The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-14
CONSULTATIONS OF RELIGION SOUGHT.
Mrs. Maybrlck Does Something She
Should Have Thought of Before.
Her Husband Used 70 Beat Her and
Drag Her over the House.
So Briefly Says in Somewhat Re-
markabIe Statement.

Mrs Maybrick from the moose do not cease.
Today large meeting was held at Cannon
Street Hotel, and resolutions were adopted
to petition the Home Secretary for a remis-
sion of her sentence.
Meanwhile, the condemned woman is suf-
fering, in full measure, mental punishment
for her wickedness, whether her offences be
worthy of hanging or not. She passes her
time moaning piteously for her children
she has two, who do not know their moth
er's terrible straits-and weeping copiously.
The chaplain of the prison is devoting much
of his time to the condemned woman, and
she appears to greatly appreciate his visits.
Baroness Won Rogue has written letter
in which she thanks the newspaper press for
the efforts made in behalf of her unhappy
child"
The proposed House of Commons petition
in favor Of Mrs. Meybrick has been aban-
doned.
LIVERPOOL, August 13.-Albert Briefly,
Mrs. Maybrick's paramour, has made a
lengthy statement in regard to the case.
Briefly is tall and slender, and about So
years DID, his face is sallow and clearly cut.
He wears light moustaehe and pointed chin
beard. He said he had been silent for fear
of lnjuring Mrs. Maybrick, and he would
not talk now unless he thought it would ben
fit her. He said:
II have been maligned, prosecuted and
misjudged in every way. 1t has broken up
my business, and will cause me to leave the
city, but l am man and | have made no
complaint. 1 only desire that the terrible
misfortunes of the woman, whose treatment
has been scarcely fair, may not be further
increased through me.
Before the proceedings against Mrs. May
brick were initiated or talked of, had ar
ranged for vacation in the shape of a tour
about the Mediterranean. / had made my
preparations without any thought that any
trouble was coming to her, for / had no ex-
pectation or suspicion of any. This Is evil
dent in itself by a letter from me to her.
which was quoted in court, in which letter L
said l was going away.
1.-THE last interview had with Mrs. May
brick was on April 6. Between our meeting
ing in London ON March 21st and this inter
view had seen her only once, and that was
at the Grand National meeting. wish you
would make note of that and let the public
judge how far those three meet
ings, long previous to Mr.. Maybrick's
death, justly the perpetual assumption all
through the trial, and particularly by the
terms of intimacy, and hand in hand, so to
speak, in this whole matter. However, the
moment | heard that she was threatened
with trouble abandoned my trip. notified
MeSSrs. Cleaver and Sir Charles Russell that
L was entirely in their hands.
Though / was Of the opinion, and pre-
sumo they were also, that, being an interest
ed party, my statement would not have the
value 1t was entitled to, prepared one and
certified to it for use should it be needed in
fhn trfa I inn oil
case, but was not called. though was ready
at one time"
.'When did you first meet Mrs. May
brick?"
year, in this city. We were merely distant
acquaintances, however, up to last Novem-
ber."
"Did you have many interviews with
her?"
very few."
besides the trip to London?"
mo, that was the only time we were ever
away together"
who suggested that trip?"
decline to state. l must refer you to
the evidence adduced in Court"
Had you any understanding when you
parted from each other in London?"
Yes, we had distinct understanding in
the first place, that meeting in London or
any other place away from home was never
"Did yeu have any understanding that any
meetings were to take place az homer"
None whatever. On the contrary, we
parted in London as if we were never to
meet again. You can readily understand
that l.cannot speak as freely as l could wish.
am not not thinking of myself in the mat
er, but of her."
did you have any understanding about
correspondence"
Eyes, it was 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. IL she did she was to let me know.
/ tell you this because l wish you to under
stand that the extent of our acquaintance
and depth of our intimacy has been most uD-
warrantably oyerestimated, both to her In
jury and NINE"
when did you next see her after the trip
to London?"
"At the Grand National, and when after
that she came to see me, a few days later,
she came to tell me about her husband beat
ing her and dragging her about the room. 1t
was brought out in the evidence that this
was the last interview ever had with her.
That was on April g."
Have you any opinions to express, from
your knowledge OF affairs, concerning her
trial?"
. There are two things which l feel in
clined to say and they are these: In the
first, j am of opinion that a great deal of
unnecessary and uncalled for injury has
been done her as defendant in q court on
trial for her life and entitled to the utmost
degree to fair hearing. think the Judge
laid unnecessary and unfair stress on the mo-
tive. The. John business was an error
from beginning to end and it told terribly
agains her. The letter from John was q
perfectectly innocent letter from perfectly
innocent party. 1t was the view the Judge
took Of 1t that made it tell so heavily on the
jury. This is simply my belief, of course,
but II the truth ever comes out from the gen.
him.
"And, furthermore, l cannot keep from
blaming the judge for his unauthorized and
stated assumption that the intimacy be-
tween Mrs. Maybrick and myself, which
ended on March 21 last, was in progress dur
ing all the period which the trial covered"
The most important bearing of Mr.. Brier-
ly's statement is something which appeared,
not in, but between the lines. The curious
facts and strange motives which underlie
this case from beginning to end are some
thing amazing, and the half has not been
told. One thing is certain, however, and
that is that if Mrs. Maybrlck is executed she
will have been done to death by woman.
1t is said that there are certain facts which
throw very peculiar side light on Brierly's
statement. The whole of the domestic quar-
rell which followed the Grand National
meeting was caused by woman. That
woman was herself in love with Briefly, aud
1t was she who, through Maybrick, made the
trouble. She was near relative Of q woman
who constituted herself public prosecutor
before Maybrick's death, and to that end
was most skilled traitress to Mrs. May
brick during all the time of the proceedings,
in which the latter gave her her full conf
dence.