The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-22
WILL SHE BE FREE?
FAMOUS MRS. MAVERICK AND HER
CHANCES OF FREEDOM, TODAY.

How She Met Her Husband and Becams
infatuated With Him and Married Him
Against the Wishes of Her Friends-Hel
Life With the Brute and the Circam.
stances Surrounding His Death, aud
How sbe was UniustIy Tried aud Tn
justly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by Ambassa.
dor Hay to Free Her.
New York, July N.-Judge L D. Var
reH writes to the Herald as follows:
Mrs Florence E. Maybrick, nee Chand-
Ter, has been the victim of the most ex-
ira ordinary miscarriage Of justice known
TO modern criminal jurisprudence. Born
CO aristocrat.c parents in Mobile, Ala.
in 1862, and reared in luxury and refine
ment, at the age OF IS. young, beautiful,
unsophisticated and pure in mind and
heart, she, while crossing the Atlantic
with her mother, met James Maybrick,
a cotton buyer Of Norfolk, Va, A years
old, a thorough man Of the world, who
had lived fast life and who. in at
tempting TO counterfeit the effects OF his
growing infirmities. had become the slave
10 powerful stimulants and tonics. and a
confirmed arsenic eater and taker OF a
tonic containing trsen,c. called "Pick Ne
Pp," of all of which Miss Chandler was
absolutely ignorant.
She, being infatuated from the start by
the man, against the protest Of her moth
er and all OF her friends, married Mr..
Maybrick. They resided for some years
in Norfolk, Va, and then removed to
Mr.. Maybrick's native place, Liverpool,
England. Mrs. Maybr-ck was the moth
er OF three children before she suspected
Mr.. Maybrick's dual life. when, by acct
dent, she saw an open letter containing
check 20 a woman and a full reveal
ton of his duplicity. Then. when con-
fronted with IL. he brutally knocked her
down with his fist. backing her eyes.
she thought OF legal separa ton, and
went 10 London to consult solicitors.
where she met Briefly N a public hotel
and asked his advice. as he was the only
male acquaintance she knew in that
city. Briefly was her husbands friend
and companion, and at Maybrick's re-
quest had on many occasions taken her
10 the theater when he was too ailing to
60.
Mrs. Maybrick came back home and
had reconciliation with her husband
and abandoned the intended legal pro-
ceed:ngs. All went we'll until April 81,
1889. Mr.. Maybrick, who had been all
IN FAR M ,e;o
quantity Of powerful stimulants-arsenic
and other poisons-went to the Wirral
races on horseback, got wet through end
stayed out very late dining with friends
He became very i'll from the effects Of
the wetting, exercise and dissl pations OF
the day before. and on the 2sth Mrs.
Maybrick sent for DR.. Humphreys. and
being extremely solicitous. sent also for
DR.. Carter and nurses. who attended him
until his death, May II following. at
twenty minutes to nine p m. The ply
sicians who attended Maybrick con-
suited together during his illness, and
decided that his Illness and death was
caused "by some grave indiscretion OF
diet away from home"
Mrs. Maybrick became Frustrated
from care and attention on him. and fell
into a swoon early in the morning of
May II. She did not regain conscious
ness until the next day-after his death
and was Frustrated in bed until May
1s. While unconscious. Immediately af-
ter the deth OF Mr.. Maybrck. at the in
stigation Of Edwin and Michael May
brick. brothers. and Alice zap. Mrs"
Briggs and Bessie Briefly, servants OF
Mr.. Maybrick, and bitter enemies of Mrs.
young foreign Wife
she was charged by the police with nav
ing murdered her husband by admins
tering doses Of arsenic to him. Search
for arsenic was made and the drug. in
quantities sufficient 70 kill fifty men,
was found n the house. all in his and
none in her apartments.
Mrs. Maybrick was arrested by the po-
lice in bed May II. while prostratei and
unable 70 rise. and the coroner's inquest |
commenced and adjourned on account ot
her critical condition. May il her mother
arrived and was brutality prevented ny |
the police from seeing or conversinS !
With her alone. May IS the magistrate |
commenced the inquiry n her bed room, |
and from there she was taken from hel |
bed to Walton Jail, accompanied by Dr. |
and a nurse. Without evil |
Ience, upon bare suspicion, brought |
about by INSCRIPTIONS enemies. and |
without financial assistance or means 70 |
get evidence or counsel or in any way |
10 protect herself, refused help by her |
husbands brother, to whom all OF the |
estate was left by her husbands viii |
intact. she was locked up June the |
inquest was resumed. When counsel |
said 20 the coroner that ''oe,ore gong A,
'urther some evidence Of the cause OF
ieath should be produced" the coroner |
.eplied that il was "a pity the applica- |
ion had no. been made before" and ad- |
burned to have evidence gotten.
When the inquest was resumed Mrs.
Maybrick was no; allowed 70 he present |
~ the court. The police analyst. Mr..
Davis. reported that the result Of ana
wing Mr.. Maybrick's liver. intest:nes
md stomach was the finding IN the liver
90 gram Of arsenic, none
T the stomach. and traces not weigh
ble in the intestines. Only one-one hun
lreith OF fatal dose
Notwithstanding the entire failure Of
'roof. owing 70 the sensi tjOnal and ut
erly false accounts 81 Mayoricks death.
ne almost universal prejudice created
hereby. and intense adverse public opin-
on against this American woman"
vas committed 70 the next Assizss al
liverpool upon nothing but suspicion for
rial upon q charge OF murder by arsenic |
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