A Most Curious Murder - The Madeleine Smith Story

<center> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" > <tr> <td width="494"><b><font color="#990000"><font size=+2>  Datefile</font></font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="494"><a href="index.htm"><img src="jpgs/blylite.JPG" border=0 height=302 width=491 usemap="#Map"></a><a href="index.htm"><map name="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="105,181,165,262" alt="The Smith's front door" title="The Smith's front door"><area shape="rect" coords="166,261,335,279" href="#" alt="kitchen windows (front area)" title="kitchen windows (front area)"><area shape="rect" coords="415,218,435,278" alt="Minnoch's Door" title="Minnoch's Door"><area shape="poly" coords="179,245" href="#"><area shape="poly" coords="471,241" href="#"><area shape="rect" coords="104,121,468,178" alt="Minnoch's apartments" title="Minnoch's apartments"><area shape="rect" coords="457,200,471,245" alt="Bessie's bedroom" title="Bessie's bedroom"><area shape="rect" coords="369,260,409,283" alt="Madeleine's bedroom windows" title="Madeleine's bedroom windows"><area shape="rect" coords="437,200,452,244" alt="John's bedroom window" title="John's bedroom window"><area shape="rect" coords="178,183,356,247" alt="Smiths' drawing room" title="Smiths' drawing room"><area shape="rect" coords="366,186,409,244" alt="Smiths' dining room" title="Smiths' dining room"></map></a></td> </tr> </table> </center>   <table BORDER cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" > <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Sep 18 1757</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Christening, in Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's paternal Great Grandmother)</font><font size=-1> Janet Dempster, parents: John Dempster and Janet Laky</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>May 22 1763</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage, in Glasgow, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's maternal Great Grandparents) </font><font size=-1>William Hamilton, mason, and Helen Liddel</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>May 11 1768</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="David Hamilton"></a><font size=-1>Birth of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's maternal grandfather)</font><font size=-1> <a href="who.htm#David Hamilton">David Hamilton</a>, parents: William Hamilton, mason, and Helen Liddell.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Apr 2 1778</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth of</font><font size=-2> (Madeleine's maternal grandmother)</font><font size=-1> Magdalene Marshall, parents: John Marshall, residenter (vintner), and Mary Miller</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Mar 1 1772</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage, in Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's paternal Great Grandparents) </font><font size=-1>Thomas Thomson, maltster, and Isabel Morrison.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Nov 3 1780</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage, in Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's paternal Great Grandparents) </font><font size=-1>James Smith, mason, and Janet Dempster.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Nov 8 1781</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth, in Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's paternal grandfather)</font><font size=-1> John Smith, parents: James Smith (mason) and Janet Dempster</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Feb 6 1785</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Christening, Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's paternal grandmother)</font><font size=-1> Betty Thomson, parents: Thomas Thomson and Isabel Morrison</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>1787</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Publication of <a href="Jones.htm">The First Glasgow Directory</a> - edited by Nathaniel Jones <br /> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#990000">N.B. there are no "back" links on these pages - please use your browser's "back" button to return from this area.</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>May 5 1794</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's maternal grandparents)</font><font size=-1> David Hamilton (mason) and Magdaline Marshall.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Jan 04 1806</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's paternal grandparents)</font><font size=-1> John Smith (mason) and Elizabeth Thomson </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Aug 12 1806</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth, in Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's father) </font><font size=-1>James Smith, (baptised on 19th.), parents: John Smith (mason) and Elizabeth Thomson.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Mar 10 1812</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's mother)</font><font size=-1> Janet Hamilton, parents: David Hamilton, architect, and Magdalene Marshall</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size="2">May 1 1817</font></td> <td width="667"><font size="2"><a name="MaryPerry"></a>Birth of <a href="who.htm#MissPerry">Mary Arthur Perry</a>, parents: William Perry and Helen Todd.