Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-10

execution of Mrs. Maybrick. A number Of
distinguished personages will appeal to him.
New evidence in the case is being collected
in New York and elsewhere.
LONDON, August Elm addition to the
memorial to the Government in behalf OF
Mrs. Maybrick, which has been signed by
most of the barristers and solicitors of the
Liverpool circuit, and the petition which
has been circulated among the merchants
and brokers, Parliament itself has taken up
the case of the condemned woman. A num-
Der of members of the House of Commons
have decided to make a combined appeal to
the Home Office for her reprieve.
Their action Is based not only on the con-
fusion in the medical testimony taken, but
also on the peculiar behavior of the Judge,
which has excited a ferment Of indignation
throughout the country. The foreman OF
the jury has been interviewed concerning
the verdict which he and his fellow jurors
so hastily brought in. and he showed no
knowledge of the merits of the case, and to
be possessed of only a confused notion of
the evidence which had been presented in
court.
PECULIAR JUROR.
He did not know that Sir Charles Russell
had offered in court to call witnesses who
would prove that the statement made by
the accused was perfectly true, and that
Justice Stephen refused to hear this i'm
portant testimony. He admitted that he
would not be sorry if a reprieve were
granted, notwithstanding his voice in favor
of the verdict of murder. The general i'm
preston left by the interview is that the
Jurors allowed themselves to be swayed and
biased BY the grossly one-sided summing up
OF the Judge, and that they gave hasty
verdict without giving the case and the
evidence any personal consideration.
Mrs. Maybrick is completely Frustrated
after the terrible strain of the trial, and is
unable to see anybody but her mother and
her counsel. To her mother Mrs. Maybrick
said that but for the Judges severe COM
ments and lengthy allusion to the wicked
immortality of which she had been guilty,
and which she freely admits, the jury GER
tainly would have acquitted her.
She continues to protest her innocence,
and declares that but for her evil connec-
tion with Briefly and the prejudice occa-
stoned against her in consequence of her in
fidelity to her husband, and to the Judges
strong references to this infdelity, the jury
would never have found her guilty on the
fiimsy though no doubt suspicious facts re-
lated as evidence against her.
HER INWARD CONVICTIONS.
\ Mrs. Maybrick added that she had an in
ward conviction that she would not be
Ma ged, for many who would remain
friendly to her are making every effort to OBJ
tain a reprieve. 1t had, she considered, been
conclusively proved by medical evidence of
the most weighty description that her hus-
band had not died from arsenical poisoning.
She felt that if the medical evidence alone
gas placed before the Home Office author
titles they would never indorse the sentence
of the iury-a sentence which, despite her
terror and anguish at the time, she knew
perfectly well Was not in accordance with
the feeling OF the general public. Not
single member of the jury was a Liverpool
man. The foreman belonged to st. Helens,
and all the other jurors we're drawn in from
the different parts OF the country. No one
had held any communication with them ex-
cept the waiter who served them with their
meals. and his conversation was entirely on
business matters.
Mrs. Maybrick's two children have, since
the commencement of the prosecution, been
staying with friends of the family in the
neighborhood of Aigbarth. They have been
left in complete ignorance of the charge
against their mother and have not even been
told the cause of her absence, though, they
knew their father was dead.
If the popular movement for commuta-
tion fails and the death sentence is carried
Du;, the time for hanging rests sslely with
he Sheriff. 1t may be very soon. The law
implicitly requires that three successive
Sundays must intervene between the SEN
tence of death and the day of execution.
SOME NEW EVIDENCE.
A dispatch from New York says: Rowe
and Macklin, counsel for Mrs Maybrick In
this country, have cabled their London
solicitors, asking if Home Secretary Mat
thews will consider new evidence, if fur
nished Immediately. Mr.. Macklin saws
they have considerable evidence to submit,
cOrrobOrating Mrs. Maybrick's testimony,
and also testimony as to her standing and
character socially in this country.
He thinks that if this testimony was ad-
mitted and considered, it would change the
aspect of the case to her favor. He ex-
hibited this afternoon photograph of Mrs.
Maybrick, taken at the age of 20 years,
showing girl, handsome in face and figure
with brown hair and large. expressive eyes.
II have known Mrs. Maybrick," he said,
"ever since she was II years old. She was
a sensible, high-minded girl. In 1882 1 ac-
companied her and her mother to the steamer
Celtic, when they started for Europe.
Charles Stewart Parnell and Mr.. Maybrick
both sailed on that vessel, and it was on this
voyage that Mrs. Maybrick first met her
husband. 1t seems a strange coincidence
that Sir Charles Russell should have been
counsel in both MIR. ParnelPs and Mrs. May
bricks cases."
VERY RARE INDEED.
Regarding the chance of interference
with the sentence or the part of the Home
Secretary, MIR. Macklin said:
"They have a curious law in England,
providing that where an adverse decision is
rendered in any but a murder case, an ap-
peal can be taken to a higher court, and
from that to the House OF Lords; but when
the case is murder the decision rendered by
the jury is final, and the cases where the
Judges sentence has been overruled by the
Home Secretary are very rare. Still hope
we can do something"
Mr.. Macklin says the case is strangely
similar to the Witter poisoning case, tried
in Denver two years ago, with a verdict of
acquittal. He has telegraphed for the
records Of that trial.
BlOndin Makes a Rash WAGER.
PARIS, August 9.-Blondin, the we'll
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