The morning times., 1896-05-01
IN MRS. MAVERICKS CASE
Correspondence Sent the House by
the President,
Sixty-two Letters and TeIegra ms Have
Been Exchanged with the British
Office for Her Release.

In response TO n resolution of the House
passed April 8, President Cleveland yes
terday afternoon transmitted TO the House
a copy OF the correspondence on file in
the State Department relating to the case
fined ia an English prison under life
sentence for the murder of her husband, a
Liverpool merchant.
Mrs Ma ybrick is native of Alabama,
ana her case has attracted wide and
unusual attention for the past seven years.
There are sixty-two letters and kilograms
In the budget, beginning with one from
Minister Lincoln 10 Secretary Blaine, dated
August %, 1889. The correspondence
un'it December 10, 1892, was quite
active, but from that date, according to
the copy sent 10 the House, it languished
until October z, 1895.
On that date the Countess Rogue, Mrs.
Ma ybrick's mother, wrote from Rouen,
France, To Secretary Olney, reciting the
efforts already made IN behalf OF her
unfortunate daughter, and suggesting that
the then recent change of political power
i'll England afforded another and il was
hoped a more favorable opportunity to
present tie case to the British government
Pursuant TO this letter Secretary Olney
addressed note to Ambassador Bayard
in which he said:
II take this informal way of communi-
eating TO you copies OF letters recently re-
ceived from Mr.. II. A Dodge, of Hamilton.
Mass, (writng on behalf OF his sister. Miss
Mary A. Dodge) and of the Countess Rogue,
in regard Ia the renewal of representations
in favor of the unfortunate prisoner.
"A previous letter from the Countess
Rogue referred toa cummunicationreceive
by her from Lord Russell, stating his
ha
released, ana Mr.. Dodges letter cites the
pertinent part of Il letter addressed by Sir
Charles Russell, when attorney general
dated December ., 1892, to Miss Dodge,
TO the same effect.
II do not feel that I can do any more
at present than TO bring to your notice
the letters of Mr.. Dodge and the Countess
Rogue, in the hone that it may be found
practicable TO do something toward the
relief of an unfortunate woman whose
case has aroused wide sympathy, not only
in the country OF her birth, but in England
as we'll"
Secretary Olney wrote to Mr.. Dodge that
a copy OF the letter to which he (Dodge)
has referred, wherein the writer said that
Mrs. MaybriCk ought not to have been con-
victed and ought now to be released would
aid in the consideration OF the case.
Subsequently Secretary Olney addressed
notes TO Ambassador Ba yard under dates of
November Q, 1895, February g, 1886, and
February 20, 1896, to the effect that he
t0meyl had good reason for believing that
Sir Matthew White Ridley had been pre-
vailed upon to reconsider the Maybrick
case, and directing Mr.. Bayard to make
every effort to secure an early re-eXamina-
tion OF the case; that counsel for Mrs. Ma y
! brick had stated that formal representa-
tiuns in her behalf would be imme diately
made, and again instrucring the ambas-
| sador TO make appropriate representations,
and that an autograph letter had been
| shown him (Oluey) stating that new
formal and pressing representation by the
| ambassador would be useful. None of Mr.
Bayard's responses to these notes were
| given in the budget which abruptly con-
| Guided with the notes me ntioned.
The correspondence as originally pre-
pared contained the name of the authority
| for the statements made by Secretary Olney
| to Ambassador Bayard, but before trans
mission it was carefully erased.
| The counsel for Mrs. Ma ybrick in this
| country are Judge L. d. Yarren and ex-
| Attorney General Garland. These gentle
men are actively at work in her behalf.