Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-05-23
NO HorE FOR Mrs. MAVERICK
The Queen Herself Is Opposed TO a
Pardon.

New York, May 1S.--A dispatch from
London says: Inc recent extraordinary
and unprecedented statement made a few
Ii ghts ago i'll the house of commons by
Home Secretary Ridley, to the effect that
Baron Russell, lord chief justice of all
England, had intinated to him in re-
cont letter that a person now under
going life imprisonment for murder was
innocent and should be releaSed-the
"person" in question being Mrs. Florence
May brick--but that. Notwithstanding this
rfpresentati ton he was satisfied OF the
Human's guilt and would refuse TO aIf-
point a commission of inquiry, has had the
effect Of directing renewed attention to
this remarkable case, not only among the
aristocracy and in legal circles, but among
tie radical wage-earning masses, and
whose sentiments that there is some
thing behind the case are reflected IN
their newspaper organs.
All sorts Of theories and explanations
have been broached to explain the lmp!a-
cable 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 ia nutshell, as told III
these dispatches twice within the past
year. once during Lord Salisburys 5 min
istry and again just before sne departure
81 the queen for Cifrlez in March. IS that
| Green Victoria is thoroughly familiar WIN
| the evidence adduced IN the Mayorich
| case, having been furnished at her own
| request with an abstract Of the testl-
| mony: that the evidence showing that Mrs.
| Maybricl had an intrigue with loEef
| during the period Of he: husbands $ myS-
| teriouS illness, and which she endeaV
| ored to consummate after his death, haS
| produced a profound impression on 1he
| mind of the venerable sovereign, Who9e
| views on domestic morality are SO stree
| that she will not even allow woman Whe
| has procured a divorce from her husbahC
| to be presented at the court; and tha'
! she has. consequently formed CONCLUSION
| unfavorabe to the prisoner that VIII no
| be removed in her lifetime. 1t is a ldc
| known to those whose official duties bilhs
! them the most close to the court, ina
! Queen Victoria intimated to hon. Hefpei
| Henry Asquith, who was secretary OF Stat'
| in Lord RCsebery's cabinet, ana mas slliG'
| jHtimated to Sir Matthew White IidleN
! who occupies the same position in tn
present Lord Salfsbury's) cabinet, tina
| under no circumstances would she re
| ceive or consider any memorial III laNe
| of the release of Mrs. Maybrick or a com
| mutation of her sentence, and IN ms EN-
phatic declaration concerning the lelte
| of the lord chief justice, 0if Mdlthe'
Ridley was but carrying out the express
ed will of the sovereign This tact VII
not be denied, or even quall1led by eltne
ofthe two statesmen named. 1t was KNOW
TO and admitted by the late Sir Henr
Frederick Ponsonby. her majesty's con
fdential secretary, who stood closer to ne
during the last few years of his Efe ina
even the Princess Beatrice, and it is know
tc her present private secretary, Sir Al
thur John Biggs.
1t can also be stated in this connec
ton upon an authority that is tantamoul
to first hand, that the sympathies OF DOT
tha rrfnce and princess of Wales are W.T.
aTrs. Maybrick, and that the prince som
time ago made representations in the pr1s
oner's behalf to his venerable mother $50
effort, however, was Of no avail, except
bring about strained relations for a WIN
between the queen and the future king.