Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-25
4 RAY OF LIGHT.
Mrs. Maybricl is Informed That Her Life
Is to be Spared,

MIS- is informed thaJ Her LltG
Is to be Spared.
LIVERPOOL, August 23d.-The messenger
who carried the order remitting the death
| penalty in Mrs. Maybrick's lease arrived at
| the jail at $50 this morning, Governor
| Anderson and Chaplain Morris entered
Mrs. Maybrick's cell together. This is
| Chaplain Morris description of the visit ::
We went into the prison at 2;15 o'clock
! The wome'ns department, in which Mrs.
| May brick's cell is situated, is near the
gates on the left. We were received there
by the head warden and woman, who &C
| compauied US TO the cell She knocked at
the doors. The light in the cell was in
stantly turned up and the door opened by
one of the female watchers. We passed in
The cell was lighted by single gas Jet,
burning brightly.
! Mrs. MaybriCk was undressed and in
| bed. She lay on her back, her hair loosely
coiled about her head. She made no sign
| as we entered. She merely turned her
| eyes and looked at US. She was very weak
and had listless air natural to her con-
| dition. The Governor went close to her
bedside and said: Mrs. Maybrick, have
just received a message from the Home
Secretary which states that he has advised
the Queen to commute your sentence to
| imprisonment for life
Mrs. Maybrick said nothing, her face
| showed no sign she merely lifted her left
hand and stretched it out to take that of
| the Governor. That was all that was said,
and we came away Immediately"
The Baroness Won Rogue called at the
| prison early this forenoon, but did not see
her daughter. She had long interview
| with Governor Anderson, of whose consid.
! Grafton she speaks in warm terms of praise
| He informed her that she could have, under
| the rules, but one more interview with her
daughter, that which is known as the fare
! we'll visit. He advised her not to use her
| privilege Immediately, as there might be
| many things to talk over, and she had bet
ter prepare herself for it with that idea in
view. The status of Mrs. Maybrick as q
prisoner had, he said, been changed by the
Communication, and without a special permit
be could not allow her more than the Gus
| tomary privileges. The Baroness expressed
| thanks for this suggestion and came away.
Boston prides itself in being more or less
English, but it will not cotton to the sort
OF English represented by Albert Briefly.
This is the man through whose instrument
| atty Mrs. Maybrick put her head into the
moose and barely escaped most shameful
death, From the moment the woman who
had risked everything for him fell into
deadly peril until she was sentenced to
death, he remained hidden. He never
lifted hand to Tighten her burden. This
pOltroon could not even wait to hear the
decision of the Home Secretary i'll the case
of the woman whom he had protested TO
love. He sailed for Boston on the SCythia
yesterday, and when he sailed no one knew
whether or not Mrs MaybriCk was to be
hanged. While thousands who had never
seen her waited anxiously for the word
meaning life or death TO Mrs. Maybrick
her ex-lover packed his traps and sneaked
aboard a steamer.
tits said that the firm has dissolved its
Liverpool partnership recently, and that
the New Orleans business was broken up
as well. 1t is currently reported that
Briefly is about to settle in the Southern
States ard enter business as cotton broker
on his own account. He arrived on the
steamer stage about 2:30 o'clock, accom-
panied by lady believed to be his sister.
Shortly after his arrival he was met by
three gentlemen, one of whom was his
brother, F. J. Briefly, who had come to
bid him good-by, and the party con-
tinued walking about until $3.50 o'clock,
when the last tender, the Skirmisher, left
for the steamer, which was lying in the
middle of the river. Briefly then babe
farewell to the lady and gentlemen.
When he went on board the tender he
wept.
On getting on board the Scythia heimme-
dlately crossed to the far side and did not
again venture to look toward the stage
where his friends were standing. He was
not recognized by any of the general pub
lie. Briefly would receive the news of the
ultimate fate of Mrs. Maybrick on his
arrival at Queenstown, where the Scytbia
was to call for the Boston mails.
Nothing is yet known as to when the
convict will be removed to penal estab-
lishment, and it is not expected that she
will be removed for two or three weeks
Stafford will probably be her first destina-
ton, and thence she will be taken to a
penal establishment, probably Millbank.
LONDON, August 24th.-The Maybrick
Committee has resolved to agitate for a
pardon on the ground that the decision of
Home Secretary Matthews shows that there
is a reasonable doubt whether Maybrick
was poisoned.