The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-16
ONCEABAY STREET MAN.
MRS. MAVERICKS FRIEND BRIEFLY
FORMERLY OF SAVANNAH.

Those Who Knew Him Here Wonder
How he Came 10 be Her Favorite-
Brierly's Story of His Connection
with the Famous Case 49, Another
Than Mrs. Maybrick Had a Claim on
Him.
The interest in the Maybrick case is not
confined to the other side of the water, but
is the general topic Of conversation and
comment on this side of the Atlantic, and
particularly the gossip of Savannah,
because the man Briefly who figured in the
case is believed 10 have been at one time
resident of this city. and member of the
cotton exporting house of Briefly, Maitland
& DougalL Mr.. Briefly was here only one
winter and then went back to England.
A cotton broker on the Bay said yester-
day that he could not conceive how Briefly
could make a favorable impression on a
lady, as he was when here, a raw-boned,
uncouth young Eaglishman, and anything
but az adonis He made few acquaintance,
and was not, generally speaking, a popular
man. The opinion is, however, general
here, that the letter from Mrs. Maybrick to
Briefly. which was intercepted, did as
much as anything else to bring about the
woman's conviction Mrs. Maybrick has
been sentenced to be hanged on Monday,
Aug. 20, but a strenuous effort is being
made to have the woman reprieved.
BRIEFLY INTERVIEWED.
Briefly has been interviewed by the Liv-
erpool reporters of the New York Herald.
His statement does not contain a denial of
an intimacy between himself and the con-
demned woman but an admission that they
had three meetings but that the last was
long previous to Mr.. Maybrick'S death.
Briefly says, however, that he has been
maligned, prosecuted and misjudged, aud
that it has broken up his business SO that
he will have to leave Liverpool He claims
that the last time he had seen her was
April 6, when she came to him
and told him about her husband beat
ing her and dragging her about
the room, and Briefly claims that the init
macy between Mrs Maybri and himself
ended on March 81, and did not extend dur
ing the period covered by the trial, as the
judge who presided at the trial stated and
assumed to be true.
MORE THAN ONE WOMAN IN LOVE WITH HIM
1t turns out that Mrs. Maybrick was not
the only woman in love with Briefly, as
the Baroness Won Rogue, mother of Mrs.
| Maybrick, has discovered. According to her
story a Mrs. Briggs divorced woman, was
power in the Maybrick household, and
she had a sister, Gertrude Janiar, whom she
| would have preferred to see marry May
| brick, but as he had married the daughter
| of Baroness Won Rogue, SO that Gertrude
| conferred her affections on Briefly, but he
| did not appear to reciprocate the affection,
| and when he left the fair Gertrude alone in
| the coach, and took Mrs. MAVERICK to the
grand stand to see the Prince of Wales, the
envious Gertrude got her brother-in-law,
| Hughes, to bring about a quarrel between
Maybrick and his wife, aud Mrs. Briggs
told Maybr1ck about the intimacy between
his wife and Briefly, and on the
day of Maybrick's death Gertrude's sisters,
Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Briggs, ransacked
the house for evidence to bring about the
suspicion that Mrs May had poisoned
her husband, and the Briggs woman added
in charging the murder on Mrs. Maybrick
that the mother of the latter had poisoned
two husbands.
CAUsED BY A WOMAN.
The Herald, which seems to have smoked
the conspiracy out, says the whole of the
domestic quarrel which followed the grand
national meeting was caused by a woman.
That woman was herself in love with Briefly
and it was she who, through Maybrick,
| made the trouble. She was near relative
of woman who constituted herself public
prosecutor before Maybrick's death, and to
that end was most skilled traitress to Mrs.
| May brick during all the time of the pro-
ceedlngs, in which the latter gave her her
full confidence.
Briefly seems to feel the full share of his
responsibility for the trouble surrounding
the condemned woman, and he has prepared
and certified to statement covering all the
grounds, which he has placed in the hands
of Mrs. Maybrick's lawyers to be presented
to the Home Secretary. Brieriy says that
his 'only desire now is that the terrible
misfortunes of the woman, whose treat
ment has been scarcely fair, may not be
further increased by me-"