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Oct 9 1821</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Death, at age 18, of David, son of David Hamilton, Architect</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Oct 11 1821</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Death, at age 24, of William, son of David Hamilton, Architect </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Jul 17 1822</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>(1st) Marriage of Pierre Francoise L'Angelier and Victoire Melanie de la Croix </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Dec 24 1822</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Death, in Alloa, of </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's Great Grandfather)</font><font size=-1> James Smith, builder, father of John Smith, builder.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Apr 30 1823</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="Emile"></a><font size=-1>Birth, in Jersey, of <a href="who.htm#Emile">Pierre Emile L'Angelier</a>, parents: Pierre Francoise L'Angelier and Victoire Melanie de la Croix.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Mar 24 1833</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage, Glasgow parish, of James Smith, timber merchant, and Janet Hamilton. </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's parents)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Mar 26 1833 </font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Marriage (2nd ceremony) of James Smith and Janet Hamilton, at Buchanan St., Barony parish. </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's parents)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><b><font size=-1>Mar 29 1835</font></b></td> <td width="667"><b><font size=-1>Birth, at 167 Regent St., of Magdalene (Madeleine) Hamilton Smith</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Apr 09 1835</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="Mary Buchanan"></a><font size=-1>Birth, at Cardross, of <a href="who.htm#Mary Buchanan">Mary Buchanan</a> </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's best friend)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Jan 25 1837</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth, at 167 Regent St., of Betsy Smith </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's Sister)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Feb 07 1839</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth, at Bedford Place (Renfrew St), of John Smith </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's Brother)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Oct 02 1840</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth of David Hamilton Smith.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Nov 12 1840</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Death, at Bedford Place, of David Hamilton Smith (age one month).</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>1841----------</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Pierre Emile L'Angelier, aged 18, arrives in Scotland for the first time.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>1842</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth of James Smith </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's brother)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Mar 01 1842</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Burial, at St Helier, of Pierre Francoise L'Angelier (aged 52 yrs 10m)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>1843</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Birth of Janet Smith </font><font size=-2>(Madeleine's sister)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Jul 24 1843</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>James Smith's estate sequestrated</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Aug 14 1843 </font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>John Smith's estate sequestrated (also around this time - seqn. of estates of sons John Jnr. and Henry, merchants, commission agents).</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><a name="DHDeath"></a><font size=-1>Dec 05 1843 </font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Death of David Hamilton, architect (age 75)<b> </b><a href="Obituary.htm">[OBITUARY]</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Sep 29 1845</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>James Smith's sequestration discharged</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Apr 20 1846</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>John Smith's sequestration discharged</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>1847</font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>L'Angelier returns to the continent, his relationship with the "Lady in Fife" being at an end.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Nov 23 1849 </font></td> <td width="667"><font size=-1>Death, at Columbia Place, of Magdalene Marshall Hamilton (Madeleine's gran)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>1851</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="Rainbow"></a><font size=-1>L'Angelier back in Edinburgh (stays for 6 - 9 months at the <a href="Defence.htm#RobertBaker">Rainbow Tavern</a>)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Jan 12-20th</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="Laird"></a><font size=-1>On "Old Hansel Monday" Emile starts work with <a href="Defence.htm#WilliamPringleLaird">William Laird</a> in Dundee.