 Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime listen That's the way the doorbell sounded at number 14 Pembroke Street in Glasgow, Scotland That's the way it sounded if a fellow was impatient If he had just come home from Madeline Smith's house on a March day in 1857 and really wanted in His name was Pierre a meal lingerie and the door was in his way Why didn't someone answer anyway? Here comes his landlady. She gasped because Pierre was her favorite lodger and he looked terrible Awful standing there in the doorway swaying Before he fell on his face Dead tonight my report to you on Madeline Smith made or murderous, which Crime classics a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land from every time Your host each week. Mr. Thomas Highland connoisseur of crime student of violence and teller of murders Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland Even in the middle 1800s Kelvin Grove Park was a place to be reckoned with in Glasgow in the springtime particularly A bunny place a place of greens and Mary shouts where gambled the bekilted young people Or the more serious ones where they strolled hand-in-hand toward some magical and shady and secret Glen In a street which paralleled the park Pembroke Street. There was a red brick house It was owned by Mary Perry a woman of 50 who liked imaginative men Young men of elegance and foreign flavor like her lodger Pierre a meal lingerie In all my travels the world over my dear man was a period. I have never seen such a girl once in Algiers perhaps but That is another story Trampeur du Trampeur du For the last week. You've done nothing but talk about this young lady Pierre. Where did you see her today? Oh pray the lad ducks Where the pond for them is throwing to them little pieces of bread and some more brave than the rest Would swim close to her and she would make small noises to them and feed them from her hand And what else ma'am Ozil? You will never guess. Oh tell me. Her name is Madeleine Madeleine Smiths How do you know? This morning there was a maid servant with her and they became separated for a moment and I Approached the maid servant with that way you have I'll wait That thing you you do with your moustache Yeah, do it for me Oh Very well And from the maid servant you laid to learn the lady's name Yes, and what her father's name is and where she lives Her father is Monsieur Smith the architect a man of wealth and position. I Spent the rest of the morning trying to locate his bank. I did you certain more He's very wealthy which makes Madeleine a beautiful young woman with a wealthy father I'm happy for you. Oh, but alas. Madeleine is still to me a stranger But you know so well how to Oh, this is a young lady of refinement. I love her very much If I should do this thing you like me to do and she would laugh at me I would jump into the dock pond and drown myself forever. Then how would you meet her? Will you help me Ozil? Will you help me? Here's one for you Here you are you Lovely bread for you. Isn't it a lovely day? I beg you pardon. I said isn't it a lovely day? Yes, yes, it is the duck seems so Frisky today, don't I accept Abbie see how she sulks there Here here sulky duck Yes, you come here every day, don't you why yes, I watch you from my window from across the street Why whatever fall oh such a young thing and beautiful you are which is such a joy to an old lady such as I to an What's the matter? I have a pain. Oh dear. Where the nasties they come on me I Think I'll think my I help you over to the bench and put your arm about my waist and Careful now Give ladies may I be of some assistance? I Have here a home medical advisor of the era The nasties also known as the vapors a sudden attack of malaise Predominantly in the female sex usually preceding a faint Symptoms loud noises in the ears quickening of the heartbeat and dizziness Make patient comfortable and apply smelling salts lie down here on the bench madam, and we will try to make you comfortable Now if there were smelling salts I have smelling salts. Oh how beautiful of you We quickly the smelling salts and that's the way they met Mary Perry inhaling the smelling salts and the two young folk looking at her concerned then the two young folk looked at each other and became more concerned and Trembled a bit and the symptoms they felt were quickening of the heartbeat dizziness and loud noises in the ears And they did what young folks most always did when they are met in Kelvin Grove Park Somehow their fingertips met and their hands and they strolled and they found a shady glam Miss Perry watched them disappear with a happy tear in her eye. She had done her bit for Pierre Things went so well between the two young people that a couple of weeks later. This was the state of affairs Wonderful Right way then you've talked to your mama and your papa yes, and they are happy they are overjoyed no But you said we can still get married you have a job and I'll work and you work The thought of you at work stitching and sewing or at the laundry With these fingers In other words your mama and your papa I refuse to have you disinherited then we won't get married Somehow somehow It is more romantic this way let us do each other each