The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-04
MRS. MAVERICKS ADoNIs.
Handsome Albert Briefly Lands at
Boston From Liverpool.
From the Nea0 York World.


From the Nea0 York. World.
Boston, MASS, Sept ALBERT Briefly,
Mrs. Maybrick's paramour, arrived this
| morning on the steamship Scythia from
Liverpool. The passengers, of whom there
were $50 in the first cabin, watched the re-
porters' pursuit of Mr.. Briefly with more
than ordinary interest. When he was again
approached Mr.. Briefly wheeled around
| sharply and said, with much earneStness:
Gentlemen, I've absolutely no statement
to make-not one word to say to you"
And then Mr.. Briefly looked down upon
| the reporters standing about him, with lust
faint CLINT of defiance in his big soulful
| blue eyes. When the intimation was DO
| litely thrown out that free statement then
| would save him a world of trouble from
the interviewing corps of other cities he
| might visit his laconic reply was, ''Very
| likely" and he turned on his heel and was
| off to his stateroom.
A tall, well-built, well-dressed, suave.
handsome man of the world. That is AL
bert Briefly, of Briefly g. Wood, cotton
| importers of No 4 Old Hall street, Liver
| pool. His complexion Is very fair, his hair
| is brown, his beard reddish, cropped close
| and grown to point in front. He is
| about 40 yaars old, at least feet in hight,
| weighs probably 1885 pounds and has very
| white teeth. Any woman, however, desir-
Dug of making good catch, might look for
| and not find another man SO handsome and
| SO perfect a type Of the well-bred Eng
gishman as Albert Briefly. w hen he
took passage on board the Scytbia, of
course his connection with the Maybrick
case made him at once the most cOnspicu-
Gus man on the ship. Leaving Liverpool in
the midst of the excitement attending the
plea tor the Communication of Mrs. May
bricks sentence, the passengers heard of
the favorable action Of the home secretary
on the ships arrival at Queenstown. Talks
had with the passengers by the correspond
ent show that Briefly was immensely
pleased with the news, but at no time did
he allow his feelings to get the better of his
Judgment, and ne made it a rule to refer TO
the case of Mrs. Maybrick only in the most
guarded language
One of the passengers said that Briefly
felt he was in very delicate position. He
knew that he was the object Of most hostile
criticism by reason of the disgrace follow
ing upon the publication Of his amours with
Mrs. Maybrick. He knew also that among
the woman passengers his presence on
board ship might have disturbing effect,
aud that his society, even by the men,
might not be in demand. But he was very
retiring, very reserved, evidently sensible
of his peculiar position and always keenly
| aware of tie prophecies in the ease. The
result was that he became acquainted with
| only a few Of the gentlemen passengers.
These he met in the smoking-room played
cards with them there and had social
drink with them now and them They all
voted him capital good fellow
81 don't know anything about this May
brick case, said one of the passengers,
Boston hotel man, to the correspondent,
''but Briefly is one of the incest fellows |
ever met"
Briefly was accompanied an the voyage
by his brother, Frederick J. Briefly. To
one of the gentlemen on the ship Briefly
confided the intelligence that his trip to
America Will last only until the public in.
dignation against him in England shall have
been quelled. He will travel incog. If pos
sible in the United States and Canada, and
hopes to return to Liverpool as soon as the
May case is forgotten. His business
in That city, he said, had been ruined, and
the copartnership existing between himself
and James Torrance Wood, with a branch
house in New Orleans, had been dissolved.
Briefly also said that he had been much
maligned by the English newspapers, as
well as by tho English public. He does not
believe he is deserving of the bitter treat
ment he has received. He had nothing to
offer in extenuation of his relations with
Mrs. Maybrick, but he desired TO refute the
that his Intimate relations with Mrs. May
brick had extended over a long period.
Such was not the case, for he had been with
her on but two occasions, March 81 and %,
preceding May bricks death.
Conversing with another Boston man on
the ship, Politician Tom Devine, Briefly
said that he had spent &c, 500 in Mrs. May
bricks deferse. This was about one-half
of his fortune. He did not feel sorry for
having done SO much in her behalf, and he
would do the Same thing again, being per-
fectly confident of her innocence.
There was one young lady on board,
Miss Adams, of Boston. who did not object
to an introduction to Briefly. She found
him to be an s'excellent conversational ist
and altogether very attractive sort Of
fellow" Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes,
too, son of the autocrat, made Brierly's
acquaintance, and wasn't ashamed of it
either.
At the Harnett Hol1sa Savannah ia