The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-03
MRS. MAVERICKS PARAMOUR.
He Arrives in BostOn-He is Handsome
Man-OpiniOns of the Passengers.

He Arrives in BostOn-He is Handsome
Man-OpiniOns of the Passengers.
Especial to the HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
Boston. Sept ALBERT Briefly, Mrs.
Maybrick's paramour, arrived yesterday
morning on the Scythia. He stubbornly
refused to talk to the newspaper men await
ing him and even denied his identity. A
tall, well dressed, suave, handsome man of
this world is Briefly. of Briefly & Wood,
cotton importers, at No 4, Old Hall street,
Liverpool. His complexion is very fair,
hair brown, beard reddish, cropped close
and grown to point in front; about fourty
years old, at least six feet in height, weighs
prouabiy hundred and eighty pounds and
has very white teeth Any woman, how
ever DESTROYS CT making a good catch,
might look far and not find another man so
handsome and so perfect type OF the well
bred Englishman as Briefly.
When he took passage on board the
Scythia OF course his connection with the
Maybrick case made him at once the most
conspicuous man on the ship. Leaving
Liverpool in the midst of the excitement
attending the plea for a Communication of
the sentence, the passengers heard of the
favorable action of the home secretary on
their arrival at Queenstown.
Talks had with the passengers by your
correspondent show that Briefly was i'm
mediately pleased with the news, but at
no time did he allow his feelings to get the
better of his judgment, and he made it
rule to refer to the case only in the most
guarded language. One of the passengers
said that Briefly felt that he was in a very
delicate position. He knew that he was
the object of most hostile criticism by rea-
son of the disgrace following upon the pub
LEGATION of the amOurs He knew, also,
that among the women passengers his
presence on board the ship might have
disturbing effect, and that his society, even
by men, might not be in demand. But he
was very retiring, very reserved; evidently
sensible of his peculiar position, and al
ways keenly aware of the proprieties of
the case. The result was he became &C
quainted with only few of the gentlemen
passengers. These he met in the smoking
room, played cards with them there and
had a social drink now and then. Allvoted
him a capital fellow.
Conversing with another Boston man on
the ship, Politician Tom Devine, Briefly
said that he had spent e650 in Mrs. May
bricks defense. This was about one-half Of
his fortune and he did not feel sorry for
having done so much in her behalf and
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 excellent cOnyersatonalist and alto
gether very attractive sort of fellow
Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, too, son of
the author, made Brierly's acquaintance
and wasn't ashamed of it.
Brier Y was accompanied on the voyage
by his brother Frederick J. Briefly. To
one of the gentlemen on the ship Briefly
confded the intelligence that his trip to
America will last only until public indigna-
ton against him in England shall have
been quelled. He will travel incognito, if
possible, in the United States and Canada,
and hopes to return to Liverpool as soon
as the Maybrick case is forgotten. His
business in that city, he said, had been
ruined and the co-partnership existing be-
tween himself and James Terrence Wood,
with branch house in New Orleans, had
been dissolved. Briefly also said he had
been much maligned by the English news.
papers as well as by the English public.
He does not believe he is deserving the bit
ter treatment received. He had nothing to
offer in extenuation of his relations with
Mrs. May brick, but desired to refute the
idea generally believed in by the public
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 MAVERICKS death