day and the clandestine meeting and he kisses Oh Yes, you'd be boiling now. I bring it to you and that was the romance My own beloved you have just left me Sweet darling at this moment my heart and soul burns with love for thee my own sweet one Oh, what would I not give it this moment to be your fond wife? Love you with all my heart and soul sweet love to which her lover answered my dearest Beloved me me since I saw you I have been a wretchedly sad Think of the consequences if I were never to marry you what reproaches I should have me me However, as soon as your papa pledges not to disinherit you there will be a wedding the likes of which and the meetings Oh And the nourishment oh The hot chocolate of my Mimi is My darling Yes, we have been meeting like this for six months now six months of paradise and bliss and When will we marry as your father changed his mind today my father introduced me to a young man Who will quickly fall in love with you and die in despair for your love? Wait Why his name is William Minnick and he is handsome and he is rich and oh Pierre a douche we could get married And that's the way it's done miss myth manipulation Borrow from one stock to buy the other and when the other is going up then we pay back You see and that is how one becomes rich mr. Minnick Well, is it I suppose so? Oh Miss Smith careful careful. You'll fall Perhaps you just better row mr. Minnick All right, miss Smith. Yes William you said William yes, I did and may I call you Madeline? Madeline Madeline Yes It's two months since I've known you yes last night I I Spoke to your father about me. How dear you are to me How much I love you and what did my father say to you that if you'll have me He would be very happy Or Madeline. I don't know. I just don't know but you must these wonderful days together you You've given me hope Put the oars down now come here Kiss me William. That was very nice William very nice indeed Better and better gets your hot chocolate sherry my sweet heart my love Something I must ask you Pierre. Yes my letters. I have saved everyone. I want them back But why my pigeon well, I I think sometimes of what I've written to you and such outpourings But your outpourings are for my eyes alone. Oh give them back to me No Why not I will tell you why not little dog If you look with love at another man I will take the letters to your father and prove to him that your love for this another man is a passing thing And that your love is only for me your true love Who you will marry as soon as your father puts aside a suitable dowry for you? I see Of course you do you are blackmailing me Pierre Oh love love come to me Kiss me How cool your lips are love Off the carry I would like five ounces of arsenic and you know how Pierre liked his hot chocolate You are listening to crime classics and your host Thomas Highland This Friday night. Mr. Keen tracer of lost persons will be looking for a killer with purple hands When a wealthy widow was killed mr. Keen uncovers the fact fatal to her killer that purple hands will reveal who was guilty Don't miss CBS radio's mr. Keen in action this Friday evening over most of these same stations Taking on the case of murder and the killer with purple hands And now once again Thomas Highland and the second act of crime classics and his report to you on Madeline Smith made or murderous Which a few words about arsenic its number on the mandalay of table is 33 It's atomic weight is seventy four point ninety three and it has a valence of three and five It is of a silvery luster But be careful about exposing it to the air since it will tarnish readily It is used widely in glass works in making pigments in calico and indigo printing and for poisoning animals Some people eat it in the Balkans in particular it is possible to brush shoulders with arsenic eaters other people However, less innocent use arsenic to poison people still other people use arsenic to poison themselves. I Would like to remind you that Madeline Smith a beauty of Glasgow Scotland Purchased five ounces of the stuff from the Connardt the apothecary But then arsenic was also used for the skin as a clarifying agent. It is said Madeline purchased it Went home had dinner chatted with her folks waited for them to sleep put some hot chocolate to a boil Returned to her room waited a bit and Opened the window What Of course, you are my darling. Then what about me see a meaner? What in German? Did you name him? Guppy sweet bun what Lovey honey pie ginger snap. What I have seen you spy Because only I'm a man in love Therefore I am capable of every rose. What is spying to a man in love if you loved me would give me back my letters Oh letters letters my darling give them back to me if I did how would I keep my heart warm when you are not near to it? Stop it. Stop it. Of course. No come to me. No Pierre yes, you are cruel cruel and gentle sane and mad the prerogatives of a man in love Yet you would show those letters to my father to your father to your mother to the man on the street anything to keep you from another Yeah, yes little pigeon you say that you've seen me with mr. Minnock Oh, I was behind the bush in the park near the Glen that we used to know I heard missy Minnock