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Sep 01 1852 </font></td> <td width="667"><a name="MrsWallace"></a><font size=-1>Emile leaves Laird's - moves to Glasgow (lodges with <a href="Defence.htm#ElizabethWallace">Elizabeth Wallace</a> until December '53)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size="2">Dec 1853</font></td> <td width="667"><font size="2">Emile meets <a href="Prosecution.htm#MaryPerry">Miss Mary Perry</a> at church (St Jude's). Miss Perry lived at 144 Renfrew Street. Since <a href="Census.htm#1833">1833</a>, the Smith's had had their workshop at 100 Renfrew Street. During 1853/54, the Smiths lived at <a href="Census.htm#1854">164 Renfrew Street</a> (about 100 paces from Miss Perry's front door).</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Dec 25 1853</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="WDRoberts"></a><font size=-1>Emile dines with <a href="Defence.htm#WDRoberts">Wm D'Esterre Roberts</a> - takes very ill - vomiting and purging - generally spoiling the Xmas dinner (first recorded instance of his "cholera-like" symptoms).</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size="2">Spring 1855</font></td> <td width="667"><font size="2">Emile and Miss Perry become more "intimate" (I'm pretty sure it meant that they conversed as friends).</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Apr 1855</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="RobertBaird"></a><font size=-1>L'Angelier introduced to Madeleine Smith (by <a href="Defence.htm#RobertBaird">Robert Baird</a>)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="71"><font size=-1>Oct 1856</font></td> <td width="667"><a name="CharlesBaird"></a><font size=-1><a href="Defence.htm#CharlesBaird">Charles Baird</a> finds Emile very unwell at his lodgings (Franklin Place) - doubled up screaming with pain. </font></td> </tr> </table>   <center>   </center>   <table BORDER cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" > <caption> <center> <b><font color="#CCCCCC"><font size=+2>1857</font></font></b> </center> </caption> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Wed 28 Jan</font></td> <td><a name="Minnoch"></a><font size=-1>Madeleine accepts <a href="who.htm#Minnoch">William Minnoch</a>'s offer of marriage.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><font size="-1">Mon 02 Feb</font></p> </td> <td><font size=-1>She finally writes to Emile to end the affair <font color="#660000">"I felt truly astonished to have my last letter returned to me. But it will be the last you shall have the opportunity of returning. When you are not pleased with the letters I send you, then our correspondence shall be at an end, and, as there is a coolness on both sides, our engagement had better be broken. ...  ... bring my letters and likeness on Thursday eve., at 7."</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><font size=-1>Tues </font><font size=-1>03 Feb</font></p> </td> <td><font size=-1>L'Angelier receives Madeleine's letter - doesn't reply immediately - tells Thomas Kennedy, with tears in his eyes, that he would <font color="#660000">"never allow her to marry another man as long as he lived."</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Thur 05 Feb</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Madeleine attends a party at Mrs Janet Anderson's house. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 09 Feb </font></td> <td><font size=-1><a name="Tuesday10thFebruary"></a>Still awaiting a reply from L'Angelier, Madeleine writes again, this time allowing herself the luxury of addressing him with a hint of the contempt she had, in reality, felt for him for some months past (posted today - <i>deliverable Tuesday</i>). <font color="#660000">"I attribute it to your <img src="jpgs/1857feb.JPG" height=198 width=285 align=RIGHT>having a cold that I had no answer to my last note. On Thursday evening you were, I suppose, afraid of the night air. I again appoint Thursday night first - same place - street gate, 7 o'clock."</font> </font>  <br /> <i><font size=-1>This first letter, however, had crossed in the post with his eventual reply in which he threatens to show the letters to her father.</font></i> <p><font size=-1>She writes again (Posted Tues morn. - del'd 1.30 - 3.00) <font color="#660000">"Emile, I have just had your note. Emile, for the love you once had for me, do nothing till Isee you... tomorrow night - one line, for the love of God."</font></font> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <td><b><font size=-1>Tue 10 Feb</font></b></td> <td><font size="2">Emile receives<i> both</i> of  Madeleine's letters. He realizes that he has miscalculated. His blackmail threat has not produced the expected result in that Madeleine now fears that she will be thrown out of the house. He knows <i>today</i>, for the first time, that there is no chance of his marrying into the Smith family</font>.<br /> <font size=-1>Madeleine writes, <font color="#660000">"Oh, it is kind of you to write to me..."</font></font><font color="#660000"> </font>  <div align=right><font size=-1><a href="Story.htm#10th of February">[Back to the Madeleine Smith Story]</a></font></div> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <td><b><font color="#CC0000"><font size=-1>Wed 11th</font></font></b></td> <td><font size=-1><b>The first entry in L'Angelier's pocket-book:</b> * "<i>Dined at Mr Mitchell's; Saw M. at 12pm in CH Room</i>."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Fri 13th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>*<font color="#000000"> (Pocket-book) </font>- "<i>Saw Mr Phillpot, saw Mimi, dined at 144 Renfrew St.</i>"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Sat 14th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "<i>A letter from M</i>."