Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

LONDON, August 12.-But little time fol
appeal or repentance is to be given the wo.
man whose conviction for murder has
awakened the interest of the civilized world.
Monday, August 26, has been fixed upon as
the day for the execution of Mrs. Florence
Maybrick. Mr.. Lincoln, the United States
Minister, and many members of the Ameri.
can colony in London have signed petition
for the reprieve of Mrs. Maybrick.
The Queen is taking considerable interest
in the case. This information comes
through clerk in the Home Office, who
states in a private conversation that Her
Majesty has expressed a desire that the
printed reports of the trial together with
all matters bearing upon the previous his
tory of the condemned woman, be forwarded
TO Osborne without delay.
AN UNPRECEDENTED REQUEST.
This request is unprecedented, and al
though, according to precedent, Her Males
ty cannot move in the case except upon the
Recommendation and advice of the Home
Secretary, it is nevertheless taken as an in
dication of the fact that she is desirous of
becoming acquainted with the details of
the case in all their bearings. 1t is
now generally admitted, however, that Sir
Charles Russell made grievous error when
he allowed his unfortunate client.uo read her
statement to the jury. While the presump-
tion of her intimacy with Briefly was
strong, there was no direct evidence of it
before the court until she admitted it in her
own defense and claimed that she had re-
ceived forgiveness from her husband the day
prior to his death.
1t is we'll known that the Queen has very
al L.
subject, and the probabilities are that what
ever sympathy might have come to the aid
of the prisoner in court circles will be alien
ated as the result of her own statement.
A Liverpool dispatch says that Justice
Stephens is preparing a long letter to the
Home Office, reviewing the evidence from
beginning to end and insisting that upon
the facts presented the jury would have been
false to their oaths had they returned diff
ferent verdict.
THE JURY UNANIMOUS.
Mr.. r. G. Brook. one of the Maybrick
Jurors, was interviewed to-day, and he
talked most freely. 1t NAV horrify Ameri-
cans to find that murder juries are permitted
to read newspapers containing reports
of a case, but SO it is. Mr.. Brook said that
the jury was composed of IL men of average
intelligence, who could come to no other
conclusion. They were unanimous on
the verdict. Mr.. Brook, when asked
if the Jurors were allowed to read
the papers, said: "Oh, yesl We
had the morning and evening papers sup
piled to us regularly, with full reports of
the Maybrick case. We cut out the re-
ports and marked the important passages.
We discussed the evidence, as it was given,
until we were all unanimous"
''How did Sir Charles speech effect the
jury?"
'Very little"
$50 that when you retired you had very
few points to settle among yourselves?"
Practically none. We were unanimous.
The foreman almost wished that there was
something upon which we could acquit
her. He told us if there was the slightest
difference of opinion we were to give her the
benefit of it, but we had no difference. We
had agreed on our verdict in few minutes"