Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-10
IN MRS. MAVERICKS BEHALF.
Members OF Parliament Join I'm the
Movemcnt-No Doubt OF Her Reprieve.


Many prominent members Of parliament
have Joined in the movement In behalf OF Mrs
Maybrick, and will petition the home Office for
reprieve. Public meetings are being arranged
IN London and Liverpool. Ne IN the famous
fense mystery some fifteen years ago. In that
case the judge charged passionaiely and viru-
ienuy against the four accused persons, three
men and a woman, Alice Rhodes. Despite the
extreme doubt the jury brought in q verdict of
guilty against all four and they we're sentenced
| TO death.
The verdict shocked public opinion ana q
wave Of indignation swept over the country
with such force that the then home secretary,
Mr.. Cross. called q conference OF prominent
men, as the result of which Alice Rhodes was
| Internationally released and the male prison.
ers reprieved. II lis just such a wave of popular
indignation growing out Of q similar cause that
| Is now passing over the country.
NO DOUBT OF HER REPRrEyE
That Mrs. MSybrick viii be reprieved there
can be no doubt, and the question now seems
| TO be whether the Communication will be 20 inn
prisonment for life or a term OF wears. While
the general opinion is that the woman should
have been acquitted, full pardon is not 70 be
hoped for.
In addition to the parliamentary petition
nearly every lawyer OF the Liverpool circuit
has signed the legal petition. and there is
| rush OF the merchants and brokers in Liver
pool, Mr.. Maybricks former business asso-
eiates, 70 endeavor TO prevent q miscarriage Of
Justice. The conflict Of the medical testimony
aud the peculiarly prejudicial charge OF the
Judge Is given As the reason for an exercise Of
/ the pardoning power.
IL the jurors continue TO talk 10 reporters a.
they are dong they will soon convince every
| body that they were incompetent 70 try the
case and criminally negligent in not paying at.
/ tenton TO the evidence and what passed in
court. The foreman Of the Jury particularly
showed himself. by his answers and comments
on the case, TO be possessed Of only a confused
| notion OF the testimony which had been pre-
scented. He did not know that Sir Charles
Russell had offered IN court 10 call witnesses
who would prove that the statement made by
| the accused was perfectly true. and that JUS
| lce Stephen refused 10 hear this important
| testimony. He admitted that ne would not be
| sorry II a reprieve were granted. notwithstand-
| ing his vote IN favor of the verdict Of murder
The general impression left by the interview
| Is that the jurors allowed themselves 90 be
| swayed and biased by the grossly one-siied
summing up OF the judge, and that they gave
a hasty verdict without giving the case aud the
| evidence any personal consideration. This case
seems TO have been as fragrant and outrageous
an abuse OF Judicial power as ever occurred in
England.
JUDGE STEPHEN PROTESTS
The memorial to the government asking that
Mrs. Maybrick be reprieved on the ground Of
| the conflicting nature of the medical evidence
has been signed by 800 brokers and merchants
OF Liverpool Judge stephen yesterday pro-
| tested III court against the abusive letters adj
dressed to the jury. lie said he thought they
had conscientiously done their duty.
| THOSE FLY PAPERS.
| New York Herald special cable from Brus-
sells says: The Maybrick trial has caused al
most as great a sensation on the conSnent as in
| England. LIndepeiddnoe BEIGE compares the
| case to the celebrated Lafarge affair of thirty
years ago. The Brussels newspaper has also
| sought to throw light upon one of the points
of the trial which has remained somewhat OBJ
| scure, and today publishes the result of the in
| teresung inquiries Its reporters have made.
Fly papers have been the subject Of this in
quiry. Mrs. Msybrick alleged that she had
| employed these arsenic impregnRted papers
for her complexion, after the example OF Ger
man women. Counsel for the prosecution OBJ
Jected and no witnesses were produced to
prove that German women made use Of fy
papers, as alleged, and consequently this part
| OF Mrs. Maybrlcks defense was worthless.
| A GERMAN CUSTOM.
| Ten Brussels chemists who have been con-
| suited by LIndepe1addnoe Beige are Of a totally
| different opinion. OF these nine stated that fiy
| papers could be used successfully in the cure
of skin diseases and erupticns, while the tenth
| went further He carried on his profession for
| many years IN utT1nduN ana declares that
| that country many of the women in the
habit of using fy papers to beautify their COM
plexion. The preparation of the papers lis the
same as that Mrs. Maybr said she had fol-
| lowed
Another chemist named Hainaut who also
spent several wears in Germany, corroborated
| the previous statement. He pointed out that
ny papers are generally impregnated with a
| strong solution of quassia amara, the extremely
| bitter taste of which would certainly have
/ aroused Mr. MaVbrickfG GuGniaiops had
liquid containing At been given him to drink.
HOPE IN THE HOME SECRETARY
| When asked what he thought of the chances
| OF interference with the sentence on the part
of the home secretary, Mr.. MackIin of the firm
| of Rowe a. Maeklin, who are Mrs. Maybrlck's
| counsel IN this country, said yesterday, accord
ing to the New York Sun:
| They have curious law in England that
| where an adverse decision is rendered in any
but murder case an appeal can be taken TO
| higher court and from that 20 the house Of
| lords, b1t when the case is murder. the de-
| cision rendered by the jury is final. and the
cases where the judges sentence has been over
| ruled by the home secretary are very rare in
| deed Still am in hopes that we can do some-
| thing that will cause at least a Communication
| of the sentence"
| WAS Mr.. MAVERICK UNFAIrHFUL2
The New York World today prints an er-
tended interview with Mr.. Macklin, in which
| he SAYS:
| Naturally our sympathies are with Mrs
| Maybrick. though We knew her husband well,
rs he called here every time be came TO Amer
| lea. Whatever the character of the evidence
| brought against her, the nature of the judges
| charge was such as TO greatly increase it's eff
| feet on the minds Of the jurymen. Any Judge
| in this country making such a charge would be
| driven of the bench. Besides while the Judge
| enlarged on the matter of Mrs. Maybrick's in
fdelIiy--which. in fact as il appeared TO furnish
a motive, influenced the jury more than any
| thing else-no testimony WAS taken TO prove
| that Mrs. Maybrick's unfaithfulness was that Of
| a wife TO an unfaithful husband"
"Is that fact?"
I'VE presumed il TO be fact nearly two wears
| ago when Mrs. Maybrick commenced proceed
ings TO procure q separation Only few days
| after Maybrick's death q bill was received from
| a dressmaker who wanted Gl0 for dresses that
were not made for Mrs. Maybrick. Investiga-
| ton showed that the dresses had been made for
| q woman who had been MaybrickIs mistress for
twenty years. In her possession also were
found family jewels which had been missing
| for long time and which the woman said were
| left with her by MAVERICK security for money
| loaned him. II this woman is 10 be hanged
because it was accidentally discovered after his
death that she had been unfaithful TO him, why
should it not now be shown that her unfaith-