The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-12
A yoMAy FOR A ToMAN.
Further Remarks or Gail Hamllton on the
Case or Mre. Mnybrick.

Case OF Mrs. Maybrick.
To THE EDITOR OF The sUN-Sir: Mr.. Mon.
euro d. Conway writes. Oct 2: Interest In
the justice Of the case induces mo to say that
will humbly retract on tho production OF tho
prescription OF arsenic for Mrs. Maybrick's
complexion. Nor is IL credible thnt. In the face
OF such new evidence on vital point, Mrs
Maybrick could DO held n day longer by
Home Secretary who. Mr. Dawson says. has
already decided that her husband died
natural DEATH ~"
II Mr.. Conway's exclamation point lie meant
to set of his whole letter. II Is very we'll placed
The Grass and cruel ignorance OF his first let
tor ia continued and enlarged In this. He makes
tho production Of the prescription the turning
point OF his own conversion. The prescrip-
ton has been found and certified and pho
tographed and published for months; but
IL 1t had never been found, Mrs. Maybrick's
right TO freedom would have been not one lotn
lessened thereby. All that the prescription
establishes is that Mrs. Maybrick told the truth
on point. interesting but not vital. The
prescription was mentioned to account for her
soaking the fly papers. 1t confirmed tho truth
OF hor statement that she soaked the fly papers
to obtain the arsenic on them for face wash.
But tho fly papers themselves are unim-
portant Thore was a buzzlng over tho fly
accused her In the trial. but their buzzing was
wholly out-roared by Superintendent Bryning,
who decided what became Of these fly papers
and tho liquid in which they were stepped
there is absolutely no trace rhotcrer." II there
was no trace whatever. thcre was certainly no
trace OF them in Mr.. Maybrick's body. and out
sido Of Mr.. Maybricl's body they have no
bearing on the case any moro than IL Mr.. Con-
way had washed his own face In them. Even
tho Judge. in the stumbling. rambling talk to
the jury which is. called his charge made
same ana tSe soe cruelty tha
characterize Mr.. Conway. he made the same
pSn h w M nSs MI on% S
yincjai: follows with seville iidslity the tho eyra:
Judge has since been forced to retire from rom
bench and bar because. as no himself says
70 my s Wss tha WAS re-
garded by some as no longer physically carn-
6S Of lis my dnt MI
into the sumo retirement.
I'M Mr. Con Conway has only an ronical e3clsma,
Homo Secretary, hns al READY decided that
her n husband b died natural death" Mr.. Daw-
etf k fact ws to oNG TO-
Whom the Home Secretary proclaimed her res
Rbs 9 Sn thu saoTs sa q
decision can DO expressed that Mr.. MAVERICK
sd as II ss H way as
comments on it thus Immediately AFTER - "fhc;
ars al th%t May S Eiea did not
murder hsr ana to ys sscesd
s dsss t1k he Rs
Maep9usaiii s. 4: Trinity College Saptab
he deny the certified copy Of q leading chemist
shoWine that he dispensed It to Mrs. Maybriek
Maybrick don Of S wild be"stsS Docs he deny e
that, though months have gone by, since the
syidencs"a on what he considers vital point"
Mrs. Maybrick Is still held prisoner. slave.
stS bs ss the H? see s. MT oms
and Ho%o Secretary DECIDED that she Ss IS
virtual appeal to tho English Government to
seTts that the signers having tried MIS-. Nay.
years imprisoned an innocent woman! Mr..
nearly truc Tic En l aoyernm e IS
Wrons-dannably wrong. l use the word not
in its popular. nor even in its genealogical. but
in its strictest theological sense. The English
Government has sentenced and Ia this day
mother Of infant Children. Tho English Gov
crnment has robbed her OF life. liberty. prop
erty and children. No victim Of the 1n6uisi:
ton was ever moro causelessly tortured: and
sunny south. and MIR. Gladstone goes curvct-
ting through England with octogcnarian agl-
ity; and tho Queen sits as dumb on her throne
hands on wooden knees. while this slow
slaughter Of the innocent goes agonizinRly on.
says: God. THANK Thee that am not like
other Americans. provincial"
But tho heart OF England Is right The
English people have kent alive tho cause Of
Mrs. Maybrick; It is the English people who
and who will not let the troubled waters OF
Government rest for their persistent protest.
GAIL HAMILTON.
HAMILTON. Mass. Oct. 10.