The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
WILL SHE Be SET FREE?
A Report That Mrs. Mayhrick VIII Be Re.
leased From an English Prison.
u ONLY PRAY GOD IT MAY Be SURE, I"
These We're the Words uttered by Col.
a. II. ii. Dawson. who Is Now iu
Scrfolk Working in Her Rchnlf-A
story OfAicr Ilusbpnd's Death ana
the Grossly Unfair Trial.

cablegram from London announces
tnat there is excellent reason TO believe
that Sir Matthew w. Ridley. the Eng
lish Home Secretary. has resolved 10
ltberate Mrs. Florence tilizabet tn May
brick. who is now scrvin. Il life sentence
IN an English prison. and that the otli-
Ual announcement will probably be
made this week
The liberia tion Of Mrs. Maybrck flaam
prison Will bring to an end one vi the
most celebrated criminal cases in the
history OF England, one that has arous-
ed unprecedented interest not only i'm
England but in this country. An asi-
,ation for Mrs. Maybrick's release has
been going on in England and i'm this
country almost from The day OF her
conviction.
Mars. Maybrick Is thirty-fonr years ctd
nov. When her husband died in the
spring OF lSS9 She was tWenty-sevpn
years old. Born Il Southern girl, educa-
Tea IN Germany and France she was bu,
seventeen when she mo. and married
James Maybrick. an l;nglistnman .:
lortE-iour. Mrs. Maybrirk was the
uaushtef OF the late w. ti. Chandler "A
banker OF Mobile. Ala. and her grunJra-
iher Daniel Chandler. was one nr m.
itadihs lawyers cf the South before
the war
MIS-. MoNbrick was Very good LOOKING.
c!cNer and Nivacinus when. in MAY
$50 she met Maybrck on a steamer
gong to England. He was n I.iycrnnnl
cotton broker. The acuuain,anc. form.
ga then ended in marriage a Year ,f,,.r
ana Tor the first four years after IN.
marriage the couple lived in Norfolk
where MIR. Maybricll was in the cnttnn
business. ~ the end az that time they
Went TO Liverpool. their home being in
Algburth. one of the suburbs. II wos
called Battlecrcusc
from all that is known of the frs,
le" years of their marriage they were
very happy. despite the ennity shown
toward Mrs. Maybrlck by her husbands
TWO brothers, Michael and Edwin. who
had opposed the marriage from the be-
ginning. a boy was born in 1882 and n
girl in 1856.
Maybricl, form all accounts. seems 10
nay" bccome sort of monnmaninc on
the subject Of dosing himself All sort s
OF drugs he tried from time to time.
hraily hitting on arsenic as best fitting
MS cure. and I'm time he became u con-
hrmed arsenic eater
The first trouble that is known to
have happened between the Aiayb.icks
was on March 30. On that day they
went to the Grand National" races
ana there was a quarrel between them
that night. when the servants heard
Mayhrick shout:
Such a scandal will be all over town
Tomorrow"
On that occasion he BACKED his wirc's
eyes and ordered a servant To call n ca b
10 take her from the house. but when
she was ready 10 so he sent the ca b
away and forbade her to so on pain of
never crossing the threshold again.
What this scandal was or which one IL
concerned was never known hut May
bricks 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 ~. after having been to the
WiIral races. Maybrick was taken III,
and his wife nursed him day and night.
and he. all through his illness asked 10
have her near him, and sent for her
when she was away. Two doctors at
tended him through his Illness. DR..
Humphreys and DR.. Carter. who treated
him for acute dyspepsia. They gave
him as treatment. number Of irritant
pCisons, such as prusSc acid. arsenic.
papatine. and iridine. and on May II,
in the evening. ne died. of gastroentc-
rtis. the doctors said When his wife
learned of his death she fell in a swOon
that lasted forty-eight hours.
GaStrocntertis is inflammation or the
:st toma Ch ana inteStincS, and in this case
ii was brought on. according TO the dnc
tors, by some irrtant poison. or by Il
wetting he got al the W.rrai races.
lnlfltuIdlclN ulttT Ills uGhlU HIS bILln-
ers, Michael and Edwin Mayblick. with
a Mrs. Briggs and 81 Mrs. Hughes. old
friends. and Alice Yapp, Il nurscmaiI.
informed the police that they were con-
vinced that Maybrck had been pois-
oned ny his wife. They gave as their
reasons the quarrel in March and the
fact that Mrs Maybrick knew that hey
husband had made n Will by which his
brothers were TO he his universal ega-
tees In trust for his children and tina [
while Mrs. Maybrick was to be allowed
to live in the same house with the chill
dren they We're TO he under the sole
control Of the brothers.
Mis-. Maybrick was put under arrest
while still in The swoon during which
time the police made a thorough eXami-
notion of the house. Liverpool was
stirred as il never had been before
Doctors made post-mortem cxamina-
tions and found no arsenic in the stom-
ach. Other parts of the body were ex-
aniincd, and DR.. Stevenson. 4 Crown
analyst, found in the liver some parti-
cles Cd the poison. Of I-100. of a grain
ana l-l,00O of a grain, but altogether
not more than i-10 of a grain. In the
house were found some cighty-tlve
grains Of arsenic. and on this evidence
Mrs. Maybrick was broug!a, to trial for
murder before Justice Sir Fitziamcs
Stephen. the infallible Judge" at the
summer asslzes.
The trial lasted six days. 1t was