Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-05-20
QUEEN OPPOSED TO TT.
No Hope for Mrs. Haybrick Until
the Prince of Wales
ReignS.

New York, May 1S.-A dispatch from
London says: The recent extraordinary
nary and unprecedented statement made
a few nights ago in the House of Com
mons by Home Secretary Ridley, to the
effect that Baron Russell, lord chief JUS
tice of all England, had intimated to him
III a recent letter that a person now
undergoing life Imprisonment for murder
was innocent and should be released
the person in question being Mrs. Il lOr-
ence Maybrick-but that, nOtWithstand-
ing this representation, he was satisfied
of the woman's guilt and would refuse
to appoint commission of inquiry, has
had the effect of directing renewed atten-
ton to this remarkable case, not only
among the aristOcracy and IN legal cir
Giles, but among the Radical Wage-earn-
ing masses, and whose sentiments that
there is something behind the case are
rejected in their newspaper organs.
All sorts of theories and explanations
have be.n preached to explain the inn
placable attitude assumed by Sir Matthew
Ridley; but, owing to the gingerly man
ner in which matters closely concerning
the throne are treated by the English
press, the true facts have not yet ap-
peared in print on this side of the water.
The situation in q nutshell, as told in
these dispatches twice within the past
year-once during Lord Salisbury's min
istry and again just before the depart
ure of the Queen for Cimiez IN March
is that Queen Victoria is thoroughly ia
miIiar with the evidence adduced in the
Maybrick case, having been furnished
at her own request with an alb
stract of the testimony; that the
evidence showing that Mrs. May
brick had an intrigue with a lover
during the period of her husbands mys-
teriOuS illness, and which she endeaVOred
to consummate after his death, has pro-
duced profound impression on the mind
of the venera bic sovereign, whose views
on domestic morality are so strict that
she will not even allow Il woman who
mas procured a divorce from her hus-
band to be presented at the court; and
that she has consequently formed con-
clusiOn unfayOrable to the prisoner that
will not be removed in her lifetime
1t is a fact known to those whose Of
fetal duties bring them the most close to
the court that Queen Victoria intimated
to Herbert Henry Asquth, who was
secretary of state in Lord Rosebery's
ca binet, and has since intimated to Sir
Matthew White Ridley, who occupies the
same position in the present cabinet,
that under no circumstances would she
receive or consider any memorial in
favor of the release of Mrs. Maybrick. or
a Communication of her sent,..ce, and in
his emphatic declaration concerning the
letter or me LOrd Cnlef Justice, Sir
Matthew Ridley was but carrying out
the expressed will of the sovereign.
This fact will not be denied, or even
Qualified, by either of the two statesmen
named; it was known to and admitted by
the late Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby,
Her Majesty's confidential secretary, who
stood closer to her during the last few
years of his life than even the Princess
Beatrice, and it is known to her present
private secretary, Sir Arthur John Bigge.
It can also be stated in this connec-
ton, upon an authority that is tanta-
mount TO first hand, that the sympathes
of both the Prince and Princess of Wales
are with Mrs. Maybrick, and that the
prince some time ago made representa-
tons in the prisoners behalf to his VEN
cradle mother His effort however, was
of no avail. except to bring about strained
relations for while between the Queen
and the future King.