A Most Curious Murder - The Madeleine Smith Story

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#CFCFC0"> <P>  <table border=0 height="185" > <tr valign=TOP> <td height="195"> <h1 align="center"><font color="#000000">Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003</font></h1> <h1 align="center"><font color="#000000">A Most Curious Murder - the Madeleine Smith Story</font></h1> <div align="center"></div> <p><font color="#000000">The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003 will see the World Premier of the musical A Most Curious Murder. This is the story of a murder case which made headlines in Paris, London and New York but it was a homicide which, in truth, never took place. It is a true crime story of a bizarre orchestration of evidence discovered 140 years too late.</font> </td> </tr> </table> <p><font color="#000000">Thursday, 9th July 1857 - The atmosphere outside the High Court in Edinburgh was charged to fever pitch as the crowd awaited the verdict at the end of the most sensational murder trial of the century. Hanging in the balance was the life of Madeleine Smith, attractive 22 year old daughter of a prosperous Glasgow architect.</font> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 frame="VOID" rules="NONE" valign="TOP" > <tr> <td><font color="#000000">Over the last few days, revelations of Madeleine's secret romance had been selling newspapers across the civilised world. By the end of the trial, in spite of widespread belief in her guilt, sympathy had swung towards Madeleine and the crowds cheered when news of the Not Proven verdict reached the street. Madeleine was free to leave the court but never was she free from suspicion. </font> <center> <p><font color="#000000"><b><br /> HOWEVER</b>...</font> </center> <p><font color="#000000">On Friday 4th July 1997 and on Saturday 5th, exactly 140 years after the trial, the Scottish press reported the results of our research - that the true facts of the case had been uncovered for the first time:</font> </td> <td> <br /> <a href="Story.htm"><img src="jpgs/HiCourt3.jpg" alt="The High Court, Edinburgh (image from a contemporary newspaper)" hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0 height=282 width=264></a></td> </tr> </table> <center> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10 cols=1 width="100%" > <tr> <td> <center> <b><i><font color="#000000">The Scotsman 4th July 1997:</font></i></b> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <font color="#000000"><b><font size=-1>"EVIDENCE SHOWS ONE OF SCOTLAND'S MOST HATED WOMEN WAS FRAMED BY HER LOVER"</font></b> </font> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <font color="#000000"><b><i>The Scottish Daily Mail 5th July 1997:</i></b> </font> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <font color="#000000"><b><font size=-1>"THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WOMAN BRANDED A POISONER - 140 YEARS LATE"</font></b> </font> </center> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="45%" height="53"> </td> <td width="55%" height="53"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="45%"> <div align="right"><font color="#000000" size="5"><b>S I T E </b></font></div> </td> <td width="55%"><font color="#000000" size="5"><b> D I R E C T O R Y</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="45%"><font color="#000000"> text</font></td> <td width="55%"><font color="#000000"> images</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="286" width="45%"> <a href="Story.htm">The Madeleine Smith Story</a><br /> <a href="datefile.htm">Datefile (seq. of events)</a><br /> <a href="who.htm">Who's Who</a><br /> <a href="letters_L.htm">L'Angelier's letters</a><br /> <a href="WitnessList.htm">Witnesses (linked to testimony)</a><br /> <a href="Defence.htm">Evidence for the defence</a><br /> <a href="Prosecution.htm">Evidence for prosecution</a> <a href="Analysis.htm"><br /> Analysis of the case</a> <a href="Works.htm"><br /> Works of David Hamilton</a><br /> <a href="Census.htm">Census and Post Office Directory details</a><br /> <a href="Gildard.htm">Thomas Gildard's speech</a><br /> <a href="Obituary.htm">Obituary of David Hamilton</a><br /> <a href="RoyalExchangeHistory.htm">History of the Royal Exchange</a> <a href="Children.htm"><br /> David Hamilton's children</a><br /> </td> <td valign="top" height="286" width="55%"> <a href="RoyalExchangeHistory.htm">The Royal Exchange</a><br /> <a href="rExCeiling.htm">Ceiling of the Royal Exchange</a><br /> <a href="Family.htm">Smith family photograph</a><br /> <a href="Birkenshaw.htm">Birkenshaw House</a><br /> <a href="Stables.htm">The Stables at Birkenshaw</a><br /> <a href="Lennox.htm">Lennox Castle</a><br /> <a href="Wall.htm">David Hamilton's grave</a><br /> <a href="Airth.htm">Airth Castle</a><br /> <a href="Rowaleyn.htm">Rowaleyn</a><br /> <a href="Palace.htm">Hamilton Palace</a><br /> <a href="WitnessList.htm">The Trial (image)</a><br /> <a href="Collegiate.htm">The Collegiate School</a><br /> <a href="mclellan.htm">The McLellan Galleries</a><br /> <a href="Parliamt.htm">Houses of Parliament Competition</a> <a href="introFS.htm"><br /> The Musical</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="45%"><font color="#000000">unrelated pages also on this website</font></td> <td width="55%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="45%"> <a href="napier.htm" target="main">Robert Napier, engineer</a> <br /> <a href="Glencoe.htm" target="main">The Massacre of Glencoe</a> <br /> <a href="Jones.htm">1787</a> <a href="JonesDirectory2.htm">Glasgow</a> <a href="JonesDirectory3.htm">Directory</a> <br /> <a href="strengthandweakness.htm" target="main">The Mechanics of Strength and Weakness</a></td> <td width="55%"> <p><a href="Datefile1.htm">Jimmy's</a> <a href="Datefile2.htm">Family</a> <a href="Datefile3.htm">Datefile</a> <a href="Datefile4.htm">Pages</a> <br /> <a href="intuition.htm">The Genetic Origins of Intuition</a> <br /> <font color="#C0C0C0"><a href="Gazetteer.htm">Glasgow History </a></font><br /> <font color="#CCCCCC"><a href="BellGeordie.htm">Bell Geordie</a></font> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <br />       <p>Copyright © 1997 Jimmy Powdrell Campbell</p><a href='http://googlesitemapwizard.com/'><img border='0' alt='googlesitemapwizard.com Sitemap Generator' src='http://googlesitemapwizard.com/googlesitemapwizard.com.png' /></a> </body>