Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-06
SCORES THE G.. @. NJ.
Gail Hamilton Dips Her Facile
Pen in Gall
AND BLASTS THE GRAND OLD MAN.

The Alleged Husband Poisoner, Mrs. May
brick, the Subject of the Writer'S Philip
plea Caustic Arrangement of the Brit
ish Mode of Administering Justice
Gladstone Charged with the Murder of
the Woman Who Is Said To BE Dying
in Prison.
Boston, Jan. 6.-Miss Abigail Dodge,
Gail Hamilton" has reopened her bat
teries in the Maybrick case and last night
published a long sensational letter adj
dressed to w. E. Gladstone the British
prime minister. Mrs. Maybrick is an
adulteress, whose husband died, as shown
to the satisfaction of an English jury. by
poison. She was charged with the crime,
convicted and sent to life Imprisonment.
The motive for the deed was found in the
fact that she was undeniably carrying on
liaison with man not her husband.
Americans, especially Miss Dodge, have
been working hard to get her out of prison,
and have failed so far. Mrs. May brick's
mother is the Baroness de Roques.
Arraigned in Gods Name.
Addressing helself TO Rt. Hon William
the name of God l arraign you, the head
of the British government, for the murder
of Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, ROW dy-
ing in the convict prison at Working The
home secretary of the late government who
began the torture, the late prime minister
who sustained him in it, the present home
secretary who continues it-these are as
guilty as you; but ! do not know whether
they believe in God. You believe in God.
1t is therefore because you believe in God
that invoke the witness of Almighty God
while l charge yOu with the murder of the
innocent woman who is perishlng in Wok-
ing prison.
Referred to the Home Office.
ave have been asking justice in the name
of mercy. ask for justice and for justice
only, and l ask it in her own stern and
sacred name You have been personally
appealed to, and you have passed by on the
other side. You have said it was the bust
ness of the home office, which would, of
course, do its duty. 1t is the old, old pre-
text of Cain. What ground have you for
assuming that the home office does its
duty?
UNJUST, Illegal, Odious."
"We appeal to the home Office and the
home office asks for new evidence The
cry of new evidence of innocence is used
TO disguise the terrible fact that there is
no evidence OF guilt, and it is unjust, lille
gal, Odious. With all the wealth OF the
government ut your disposal, with all the
machinery Of the courts and the malice of
your prisoners foes, you could furnish no
proof of her guilt, and then you bind her
hand and foot in a living tomb and de-
mand that she shall produce evidence of
her innocence. The British government
not only murders her, but ISLANDERS her
False Pretext Alleged.
"Rumors are rife that it is resentment of
American Intervention that keeps her pris-
on door locked. That is false pretext.
Her prison door had been fast locked for
two years before American agitation be-
gan There are rumors that it is a tone
of menace in American Intervention which
acts against her. The only menace is in
the voice of eternal justice speaking
through the British conscience.
An Unkind ImputatiOn.
"Go on your cruel way, because you can.
She is alone and poor and weak, and
foreigner She can lose you no votes in
England, for she has no friends no familT.
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
perishing in Working prison than the prime
minister of the government which works
her torture and her slaughter