GLASGOW POISONING CASE. Unabridged report of the evidence in this extraordinary trial, with all the passionate love letters written by the prisoner to the deceased and numerous illustrations, including portrait of Madeleine Smith. London, George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand.

Edité par 1857., 1857

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8vo, pp. 77, [ii]; with large folding engraved frontispiece, and six further engraved plates (two folding); two small repairs to verso of frontispiece with a couple of small tears at folds but without significant loss, outer margin of title-page a little nicked and chipped, with slight loss to upper corner of first three leaves, further light marginal soiling and occasional spotting; with bookseller's label at tail of front paste-down; in later three-quarter cloth over plain boards, spine lettered in gilt, front hinge cracked but holding, covers a little soiled, with slight sunning at tail of upper cover, extremities and corners a little rubbed and bumped; a good copy. A scarce abridged account of this noted Scottish trial, no doubt published to satisfy the voracious public interest that the notorious case had generated throughout Great Britain. The large folding and evocative frontispiece depicts the court-room, with the defendant standing with her head bowed, and facing away from the viewer. Portraits of Smith and the leading lawyers are also depicted, together with a view of both her house, and that of the victim, Pierre Emile L'Angelier. Smith, the twenty-one year old daughter of the noted Glasgow architect David Hamilton, was tried for poisoning Pierre Emile L'Angelier, a poor Jerseyman of French extraction, in the summer of 1857. The pair had met in 1855 and began a secret correspondence that eventually resulted in a full-blown love affair. In the spring of 1857, Smith became engaged to William Minnoch, a suitor acceptable to her parents, and tried to end her relationship with L'Angelier. Insisting that their prior intimacy meant they were married in the eyes of God, L'Angelier refused to accept Smith's decision. After threatening to send her letters to her father if she went ahead with the marriage plans, he died suddenly on March 22, 1857. A post-mortem examination revealed that death had been caused by arsenic poisoning, and a search of L'Angelier's rooms turned up the letters Smith had written to him. Smith was arrested and charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder, based on reports of earlier attacks of a "mysterious" stomach ailment. Despite the evidence of the letters and the fact that Smith was shown to have purchased arsenic several times, the jury acquitted her of attempted murder and brought in a verdict of Not Proven on the final charge. It is interesting to note that for the London readership, Vickers has included a brief explanation of this verdict - specific to Scottish law. OCLC notes a more extensive explanation of the trial published in the same year, with a Belfast imprint and comprising 124 pages, as well as a shorter version of 40 pp with a Melbourne imprint. The trial prompted several subsequent commentaries and analyses. OCLC cites copies at Chicago, Bryn Mawr, the British Library, the NLS and the Wellcome.…

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GLASGOW POISONING CASE. Unabridged report of the evidence in this extraordinary trial, with all the passionate love letters written by the prisoner to the deceased and numerous illustrations, including portrait of Madeleine Smith. London, George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand.
Auteur
[SMITH, Madeline].
Éditeur
1857.
Année de publication
1857
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