The Portland daily press., 1896-02-26

Mrs. Maybrick was very good looking,
clever, and vivacious when, in May, 1880,
she met Maybrick on a steamer going to
England. He was a Liverpool cotton broker.
| The acquain lance formed then ended in
marriage year after, and for the first
couple of years after the marriage the
| couple lived in Norfolk, Va, where Mr.. May
brick had business interests. At the end of
| that time they went to Liverpool, their home
| being in Aigburth, one of the suburbs. 1t
| was called Battlecrease.
From all that is known of the first few
years of their marriage they were very
| happy, despite the enmity shown toward
Mrs: Maybrick by her husbands two broth
ers, Michael and Edwin, who had opposed
the marriage from the beginning. A boy
was born in 1882 and a girl in 1886.
Maybrick, from all accounts, seems to
have become a. sort of monomaniac on the
subject of dosing himself All sorts of drugs
he tried from time to time, finally hitting on
arsenic as best fitting his case, and in time
he became a confirmed arsenic eater.
The first trouble that is known to have
happened between the Maybricks was on
March 90. On that day they went to the
"Grand National' races, and there was a
quarrel between them that night, when the
servants heard Maybrlck shout:
ssSuch scandal will be all over town
tomorrow
On that occasion he BACKED his wife's
eyes and ordered a servant to call cab to
take her from the house, but when she was
ready to go he sent the cab away and for
babe her to go ON pain OF never crossing the
threshold again. What this scandal was or
which one it concerned was never known,
but Maybrick's brother Michael testified
during the trial that he was convinced that
his brother had died in entire ignorance of
any scandal affecting his wife.
| On April 81, after having been to the Wr-
| raj races, Maybrick was taken ill, and his
wife nursed him day and night, and he all
through his illness, asked to have her near
| him, and sent for her when she was away.
| Two doctors attended him through his ILL
n ess, DR.. Humphreys and DR.. Carter, who
treated him for acute dyspepsia. They gave
him as treatment number of irritant
poisons, such prussic acid, ars enic, papa
tine and iridine, and on May II, in the even
ing, he died, of CASTRO enteritis, the doctors
said. When his wife learned of his death
she fell in swoon that lasted forty EIGHT
hours
Castro enterits is Inflammation of the
stomach and intestines, and in this case it
| was brought on, according to the doctors, BY
some irritant poison, or by wetting he got
at the Wirral races. Immediately after his
death his brothers, Michael and Edwin Nav
brick, with Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Hughes
old friends. and Alice Yapp, a nursemaid
informed the police that they were con
WINGED that Maybrick had been poisoned by
his wife. They gave as their reasons the
quarrel in March and the fact that Mrs. MAY
brick knew that her husband had made
will by which his wife was to have neither
bed nor blanket; that his brothers We're to
be his universal legatees in trust for his
children, and that while Mrs. Maybrick was
to be allowed to live in the same house with
the children they were to be under the sole
control of the brothers.
Mrs. Maybrick was put under arrest while
still in the swoon, during which time the
police made thorough search of the house.
Liverpool was stirred as it never had been
before. Doctors made post mortem exami-
nations and found no arsenic in the stomach
Other parts of the body were examined.
and DR.. Stevenson,a Crown analyst, found
in the liver some particles of the poison, of
1-1O0 of grain and IL, 900 of a grain, but al
together not more than 4-10 of grain In
the house were found some eighty-fve grain
OF arsenic, and on this evidence Mrs. May
brick was brought to trial for murder before
Justice Sir Fitzjames Stephen, "the infalli-
bic judge" at the summer assiZes
Ihe trial lasted six days. 1t was largely