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 16th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "<i>Wrote M. Saw Mr Phillpots.</i>"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 17th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile dines with Mary Perry - meets Philpot there - <b>(he says he next expects to see Madeleine on Thursday</b>)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><font size=-1>Thu 19th</font></b></td> <td><font size=-1>Madeleine, Wm Minnoch and his sister at the opera. * </font>  <br /> <font size=-1>(Pocket-book) - "<i>Saw Mimi a few moments <a name="1_BeingPoisoned"></a><font color="#C0C0C0"><b><a href="#2_BeingPoisoned">(1)</a></b> </font><b><u>was very ill during the night</u></b>.</i>"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Fri 20th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "<i>Passed two pleasant hour with M. in the Drawing Room</i>."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><font size=-1>Sat 21st </font></b></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - <a name="2_BeingPoisoned"></a><i><font color="#C0C0C0"><b><a href="#3_BeingPoisoned">(2)</a></b> </font></i>"<b><i>Don't feel well</i></b>." </font>  <br /> <font size=-1>(<b>Now, for the 1st time) <font color="#CC0000">Madeleine buys arsenic from Murdoch's</font> </b>(Murdoch's arsenic stained with soot )</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Sun 22nd </font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "<i>Saw Mimi in Drawing Room Promised me French Bible. <a name="3_BeingPoisoned"></a><font color="#C0C0C0"><b><a href="#4_BeingPoisoned">(3)</a></b> </font><b><u>Taken very ill</u></b>.</i>"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 23rd </font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile tells Thomas Kennedy, <a name="4_BeingPoisoned"></a><i><font color="#C0C0C0"><b><a href="#5_BeingPoisoned">(4)</a></b> </font></i>"<b><i><u>I am very ill</u></i></b>," and gets sent home. ..Emile calls on Dr Thomson Thuau visits Emile</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 24th</font></td> <td><font color="#CC0000"><font size=-1>Madeleine goes back to Murdochs and asks if arsenic shouldn't be white. </font></font>  <br /> <font size=-1>Dr Thomson visits Emile. * (Pocket-book) - "<i>Wrote M</i>."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Wed 25th </font></td> <td><font size=-1>Dr Thomson visits Emile * (Pocket-book) -"<i>M. wrote me.</i>"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Thu 26th </font></td> <td><font size=-1>Dr Thomson visits Emile </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Sat 28th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "Mimi wrote me."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Sun 1 Mar</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Dr Thomson meets L'Angelier in Great Western Road </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 2 Mar</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile tells Mary Perry <a name="5_BeingPoisoned"></a><i><font color="#C0C0C0"><b><a href="#6_BeingPoisoned">(5)</a></b> </font></i><u><b>he had been</b> <b>very ill</b></u>, "Well, I never expected to see you again." (She takes this to refer to the 19th February) </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 3 Mar</font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "Mimi wrote; wrote Mimi   Saw her in S.S."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Wed 4 Mar </font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "Saw Mimi - gave her a note and got one from her"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Thu 5 Mar</font></td> <td><font size=-1>* (Pocket-book) - "Saw Mimi - gave her a note and rec'd one."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Fri 6 Mar</font></td> <td><b><font size=-1>Either today or on the 5th, Emile visits the Botanic <img src="jpgs/1857mar.JPG" height=202 width=294 align=RIGHT>Gardens</font></b><font size=-1> and, according to <a href="Prosecution.htm#MargaretClark">Mrs Clark's testimony</a>, takes away some gold or silver fish.   According the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens, at that time, arsenic was used in the Botanic Gardens both in Glasgow and Edinburgh.</font>  <p><font size=-1><b><font color="#CC0000">Madeleine </font></b><font color="#000000">(with Mary Buchanan)</font><b><font color="#CC0000"> buys arsenic from Curries</font></b> (Currie's arsenic was stained with indigo).</font>  <br /> <font size=-1>The family go to Bridge of Allan.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 9 Mar</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile gets leave of absence...Takes tea with Mary Perry and tells her about <a name="6_BeingPoisoned"></a><i><font color="#C0C0C0"><b><a href="#7_BeingPoisoned">(6)</a></b> </font></i><u><b>a cup of chocolate which had made him ill</b>.</u>.. "I can't think why I was <b><u>so unwell after getting that coffee and chocolate from her</u></b>... And then, later, "It is a perfect fascination I have for her... <i><font color="#C0C0C0"> </font></i><b><u>if she were to poison me</u> </b>I would forgive her."</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 10 Mar</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile arrives at lodgings (6 Elm Row, Edinburgh)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Thu 12th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Minnoch and Madeleine fix date for marriage (18th June) </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Sat 14th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile dines with George McCall (merchant), Forth St. Edinburgh. