Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-12
MRS. MAVERICKS CASE.
Der Mother, Baroness DeRoques, MAKING
Great Efforts to Secure Her Release.

Great Efforts to Secure Her Release
LONDON. November 11.-An interest
ing and pathetic correspondence written
October IS, to which the representative
of the Associated Press had access, dis
closes what unceasing, though still I'M
ayiling efforts the Baroness DeRoques
is making to succor her daughter In
prison. She appeals alternately to the
prison authorities to the Home Secre-
tary, to Sir Charles Russell as Attorney
General, and to Lord Rose6erry as For
eign Minister, pleads to each for release
on legal grounds and failing In
these, tries to draw from the
official breast what sentiment
of pity may be found therein. Final
ly she makes an appeal to the powerful
Journalistic influence of Mr.. Stead,
who Is probably awaiting his best OPP
portunity to practically intervene on
behalf Of mother and daughter by in
creaslng the agitation In favor or re-
lease. The Baroness had learned that
Mrs. Maybrick was seriously Ill, and
appealed to the attorney general TO en-
able her to send physician to report
en- her conditions and try TO relieve her
sufferings." She mentions that she
had selected Dr. Herbert Tibbits, who
had agreed to visit her daughter In prls-
on, but at the last moment Mr.. Penn
berton, the legal adviser OF the home
office, refused his sanction. Next she
appealed to Sir Charles Russell aud
to Mr.. Stead, writing him that her
nights are consumed in planning and
daylight brings despair. The Baron
ness next appealed to Lord Roseberry
as follows:
$40 Rt. Hon. Lord ROSeberrU Secretary
of Foreign Affairs, London:
"MY LoRD:-I am addressing you as
an American and as the mother of Mrs.
Maybrick an Amercan-born woman OF
American parents, whose marriage In
England made her for time subject
of the Queen. l am appealing to you TO
consider her case. Enough has been
told about the misery and misfortune
for you to know all about her and | am
sure you feel that that there have been
cruel mistakes on the part OF England
and that she, being a woman, almost
q girl; young mother, with
no relation but myself in the misery Of
an unfair detention; in falling health,
which is fast bringing her the most aw-
full of deaths by rapid decline, that 1t is
indeed an act of mercy and debt OF
honor that you, as England's head Of
the department Of foreign affairs, assist
US with your influence for her release.
l think the question of innocence and
guilt is no longer undecided; that the
world in fact finds she Is innocent. At
the same time political feeling is weav-
ing net about the case aud would
entreat to cut these threads over one
unimportant and frail
"GiVe me back my child. Let me
take her quietly away from England.
Let her wrongs and her sufferlngs die
in silence for the dignity Of great
nation, If needs be, but save her life to
me. The time is now near when the
law can be satisfied. The term expired
for the alleged attempt at poisoning.
wish TO send my physician to report on
her case and TO try and alleviate her in
tense suffering. But l need influence
to do this and entreat you to assist
me. Respectfully,
[Signed "DERoQUEs.
To this appeal Roseberry replied
through his secretary that he has "the
letter and cannot interfere IN a matter
the consideration of which rests excu-
sively with the Home Secretary"
The rest Of the correspondence shows
that the baroness is In constant receipt
of the friendliest and most compassion
ate letters from Mrs. Dodge and Mrs.
Blaine. A part OF what appears in the
correspondence it is reported that Mr.
Pemberton, who really controls the
case, resents outside pressure, and espe-
cially foreign pressure, and has declared
that no United States interference, no
newspaper pressure shall influence him.