Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-30
THE MAVERICK POISONING CASE.
High Feeling Against the Widow-Shs
Is About to Become "A Mother.

The New York Worlds special cable from
Liverpool says that a reaction of public feeling
against Mrs. Maybrick, the niece OF Jefferson
Davis, who is charged with having poisoned
her husband, has set in since the publication
OF the letters to Briefly, a cotton broker. with
whom she is believed to have been crimnally
intimate. So far the police are concerned,
the public will get no more information until
the inquest is resumed next "Wednesday. The
magistrates trial is set down for next Monday,
but it is not likely that Mrs. Maybrick will be
physically hit 10 appear in court by that time.
ABOUT To BECOME A MOTHER.
The statement given out by the police that
she is suffering from prostration is well meant,
while the fact of the matter is that Mrs. Nav
brick Is about to become a mother, and the
prison physician saws that any severe ordeal i'm
court at present would produce serious. if not
fatal. consequences. This feature OF the case
furnishes the only strong motive for the crime
advanced as vet, and explains MANY things
which heretofore deepened the mystery. IL is
very well known. particularly by people with
whom the Maybricks have been socially init
mate, that the husband and wife had not lived
on terms OF conjugal intimacy for nearly two
years. Everything revealed ut the inquest and
all the gossip OF the hour tends to show that the
intimacy between Briefly and Mrs. MAVERICK
only one inference, and 1t Is merely repeating
what the parties who are in the best position TO
know the truth of are saving. to assume THAI
Briefly Is responsible for Mrs. Maybrick's
present situation.
OTHER ELIMINATING LETTERS.
There are said to be letters which show that
Mrs. Maybrick went to London with Briefly a
few months ago and stopped with him there at
hotel as his wife; Alice Yapp, the nursemaid,
El.a nd l.s.- Il
Yesterday that she had addressed letters TO Mrs.
Maybrick at the Grand hotel, London. and THAI
they were received by Mrs. MAVERICK who at
the time was presumed to be visiting relatives
1here Is another very singular feature about
the case. Nearly all the witnesses at the in
quest yesterday showed that they suspected
Mrs. Maybrick was poisoning her husband
They had watched her. had BETRAYED her into
all sorts OF compromising admissions Had seen
her changing medicine bottles and doctoring
the food which was prepared for the sick ma a.
One report to-day is TO the effect that the de-
Tense will put forward the theory of suicide ON
the ground that when Maybrick discovered his
wIfes condition and heard from her own lips
the confession of her intimacy with Brlerly he
took heavy dose of arsenic with a view to
committing suicide. One strong point against
such theory Is the fact that Naybrick said to
his wife on one occasion. when she had given
HIM medicine: "Florrie, don't give me the
wrong medicine AGAIN."
MRS. MAVERICKS MOTHER ARRIVES.
Mrs. Maybrick's mother, the baroness Won
Rogue, has arrived from Paris and has been
allowed one or two interviews with her daugh-
ter, but now even she must send her messages
by the solicitor. The mother is completely
Frustrated by the revelations at the Inquest.
She firmly elieyed in her daughters innocence
until that eliminating letter came out
Both Mrs. Maybrick and her mother have
plenty OF money. and will engage the best
counsel that can be procured for the defense.
1t Is reported here that both Sir Charles Rus
sell and Counsellor Waddy have been spoken
to about the case.
CONSUL POTTER INTERESTED.
An American consul named Potter arrived
here on the City OF Paris and was met by
friends OF Mrs. Maybrick. He had been cabled
for from America and is supposed to represent
IN some way Mrs. MaybrickNs friends here