Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-08


her innocence by her counsel According TO
the first reports BY cable the judges charge to
the jury, which was given Tuesday, was
favorable to the accused, but other dispatches
yesterday indicate just the reverse.
STRANGE FAMILY HISTORY.
The conviction Of Mrs. Maybrick for the muir
der Of her husband Is only one startling episode
in . remarkable family history. Mrs. Maybrick
Ia an American by birth, about twenty six
years old, and her maiden name was Chanler.
Her grandfather on the maternal side was Da-
one of the best known men Of his day, who died
In 1858. His daughter, Carrie Z. Holbrook, the
mother of the murderess went to Mobile, Ala,
ABOUT 1885, on visit to her uncle, the Rev. J.
H. Ingraham, the rector Of st. Johns p. E.
church in that city, and famous as the author
Of the Prince of the House of David" She
was very popular in society, being good con-
versationalist, handsome though not pretty and
quiet and progressing in demeanor. Among
those who joined her troop Of admirers was
young VIM G. Chanler, son Of one Of the most
prominent merchants Of the city. Chanler was
educated and refined and successful in busi-
ness. The two young people were mutually
taken with one another, and he followed her to
her home in New York city, where they were
married. Returning to Mobile they lived in
good style, and Mrs. Chanler increased her in
fuence in society. She was as much a belle as
before marriage, and her society was especially
sought by young men.
II was at the beginning Of the war that Mrs.
Chambers path was crossed by Frank Dubassy,
who is said to have been French vicomte, and
who at that time was captain Of ordnance in
the confederate army. He was remarkably
handsome man and q dashing officer He fell
in with the CHAMBERS, and soon there was some
talk Of his attention to the lady. Suddenly Mr..
Chanler fell ill. He grew rapidly worse and
his relatives went to offer their assistance, but
were refused admittance to the house. Chanler
died, attended by no one but the young wife,
and the report arose that he had been killed by
her. There was no official investigation of the
charge, but it affected her position, which
became so unpleasant, that she took her two
children and moved to Macon, Ga. In less than
year she married Dubassy there. Shortly
afterward Dubassy was ordered to go to Europe
as q representative of the confederate govern
ment. He and his family took passage on q
blockade runner out of Charleston or Savannah,
1t is not known which, and had proceeded but
Q couple of days when Dubassy, who had been
complaining, suddenly died. The captain of
the steamer proposed to return to port in order
that the officer might be inferred, but the widow
strenuously insisted that the vessel should con-
tinue. She said that she did not like the risk
Of turning the vessel back, and demanded that
the body be cast overheard. This was done,
and the vessel reached Europe in due time.
In year or two Mrs. Dubassy drifted back
to New York, where she was involved in scam
dial with some actor, which was published in
the papers at the time, and created great SEN
sation. After this she went again to Europe,
and met q married Baron Won Rogue. There
was shortly q scandal with him also, as ii said
he was not faithful to her, and at one time he
gave her q beating, SO she left him. 1t seems
that they led an adventurous life together
After separating from Won Rogue the lady be-
came a woman of the world, and when last
heard from was filling the equivocal position
Of wife" of an attache Of the British legation
at Teheran, Persia.
The widow Of Darius Holbrook, the maternal
grandfather of Mrs. Maybrick, had died in New
York city in 1876. At the time of Mr.. Hol-
brooks death. in 1858, his estate was valued at
fully St,000, 900, but it consisted largely of
property in Cairo, ILL.,, and throughout the
southwest, which greatly deprecated in value
after the war. The estate had been bedueathed
by Mr.. Holbrook to his widow and daughters,
and before the death of Mrs. Holbrook she and
the latter united in placing the remnants, which
embraced some valuable real estate on I4th
street in New York city. in trust for benefit of
the two Chanler children son named Hol-
brook, now dead, and Florence, the present
Mrs. Maybrick. This trust was attached in
1879 by Trieste banker named Rosenthal who
had lent money to Baron Won Rogue on notes
Endorsed by his wife, and the baroness came to
New York with her son and daughter to defend
1t. The suit terminated in 1880 with the defeat
OF the banker, and the baroness and her
daughter, who was then about eighteen years
old, at once returned to Europe.
On the voyage they made the acquaintance
Of James Maybrick. who had been for number
of years in the cotton business in Norfolk and
Baltimore, and in 1881 Florence became Mrs.
Maybrick. From the evidence brought out at
the trial Of the latter their married life does
not appear to have been very happy. Mrs.
Maybrick seems to have given her husband
abundant cause for unhappiness. Her ac-
paramour, to whom the letter in
tercepted by the nursemaid was addressed, was
named Brieriy. He is disspated-looking man
Of about twenty-eight years, with reddish hair
and whiskers, and Mrs. Maybricks wanton
affection for him is one of the strangest features
Of this strange story in real life.