The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
TIE MAVERICK CASE.
A Fair Correspondent Champions
the Cause
OF THE CONVICTED WOMAN.
Brief History Of the Case-A Claim that
She was a Shining Woman, but Not
Murderess.


copy of the Tribune of September l, con
tanning not very original summing up Of
the May brick case" by a champion of vir
tue whose elegant signature is ''Jingo." He
dRells upon her personal and social
charms, describes her beauty and fasci-
oates her fresh delicious youth, which
3'etches across the subtle summer to unite
ffth uncongenial winter. All of this and
~ more is artfully told with the purpose OF
making his subsequent revelations more
frightfully, terribly real, and to create in
others as strong belief in the whole
wretched story as he himself possesses.
How, after reading every morsel of evi-
dehce and giving the case fair and close
SCRUTINY, any honest minded person could
give expression to such sentiments, passes
comprehension. Mrs. Maybrick was all
that has been said of her in point of youth,
beauty and fascination. She net MIR.
Maybrick on a steamer making its pilgrim
age between America and England. He
fell desperately in love with her and they
were wed. Closer association with Mr..
MAVERICK reveals a strange, dispasSiOned
man who imagines himself the victim of
every aiIment, and with an extraordinary
appetite for ''pick-me ups and patent
medicines. 1t is known by many of his
friends that he was an arsenic eater. Mrs.
Maybrick complains to her husband
brother of his using white powder which
she fears will do him harm. While
he is ill with the maIadv that
results in his death, she tends him with
watchful care and devotion. He asks her
for the arsenic, she implOres him not to
take it, but being assured by him that it is
beneficial, prepares it for him. He, in the
meantime falls asleep and she puts it out
g. hal hon fh,t h, F,,,
= gotten it.
' Spying eyes of treacherous servants are
upon her, and by them she is accused OF
poisoning her husband. Though nothing
is said directly to her she is made to feel
that all is not well. If she attempted TO
comply with the slightest wish of her hus-
band a servant steps out and takes matters
in her own hands, treating Mrs. May brick
like an intruder. She had confessed her
sin to her husband and been forgiven by
him, but her love for Briefly was not
dead So lonely, so friendless, so unhap
PLY situated she allows herself the com
fort of writing a letter to this man who
had so enthralled her. He is about to
leave the country; but she longs to behold
him again. Happy are those who expert
ence no such temptation. She was
unhappy in her love for him,
unhappy in the knowledge of her
sin, unhappy in her husbands house
20 Briefly which a treacherOuS maid ser
want, one Alice Tapp, who it is limited has
been kind TO Mr.. Maybrick in more ways
than the mere rubbing of his hands at the
time of his illness, opened and read instead
of posting it. From that moment the wife
and mistress of the house was watched like
a thief. She was not permitted to do any
hing for her husband without the superin-
tendence and inspection of some servant.
That she was not happy with her husband
was evident He was jealous and unkind.
Among her husbands relatives and her
own servants she had not one friend; she
was sorelY troubled. Is it so strange then
that she should turn to the one person
whom she loved and who seemed to love
her, for comfortl No one with the smallest
portion of sense will pretend to deny the
wrong of 1t, but is 1t very rare Offense,
even among those who are less in need of
sympathy than Mrs. Maybrick?
But to the facts in the case.
Mr.. Mayblick dies and his wife is
arrested on the charge of murder. The
body of the deceased is examined, small
traces of the supposed cause of death, ar
senic, are found, but not enough to haze
caused death. The amount found might
have been in the system as long time as
seven or eight months. The irritated con-
dition of the stomach might be due to the
poison or to a severe state Of indigestion,
from which he was known to suffer. In
short the most eminent medical men and
analysts of England could not say posi-
lively that death was not the result of
poison, but they did not believe it was, and
then some of the most important symp-
toms of poisoning were absent. AT all
events, they had no reason to believe ar
senic caused death, but Mr.. Justice, or In
justice, Stephens believed otherwise, and
afker an exceptionally fair trial began 10
pour his own ideas of the matter into
the ears of Il jury whose intelligence is a
sad commentary upon Englands boosted
leading of the universe-as some of them
could neither read nor write their own
names Mr. Stephens launched out into
the matter with a determination to ignore
everything but his own personal feeling,
that was amazing in its audacity. He was
vindictive and one-sided to u daZzlin" de
gree, and though Mr.. Addison pointed out
several important errors and requested cor
rections, the jury was carried by the judge,
who ignored the evidence of the medical
experts and RECALLED the jury with Il pen sOnal
reminiscence of a dog. The judge once
knew a dog that died from arsenicdl
DO mig. This dog had never taken any
arsenic and no poison was found in his
system upon examination, but Justice
Stephens knew that the dog died from
ar5enical poisoning. The jury brought in
a verdict in accordance with the sum
ming up and the neXtday Justice Stephens
found new requirement added to his list
as an escort of one hundred policemen
were necessary to protect him from the
violence of an indignant and outraged pe0
pie. In his summing up the justice dwelt /
at great length upon her intrigue with |
Brierley, just as though he had found it
out, when she herself had confessed it. /
His argument being in the absence of proof |
or evidence to supply the deficiency by a |
motive. In short they proved nothing. |
Her sin she confessed. The crime accused |
of she denied and l am only one among an |
immense majority who believed her. She
was arrested for murder and sentenced for (
adultery. AS one doctor wrote the home 1
secretary, the analysis of Mr.. Maybricks |
medicine revealed the presence of twenty |
six different poisons who shall say which |
zone, in the event of his death being caused .
thereby, was the fatal portion.
In answer to "Jingo,' it can be said that
an eminent physician of Brooklyn
wrote Mrs. Maybricks council that
he would send duly attested GER
tifcate that he had given her pre-
arsenic. Before the summing up by Justice
Stephens expressions from the jurymen
had led the people to expect acquittal and
the foreman was known to say that until
the summing up, they had every intention
TO acquit her. When the verdict was re
turned it was without even a recommends
tion to mercy, most remarkable eXcep
ton, which may give some idea of the
spirit OF the chief justice and Its infiu ence.
The long and the short of it is that so far
from proving Mrs. Maybrick to be a
poisoner, they have not proved that Mr..
Mavnriclf died from OOiSOu Rut IuStice 1