The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
PLEA FOR A NEW TRIAL.
1t Is Sought to Have All the
Evidence in the Case
Reviewed.
RIGORs OF a LIFE In JAIL
Only Once Has the Mother Of the
Unfortunate Been Allowed to En-
brace Her Child.

NEW YORK, n. Y, July 6.-Interest in
the case of Mrs. Maybrick, the American
woman imprisoned at Working, seems to
be taking on fresh life. The formation a
few DAYS ago of an International Woman's
Society, to agitate the subject of a review
of the case of the woman wearing out her
days in penal servitude, is the latest de-
velopment in the way of encouragement
that is given the friends of Mrs. Maybrick
and her mother, the Baroness de Roques.
A reporter saw the latter the other day
when she was in London on one OF her Wis
its to her daughter.
II found Florrie in the hospital again, )"
she said, land as an unusual privilege, l
was permitted to sit beside and kiss her
As a rule, when go to see her, we talk
across a narrow corridor that is grated on
either side. l cannot even touch her
After three long months of separation from
her 1 am wild to do so. Sometimes it
seems as if 1 would go away absolutely
happy if I could only hold her in my arms
for single moment. She is my only child
all I have in the world"
Tears welled up in the clear buckeyes as
she said:
Now, shall 90 back to Rouen and
resume my sad, weary task of waiting. For
sixelong years I have come to London for
the quarterly visits, going back to France
and to my empty home with an agonized
heart"
The Baroness de Roques was asked if
the children OF Mrs. Maybrick were not in
her care.
NO" was the reply, NOR has their
mother seen them since the close OF the
trial. Ny daughter wishes them to think
their wretched mother dead, and she was
glad to know that their very name had
been changed since her imprisonment.
Never since the day on which her appalling
sentence was pronounced has she per-
mitted them to be brought to see her. MY
babies must not carry with them the vision
of a mother in prison garb,' Florrie said; ;
Il can better bear the horror of an earthly
separation from them than witness the
surprise in their innocent eyes at the sight
OF this disgraceful dress and these miser-
able surroundings
but you ,have been kept informed Of
their whereabouts, have you not?"
Certainly. 1 have not lost sight of them
for day." answered the Baroness. "My
heart so hungers for them at times that 1
come to England and wander about the
house where my little granddaughter is
staying simply to catch glimpse of her
as she plays in the garden. The boy is
away at school now. The former was less
than years old at the time the trial closed
and the latter just 6. My daughter herself
was not % then, having been born ~ Mo-
bile, Ala, September L, 1863"
The international Maybrick Society has
for its president Dr. Helen Dinsmore; the
treasurer is Mrs. Massingbred, president
of the Great Pioneer Club of London, and
Mabel Collins, the well-knoWn writer, is
secretary. The following is the text in
full of the circular which the society has
prepared and which within the next
month viii be scattered throughout both
England and America:
1.-THE Woman's International Maybrick
Society makes an appeal for funds to prose-
cute an effort to bring the facts of the May
brick case before the English people. They
do not ask for her release, nor do they
plead for clemency or mercy. They only
ask that the case be reviewed, including all
the old and new testimony. All subsorip-
tions raised by clubs or independently may
be sent to the headquarters of the society,
10 West Chapel street, Mayfair, London. u