smith the suspicion of the deed? These questions are now beyond human inves tigation. The jury by their verdict have de clared their inability to decide. In this verdict we must concur; yet we see no reason for the cheering and the manifestation of joy which greeted it. 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