Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-13
MRS. MAVERICKS LOVER.
Briefly Makes Statement of HIS Rela-
lions With Her.

TWAS WOMAN WHO BETRAYED MRS MAYBRrcK-
soNE CURIOUS FACTS BROUGHT OUT IN BRIERIYs
ILx-HE HAS MADE SWORN STATEMENT FOR
RREsKxrAr1oS TO THE HOME SECRETARY.
A cable special to the Philadelphia Times
dated yesterday says: For the first time since
he became publicly identified as Mrs May
bricks alleged lover Albert Briefly talked to-
day, knowing that his statement would appear
IN print. Briefly is tall and slender and is
about thirty-eight His face is sallow and
clearly cut and he wears a light mustache and
. pointed chin beard Upon meeting the
Times correspondent Briefly promptly re-
fused to make statement for the public. 1t
was suggested that there was not much time
to waste and if he could do anything in Mrs.
MAybrick's behalf he must do it before the
26th, the date Of her execution.
he said: Il have been maligned. prosecuted
and misjudged in every way. 1t has broken
mp my business and will cause me to leave this
city. But am man and have made no COM
plant. only desire that the terrible mis-
fortune of the woman whose treatment has
been scarcely fair may not be further increased
through me. Before the first proceedings
against Mrs. Msybrick were initiated or talked
Of had arranged for a vacation in the shape
Of tour about the Mediterranean.
Il had made my preparations without q
thought that any trouble was coming to her,
for had no expectation or suspicion of any.
This is evident, by itself in letter from me
60 her which was quoted in court, in which
letter i said that was going away.
LAST INTERVIEW WITH MRS. MAVERICK.
1.-THE last interview / had with Mrs. May
brick was on April g. Between our meeting in
London on March 81 and this interview had
seen her only once, and that was at the grand
national meeting. / wish you would make a
note Of that and let people judge how far
these three meetlngs-long previous to MIR.
Msybrick's death-jqstitied the perpetual as
sumption all through the trial, and particu-
LARRY by the judge, that she and / were on the
closest terms of intimacy and: were hand in
hand, so to speak, in the whole matter.
However, the moment heard that she was
threatened with trouble abandoned my trip.
! notified Messrs. Cleaver and Sir Charles Rus
sell that was entirely in their hands, though
i was OF opinion, and presume they were also,
that being an interested party my statement
would not have been of any value. i also pre-
pared statement and certified to it for use
shonld II be needed in the trial. 1 remained
all through the case and was not called, though
was ready at any time.
THEIR FIRST MEETING.
when did you first meet Mrs. Maybrick?"
81 met her once or twice during last year in
this city. We were merely distant acquaint-
snces, however, up to last November"
Did you have many interviews with herr"
Very few"
did you ever go on any journey together sx-
ceptlng the trip to London?"
mo. That was the only time We were ever
away together"
Who suggested that trip"
II decline to state. i must refer you to the |
evidence adduced in court"
Had you any understanding when you parted
from each other il London?r
Yes; we had a distinct understanding. in |
10 Sat x@la ~ - 4 n
that mean the meeting in London or any
other place away from home-was ever to occur
again"
PARTED AS STRANGERS.
'Did you have any understanding that any |
meetings were to take place at homer
"None whatever. On the contrary, we |
parted in London as if we were never to |
meet again. You can readily understand |
that / cannot speak as freely as could wish. |
! am not thinking of myself in this matter, |
but of her."
Did you have any understanding about a
correspondence"
''Yes, it distinctly understood that we |
were not to correspond. 1t was agreed that |
she should not write unless she got into some |
complications In consequence of our journey.
II she old she was to let me know. / tell you |
this because wish you to understand that the |
extent Of our acquaintance and the depth of |
our intimacy has been most unwarrantably |
overestimated, both to her injury and mine"
when did you next see herY''
after the trip to Hand at the Grand Ma |
tional" |
''And when after that?" |
'She came to see me a few days afterward. |
She came to tell me about her husband beating |
her and dragging her about the room. 1t was |
brought out In evidence that that was the last |
interview ever had with her. That was |
April g."
BRIERLY's oPINIoNs
Have you any opinions to express from |
your knowledge of affairs concerning her trial?"
Il do not know that 1t would be wise to ex-
press them at the present time"
DO you think there will be any better time
than the PRESENT.
Perhaps not Well. then. there are two
things which feel inclined to saw and they /
are these: In the first place 1 am of opinion /
that great deal of unnecessary and uncalled- |
for injury has been done her as a defendant in |
q court on trial for her life and entitled in the |
utmost degree to fair hearing. think the |
judge laid unnecessary and unfair stress on the |
question of motive. Then the John business |
was an error from beginning to end and 1t told |
terribly against her. The letter from John was |
perfectly innocent and ii was the view the judge
took Of II that made it tell so heavily on the |
jury. This is simply my belief, of course.
WHEN THE TRUTH Is TOLD.
eff the truth ever comes out from the gen.
tlsman himself it will be fully borne out by |
him, and, furthermore, 1 cannot keep from |
blaming the judge for his unauthorized as
sumption that the intimacy between Mrs. May
brick and myself, which ended on March n |
last, was in progress during all the period |
which the trial covered"
Has your statement made this morning COW |
cred the ground?" |
yes; this ground and more. have placed |
II IN the hands of her solicitors for presenta-
ton to the home secretary |
The most important bearing of Mr. Brier- |
leys statement is something which appears not |
In but between the lines. The curious facts |
and strange motives which underly this case |
from beginning to end are something amazing |
and the half has not been told. One thing is |
certain, however, and that is if Mrs MAVERICK |
Is executed she will have been done to death |
by women. |
UNPUBLISHED FACTS.
i am In possession of certain facts which |
throw very peculiar side light on Brierly,s |
statement. The whole of the domestic Quarrel |
which followed the Grand National was caused
by woman That woman Was herself in love
with Briefly and it was she who. through Nav
brick, made trouble. She was a near relative
OF q womon who constituted herself public
prosecutor before Maybrick's death and to
that end was a most skilled traitress to Mrs
Maybrick during all the proceeding, in which
the latter gave her her full confidence.