Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-09
MRS. MAVERICK SERIOUSLY ILL.
Her Health Gives Way Under the Strain
to Which She Has Been Subjected.

Mrs. Maybrick, who was found guilty wednes-
day Of poisoning her husband and sentenced 10
death, has broken down under the great strain
to which she has been subjected for days past,
and Is said to be seriously i'll. Her mother
called at the prison yesterday and had an Affect
ing interview with the prisoner.
A London special to the New York Herald
says that there are people who do not believe
that Florence Maybrick will be hanged and
there are many more who do not believe she
should be hanged. The feeling with reference
section maintaining that the prisoner should
have had the benefit Of the doubt set up by the
conflict OF medical evidence az to the cause OF
death, while others maintain that the jury.
upon the evidence and the summing up, had
no other course open 10 them than that OF fnd-
ing the prisoner guilty.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Pickford, the Junior
counsel engaged with Sir Charles Russell in
the defense OF Mrs. Maybrick, placed the fol-
lowing petition in the barristers' library mt st.
Georges hall, Liverpool, where it was numer-
ously signed. The memorial is addressed to
Henry Matthews, her majesty's secretary of
state, and Is as follows:
TIE BARS MEMORIAL.
eve, the undersigned, members of the bar
Of the northern circuit, having paid great
attention to the evidence in the case Of Flor
ence Elizabeth Maybrick, humbly pray that
you will recommend her majesty to commute
the death sentence and grant q reprieve on
the ground that such evidence, in view Of great
conflict Of medical testimony az to the cause of
death, leaves so much doubt that 1t is mex
Sentence"
The petition win be sen. first to Manchester
and then to London, 30 that the members Of
the bar who have left Liverpool may have an
opportunity of signing it.
The merchants and brokers pray that the SEN
tence OF death may be respited with view to
o accumulation or reprieve on the ground that
there was no direct evidence of the administra-
ton OF arsenic by the prisoner to the deceased;
that the case against the prisoner, on the gen.
eral facts was unduly prejudiced by the evil
dence OF motive, and that there is room for
grave doubt whether the circumstantial evil
dence relied ON by the prosecution was weighty
enough to justify conviction.
The merchants petition also urges that there
was strong body Of medical testimony on be-
half OF the defense that death was ascribable to
natural causes and that there was not sufficient
evidence on the part of the prosecution that it
was not due to arsencal poisoning: that having
regard to the conflicting nature Of the medical
evidence, and the very widespread doubt as to
the propriety of the verdict on general grounds,
1t would be in the highest degree unsafe to per-
NIT the sentence to be carried out.
ANXIOUS TO SAVE HER.
Messrs. Cleaver and Holder, Mrs. Maybrick's
solicitors, have received letters from other towns
asking for copies of the petition for signature,
and they have drawn up form for general use
similar TO that Of the merchants and brokers'
Mrs Maybrick was in PROSTATE condition
TINS morning and was attended by doctor.
who, however, states that her condition is not
serious, but is due to relapse after the great
strain of the past week. She has again protested
her innocence to the Jail chaplain this after
noon. She had recovered her composure some
nth o~Nd Ole AoI L.
Won Rogue, who since the commencement of
the proceedings has been living in the vicinity
OF the Jail in order to be near her daughter
There was a large crowd outside the Jail and
the prevailing sentiment was one of pity for
the prisoner, The governor and officials of
the Jail decline positively to give any informa-
ton about the prisoner, and Information on
this head has to be sough; in other quarters.