ask over and over that you set a marriage date I heard also you are laughing But I did not hear you're saying no father said I might marry him Tell your papa you do not wish it Don't let This morning. I read again your letters such letters such warmth such eagerness such ardor such Is there chocolate Mimi Always I'll fetch it Little pigeon and you The most perfect landlady in the whole world Yeah What's the matter you have the nasties you have Miss Perry knelt over Pierre and she knew right away It wasn't the nasties his eyes were rolling around in his mouth was grimacing in wordless pain She went for the cologne and dabbed a little on herself came back dabbed a little bit on her lodger a little later She helped him up the stairs And helped him to his bed Miss Perry was never so efficient as when there was a helpless man about The next morning Pierre was completely recovered the next night He went to visit Madeleine and her chambers again Refused to give up the letters again and had some of that good hot chocolate again came home to miss Perry And fell flat on his face again This time he was in bed for three days Which brings us to the evening of March 23rd as he was walking toward his sweetheart's house Madeleine Smith was attending mr. Minnock come sit by me William Sit here by me. I wish to talk with you Dear William do you love me very much William oh hi How much from from here to a star father suppose Suppose will hush hush hush, but but you must listen. No, no you listen to me If you're about to tell me about that Monsieur about Pierre Lange lié don't I Have heard whispers But I deny them with a laugh and a shrug in it What's that the shutter perhaps nothing I'll see what it is And William I love there's some chocolate on the kitchen table Put it on the stove over the fire. I've got you love and wait for me down there Missed you. I have missed you. I have missed you my darling three days I was in bed and my thoughts of you always dearest me. I know your thoughts fled to me and caressed me and Rima truly was there ever love such as ours never never And eventually what we will marry. Did you know that do you truly think so? What manner of man would I be this is tapping upon the window this stepping over the casement to your arms? Of course, we will marry someday Of course for each day each night that I come here to you and hold you close I bind you closer to me and there is no escape No escape none Here yes, haven't you been feeling well? Well, I said to you I was in bed for three days Why from what illness? Love all over twice. Oh Each time I have left you the last two times. I have gone to my lodging house, and I have second Madeline, I know just the thing Hot chocolate. I'll fetch you some Guppy a meal lingerie a dead He was buried Thursday March 26th, and on Monday the 30th. Look at those letters, sir I told you she poisoned him these letters, sir They they were in his room. I was the dear man's landlady and I I demand the police read these letters The police read them on Tuesday. They dug pier up again shipped him to the laboratories and the skillful men there found 86 grains of arsenic in his body that same day Madeline was arrested Charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of murder and brought to trial on the 30th of June Madeline herself did not testify But mr. Minoch did I am a merchant in Klausie in the course of the last months I paid my addresses to miss Smith and I have made proposals of marriage to her. She accepted Mine you of course that she knew a man named Pierre a meal lingerie, but I was unaware of an attachment or peculiar intimacy between she and this man and Of the letters this court has read I what of the letters mr. Minoch. I Don't know what to say Yes, I do I'm shocked. I'm deeply shocked the trial lasted nine days To one charge of attempted murder Madeline Smith was found not guilty to the other charge of attempted murder The verdict brought in was not proven to the charge of murder the verdict not proven I want to congratulate you Madeline on your acquittal and now we can be wed. Oh, no I'm off to India However, she did get married twice and she came to America She lived till she was 90 years old an amazing thing her complexion always clear and youthful She was a frequent site at the drug counters a big buyer of arsenic Wherever she was in just a moment Thomas Highland will tell you about next week's crime classic Madeline Smith tonight's crime classic was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin The music was composed by Bernard Herman and conducted by Wilbur Hatch and the program is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis Thomas Highland is portrayed on radio by Lou Merrill in tonight's story Betty Harford was heard as Madeline Florence Walcott is Mary John Dana as Pierre and William Johnstone as Minnock Gil Warren speaking and Here again is Thomas Highland next week the state of Vermont in those years from 1812 to 1820 The hills were green and filled with the little people and it was worth your life to be caught with them My report to you will be on the Bourne brothers and the hangman a study in Nippon Tuck Thank you. 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