Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-03
MRS. MAVERICKS NORFOLK HOME
Story of the Unfortunate WOmnn's
Life There.


Life There.
From the Hartford Courant.
A few eN enings ago 1 was taking the leis-
urely exercise the climate permits, when 1
came face to face with small brick tene-
ment. whose upper windows looked into an
old-fashioned garden. That outlook might
as we'll have been in to great English
park. stretch of green turf, all, SO green
and cool. and a forest of spreading oaks
and magnolias. with the pink spiendor of
the Grape myrtle showing bravely between;
then an open glade. half pastoral, half syl-
van. clean. stately. with long vistas and
cathedral-like aisles. The astute reader
already divines from this introduction there
Is more behind the description of this park
than meets the eye. II was, in fact, elalt-
Grated on a contrast From the upper
windows of the small brick tenement one
locked upon this bit Of cultivated wilder
Eess whose eyes behold today the grim
| walls of an English prison. The astute
reader has further OWNED? Yes, 1t is of
Mrs. Maybrick We are speaking. For two
years the pretty bride kept house in the
pretty. artistic. little hnuse, was a member
of q fashionable, the most fashionable
church in Norfolk, and had as desirable a
list of names in her visiting book as So
ciety contains. Certainly, In view of what
happened, even with precautions like these,
nobody is safe :: 80
a friend of Mrs, Mayhrick's has brought
me her photograph. She has soft brown
| hair a high but broad forehead, rather a
| large mouth and deep. peHsive gray eyes.
The expression, the picture taken when
| she was a presumably happy young wife.
! is one of much sweetness and refinement. the
! latter increased by a touch of melancholy
and a sort of ethereal fairness. All the
| lines of the mouth tell of a sensitive, re-
| the bearing perfectly that of lady. and
| the photograph is taken In charming
costume.
| Notwithstanding Mr.. Du Maurier's rec
concentration of life sentence in an Eng
fish prison, as depicted. in Peter Ibbetsen,"
| people in this unlterary part &c the world
| would rather be out thar in, AID Mrs
| Maybrcks case has exc.t.u much sym
| pathy. Her husband and herself were on
| excellent terms but his habits were per-
| fectly we'll known. as he made no conceal
| Inent of them, but had his prescription for
| arsenic powders regularly filled at GER
| tain drug store and his own servant was
| accustomed to carry the medicine to him.
| When the trial off. the servant
| was sent for and had the glory of cross
| ing the water and testifying before the
| English court in behalf of the defendant.
| He also carried the prescription and the
| affidavit of the druggist as to its frequent
| repetition.
| Mr.. MAVERICK was cotton merchant
and made money during the boom that
| passed over Norfolk in 1SS1-'2. He was
| a handsome. gray-haired man In middle
life. The arsenic nablt dld not anect MS
| business capacity nor his manners which
| were ag .eeable and refined.
| On the principle that people cherish bits
| of rope cut from a murderers body, have
| the card Of announcement, and so prize it,
of these Inflated peoples wedding.
| It is decorated with half inch Of silver
| rim and a coat-of-arms, and reads:
The Baron and Baroness Won Rogues
have the honour to announce that
the marriage of their stepdaughter and
| daughter. Florence E. Chandler, to
James Maybrick of Liverpool, England,
and Norfolk, Va, was solemnized at
St. James Church. Picadilly, London,
| on 81 July, 1881.
Friends and admirers of Mrs. Maybrick
have apolugiZed for her on the ground on
which Eliza, our cook, excused one Of her
acquaintance with whose reputation scanda
had busted itself Eliza said he had in
hailed" his m:sdeeds from his ancestors
and poor Mrs. Maybrick is said to have
gotten the baneful notion from some OF
her distinguished southern forbears, and
is therefore not responsible. 1t would seem
too, that a person who was so careful tc
| spell honor with a "u'' ought to have met
with more sympathetic kindness from the
British press. At any rate, the feeling
here is strongly for her. You remember
Charles Lambs human remark about E