The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-12
Mrs. MAVERICKS Defenders,

Miss Abigail Dodge, the authoress,
known to the literary world as Gail
Hamilton, writes to the prime minister
of Great Britain: In the name of God
arraign you, the head of the British
government, for the murder of Florence
Elizabeth Maybrick, now dying in the
convict prison at Working, Eng" After
arraigning the prime minister Miss
Dodge says:
THE home secretary of the late government,
who began the tOrture the late prime minister,
who sustained him in it; the present home secre
tary, who continues it-theSe are all as guilty as
you. but do not know whether they believe in q
God You believe in God. 1t is therefore be-
cause you believe in God that invoke the wit
ness of Almighty God while charge you with
the murder of the innocent woman who is per-
ishing in Working prison. We have been asking
justice in the name of mercy. ask it no more.
ask for justice, and justice only, and ask it in
her own stern and sacred name.''
..The British government not only murders
her. but ISLANDERS her. The late prime minister
and the late home secretary Joined hand in hand
to brand her before America as an adultereSs.
She was never convicted for adultery, tried for
adultery, charged with adultery. But she is an
enslaved woman, and the great power of Eng
land seals her to eternal silence before it SIAN
ders her. The home office of your own govern
ment seems to be following in the same gnobe
track, more meanly because more indirectly.
RumOrs are rife of evidence suppressed at her
trial. but retained in the home Office against her.
This is infamy. 1t is violation of magma charta,
of common law, that one should be deprived of
life and liberty without the opportunity to hear
accusations. to confront accusers, to answer evil
dence in open court" After reproaching the
British government, and the home office in par
ticuar. for their barbarouS action Miss Dodge
declares they are guilty Of deliberate murder.
go on your cruel way because you can,' con-
cludes the writer. ''She is alone and poor and
weak and a foreigner. She can lose you no
votes in England. for she has no friends, no
family Make the sacrifice complete. But if
there be a God who marks and notes the ways
of this world, who hears the voice of innocent
blood crying unto him from the ground. it is
better to be the young wife and mother perish
ing in Working prison than the prime minister OF
the government which works her torture and
her slaughter
An old woman who had spent her life
almost entirely III the Tombs one day
received a bunch Of flowers from Il gen
tleman who visited the prison. She Was
sitting with her head in her hands and
her elbows on her knees: she took no no
tice of the flowers when the gentleman
laid them in her lap. He went away,
but presently he heard loud humping
on the prison door. The jaller went
back to see what was wanted. "She
wants a cup of water the jailer explain
ed when he returned. "She says that
she can strike one of the flowers and
make it into plant She says the flow
er grew in her garden when she was a
child, somewhere near Boston. Please
wait, sir, while give her the cup of wa
ter That old woman is now success
full florist. She has never been in the
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