The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-06-09
me CASE OF MRS. MAVERICK
New Developments That Hold 0u'
Hope.
The Imprisoncd American woman'l
Friends Now Confident of Procur-
Ing Her Relense-col. Dnw-
sons New Story.


NEW YORK, June Sit is probable
that further efforts will be made by
sympathetic Americans to secure the
release from prison of Mrs. Maybricls,
who is undergoing II sentence life inn
prisonment in England for the alleged
murder of her husband, James May
brick, a Liverpool cotton merchant,
with arsenic. three years ago. Colonel.
A. Fl. II. Dawson, who was a friend Cd
Mrs. Maybricls's father and grand
father. and who has exerted his best
efforts to secure the release OF the con-
silently on the cast ever since her con
v%iction, and has discovered facts Tint
explain away the construction placed
on Mrs. Maybricls's testimony by tho
Liverpool court.
1t was generally considered that Mrs.
Maybrick's owu statement on the stand
to the effect that she had mado n FREQ
confession to my husband OF the fear.
full wrong l had done him and received
his forgiveness" led to her conviction.
Colonel Dawson, who is now in New
York, declared that this phrase was
twisted ont OF shape, and that Mrs
MayDrick was not permitted to explain
Its true meaning. 1t had no reference
to the mutder'ot james Maybrick, lie
said, but referred to II sensational cpl
sode in the life of the Maybricks. The
words We're construed by the jury to
mean and amount to II confession o.
guiIt-of intideiity to her husband.
The judge SO construed them, so die
the bar, and the press and the public
entertained the same idea. The fan
is, Colonel Dawson says, that Mrs
Maybrick had been gully of nothing
of the kind, but that she was guilty oi
imprudence in speaking as she did.
For sixteen years before Jumel
Maybrics led to the altar Florence
Elizabeth Chandler" continued Colonel
Dawson. ''he had maintained an open
and notorious Unison in Liverpool with
n mistress who had become the mother
OF four or Ave of his foundiings. AS 8
consequence, no was a social outlaw il
Liverpool. Mrs. Maybrick did no
know this when she became his wife
nor that the doors of good societ,
would be shut against her because o.
her husbands anteccd@nts. Had sh,
known of his pnst life she would neve
have married Maybrie!5. Had May
| ick been un honorable man he woui,
have frankly told her of his past be
fore asking her to be his wife. But Ii,
knew her refined and high spirited rs
lure would have spurned and repndi
hted him had he told her of his crilA
inal connection with this woman, AMI
SO he grossly deceived her.
"At the time of his marriage May
brick was engaged to u woman WIN
soon after became the wife of u man
from whom she subsequently separated
after a brief and unhappy life. Mrs
Maybricll was this woman's successful,
rival, and that she was hated by her
most cordinny is only natural to pre-
sumo. That this disappointed and do
feated woman pursued Mrs. Maybricl
like Il shadow for years to detect nud
expose her and that she failed to tnt
anything irregular in Mrs. Maybrick'i
life for all these years is proof of tn.
rectitude Of that lady's conduct. Fail
Ing i'll this, the woman conceived
another scheme. One day a letter fel.
into her hands. written by Maybrick',
quondam mistress, in which the woman
sharply rebuked him for his neglect o
her and his failure to support thei;
children. With this letter in her pos
session she went to Mrs. Mnyb brick
and, putting her arms around her,
placed the letter in her hand, simply
remarking: There is something, my
dear, TINT will probably interest you.
THAT was the first intimation Mrs
Maybrick ever had of the existence OF
her husbands mistress, and, thinking
the relations to which the letter refer.
red We're still maintained. she went te
London and retained n solicitor with 8
view OF bringing a snit for divorce
against Maybrick. This was the first
and only mistake of her married life.
A man named Briefly was engaged to
secure testimony TO be used in the
divorce court, but the London solicitor
after a few weeks notified Mrs. May.
brick that he had found there We're nc
grounds for divorce, as all that Briefly
could prove was thai Maybrick and the
woman had lived together before, but
not after Mayhrick's marriage.
Then it WIS that Mrs. MaybricB
discovered that she had done her hus
band a terrible wrong in suspectine
that he had been false to her, and thai
was the fearful wrong to which she
referred in her unprepared speech ir
court. A question from u judge or &
jnryman, or any of the counsel woule
have set this matter right instantly
But no such question ~ asked and nj
opportunity was given her to explain
The result is that Mrs. Maybricl. nj
though innocent. is pining in prison
The English people believe her limo
cent. They lave asked for her liber
alton. Will a liberal government
refuse, their request? In the meantim,
Americans should como forward to the
rescne of III innocent. but prosecuted
countrywoman. undergoing the horror,
of life sentence in Il foreign prison"