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 16th</font></td> <td><a name="Frazer"></a><font size=-1>L'Angelier visits the Towers in Portobello to talk about being <u><b>very ill</b> </u>and to declare that he believes <a name="7_BeingPoisoned"></a><i><font color="#C0C0C0"><a href="#final illness"><b>(7)</b> </a></font></i><b><u>he may have been poisoned</u></b>. Tells McCall he had been dining with <a href="Defence.htm#LieutenantColonelRobertFraser">Colonel Fraser</a> at Portobello.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 17th </font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile leaves (Elm Row) Edinburgh. Madeleine returns from Bridge of Allan </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Wed-18th </font></td> <td><font size=-1><b><font color="#CC0000">Madeleine buys arsenic from Curries.</font></b>  In the evening, she goes to a dinner party at Minnoch's </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Thu 19th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile leaves for Bridge of Allan (via Edinburgh) ... calls at stationers in Leith St Edinburgh, looking for letter... returns to his lodgings - 16:15, Emile leaves Edinburgh for Bridge of Allan, Arrives at Bridge of Allan lodgings. Madeleine and Mr & Mrs Smith dine at Wm Minnoch's</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Fri 20th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Madeleine writes to Emile</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Sun 22nd</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Emile returns to Glasgow. At 9.00pm, He leaves lodgings, asking for pass key. At 9.30pm, He arrives at Terrace St and asks for McAlester</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 23rd</font></td> <td><font size=-1>2:30am, Emile arrives back, "<b>very ill</b>" </font>  <p><a name="final illness"></a><font size=-1>7:00:am, Mrs Jenkins calls Doctor Steven.  Emile now makes no mention of "<a href="#1_BeingPoisoned">poison</a>" - the question would have immediately arisen: "but, if you thought you were being poisoned, why did you take it?"  He needs someone else <a href="#5_BeingPoisoned">(Miss Perry)</a> to point the finger.</font>  <p><font size=-1>9:00:am, Emile asks to see Miss Perry </font>  <p><font size=-1>12:00: Miss Perry turns up (too late) </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 24th </font></td> <td><font size=-1>Stevenson and Kennedy have a (closer) look at the letters. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Wed 25th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Madeleine and Wm Minnoch at dinner party (Rev. Middleton's) </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Thu 26th </font></td> <td><font size=-1>2pm, Jack and Wm Minnoch catch up with Madeleine on the steamer.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Fri 27th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Madeleine tells Minnoch about some letters in L'Angelier's possession.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mon 30th</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Mary Buchanan visits Madeleine</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Tue 31st</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Day of Glasgow election (James Smith). Madeleine tells Minnoch that she has bought poison. Madeleine charged with murder.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Apr-Jun</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Madeleine in prison awaiting trial</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>30th Jun </font></td> <td><font size=-1>1st day of trial </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>9th July</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Last day of trial</font></td> </tr> </table>   <br />   <center> <b><font color="#CCCCCC"><font size=+2>After<br />   </font></font></b> </center> <font color="#CCCCCC"> <table BORDER cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" > <tr> <td><font size=-1>Jul 04 1861</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Marriage of of Madeleine Hamilton Smith of 72 Sloane St, Chelsea, to George Wardle, artist, of 5 Bloomfield Terrace, at St Paul's, London. Winesses H. Haverlock and James Smith.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>May 27-1862</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Birth of Mary Wardle, parents: George Wardle and Madeleine Smith</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>1863</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Birth, at Southwold, Suffolk, of Tom Edmund Wardle, parents: George Young Wardle and Madeleine Smith.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Dec 30 1863</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Death of James Smith, architect (jaundice)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>May 9 1887</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Death of James Smith (Madeleine's brother)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>May 1899</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Death of John Smith (Madeleine's brother)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>Mar 8 1910</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Death of Bessie Smith (Madeleine's sister)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size=-1>May 20 1922</font></td> <td><font size=-1>Death of Janet Smith (Madeleine's sister)</font></td> </tr> <tr> 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