The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-12
MRS. MAVERICKS CASE.
FRESH PROOF THAT sHE I'D NOT
POISON HER HUSBAND.

convicted By an insane Judge end
the Right of Trial by Jury Com
r,ately Lost Sight of-sentenced TO
be hanged for Poisoning and Now
serving q Life Sentence fer Attempt
ing to Poison.
From the Ne,o York Recorder.
The revival of the interest Of the May
hrick case in England and America seems to
10 increasing in al directions. Gail Ham
f4or,s recent review OF the case,
Mrs Blaine's active sympathy, together
With the exhaustive analysis of the case by
Mr. Macdougall, distinguished legal au-
tbority in London, and the publication of
. volume from his pen on the subject in
connection with the proposed petition to
onr government to intercede, make the
case one of the most extraordinary on rec-
ord.
Until recently, far more interest has been
Awakened in England by the trial than in
this country; but now many
distinguished women, inspired by
Gail Hamilton's powerful article.
ore exerting themselves to obtain Justice
for Mrs. MAVERICK. Some of the strongest
noints made are that Mrs. Maybrick did
pot have a fair trial by jury according to
tho English law, that the Judge before
whom the case was tried was of unsound
mind and has since been legally declared
insane. that if she was guilty she should
have been hanged; that if she was not
Ouilty her sentence should not have been
Committed by the crown; that she is no W in
prison for crime for which she was not in
dicted or tried.
MRS. MAVERICKS CHILDHOOD.
Mrs MAVERICK is native of Mobile, Ala.
Col Andrew H. II. Dawson, formerly
assistant district attorney and now practic-
ing law in this city, is a friend of her fam
lily, tie Chambers, and knew the unfortun-
ate womans parents when she was a child.
A Recorder reporter called on the colonel
Yesterday in his office in the Stewart build
ing for some facts about her history and
trial
81 am glad that you have come to see
me- began Col. Dawson. Americans
seem to forget the exemplary character of
the lady and the injustice shown her during
that long and fearful trial in Liverpool for
the alleged poisoning of her husband. |
sm in correspondence with the Baroness de
Roques, Alrs. Maybrick's mother, and l
have the facts which have not yet appeared
in print and we're not brought out on the
trial"
Were yeu we'll acquainted with Mrs.
Maybrick's family!" asked the reporter.
Yes, intlmately-through a long series
of years-in Mobile, Ala. | was not only
intimate with the family, but | was a fire.
Quent visitor and knew Mrs. Maybrick
from earliest childhood. Many time have
| handled little Florrie, as she was then
called, upon my knee. I remember we'll
when she first began to prattle in childish
speech"
MRS. MAVERICKS FAMILY.
what was the standing of the Chandler
tamilyF'
THE very best-as high as any in the
land Their virtue, intelligence. culture
and rank were of the first order. John A.
Campbell, her fathers uncle, aud Daniel
ChaJdler, her grandfather, both my dear
friends, were men Of scholarship and dis
tinctiOn and would have been ornaments to
any oar in the world"
Nv hat was the reputation Of Florrie
Maybrick as Il girl at home?"
Her reputation las that Of the most I'M
Questioned modesty-an innate as well as
cultivated refinement. She had remarkable
Intellectual gifts and accomplishments. She
painted exquisitely, became rare hnguist
aud fine musician,
What is the opinion Of those who know
Mrs Maybrick best? Do any of them be-
lieve her guilty"
mo. They believe none of the charges
against her, and am prepared to present
facts that will establish not only her limo
4 cence of her husbands death, hut OF tho
/ charge of iufdellty to him with Briefly.
And when lido present these facts thousands
will exclaim that they never believed Der
guilty. No such presumption as her guilt
can be reconciled with her proverbial mod
eSty and uniform rectltude of conduct. 1t
is true that drs. Msybrick has been sub
jected to what has been alleged as a trial
by jury, but it is untrue. The Judge
showed no regard for the Jury's opinion
and practically rendered O verdict to suit
himself, which the jury was obliged to give
&their own. Il was monstrous. i fancy
hear Americans exclailn: How can this
tena country where king signed con-
Tract with his barons that the right Of trial
BY jury should be sacred?
POINTS IN THE CASE.
My answer to that question will be the
facts which give dignity and gravity to the
complaint Americans have right to make.
As said before, Mrs. Maybrick is the
daughter and the granddaughter OF two old
end intimate friends OF mine, whose rank
asgentlemen of culture and character was
nigh The Baronesse de RoQues who. since
Mrs Maybrick's fathers death, married
n German baron of high position 10 the army,
81 mas put me in possession Of all the details
q making the complete history of the case
from its origin down to date.
Inc home secretary of course
submitted 10 the queen bis legal opinion as
10 The merits of the case He, unfortunately,
made tie mistake of putting his heel on the
Magma Charta after deciding that there was
no evidence that the prisoners husband had
Deen poisoned, and the sentence was COM
muted from death to Imprisonment for life
on the ground that there was evidence that
She might have attempted to poison him,
ana an attempt to poison is crime in Eng
iand Tor which imprisonment for life is the
penalty.
HE made the mistake Of overlooking the
lact that she never had been indicted for
an attempt to poison and therefore in
%nteDclng her to Imprisonment for such O
Tlme ne ignored the necessity for such an
Dclctment, her rights to a defense before a
lury OF her peers and all the usual methods
Incident TO all other crimes in England
and the opinion is entertained by the ablest
wrists and barris, ers in Great Britain that
len decision and sentence are illegal aud
.lat writ of habeas corpus is the remedy
Useeure her discharge under the decision
a ine nome secretary that her husband
ud natural death.
MBs. MAVERICKS MOTHER SPEARS,
Ills con be done, however, only by the
enjoyment of able barristers to represent
a;spetitlon before a court of competent
;,susllctlon 10 adjudicate the question, and
susls the point at which the trouble begins
Seause such barristers must be paid what
rgla De regarded in this country in crimi-
rAeasss as enormous fees. Until these are
s s~i ne case must stand exactly where ii