Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11
SHE MIGHT HAVE HANGED
If They Had Brought Out All That
They Learned About Her.
A ROYAL HEART TO BE SOLD SOON.
Something That Will Rouse Even Blase
Paris for a Little While.
INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM ABROAD
rBT CABLE TO THE DIsPArcH.l


LONDON, Dec TO- Copyright If ii
is true that Mrs. Maybrick was hopelessiy
i'll she would be released at once by the
Home Secretary, as it is the custom to
grant release in all cases to dying prisoners,
if their friends are desirous TO receive and
care for them.
1t is impossible to reconcile the state
ments made about Mrs. MAVERICKS illne
but there is no reason to doubt the sin
eerity of the representations made by her
mother, the Baroness de Roques. Certain
that it is that Mrs. Maybrick, who has long
been in the hospital. was so low on Monday
last that the Governor of the prison sent
for her mother to hasten to her bedside. In
aletter received by THE DISPATCH corre-
spondent to-day from the Baroness, she
gives the following interesting particulars
about her daughters case:
"I'hsVe no news since yesterday, when
nv daughter was worse, having had bad
night and being incapable of retaining food.
ANY recurrence of hemorrhage or q fainting
ft will prove fatal, and she now appears to
be sinking. That her life was prolonged on
Monday is entirely due to the prompt action
md untiring attention OF Drs. Byrnes and
Wynant
Very Near Death, Yet Rallied.
1.-THE Governor, though restricted in his
liberty of making report to me by the
rules, has said he never saw anyone SO near
death and rally. When he huma1ely tele-
graphed for me he did not expect me to
find her alive, although was here in eight
hours. The first words my daughter said,
IN a whisper of weakness. on my arrival,
were that 1 owed her life to the heroic
efforts of these two physicians and their
continued care of her. Since she did not
expect to see me again she had all her last
wishes known, had received the
last sacrament of the Church and
on oath had declared her inno-
cenee of any act, attempt or
intent against her husband. Had she died
on Monday L conclude he is right in telling
me that oath would be an attested paper
for next of kin. As my only son, at ex-
actly her age, died of rapid consumption,
taken in December and died in March,
with just her symptoms, and, as I was
privileged to nurse him, L know the dis
ease and I have no hope of my daughters
recovery. 1t is too late. She has been
having hemoTrhages from the lungs for
some time, and, knowing her brothers. fate,
she petitioned Mr.. Asquith for a release
before she became ineurable. I am sure
had the pathology and the family history
been known to the authorities they would
have understood differently.
The Comfort of Hope Wanted.
81 desire the one comfort of hope to be
extended to her. Unless she can rally now,
with the hope of at least dying outside the
prison and in my care, do not think she
will survive Christmas. 1 have seen her
only for few moments at a time, and it is
BY an unusual privilege from the humane
Governor that I am permitted to do even
this, and am as near her as can be out
side, to be within call day or night, since
may not remain with her."
The official report about the prisoner is
very different The Baroness called the
Home Secretary's attention to the matter
Immediately after leaving her daughters
bedside on Monday. Mr. Asquith referred
the matter to the medical authorities of the
prison, and their report was received at the
Home Office to-day. They say that Mrs.
Maybrick is not seriously i'll, and Mr.. As
quith therefore announces that he will not
interfere.
On the authority of gentleman well ac-
qusinted with Home Office affairs, it is said
that there exists a strong reason for the ap-
parently unmerciful attitude taken bv the
Government in this case To offset the
weakness of the evidence which led to the
communication of the original sentence of
death, it is said that certain cumulative
evidence of guilt not used at the trial was
brought to the Home Secretary's attention.
1t was explained by those who produced
this evidence that they did not desire to see
the extreme penalty of the law inflicted.
aud so withheld it at the trial. They did
n OF, however, wish to see the convicted
woman escape with slight punishment.